Fitting Mixtures of Kent Distributions to Aid in Joint Set Identification
拟合 Kent 分布混合模型以辅助识别岩体节理组
When examining a rock mass, joint sets and their orientations can play a significant role with regard to how the rock mass will behave. To identify joint sets present in the rock mass, the orientation of individual fracture planes can be measured on exposed rock faces and the resulting data can be examined for heterogeneity. In this article, the expectation–maximization algorithm is used to fit mixtures of Kent component distributions to the fracture data to aid in the…