Johan Gaume

EPFL STI SGM-GE
GR B2 401 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

Formation

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2009 – 2012 University of Grenoble

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2008 – 2008 Grenoble Institute of Technology

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2005 – 2008 ENSE3, Grenoble Institute of Technology

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2003 – 2005 Lycée Victor Hugo, Besançon

Expériences professionnelles

Publications représentatives

Stress concentrations in weak snowpack layers and condition for slab avalanche release

Gaume J, Chambon G, van Herwijnen A, Schweizer J.
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett. 45(16) 8363-8369 in

Scaling laws for the mechanics of loose and cohesive granular materials based on Baxter’s sticky hard spheres

Gaume J, Loewe H, Tan S, Tsang L.
Published in Physical Review E (in press). 2017 in

Assessing snow instability in skier-triggered snow slab avalanches by combining failure initiation and crack propagation

Gaume J and Reuter B
Published in Cold Reg. Sci. Technol. (in press). 2017 in

Fragmentation of wind-blown snow crystals

Comola F, Kok J, Gaume J, Paterna E, Lehning M.
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett. 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073039. 2017. in

Snow fracture in relation to slab avalanche release: critical state for the onset of crack propagation

Gaume J, van Herwijnen A, Chambon G, Wever N, Schweizer J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 11, 217-228. 2017. in

Temporal evolution of crack propagation propensity in snow in relation to slab and weak layer properties

Schweizer J, Reuter B, van Herwijnen A, Richter B, Gaume J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 10, 2637-2653. 2016 in

Estimating the effective elastic modulus and specific fracture energy of snowpack layers from field experiments

van Herwijnen A, Gaume J, Bair E, Reuter B, Birkeland K, Schweizer J.
Published in J. Glaciol., 62(236), 997-1007, 2016 in

Snow instability evaluation: calculating the skier-induced stress in a multi-layered snowpack

Monti F*, Gaume J*, Schweizer J. (* co-first authors).
Published in Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 775-788. 2016 in

Modeling of crack propagation in weak snowpack layers using the discrete element method.

Gaume J, van Herwijnen A, Chambon G, Birkeland K, Schweizer J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 9, 1915-1932. 2015. in

Granulation of snow: From tumbler experiments to discrete element simulations.

Steinkogler W, Gaume J, Loewe H, Sovilla B, Lehning M.
Published in J. Geophys. Res., 120, 1107-1126. 2015 in

A new mixed mode failure criterion for weak snowpack layers.

Reiweger I*, Gaume J*, Schweizer J. (* co-first authors)
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 1427–1432, 2015 in

Influence of weak layer heterogeneity and slab properties on slab tensile failure propensity and avalanche release areas.,

Gaume J, Chambon G, Eckert N, Naaim M, Schweizer J.
Published in The Cryosphere, 9, 795-804, 2014 in

Evaluation of slope stability with respect to snowpack spatial variability.

Gaume J, Schweizer J, van Herwijnen A, Chambon G, Reuter B, Eckert N, Schweizer J.
Published in J. Geophys. Res, 119, 2014 in

Evaluation of rupture Mohr-Coulomb parameters through finite element modelling of shaking plateform experiments

Podolskiy E, Chambon G, Naaim M, Gaume J.
Published in Nat. Hazard Earth Syst. Sci. in

A review of finite element modelling in snow mechanics

Podolskiy E, Chambon G, Naaim M, Gaume J.
Published in J. Glaciol., 59(218), 1189-1201, 2013 in

Influence of weak layer heterogeneity on slab avalanche release: Application to the evaluation of avalanche release depths.

Gaume J, Chambon G, Eckert N, Naaim M.
Published in J. Glaciol., 59(215), 423-437, 2013. in

Mapping extreme snowfalls in the French Alps using max-stable processes

Gaume J, Eckert N, Bel L, Chambon G, Naaim M.
Published in Water Resour. Res., 49(2), 1079-1098, 2013 in

Relative influence of mechanical and meteorological factors on slab avalanche release depth distributions

Gaume J, Chambon G, Eckert N, Naaim M.
Published in Geophys. Res. Lett., 39(12), L12401, 2012. in

Cross comparison of meteorological and avalanche data for characterizing avalanche cycles: the example of December 2008 in the eastern part of the southern French Alps

Eckert N, Coleou C, Castebrunet H, Deschatres M, Giraud G, Gaume J.
Published in Cold Reg. Sci. Technol., 64, 119-136, 2011 in

Using spatial and spatial-extreme statistics to characterize snow avalanche cycles

Eckert N, Gaume J, Castebrunet H.
Published in Procedia Environmental sciences, 7, 224-229, 2011 in

Quasistatic to inertial transition in granular materials and the role of fluctuations

Gaume J, Chambon G, Naaim M.
Published in Phys. Rev. E., 84(5), 051304, 2011 in