Stability analyses of footwall slopes in open pit mining;Análisis de estabilidad de taludes de muro en explotaciones mineras a cielo abierto

DYNA (Colombia)

Volumn 77, Issue 161, 2010, Pages 61-70

  Alejano, Leandro R ^a   Juncal, Abel Sánchez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Footwall slope; Rock engineering; Stability analyses; UDEC

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957931156     PISSN: 00127353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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