This contribution deals with the development of a numerical model providing reliable estimates of the loading of a gravel-buried steel pipe subjected to rockfall. The reliability test is based on two physically and statistically independent sets of experiments. The first set is related to elastoplastic material modeling and the second set to structural model verification. Since model verification can be accomplished successfully, the developed model is well suited to provide prognoses of the loading of a gravel-buried steel pipe for rockfall scenarios that were not investigated experimentally.
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