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Brendan West

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

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The Importance of Snow Microstructure: An Analysis of Snow Compressive Strength Under High Strain

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Oct 2024
Taylor Hodgdon, Brendan West, Julie Parno, Andrew Bernier and Zoe Courville
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Snow mechanics, Snow microstructure, Mechanical modeling

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Peridynamic Modeling of the Micromechanical Response of Snow Under High Strain Rates

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Mar 2023
Brendan West, Taylor Hodgdon, Devin O'Connor, Julie Parno and Zoe Courville
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Geospatial Research Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
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snow mechanics, Micromechanical modeling, Peridynamics

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Assessing the Impacts of Canopy Structure on Aerial Sensor Performance

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Assessing the Impacts of Canopy Structure on Aerial Sensor Performance

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Apr 2026
Taylor Hodgdon, Brendan West, Daniel Breton and Andrew Niccolai
Geospatial Research Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Sensor Performance, occlusion, sensing, forests

Assessing the Impacts of Canopy Structure on Aerial Sensor Performance

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 May 2026
Taylor Hodgdon, Brendan West, Daniel Breton and Andrew Niccolai
Geospatial Research Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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sensor performance, occlusion, sensing, Forests