Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering covers the necessary understanding and the key techniques supporting the rock engineering design of structural foundations, dams, rock slopes, wellbores, tunnels, caverns, hydroelectric schemes and mines. Rock mechanics today is closely associated with, and indeed part of, construction, energy, and environmental engineering. Rock mechanics is a theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behavior of rock and rock masses; compared to geology, it is that branch of mechanics concerned with the response of rock and rock masses to the force fields of their physical environment. The text Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics focuses on mechanical behavior of rock and rock masses, and presents the essentials of rock mechanics. First chapter focuses on remote sensing rock mechanics and earthquake thermal infrared anomalies. The performance of EVA-based membranes for SCL in hard rock has been measured in second chapter. The goal of third chapter is to provide additional insight regarding the organization of the non-linear model input parameters in borehole simulations and to assist other researchers involved in the rock physics-related research fields. In fourth chapter, we present preliminary results of rock magnetic analyses of the Cretaceous Yezo Supergroup, the Eocene Ishikari Group and the Miocene Kawabata formation in order to detect tectonic movements around the basin and to describe the microfabric of sedimentary rocks related to the tectonic regime and sedimentation processes in the mobile zone. Theories on rock cutting, grinding and polishing mechanisms have been proposed in fifth chapter. In sixth chapter, a methodology has been developed for assessing destabilization potential of the host rock mass from mine voids. Last chapter deals with water ingress assessment for rock tunnels.
