Probabilistic treatment of the sliding wedge with EzSlide

Engineering Geology

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 153-163

  Feng, Ping ^a   Lajtai, Emery Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; SLOPE STABILITY;

SLIDING WEDGE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE EZSLIDE;

ROCK MECHANICS;

PARAMETERIZATION; SLOPE STABILITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0342620636     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(98)00007-6     Document Type: Article

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