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REMPARe

RE-engineering of Protective Earthworks by
Recycled Anthropic Components

Principe de fonctionnement d'un merlon, étude multi-échelles

REMPARe is a project labeled and supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR), whose objective is to provide operational solutions for the design of embankments to protect against localized impacts of falling rock.

Keywords

Recycling – Landslide risk – Innovation – Protection – Localized impact – Composite material – Dissipated modular structure – Reparability – Environmental impact.

Technical summary

The Rempare project aims to improve design methods of passive defenses against rockfalls, from low to medium energy, incorporating the enhancement of human waste recycled tires in an innovative concept of energy dissipation .

Technical visit 19/11/2009.
Impact at 2000kJ on the structure n°3.