... 4–16.
Hoek, E. and Bray, J. (1977) Rock Slope Engineering,
1st edn, IMM, London.
Hoek, E. and Bray, J. (1981) Rock Slope Engineering,
3rd edn, Inst. Mining and Metallurgy, London, UK.
Hoek, E. and Brown, ... on
slope stability. Slope Stability in Surface Mining, Soc.
Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Littleton, CO,
97 105 .
Golder, H. Q. (1972) The stability of...
... that rock falls tend to follow, and how
this influences ditch design. For slopes steeper
than about 75
◦
, the rocks tend to stay close to the
face and land near the toe of the slope. For slope
angles ... collapse.
316 Stabilization of rock slopes
12.6.4 Rock catch fences and attenuators
During the 1980s, various fences and nets suitable
for installation on steep rock faces,...
... Civil engineering applications
14.5.5 Ditch and slope design
The two principle design issues for the project
were the dimensions of the ditch to contain rock
falls, and the stability of the slope ... to
discontinuities: (a) bedding and
bedding joints; (b) cross-joints and
faults.
15.3.3 Rock strength and competency
Estimates of intact rock strength, discontinuity
shear...
... carefully checked, and noted both before and
after reassembly. He should learn the proper care in the handling of instru-
mentation, and the care in placing and removing seals and bearings. A base
course ... costs.
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... official standards for
SQL-89 and SQL-92 are available as ANSI [1989] and
ANSI [1992], respectively.
Textbook descriptions of the
SQL-92 language include Date and Darwen [1997],
Melton and Simon ... [1997],
Melton and Simon [1993], and Cannan and Otten [1993]. Melton and Eisenberg [2000]
provides a guide to
SQLJ, JDBC, and related technologies. More information on SQLJ
and...
... of ease of implementation and overhead cost.
17.8 Consider a database consisting of 10 consecutive disk blocks (block 1, block
2, ,block 10) . Show the buffer state and a possible physical ordering ... lack of such standards necessitated that
the front end and the back end be provided by the same software vendor. With the
growth of interface standards, the front-end user interface a...
... such
as Oracle and
IBM DB2. Definitions of statistical functions can be found in standard
statistics textbooks such as Bulmer [1979] and Ross [1999].
Witten and Frank [1999] and Han and Kamber [2000] ... discovery and data mining. Kohavi and Provost [2001]
presents a collection of articles on applications of data mining to electronic commerce.
Agrawal et al. [1993] provides an...
... clients cache file data, attributes, file handles, and directories. Dif-
ferent strategies exist to handle consistency of the cached data, cached attributes,
and so on. Let us first take a look at ... file handle; it is completely opaque. File handles were 32 bytes
in NFS version 2, but were variable up to 64 bytes in version 3 and 128 bytes in
version 4. Of course, the length of a file...
... redirection
techniques: TCP handoff, DNS redirection, and HTTP redirection. We already
discussed TCP handoff. This technique is applicable only for server clusters and
does not scale to wide-area ... origin server that acts as the authoritative site for all
read and update operations. An edge server is used to handle client requests, and
has the ability to store (partial) information...