Engineering Behaviour of Rocks - Brossura

Farmer, Ian W.

 
9780412139802: Engineering Behaviour of Rocks

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The major emphasis is on the behaviour of rocks as materials, although in the later chapters the behaviour of discontinuities in rocks, and the way in which this can affect the behaviour of rock masses, is considered.

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Contenuti

1 Engineering Description of Rocks.- 1.1 Rock testing.- 1.2 Uniaxial or unconfined strength.- 1.3 Empirical field and laboratory tests.- 1.4 Porosity and permeability.- 1.5 Discontinuous rock.- 2 Stress and Strain.- 2.1 Stress at a point.- 2.2 Pore pressure and effective stress.- 2.3 Strain at a point.- 2.4 Representation of stress and strain.- 2.5 Relation between stress and strain.- 2.6 Geostatic stresses.- 2.7 Measurement of in situ stress.- 3 Rock Deformation.- 3.1 Rock tests in compression.- 3.2 Rock deformation in compression.- 3.3 Mechanics of microfracture.- 3.4 Rock macrofracture.- 3.5 The complete rock deformation curve.- 4 Rock Strength and Yield.- 4.1 Rock strength criteria.- 4.2 Yield criteria.- 4.3 The critical state concept.- 4.4 Triaxial testing.- 4.5 Axial and volumetric strain data.- 4.6 The Hvorslev surface in rocks.- 5 Time Dependency.- 5.1 Creep strain.- 5.2 Phenomenological models of creep.- 5.3 Time-dependent deformation.- 5.4 Time-dependent strength reduction.- 5.5 Cyclic loading.- 5.6 Rapid loading.- 6 Discontinuities in Rock Masses.- 6.1 Discontinuity measurement.- 6.2 Discontinuity orientation data.- 6.3 Shear resistance of a rock containing a discontinuity.- 6.4 Shear resistance of a discontinuity.- 6.5 A critical state model for rock discontinuity strength.- 6.6 Measurement of discontinuity shear resistance.- 7 Behaviour of Rock Masses.- 7.1 Discontinuity frequency.- 7.2 Rock mass classification systems.- 7.3 Rock mass strength criterion.- 7.4 The relevance of rock mass strength.- References.- Author Index.

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9780412252808: Engineering Behaviour of Rocks

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ISBN 10:  0412252805 ISBN 13:  9780412252808
Casa editrice: Chapman and Hall, 1983
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