This fully updated edition has added focus on rock engineering applications in design, planning and excavation.
The book is based on the author's extensive experience and offers a single source of information for the evaluation of rock properties.
Wang, Z-L., Shi Y-C., Shan Z-G.,, Xie D-Z., Wang J-X. & Li X-L. (2013) DBQ system: a classification method of soft wall rock for deep tunnels. Journal of Geological Hazards and Environment Preservation, 24 (1), 84–87.
The two-volume set Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is concerned with the application of the principles of mechanics to physical, chemical and electro-magnetic processes in the upper-most layers of the earth and the design and ...
The behavior of a fault zone depends on the stresses acting upon it and the stresses do change during reservoir production ... Seismicity associated with high pore pressures resulting from fluid injection at depth has been registered in ...
... Subsidence Behavior of Rock Structures 29 Ground Surface Movements Due to Underground Excavation in the People's Republic of China Subject Index Volume 5 Surface and Underground Project Case Histories Overview of Underground Space ...
The first comprehensive treatment of the subject of design methodology in rock engineering, this book emphasizes that a good designer needs not only knowledge for designing (technical knowledge) but also must have knowledge about designing ...
A collection of papers addressing the issue of the failure of rock engineering structures.
... stored account for 41% of average annual consumption in Portugal. Figure 11. Proximity of pipelines and ocean. Table 1. Total gas stored for the first scenario. N◦ of Total gas ID County Area (m2) cavities stored (106 m3) 1 Nazaré ...
... of Permo-Carboniferous sediments and igneous rocks. The whole of south-western England has been affected considerably by tectonism associated with the Variscan Orogeny (–225 my) which culminated during the Permo-Triassic Period.
Dr. Jiang Anna, with the assistance of Professors Feng Xia-Ting, Liu Jian, Yang Qigui, Hu Ying and Zhang Feng carried out numerical analysis of stability and design optimisation for the Shuibuya ...