Representative elementary volume and mechanical parameters of fractured rock masses

Yantu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1135-1142

  Zhou, Chuang Bing ^a   Chen, Yi Feng ^a   Jiang, Qing Hui ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractured rock mass; Mechanical parameter; Multi field coupling; Representative elementary volume

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GEOLOGY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SEEPAGE; STRAIN;

ENERGY SUPERPOSITION METHOD (ESM); FRACTURED ROCK MASS; GEOLOGICAL STATISTIC METHOD (GSM); MECHANICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL PARAMETER; MULTIFIELD COUPLING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION METHOD (NSM); PERMEABILITY; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME (REV); ROCK MATRIX;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 34548494607     PISSN: 10004548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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