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This book is an outcome of the twenty-sixth symposium on "Rock Mechanics: Research and Engineering Applications in Rock Masses" in U.S. It focuses on the problems associated with rock mass and many experiments and modeling techniques are being performed in this area.
List of contents
Slope stability 1. Study on rock slope protection of toppling failure by physical modelings 2. Nomograms for the assessment of toppling failure in rock slopes 3. Geotechnical investigation and appraisal of face stability in jointed rock mass in surface mining 4. The characteristics of coal measures slope instability in British surface coal mines 5. Rock mechanics in surface mining - An update Geological and empirical evaluation of rock properties 6. A comparison of some approaches to the classification of rock masses for geotechnical purposes 7. Influence of geological factors on the mechanical properties of rock in the Palo Duro Basin 8. A new rock classification method for design purposes 9. Analysis of the elastic and strength properties of Yucca Mountain tuff, Nevada 10. Pillar design for frozen placers Numerical modeling of fractured rock 11. A simplified modelling strategy for describing rockmass behaviour around stope faces in deep hard-rock gold mines 12. The kinematics of block inter-penetrations 13. Equivalent continuum of large scale modeling for rock masses: An alternative approach 14. Seismic stability of fractured rock masses with the distinct element method 15. Rock motion modeling of oil shale cratering experiments Subsidence 16. Subsidence prediction for Saskatchewan potash mines 17. Numerical modelling of the behavior of overburden rock masses associated with longwall mining 18. Subsidence over a room and pillar mine in the Appalachian coal province and the use of subsidence predictive methods - A comparative analysis 19. Computer modeling of the surface effects of subsidence control methods 20. Surface subsidence resulting from longwall mining in central Utah - A case study Rock mass characterization in deep boreholes 21. Applications of borehole-acoustic methods in rock mechanics 22. Borehole measurements in extreme environments 23. Fracture detection and evaluation using new wireline methods Applied numerical modeling 24. 2-D and 3-D finite elem
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Eileen Ashworth (Author)
