Engineering Rock Mechanics
Part 2: Illustrative Worked Examples

Engineering Rock Mechanics Part II: Illustrative Worked Examples can be used as an independent book or alternatively it complements an earlier publication called Engineering Rock Mechanics: An Introduction to the Principles by the same authors.
It contains illustrative worked examples of engineering rock mechanics in action as the subject applies to civil, mining, petroleum and environmental engineering. The book covers the necessary understanding and the key techniques supporting the rock engineering design of structural foundations, dams, rock slopes, wellbores, tunnels, caverns, hydroelectric schemes and mines. There is a question and worked answer presentation with the question and answer sets collated into twenty chapters which match the subject matter of the first book.

Preface
Units and Symbols
Part A: Illustrative Worked Examples - Questions and Answers
Introduction
Geological setting
Stress
In situ rock stress
Strain and the theory of elasticity
Intact rock: deformability, strength and failure Fractures and hemispherical projection
Rock masses: deformability, strength, failure and Permeability
Anisotropy and inhomogeneity
Testing techniques
Rock mass classification
Rock dynamics and time dependency
Rock mechanics interactions and rock engineering systems
Excavation principles
Rock reinforcement and rock support
Foundations and slopes - instability mechanisms Design of surface excavations
Underground excavation instability mechanisms Design of underground excavations

Part B: Questions Only
The questions in Part A are repeated here without the answers for those who wish to attempt the questions without the answers being visible
Questions 1.1-1.5: Introduction. Questions 2.1-2.10: Geological setting. Questions 3.1-3.10: Stress. Questions 4.1-4.10: In situ rock stress. Questions 5.1-5.10: Strain and the theory of elasticity. Questions 6.1-6.10: Intact rock. Questions 7.1-7.10: Fractures and hemispherical projection. Questions 8.1-8.10: Rock masses. Questions 9.1-9.10: Permeability. Questions 10.1-10.10: Anisotropy and inhomogeneity. Questions 11.1-11.10: Testing techniques. Questions 12.1-12.10: Rock mass classification. Questions 13.1-13.10: Rock dynamics and time dependency. Questions 14.1-14.10: Rock mechanics interactions and rock engineering systems. Questions 15.1-15.10: Excavation principles. Questions 16.1-16.10: Rock reinforcement and rock support. Questions 17.1-17.10: Foundations and slopes - instability mechanisms. Questions 18.1-18.10: Design of surface excavations. Questions 19.1-19.10: Underground excavation instability mechanism. Questions 20.1-20.10: Design of underground excavations.

Appendix 1. 3-D stress cube model
Appendix 2. Hemispherical projection sheet
Appendix 3. Rock mass classification tables: RMR and Q
References
Index

Geologists, civil and geotechnical engineers