Upgrading of the subjective landslide hazard evaluation scheme in Sri Lanka

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-121

  Weerasinghe, K M ^a   Gunaratne, M ^b   Ratnaweera, P ^c   Arambepola, N M S I ^a  

^a National Building Research Organization   (Sri Lanka)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Fuzzy sets; Hazard; Landslide

Indexed keywords

DECISION PROCESS; DESCRIPTORS; EVALUATION; EVALUATION PROCESS; EVALUATION SCHEME; EXPERT JUDGEMENT; FIELD DATA; FIELD EVALUATION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FUZZY NUMBERS; FUZZY RATING; FUZZY WEIGHT; HAZARD POTENTIAL; LANDSLIDE HAZARD; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUMERIC VALUES; OPTIMISATIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SRI LANKA; ZONING MAPS;

FUZZY SETS; LANDSLIDES; LINGUISTICS; MAPS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

HAZARDS;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; ZONING SYSTEM;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 79956224944     PISSN: 10286608     EISSN: 10290249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2010.482654     Document Type: Article

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