Can we predict where falling rocks will go?

Can we predict where falling rocks will go?Rockfalls can cause serious damage to people and infrastructure.To design useful protection measures, it is important to understand what happens during a rockfall and where any rocks might go.At Boise State University in the US, geotechnical engineer Professor Nick Hudyma and his team, including PhD student Grant Goertzen, are throwing rocks down slopes to initiate artificial rockfalls.These experiments will allow them to create computer simulations that model how real rockfalls might occur.