Rock mechanics : for underground mining /

Although Rock Mechanics addresses many of the rock mechanics issues which arise in underground mining engineering, it is not a text exclusively for mining applications. It consists of five categories of topics on the science and practice of rock engineering: basic engineering principles relevant to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brady, B. H. G. (Barry H. G.)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Brown, E. T. (Edwin T.), 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1993.
Edition:Second edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prefaces and Acknowledgements
  • Rock mechanics and mining engineering
  • Stress and infinitesimal strain
  • Rock mass structure and characterization
  • Rock strength and deformability
  • Pre-mining state of stress
  • Methods of stress analysis
  • Excavation design in massive elastic rock
  • Excavation design in stratified rock
  • Excavation design in blocky rock
  • Energy, mine stability, mine seismicity and rockbursts
  • Rock support and reinforcement
  • Mining methods and method selection
  • Pillar supported mining methods
  • Artificially supported mining methods
  • Longwall and caving mining methods
  • Mining-induced surface subsidence
  • Blasting mechanics
  • Monitoring rock mass performance
  • Appendices: Basic construction using the hemispherical projection
  • Stresses and displacements induced by point and infinite line loads in an infinite, isotropic, elastic continuum
  • Calculation sequences for rock-support interaction analysis
  • Limiting equilibrium analyses of progressive hangingwall caving
  • Answers to problems
  • References
  • Index.