Investigation of hydraulic aperture at surface-exposed rock fractures in situ

Geotechnique

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 343-349

  Lee, C H ^a   Chang, J L ^a   Hsu, K T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Case history; Groundwater; Rock mechnics

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROCKS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BARTON-BANDIS MODEL; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULIC APERTURE; INDIRECT MEASUREMENT; JOINT ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; JOINTED ANDESITE ROCK; ROCK FRACTURE;

ROCK MECHANICS;

FRACTURED ROCK; HYDRAULIC APERTURE; HYDROMECHANICAL MODEL;

TAIWAN, LAN-YU ISLAND;

EID: 0030157727     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.1996.46.2.343     Document Type: Article

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