Civil Engineering Association

This book can be used as a 'standalone' textbook or as a complement to our first book, Engineering Ruck Mechanics: An infroductiun to the Principles. It contains illustrative worked examples of engineering rock mechanics in action as the subject applies to civil, mining, petroleum and environmental engineering. The book covers the necessary understanding and the key techniques supporting the rock engineering design of structural foundations, dams, rock slopes, wellbores, tunnels, caverns, hydroelectric schemes, mines.
In our first book, we presented the basic principles of engineering rock mechanics with strong emphasis on understanding the fundamental concepts. Because it is also important to consider the principles in action, to have practice in applying them, and to be able to link the principles with specific engineering problems, we prepared this second book containing the illustrative worked examples. We have adopted a question and worked answer presentation: the question and answer sets have been collated into twenty chapters which match the subject matter of our first book - Chapters 1-13 on rock mechanics principles and Chapters 14-20 on applications in rock engineering. Part A of this book can be read as a narrative consisting of sequences of text, questions and answers, or in Part B the same questions can be tackled without the answers being visible.