New developments in the analysis of surface mine slopes

Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection, MPES 2005 and the 5th International Conference on Computer Applications in the Minerals Industries, CAMI 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1204-1226

  Stead, Doug ^a   Yan, Ming ^a   Coggan, John ^c   Eberhardt, Erik ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brittle fracture; Kinematics; Laser scanning; Limit equilibrium; Numerical models

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE PROPAGATION; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; LASER SCANNING; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM; MINING ENVIRONMENTS; SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE MINE SLOPES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; ROCKS; SLOPE STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOOLS;

OPEN PIT MINING;

EID: 77958109043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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