Sheeting joints: Characterisation, shear strength and engineering

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Hencher, S R ^a,b   Lee, S G ^c   Carter, T G ^d   Richards, L R ^e  

^a CH2M HILL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^d GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Engineering measures; Landslides; Roughness characterisation; Shear strength; Sheeting joint origins

Indexed keywords

CASE HISTORY; CHARACTERISATION; CUT SLOPE; ROUGHNESS CHARACTERISATION; SHEETING JOINT ORIGINS; WATER FLOWS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LANDSLIDES; PAPER SHEETING; WEATHERING;

SHEAR STRENGTH;

DILATION; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GUIDELINE; INFILL; LANDSLIDE; ROCKFALL; ROUGHNESS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE DYNAMICS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WEATHERING;

EID: 79651468833     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-010-0100-y     Document Type: Article

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