A large and rapid planar failure: Causes, mechanism, and consequences (Mordut, Gumushane, Turkey)

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1205-1221

  Alemdag, S ^a   Akgun, A ^b   Kaya, A ^a   Gokceoglu, C ^c  

^a GUMUSHANE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Excavation; Planar failure; Stability analyses; Uncontrolled blasting

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GRANITE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SLOPE FAILURE; URBAN AREA;

GUMUSHANE; TURKEY;

EID: 84896700766     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0821-1     Document Type: Article

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