Browsing by Author/Contributor "Jaafar, Rani"

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GPS measurements of present day crustal deformation within the Lebanese Restraining Bend along the Dead Sea Transform

Jaafar, Rani (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)

The Lebanese restraining bend is a 200 km long bend with a left lateral sense of slip located along the Dead Sea fault system (DSFS) between 33.2 and 34.6 degrees north latitude. The DSFS is a transform plate boundary fault ...
Predicting macroscale response of unsaturated sands from microscale analysis and simple geotechnical testing

Jaafar, Rani (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)

A large portion, if not the majority, of conditions encountered in geotechnical engineering practice involves unsaturated soil. Practical problems include precipitation-induced slope stability failures, expansive or ...