An investigation into application of jointly distributed random variables method in reliability assessment of rock slope stability

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-47

  Johari, A ^a   Fazeli, A ^b   Javadi, A A ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jointly distributed random variables; Monte Carlo; Reliability; Rock slope stability

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF STABILITY; DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES; EARTHQUAKE ACCELERATION; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; FRICTION ANGLES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PLANE SLIDING; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC TREATMENTS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; ROCK ENGINEERING; ROCK SLOPE; ROCK SLOPE STABILITY; SLIDING SURFACE; TENSION CRACKS; TRUNCATED NORMAL; UNIT WEIGHT;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FRICTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

COHESION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLIDING; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 84864421014     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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