Comparison of an analytical and a numerical approach to probabilistic keyblock analysis

2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARM 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1769-1775

  Stone, Charles A ^a   Kuszmaul, Joel S ^b   Boontun, Amarin ^c   Young, Dae ^c  

^a Kennecott Plant Operations Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

DETERMINISTIC ANALYSIS; DETERMINISTIC METHODS; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; PROBABILISTIC SOLUTION; UNDERGROUND EXCAVATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 85054599226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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