Is thermal fatigue a possible mechanism for failures of some rock slopes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?

43rd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium and 4th U.S.-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Vargas Jr , E A ^a   Chavez, E ^a   Gusmao L ^a   Amaral, C ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY FLUCTUATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ROCK SLOPE; THERMALLY INDUCED STRESS;

DROUGHT; MECHANISMS; ROCK MECHANICS;

ROCKS;

EID: 70450216583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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