Rock slope stability and excavatability assessment of rocks at the Kapikaya dam site, Turkey

Engineering Geology

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 17-27

  Gurocak, Zulfu ^a   Alemdag, Selcuk ^a   Zaman, Musharraf M ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Excavatability; Kapikaya dam; Kinematical analysis; Rock slope stability; Shear strength reduction analyses

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULI; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE STABILITY; TURKEY;

EXCAVATABILITY; ROCK SLOPE STABILITY; SHEAR STRENGTH REDUCTION ANALYSIS;

ROCK MECHANICS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DIABASE; DISCONTINUITY; EXCAVATION STRUCTURE; KINEMATICS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE STABILITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 37249028602     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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