Abstract

This thesis presents an application of a numerical formulation incorporating the effects of joints, cracks, and fractures to a soil subsidence predictions problem, and the extension of that formulation to combined discrete slip planes and jointed media continua formulations. The results obtained are compared to each other and to a physical centrifuge simulation performed previously on the same problem.

Degree

MS

College and Department

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology; Civil and Environmental Engineering

Rights

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Date Submitted

1984-12-01

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd3003

Keywords

Subsidence, Media, Slip, Plane, Joints, Cracks, Fractures

Language

English

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