Natural rock-slope stability issues at Masada national monument: A case study

9th ISRM Congress

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1621-1628

  Hatzor, Y H ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUCED SEISMICITY; ROCK MECHANICS; TRANSDUCERS;

DISPLACEMENT TRANSDUCER; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; ROCK SLOPE STABILITY; SATURATED CONDITIONS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SOLUTIONS; WATER PRESSURES;

SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 3042630257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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