RAMMS 1.6.62 (Rapid Mass MovementS) 

RAMMS (Rapid Mass MovementS) is a state-of-the-art numerical simulation model to calculate the motion of geophysical mass movements (snow avalanches, debris flows, rockfall and shallow landslides) from initiation to runout in three-dimensional terrain. It was designed to be used in practice by hazard engineers who need solutions to real, everyday problems.  It is coupled with a user-friendly visualization tool that allows users to easily access, display and analyze simulation results. New constitutive models have been developed and implemented in RAMMS, thanks to calibration and verification at full scale tests at sites such as Valle de la Sionne (snow avalanches), Illgraben (debris flows), Veltheim (hillslope) and St. Leonard / Walenstadt (rockfall). These models allow the application of RAMMS to solve both large, extreme avalanche or debris flow events as well as smaller mass movements such as hillslope debris flows and shallow landslides.

RAMMS is developed at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos by Marc Christen, Perry Bartelt, Yves Bhler, Lisa Dreier, Christoph Graf, Brian McArdell, Julia Kowalski, Urs Gruber.....

Davos, Switzerland, March 2018