Fuzzy spectral clustering for identification of rock discontinuity sets

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 929-939

  Jimenez, R ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Joint sets; K means; Orientation analysis; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

FUZZY CLUSTERING; GRAPHIC METHODS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COLOR SCALES; COMPUTED CLUSTERING; DEGREE OF MEMBERSHIPS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; JOINT SETS; K-MEANS; K-MEANS ALGORITHMS; NOVEL METHODS; ORIENTATION ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL CLUSTERING; TIGHT CLUSTERS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCONTINUITY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58049155231     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-007-0155-6     Document Type: Article

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