Rock Mechanics and Engineering

✍ Scribed by C. Jaeger

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 538
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first edition of Rock Mechanics and Engineering bridged the gap between scientific research on rock mechanics and practical engineering. It was resolutely aimed at giving practical information to geologists, engineering geologists and engineers. Emphasis was placed on the lessons to be learnt from the study of case histories, with the Malpasset Dam rupture and the large Vajont rock slide amongst those described. In this second, enlarged edition the author continues to emphasise aspects of rock mechanics. Modern efforts at establishing an engineering classification of rocks are summarised and considerable attention is given to the Austrian tunnelling method. Firm in his belief that there is no better way to study the subject than by the detailed analysis of case histories, Dr Jaeger has incorporated a number of new ones, for example the discussion on the engineering classification of jointed rock masses and the required rock support is illustrated by descriptions of the second Gotthard Tunnel and the design of the third, much larger tunnel.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Preface to the first edition......Page 12
1 The historical development of rock mechanics......Page 14
2 Engineering geology and rock mechanics......Page 18
3 Fundamental concepts and description of fissures......Page 40
4 Physical and mechanical properties of rock material......Page 48
5 Residual stresses in rock masses in situ......Page 98
6 Strains, modulus of deformation and failure in rock masses......Page 115
7 Mathematical approach to strain-stress distribution in rock masses......Page 174
8 Interstitial water in rock material and rock masses......Page 206
9 Rock slopes and rock slides......Page 216
10 Galleries, tunnels, mines and underground excavations......Page 240
11 Rock mechanics and dam foundations......Page 339
12 Dam foundations and tunnelling......Page 373
13 Incidents, accidents, dam disasters......Page 394
14 The Vajont rock slide......Page 417
15 Two examples of rock slopes supported with cables......Page 439
16 Three examples of large underground hydro-power stations......Page 450
References......Page 478
Appendix 1 Comments on the bibliography......Page 506
Appendix 2 Measurement conversion tables......Page 509
Appendix 3 Table of geological formation and earth history......Page 511
Appendix 4 Some petrographic properties of rocks......Page 512
Author Index......Page 514
Index of geographical names, dam sites, reservoirs, tunnels and caverns......Page 521
Subject Index......Page 524

✦ Subjects

Горно-геологическая отрасль;Физика пород, пластов, массивов;Механика горных пород;