This book provides practicing engineers working in the field of design, construction and monitoring of rock structures such as tunnels and slopes with technical

This book provides practicing engineers working in the field of design, construction and monitoring of rock structures such as tunnels and slopes with technical

Engineers wishing to build structures on or in rock use the discipline known as rock mechanics. This discipline emerged as a subject in its own right about thir

The development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials, with the help of numerical models, have increased notably the ability to predict and to in

Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses covers the most important topics and state-of-the-art in the area of rock mechanics, with