A three-dimensional upper-bound approach to slope stability analysis based on RFEM

Geotechnique

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 549-556

  Chen, J ^a   Yin, J H ^a   Lee, C F ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Limit state analysis; Plasticity; Slopes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PLASTICITY; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

LIMIT STATE ANALYSIS; RIGID FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

SLOPE STABILITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 25444514270     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2005.55.7.549     Document Type: Article

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