Dr. Andrin Caviezel

Function

scientific staff member

Alpine environment and natural hazards

RAMMS Rapid Mass Movements

Contact

andrin.caviezel(at)slfto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 81 417 03 61+41 81 417 03 61

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Flüelastrasse 11
7260 Davos Dorf

Site

Davos Da A 1 17

Current Research Activities

Application of state-of-the-art sensor technologies to rockfall and avalanche problems under realistic conditions.
Transfer of findings to the simulation software RAMMS::ROCKFALL and RAMMS::AVALANCHE
Development and improvement of a useful tool for engineers working in hazard zone mapping and planning mitigation measures

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

since 2019
Rockfall scientist
Project leader rockfall experiments RAMMS group

2015-2019
Research associate RAMMS group

2010 – 2014
Doctor of sciences ETH Zurich at Paul Scherrer Institute (FEMTO group) and Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Switzerland, "Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics in Mixed Valence Manganites", Diss. ETH No. 21788

Education

2008 – 2010
Master of Science in Physics at the Federal Institue for Technology ETH Zürich, Switzerland

2004 – 2009
Bachelor of Science in Physics at the Federal Institue for Technology ETH Zürich, Switzerland

1997 – 2003
Mautra at the Kantonsschule Chur, Switzerland

Publications

Here you find a complete and up-to date Publication Record

FURTHER INFORMATION

Projects

Rockfall barrier tests in natural terrain

WSL and its industrial partner GEOBRUGG are testing a new rockfall barrier using large-scale tests in natural terrain.

Rockfall Experiments

The SLF has developed software capable of simulating rockfalls. The computer model is being continuously aligned more closely with reality by way of experiments, such as those recently conducted on Spitsbergen.

Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Caviezel, A.; Ringenbach, A.; Demmel, S.E.; Dinneen, C.E.; Krebs, N.; Bühler, Y.; Christen, M.; Meyrat, G.; Stoffel, A.; Hafner, E.; Eberhard, L.A.; Von Rickenbach, D.; Simmler, K.; Mayer, P.; Niklaus, P.S.; Birchler, T.; Aebi, T.; Cavigelli, L.; Schaffner, M.; ... Bartelt, P., 2021: The relevance of rock shape over mass - implications for rockfall hazard assessments. Nature Communications, 12: 5546 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25794-y

Leine, R.I.; Capobianco, G.; Bartelt, P.; Christen, M.; Caviezel, A., 2021: Stability of rigid body motion through an extended intermediate axis theorem: application to rockfall simulation. Multibody System Dynamics, 52: 431-455. doi: 10.1007/s11044-021-09792-y

Lu, G.; Ringenbach, A.; Caviezel, A.; Sanchez, M.; Christen, M.; Bartelt, P., 2021: Mitigation effects of trees on rockfall hazards: does rock shape matter?. Landslides, 18: 59-77. doi: 10.1007/s10346-020-01418-2

Wendeler, C.; Lanter, A.; Lu, G.; Caviezel, A.; Ringenbach, A.; Bartelt, P., 2020: New rockfall testing method of flexible rockfall barriers. In: Da Fontoura, S.A.B.; Rocca, R.J.; Pavón Mendoza, J.F. (eds), 2020: Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development - Full Papers. Proceedings. 14th international concress on rock mechanics and rock engineering (ISRM 2019), Foz do Iguassu, Brazil. 3416-3423.

Ringenbach, A.; Caviezel, A.; Demmel, S.E.; Lu, G.; Bühler, Y.; Christen, M.; Bartelt, P.; Meier, L., 2020: Three-dimensional trajectory reconstruction of induced single block rockfall experiments. In: Da Fontoura, S.A.B.; Rocca, R.J.; Pavón Mendoza, J.F. (eds), 2020: Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development - Full Papers. Proceedings. 14th international concress on rock mechanics and rock engineering (ISRM 2019), Foz do Iguassu, Brazil. 2887-2894.

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Further scientific publications

Caviezel, A.; Margreth, S.; Ivanova, K.; Sovilla, B.; Bartelt, P., 2021: Powder snow impact of tall vibrating structures. In: Papadrakakis, M.; Fragiadakis, M. (eds), 2021: Compdyn 2021 proceedings. COMPDYN 2021. 8th ECCOMAS thematic conference on computational methods in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, Athens, Greece. 19112 (13 pp.).

Caviezel, A.; Sanchez, M.A.; Lu, G.; Christen, M.; Bartelt, P.; Wendeler, C.; Lanter, A., 2020: Full scale testing of rockfall nets under realistic conditions. In: Li, C.C.; Ødegaard, H.; Høien, A.H.; Macias, J. (eds), 2020: ISRM international symposium - EUROCK 2020. ISRM international symposium Eurock 2020 - hard rock enigeering, Trondheim, Norway. (7 pp.).

Full-scale testing of rockfall nets in real terrain. Results of tests at Chant Sura: 13th September and 4th October, 2019

The presented methodologies pave the way to a comprehensive understanding of rock-ground and rock-net interaction, a key requirement to improve the design of flexible barriers that account for the role of rock shape, spin and eccentric impacts in rockfall protection.

WSL Berichte 97

2020

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Bartelt, P.; Buser, O.; Christen, M.; Caviezel, A., 2019: Dynamic magnification factors for snow avalanche impact (with pile-up) on walls and pylons. In: Papadrakakis, M.; Fragiadakis, M. (eds), 2019: COMPDYN 2019. 7th international conference on computational methods in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. Proceedings. COMPDYN 2019. 7th ECCOMAS thematic conference on computational methods in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, Crete, Greece. 4376-4385.

Caviezel, A.; Lu, G.; Demmel, S.E.; Ringenbach, A.; Bühler, Y.; Christen, M.; Bartelt, P., 2019: RAMMS::ROCKFALL - a modern 3-dimensional simulation tool calibrated on real world data. In: 2019: 53rd US rock mechanics/geomechanics symposium. 53rd US rock mechanics/geomechanics symposium, New York, USA. ARMA 19-223 (8 pp.).

Lu, G.; Caviezel, A.; Christen, M.; Ringenbach, A.; Meyrat, G.; Bartelt, P., 2019: Non-smooth mechanics modelling of rock-tree and rock-forest interactions. In: Papadrakakis, M.; Fragiadakis, M. (eds), 2019: COMPDYN 2019. 7th international conference on computational methods in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. Proceedings. COMPDYN 2019. 7th ECCOMAS thematic conference on computational methods in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, Crete, Greece. 1612-1629.

Gerber, W.; Caviezel, A., 2018: Measurement and analysis of ground contacts during rockfall events. In: Cardoso, A.S.; Borges, J.L.; Costa, P.A.; Gomes, A.T.; Marques, J.C.; Vieira, C.S. (eds), 2018: Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering IX. 9th European conference on numerical methods in geotechnical engineering (NUMGE 2018), Porto. 149-154.

Caviezel, A.; Bühler, Y.; Lu, G.; Christen, M.; Bartelt, P., 2018: Experimental validation of numerical rockfall trajectory models. In: Cardoso, A.S.; Borges, J.L.; Costa, P.A.; Gomes, A.T.; Marques, J.C.; Vieira, C.S. (eds), 2018: Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering IX. 9th European conference on numerical methods in geotechnical engineering (NUMGE 2018), Porto. 875-883.

Lu, G.; Caviezel, A.; Christen, M.; Bühler, Y.; Bartelt, P., 2018: Modelling rockfall dynamics using (convex) non-smooth mechanics. In: Cardoso, A.S.; Borges, J.L.; Costa, P.A.; Gomes, A.T.; Marques, J.C.; Vieira, C.S. (eds), 2018: Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering IX. 9th European conference on numerical methods in geotechnical engineering (NUMGE 2018), Porto. 575-583.

Bartelt, P.; Christen, M.; Bühler, Y.; Caviezel, A.; Buser, O., 2018: Snow entrainment: avalanche interaction with an erodible substrate. In: 2018: International snow science workshop proceedings 2018. International snow science workshop, ISSW 2018, Innsbruck. 716-720.

Caviezel, A.; Christen, M.; Bühler, Y.; Bartelt, P., 2017: Calibration methods for numerical rockfall models based on experimental data. In: Corominas, J.; Moya, J.; Janeras, M. (eds), 2017: RocExs 2017. 6th interdisciplinary workshop on rockfall protection. 6th interdisciplinary workshop on rockfall protection (RocExs 2017), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. 59-62.

Gerber, W.; Caviezel, A., 2017: Diversity of the results from drop weight tests. In: Corominas, J.; Moya, J.; Janeras, M. (eds), 2017: RocExs 2017. 6th interdisciplinary workshop on rockfall protection. 6th interdisciplinary workshop on rockfall protection (RocExs 2017), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. 63-66.

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