Shear Strength Reduction (SSR) approach for slope stability analyses

Proceedings of the 1st Canada-US Rock Mechanics Symposium - Rock Mechanics Meeting Society's Challenges and Demands

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 319-327

  Diederichs, M S ^a   Lato, M ^a   Hammah, R ^b   Quinn, P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Rocscience Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SAFETY FACTOR;

DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; FACTOR OF SAFETY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL UNITS; GROUND STRUCTURE; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM; SHEAR STRENGTH REDUCTION; SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 56149094284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1201/noe0415444019-c39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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