Engineering Geology for Underground Rocks

✍ Scribed by Professor Supping Peng, Dr. Jincai Zhang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Engineering geology for underground rocks is a sub-discipline of engineering geology for describing and solving geological engineering problems encountered in underground mining, petroleum and civil engineering. It covers rock mechanics for underground rocks, rock hydraulics, wellbore mechanics, mine geology and mine hydrogeology.

This book clearly and systematically explains underground engineering geology principles, methods, theories and case studies, depicts engineering problems in underground rock engineering and how to study and solve them. It specially emphasizes mechanical and hydraulic couplings in rock engineering for wellbore stability, mining near aquifers and other underground structures where inflow is a problem. Using the methods and models given in this book, the reader is able to analyse underground geological engineering problems and also for the design of underground structures.

Professionals and students in engineering geology, geological, mining, petroleum, civil engineering, rock mechanics, and mine geology will find this an essential reference.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Rock properties and mechanical behaviors....Pages 1-26
Sedimentary environments and geologic structures....Pages 27-44
In-situ stress and pore pressure....Pages 45-74
Rock strength experiments and failure criteria....Pages 75-100
Sedimentary rock masses and discontinuities....Pages 101-126
Double porosity poroelasticity and its finite element solution....Pages 127-160
Wellbore/borehole stability....Pages 161-198
Stress-dependent permeability....Pages 199-220
Strata failure and mining under surface and ground water....Pages 221-260
Water inrush and mining above confined aquifers....Pages 261-294
Stability of underground excavations....Pages 295-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-319

✦ Subjects

Geotechnical Engineering; Geology; Civil Engineering; Mineral Resources; Structural Foundations, Hydraulic Engineering; Hydrogeology