Directing exploration with 3D FEM sensitivity and data uncertainty

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 959-967

  Graettinger, Andrew J ^a   Dowding, Charles H ^b  

^a The University of Alabama   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

KRIGING; QUANTITATIVELY DIRECTED EXPLORATION (QDE); TAYLOR SERIES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BORING; EXPLORATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SITE INVESTIGATION;

EID: 0032718933     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(1999)125:11(959)     Document Type: Article

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