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Microstructural controls of anticrack nucleation in highly porous brittle solids

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Henning Löwe

Porous brittle solids have the ability to collapse and fail even under compressive stresses. In fracture mechanics, this singular behavior, often referred to as anticrack, demands for appropriate continuum models to predict the catastrophic failure. To ide ...

Nature Research2020

Different erosion and entrainment mechanisms in snow avalanches

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Betty Sovilla, Xingyue Li

Erosion significantly affects the dynamics of gravity-driven mass flows. In snow avalanches, the snow cover can be substantially eroded but only partially entrained, however, there are very limited investigations to substantiate this difference. Here, we s ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Avalanche pressures at the Vallée de la Sionne test site: interaction of avalanches and narrow strictures studied with DEM

Christophe Ancey, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

2018

Editorial: About the Relevance of Snow Microstructure Study in Cryospheric Sciences

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Computational micromechanics of porous brittle solids

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Henning Löwe, Lars Kristoffer Uhlen Blatny

Porous brittle solids evidence complex mechanical behavior, where localized failure patterns originate from mechanical processes on the microstructural level. In order to investigate the failure mechanics of porous brittle solids, we outline a general stoc ...

2021

A glacier-ocean interaction model for tsunami genesis due to iceberg calving

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

Dynamic glacier fracture and the subsequent generation and propagation of iceberg-induced tsunamis are reproduced using a unified numerical glacier-ocean model, in line with observations at the Eqip Sermia glacier in Greenland, as well as laboratory experi ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Micro-mechanical insights into the dynamics of crack propagation in snow fracture experiments

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Grégoire Bobillier

Dry-snow slab avalanches result from crack propagation in a highly porous weak layer buried within a stratified and metastable snowpack. While our understanding of slab avalanche mechanisms improved with recent experimental and numerical advances, fundamen ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Transition from sub-Rayleigh anticrack to supershear crack propagation in snow avalanches

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Bertil Trottet, Grégoire Bobillier

Avalanches can occur when a porous snow layer lies beneath a dense cohesive snow slab. Field experiments and simulations now reveal different crack-propagation regimes in slab avalanches, similar to rupture propagation following an earthquake. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Granulation of snow: From tumbler experiments to discrete element simulations

Michael Lehning, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Betty Sovilla, Walter Steinkogler

It is well known that snow avalanches exhibit granulation phenomena, i.e., the formation of large and apparently stable snow granules during the flow. The size distribution of the granules has an influence on flow behavior which, in turn, affects runout di ...

2015

Unified modeling of the release and flow of snow avalanches using MPM

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

2018

Modeling the Propagation Saw Test with Discrete Elements

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

2018

Microstructural controls on the plastic consolidation of porous brittle solids

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Henning Löwe, Lars Kristoffer Uhlen Blatny

2023

Microstructural Origin of Propagating Compaction Patterns in Porous Media

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Lars Kristoffer Uhlen Blatny, Paul Berclaz

Porous rocks, foams, cereals, and snow display a diverse set of common compaction patterns, including propagating or stationary bands. Although this commonality across distinct media has been widely noted, the patterns??? origin remains debated???current m ...

2022

Microscopic Origin of Nonlocal Rheology in Dense Granular Materials

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

We study the microscopic origin of nonlocality in dense granular media. Discrete element simulations reveal that macroscopic shear results from a balance between microscopic elementary rearrangements occurring in opposite directions. The effective macrosco ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Dynamic anticrack propagation in snow

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

Continuum numerical modeling of dynamic crack propagation has been a great challenge over the past decade. This is particularly the case for anticracks in porous materials, as reported in sedimentary rocks, deep earthquakes, landslides, and snow avalanches ...

Nature Research2018

Cohesion-Induced Enhancement of Aeolian Saltation

Michael Lehning, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Francesco Comola

The wind-driven saltation of granular material plays a key role in various geophysical processes on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan. Although interparticle cohesion is known to limit the number of grains lifted from the surface through aerodynamic entrainmen ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2019

Post-publication careers: follow-up expeditions reveal avalanches at Dyatlov Pass

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

Having shed new light on an old mystery-how nine Russian mountaineers perished in the Urals in 1959-Alexander Puzrin and Johan Gaume got hooked. Three expeditions later it is clear that avalanches are not exceptional at Dyatlov Pass. ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

Les tests de stabilité à la loupe

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

2017