Centrifugal modelling of rockfalls

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

Volumn 1-2, Issue , 2006, Pages 349-354

  Itoh, K ^a   Toyosawa, Y ^a   Kusakabe, O ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGE MODEL TEST; CRUSHED ROCK; FALLING ROCKS; MOVEMENT PATTERN; ROCKFALLS; SAFETY PROBLEMS;

ROCK BURSTS;

CENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 84857735081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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