Estimation of the Joint Roughness Coefficient (JRC) by visual comparison

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-74

  Beer, A J ^a   Stead, D ^b   Coggan, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; INTERNET; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; SHEAR STRENGTH; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

JOINT ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; ROCK JOINT SURFACES; VISUAL COMPARISON;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 0036464873     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s006030200009     Document Type: Article

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