Physical modelling of block toppling

Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, 6th ICPMG'06 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics

Volumn 1-2, Issue , 2006, Pages 325-330

  Cecconi, M ^a   Croce, P ^b   Viggiani, G M B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURED ROCK; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM METHODS; PHYSICAL MODELLING; SIMILAR MODELS; STABILITY CALCULATION; THEORETICAL SOLUTIONS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 84857719981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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