Engineering Rock Mechanics

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Engineering rock mechanics is the discipline used to design structures built of

rock. These structures encompass foundations, dams, slopes, shafts, tunnels,

caverns, hydroelectric schemes, mines, radioactive waste repositories and

geothermal energy projects: in short, any structure built on or in a rock mass.

Despite the variety of projects that use rock engineering, the principles remain

he same.

hgineering Rock Mechanics clearly and systematically explains the basic

principles, how to study the interactions between these principles and discusses

the fundamentals of excavation and support and the application of the principles

o the design of surface and underground structures.

to create ai essential reference tool.

Introduction

Geological Setting

Stress

Discontinuities
, Rock Masses
Permeability
I Anisotropy and Inhomogeneity
Testing Techniques
lock Mass Classification
Rock Dynamics and Time-Dependent Aspects
Rock Mechanics Interactions and Rock Engineering Systems
Excavation Principles
Stabilization Principles
, Surface Excavation Instability Mechanisms
' Design and Analysis of Surface Excavation
I Underground Excavation Instability Mechanisms
Besign and Analysis of Underground Excavations

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