Building a three dimensional sealed geological model to use in numerical stress analysis software: A case study for a dam site

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1022-1030

  Xu, Nengxiong ^a   Tian, Hong ^b   Kulatilake, Pinnaduwa H S W ^c   Duan, Qingwei ^d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

3 D geological modeling; Block tracing; Numerical stress analysis; Sealed model; Tetrahedral mesh generation; Wire frame

Indexed keywords

BLOCK TRACING; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL STRESS ANALYSIS; TETRAHEDRAL MESH GENERATION; WIRE FRAME;

DAMS; DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESH GENERATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; WIRE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DAM; GEOMETRY; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052933395     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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