ABSTRACT

When dealing with rock in civil engineering, mining engineering and other engineering, the process by which the rock fails under load should be understood, so that safe structures can be built on and in the rock. However, there are many ways for loading rock and rock can have a variety of idiosyncracies. This reference book provides engineers and r

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|16 pages

Rock failure in uniaxial tension

chapter 3|26 pages

Rock failure in indirect tension

chapter 4|34 pages

Rock failure in uniaxial compression

chapter 5|12 pages

Confinement and shear

chapter 6|20 pages

Effect of heterogeneity on rock failure

chapter 8|6 pages

Loading, unloading and the Kaiser Effect

chapter 9|12 pages

Time dependency of rock failure

chapter 10|34 pages

Coalescence of fractures

chapter 11|8 pages

Dynamic loading of rock

chapter 12|20 pages

Rock failure and water flow

chapter 13|10 pages

Rock failure induced by thermal stress

chapter 14|10 pages

Slope failure in rock masses

chapter 16|12 pages

Rock failure around tunnels in jointed rock

chapter 17|14 pages

Rock failure induced by longwall coal mining

chapter 18|10 pages

Gas outbursts in coal mines

chapter 19|24 pages

Particle breakage and comminution

chapter 21|2 pages

Concluding remarks