Novel particle method for modelling the episodic collapse of soft coastal bluffs

Geomorphology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 295-305

  Vandamme, Johan ^a   Zou, Qingping ^b   Ellis, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal bluffs; Collapse; Episodic failure; Model; Stability

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; COASTAL LANDFORM; COLLAPSE; FAILURE MECHANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 82855172112     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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