Investigation of natural rock joint roughness

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 290-305

  Ge, Yunfeng ^a,b   Kulatilake, Pinnaduwa H S W ^b   Tang, Huiming ^a   Xiong, Chengren ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractals; Measurement; Quantification; Rock joints; Roughness

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL LOADING; QUANTIFICATION; ROCK JOINT; SLIDING DIRECTION; STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRIANGULAR PLATES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; LIGHT SOURCES; MEASUREMENTS; ROCKS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LOADING;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; JOINT; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROUGHNESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 84885723793     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2013.09.015     Document Type: Article

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