Automated tunnel rock classification using rock engineering systems

Engineering Geology

Volumn 156, Issue , 2013, Pages 20-27

  Huang, Runqiu ^a   Huang, Jian ^a   Ju, Nengpan ^a   Li, Yanrong ^b  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b AGECON Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Automated zonation and classification; Interaction matrix; Parameter interaction intensity (PII); Rock mass; Rock mass quality index (QI)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; INTERACTION MATRICES; PARAMETER INTERACTIONS; ROCK ENGINEERING SYSTEM; ROCK MASS; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; ROCK MASS QUALITIES;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ROCK MECHANICS;

ROCKS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; PARAMETERIZATION; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; ROCK MECHANICS; TUNNEL; TUNNELING;

EID: 84875534001     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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