Download or read book Rock Dynamics and Applications - State of the Art written by Jian Zhao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock dynamics studies the response of rock materials and rock masses under dynamic loading conditions. In the last a couple of decades, the development of experimental and computational techniques has been able to capture the progress of fracturing in microsecond steps, allowing the exploration on how the fracture is initiated, propagated and branc