Systematic identification of polyhedral rock blocks with arbitrary joints and faults

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-72

  Lu, Jun ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Rock blocks; Rock joints and discontinuities; System identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ROCKS;

POLYHEDRAL ELEMENTS;

GEOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; FAULT; JOINT; ROCK BLOCK;

EID: 0036027506     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-352X(01)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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