Practical rock mechanics

by Hencher, Steve

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Full title :Practical rock mechanics / Steve Hencher.

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Publication Date:2016

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Publisher(s):CRC Press
Place of Publication:Boca Raton
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780429068317, 042906831X, 1138430390, 9781138430396, 9781482217278, 1482217279
oclc:on1080584253
LC Classification:TA706
Dewey Decimal:624.15132

Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Differentiating between soil and rock -- 1.3. Mechanics of failure -- 1.4. Classification of intact rock -- 1.5.Compressive strength of weak rock -- 1.6. Origins of shear strength in intact rock -- 1.7. Shear strength parameters for the sample in Figure 1.3 -- 1.8. Stability of a cut slope in weak rock -- 1.9. Discontinuities in rock masses -- 1.9.1. Introduction and relationship to geological history -- 1.9.2. Fracture development -- 1.9.3. Joints -- 1.9.4. Faults -- 1.10. The importance of discontinuities to stability -- 1.11. Early lessons and the relevance of rock mechanics -- 1.12. Application of rock mechanics -- 1.13. History of the subject area -- 1.14. Rock mechanics as a scientific discipline -- 1.15. Load changes -- 2.1. Definitions -- 2.1.1. Force and load -- 2.1.2. Stress -- 2.1.3. Stress transformation -- 2.2. Mohr circle representation of stress state -- 2.3. Stress concentration in underground openings

Note continued: 2.4. Stresses below foundations -- 2.5. Effective stress -- 2.6. Rock deformation and behaviour -- 2.6.1. Elastic behaviour and Young's modulus -- 2.6.2. Rock behaviour -- 2.6.2.1. Brittle fr…