Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Time-dependent (rate-dependent) behaviour of rocks
  • 3. Water migration in soft rocks and its effects on the response of rock structures
  • 4. Thermo-mechanical behaviour of rocks and heat transport in rocks
  • 5. Hydromechanics of rocks and rock engineering structures
  • 6. Thermo-hyrdo-diffusion behaviour of rocks
  • 7. Thermo-hyrdo-mechanical behaviour of rocks
  • 8. Conclusions.