Prediction of cavern configurations from subsidence data

Engineering Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 21-29

  Fuenkajorn, K ^a   Archeeploha, S ^a  

^a SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Brine; Cavern; Salt rock; Sinkhole; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CAVERN; CRITICAL CONDITION; DEFORMATION MODULUS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE ANALYSIS; GROUND MOVEMENT; GROUND SURVEYS; HYPERBOLIC EQUATIONS; JOINT MOVEMENT; SALT ROCK; SALT ROCKS; SINKHOLE DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUB-CRITICAL; SUPER-CRITICAL; SURFACE CURVATURES; SURFACE SLOPE; SURFACE SUBSIDENCE;

CAVES; DEFORMATION; SALT DEPOSITS;

SUBSIDENCE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CAVERN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND MOVEMENT; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINKHOLE; SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 70450273150     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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