Physical simulation of ground fissures triggered by underground fault activity

Engineering Geology

Volumn 155, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-30

  Peng, Jian Bing ^a,b   Chen, Li Wei ^c   Huang, Qiang Bing ^a,b   Men, Yu Ming ^a,b   Fan, Wen ^a,b   Yan, Jin Kai ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c China Nuclear Power Engineering Company   (China)

Author keywords

Expansion mechanism; Ground fissure; Physical simulation experiment; Underlying fault activity

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION BUILDING; EXPANSION MECHANISM; FAULT ACTIVITY; GROUND FISSURE; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL SIMULATION; PHYSICAL SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; STRESS AND DISPLACEMENT FIELDS;

GROUNDWATER; SOIL SURVEYS;

EXPERIMENTS;

DISPLACEMENT; EXPANSION; FISSURE; FRACTURE; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL MECHANICS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

CHINA; SHAANXI; XIAN;

EID: 84875397223     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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