On the reliability of earth slopes in three dimensions

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 465, Issue 2110, 2009, Pages 3145-3164

  Griffiths, D V ^a   Huang, Jinsong ^a   Fenton, Gordon A ^b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Probability of failure; Random fields; Slope stability; Spatial correlation; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EARTH SLOPE; ELASTO-PLASTIC; FINITE-ELEMENT; LOCAL AVERAGING; MONTE CARLO; OUT-OF-PLANE DIRECTION; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RANDOM FIELD THEORY; RANDOM FIELDS; SPATIAL CORRELATION; SPATIAL CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SLOPE; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 70349668299     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0165     Document Type: Article

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