Rock wedge stability analysis using system reliability methods

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 419-427

  Jimenez Rodriguez, R ^a,b   Sitar, N ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

FORM; Linear programming; Monte Carlo; Reliability; Risk; Wedge stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE STABILITY;

FIRST ORDER APPROXIMATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; WEDGE STABILITY; WEDGE STABILITY ANALYSIS;

ROCK MECHANICS;

FAILURE MECHANISM; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROCK BLOCK; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547881563     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-005-0088-x     Document Type: Article

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