Developments in characterization of surface topography of rock joint

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 486-489

  Zhou, Hongwei ^a   Xie, Heping ^a   Kwasniewski, M A ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fractal geometry; Rock joint; Surface topography

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; ROCKS; TOPOGRAPHY;

'CURRENT; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; GEOMETRICAL APPROACHES; ROCK JOINT; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 20344408075     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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