Determination of parameters range in rock engineering by means of random set theory

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 241-261

  Tonon, F ^a,d   Bernardini, A ^b   Mammino, A ^c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c SIGES   (Italy)

^d Vicolo S Antonino A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLOGY; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TUNNELS;

CONVEX ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL TUNNEL DESIGN; EVENT TREE ANALYSIS; INTERVAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM SET THEORY; ROCK ENGINEERING; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 0034559397     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00058-2     Document Type: Article

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