Sufficient conditions for existence of physically significant solutions in limiting equilibrium slope stability analysis

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 40, Issue 13-14, 2003, Pages 3717-3735

  Baker, R ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Existence of minimum; Limiting equilibrium; Slope stability; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

SLIP SURFACE;

SLOPE STABILITY;

EQUILIBRIUM; SLIP; SLOPE STABILITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038320339     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7683(03)00075-1     Document Type: Article

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