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Article Dans Une Revue Geomorphology Année : 2024

Assessment of the influence of natural thermal cycles on dolomitic limestone rock columns: A 10-year monitoring study

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Rock instabilities hazards can lead to major risks. Even if different external factors such as precipitation, seismic activity or freezing, are known to trigger rockfalls, it is more and more assumed that thermal cycling has a role in rock mass deformation, displacement and, moreover cracking initiation or propagation. Here we present 10 years monitoring of a 50-meter-high dolomitic cliff, located above an important highway in the south of France to support this thinking. Local rock surface temperature and joint apertures were recorded on eleven sensors. Their evolution is studied separately and together to characterise the influence of temperature variation on joint apertures. During small time periods, a reversible and proportional behaviour is observed, that can be attributed to thermoelasticity, but over the whole period, a significant drift in displacements is measured, meaning that at least a viscoplastic or fatigue behaviour should be considered.
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hal-04679073 , version 1 (08-10-2024)

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Muriel Gasc-Barbier, Véronique Merrien-Soukatchoff, Vincent Krzewinski, Pierre Azemard, Jean-Luc Genois. Assessment of the influence of natural thermal cycles on dolomitic limestone rock columns: A 10-year monitoring study. Geomorphology, 2024, 464, pp.109353. ⟨10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109353⟩. ⟨hal-04679073⟩

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