Rock Mechanics and Engineering Volume 2 : Laboratory and Field Testing

✍ Scribed by Xia-Ting Feng

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 646
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Laboratory and Field Testing is the second volume of the five-volume set Rock Mechanics and Engineering and contains nineteen chapters from key experts in the following fields:
- Triaxial or True-triaxial Tests under Condition of Loading and Unloading;
- Joint Tests;
- Dynamic and Creep Tests;
- Physical Modeling Tests;
- Field Testing and URLs. 

The five-volume set “Comprehensive Rock Engineering”, which was published in 1993, has had an important influence on the development of rock mechanics and rock engineering. Significant and extensive advances and achievements in these fields over the last 20 years now justify the publishing of a comparable, new compilation. Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng, with the editorial advice of Professor John A. Hudson. This new compilation offers an extremely wideranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock engineering and is composed of peer-reviewed, dedicated contributions by all the key experts worldwide.

Key features of this set are that it provides a systematic, global summary of new developments in rock mechanics and rock engineering practices as well as looking ahead to future developments in the fields. Contributors are worldrenowned experts in the fields of rock mechanics and rock engineering, though younger, talented researchers have also been included. The individual volumes cover an extremely wide array of topics grouped under five overarching themes: Principles (Vol. 1), Laboratory and Field Testing (Vol. 2), Analysis, Modelling and Design (Vol. 3), Excavation, Support and Monitoring (Vol. 4) and Surface and Underground Projects (Vol. 5).

This multi-volume work sets a new standard for rock mechanics and engineering compendia and will be the go-to resource for all engineering professionals and academics involved in rock mechanics and engineering for years to come.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Triaxial or True-triaxial Tests under Condition of Loading and Unloading
1 Introductory longer review for rock mechanics testing methods
2 Progress and applications of rock true triaxial testing systems
3 Rockburst concept and mechanism
4 Laboratory acoustic emission study review
5 Damage of rock joints using acoustic emissions
Joint Tests
6 Morphological parameters of both surfaces of coupled joints
7 Rock joints shearing testing system
Dynamic and Creep Tests
8 Coupled static and dynamic test 9 Dynamic behavior10 Dynamic rock failure and its containment
11 Tests on creep characteristics of rocks
Physical Modeling Tests
12 Physical, empirical and numerical modeling of jointed rock mass strength
13 Some recent progress in physical modeling of rock stability of tunnels or underground caverns in China
Field Testing and URLs
14 Underground research laboratories
15 The Mont Terri rock laboratory
16 Thermal properties and experiment at Äspö HRL
17 Excavation response studies at AECL's underground research laboratory-1982 to 2010
18 URL and rock mechanics in Finland

✦ Subjects

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General