Geotechnical assessment of the 2005 Kuzulu landslide (Turkey)

Engineering Geology

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 112-128

  Ulusay, Reşat ^a   Aydan, Ömer ^b   Kilic, Recep ^c  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Back analysis; Earth flow; Earthquake; Impact force; Kuzulu (Sivas, Turkey); Landslide; Snow melting

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; SEISMOLOGY; SLOPE STABILITY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BACK ANALYSIS; EARTH FLOW; IMPACT FORCE;

LANDSLIDES;

BACK ANALYSIS; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOTECHNICAL SURVEY; IMPACT; LANDSLIDE; SLOPE STABILITY; SNOWMELT; TOPOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; SIVAS [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 33845573725     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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