Reliability analysis of rock slopes involving correlated nonnormals

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 922-935

  Low, B K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Correlation; Monte Carlo; Probability; Response surface; Rock slopes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY;

CORRELATED NONNORMALS; FIRST-ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; ROCK SLOPES;

ROCK MECHANICS;

CORRELATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; SLOPE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 34247122292     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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