Abstract:

Turkey is significantly affected by natural disasters due to its geographical and geological position. The most affected type of catastrophe after the earthquake, heyelans and strawberries is the rock falls. A variety of measures can be used to protect against this type of disaster. In the selection and design of these methods, stone fall analysis must be done. Rockyfor3D (RF3D) is a successful software used in rock fall analysis. However, the process of data preparation is very complicated. CBS (Geographic Information System) requires knowledge and takes a long time. In this study, a tool was created that automatically performed data preparation processes for RF3D software and made rock fall analysis. This tool was created with Python programming language and integrated with ArcGIS software. The application of this work was done in the Kavak village located in the west of the Sivas province center. The characteristics such as the kinetic energy values, jump heights and reach distances of falling rock blocks have been successfully calculated. These findings can be used in stone-fall measurement projects, in location selection studies, in risk and risk assessment studies, and thus can be made more accurate decisions by decision makers.

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