Requirements for accurate quantification of self-affine roughness using the roughness-length method

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-18

  Kulatilake, P H S W ^a   Um, J ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT;

FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN PROFILES; NATURAL ROCK JOINT PROFILES; ROUGHNESS-LENGTH METHOD;

ROCK MECHANICS;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; JOINT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0033039993     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-9062(98)00170-3     Document Type: Article

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