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Engineering Rock Mechanics
An Introduction to the Principles
- 457 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Engineering rock mechanics is the discipline used to design structures built in rock. These structures encompass building 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 the same. Engineering Rock Mechanics clearly and systematically explains the key principles behind rock engineering. The book covers the basic rock mechanics principles; how to study the interactions between these principles and a discussion on the fundamentals of excavation and support and the application of these in the design of surface and underground structures. Engineering Rock Mechanics is recommended as an across-the-board source of information for the benefit of anyone involved in rock mechanics and rock engineering.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Engineering rock mechanics: an introduction to the principles
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Geological setting
- Chapter 3. Stress
- Chapter 4. In situ stress
- Chapter 5. Strain
- Chapter 6. Intact rock
- Chapter 7. Discontinuities
- Chapter 8. Rock masses
- Chapter 9. Permeability
- Chapter 10. Anisotropy and inhomogeneity
- Chapter 11. Testing techniques
- Chapter 12. Rock mass classification
- Chapter 13. Rock dynamics and time-dependent aspects
- Chapter 14. Rock mechanics interactions and rock engineering systems (RES)
- Chapter 15. Excavation principles
- Chapter 16. Stabilization principles
- Chapter 17. Surface excavation instability mechanisms
- Chapter 18. Design and analysis of surface excavations
- Chapter 19. Underground excavation instability mechanisms
- Chapter 20. Design and analysis of underground excavations
- References
- Appendix A: Stress and strain analysis
- Appendix B: Hemispherical projection
- Index
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