Download or read book Rock Joints written by Georg Mandl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Joints deals exclusively with the mechanical genesis of joints in rocks. It is aimed at a coherent, critical and comprehensible presentation of the underlying mechanical processes of various types of joints and joint systems. Special care is taken to elucidate and quantify the role of high fluid pressures in the formation of joints. The background is an offshoot of the author's courses on "Genesis of Rock Joints" in the Department of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling at the Technical University of Graz, Austria.