This volume contains a collection of 39 papers selected for presentation at the third FLAC Symposium. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including constitutive models, slope stability, underground cavity design, mining applications, soil structure interaction, dynamic an…
"This volume contains a collection of 39 papers selected for presentation at the third FLAC Symposium, held October 21-24, 2003 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The contributions cover a wide range of topics including Constitutive Models, Slope Stability, Underground Cavity Design, …
This book focuses on the fundamentals of rock mechanics as a basis for the safe and economical design and construction of tunnels, dam foundations and slopes in jointed and anisotropic rock. It is divided into four main parts:- Fundamentals and models- Analysis and design method…
Instabilities modeling in geomechanics
by Stefanou
fromSciences. Mechanics, Geomechanics
This book presents some fundamental concepts behind the basic theories and tools of discrete element methods (DEM), its historical development, and its wide scope of applications in geology, geophysics and rock engineering. Unlike almost all books available on the general subjec…
