Engineering Rock Mechanics

442 Index

geological,
factors 16
setting 11
geostatistics 167
Goodman borehole jack 188
Griffith criterion 109
ground response curve 384

hemispherical projection,
methods 431
using a projection net 434
Hoek-Brown criterion 110
homogeneous finite strain 73
Hopkinson bar 211
hydraulic fracturing 45

inclined hemispherical projection

infinitesimal strain 75
inhomogeneity, 166

integrated design procedures 392
internal friction, angle of 107
International Society for Rock

isotropy 81
JRC. joint roughness coefficient 129

Kinematic

methods, use of 341

accuracy 168

precision 168

Mechanics 1

analysis of slope instability

feasibility 323

linear creep 217
loading conditions 98
longitudinal (P waves) 210

mechanical excavation 255

mechanisms 339

mechanics of rock cutting 257

tunnel boring machines 255

discontinuity,

mechanical properties,

stiffness of 134

strength of 137

circle of strain, 422

for strain gauge rosettes 428

circle of stress 407

MOWS

Mohr-Coulomb criterion 107
Monte Carlo simulation 333

negative exponential distribution 118
non-linear
creep 218
relaxation 218
normal stress components 32

orthotropic material 80

permeability

coefficient of 151

primary 151

secondary 151

persistence 127

Pillar-countxy rock interaction 387

plane

point load test, the 179

Poisson process 118,130

primary effects of excavation 267

principal directions and principal

principal directions and principal

principal stresses, the 37

probabilistic methods 332

symmetry of 229

RES, rock engineering systems 223

rock mechanics-rock engineering

232

REV, representative elemental volume

rheological models,

Hookean substance 215

Kelvin model 215

Maxwell model 215,216

Newtonian substance 215

St. Venant substance 215

blasting, 243

instability 310

sliding 291

strains 421

stresses 405

interaction matrices 225,228,

158

rock,

ANFO, Ammonium Nitrate and

Fuel Oil 244

blasting rounds 245

explosives 247

free face 244

pre-split blasting 249

smoothwall blasting 254

stress wave and gas pressure

effects 243

successful pre-split blasting,

guidelines for^251

on the stress field, effect of 382

bolts 272

dynamics 207

engineering metal, as an 11

failure criteria 112

intact 85

mass classification,

application of RMR systems 197

links between classification

systems 200

Q-system 195

RMR, Rock Mass Rating system

195

SMR 200