CIRIA - C683 - The Rock Manual: The Use of Rock in Hydraulic Engineering (2nd Ed.)
The Rock Manual: The Use of Rock in Hydraulic Engineering: C683
By CIRIA, CUR Centre For Civil Engineering, CETMEF
Publisher: Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA)
Number Of Pages: 1304
Publication Date: 2007-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0860176835
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780860176831
In 1991 CIRIA/CUR produced the Manual on the use of rock in coastal and shoreline engineering, commonly referred to as “The Rock Manual” (CIRIA, 1991). CUR/RWS updated the book in 1995 to include the use of rock in dams, fluvial engineering and construction (CUR, 1995).
Two French reference books were produced in the late 1980s: Le dimensionnement des digues à talus (EDF R&D, 1987) and Les Enrochements (LCPC/CETMEF, 1989). Since publication of these earlier reference texts significant research has been done to improve understanding of rock behaviour and to determine improved practices for hydraulic engineering. Consequently, this manual has been developed to bring the earlier publications up to date and has been given a broader scope that increases the focus on environmental and sustainability concerns.
New information incorporated in this edition includes:
extended scope of the manual (from the 1991 edition) to cover coastal, inland waterway and closure structures guidance on design and construction using concrete armour units updated guidance on armourstone specification and model construction specification for rock structures cross-referencing to the new European armourstone specification EN 13383, which supersedes sections of the previous manuals extensive cross-referencing to the Eurocodes for geotechnical considerations new research on block integrity, packing and placement, predicting quarry yield and block size distributions a new risk assessment template updated guidance on wave overtopping, wave run-up and wave transmission updated guidance on wave climate description and representative wave parameters including wave height distribution in shallow waters updated guidance on the selection of hydraulic design conditions, including design with joint probabilities of, for example, waves and water levels updated guidance on river hydraulics and design conditions for river structures updated guidance on the performance of falling aprons updated guidance on stability of low-crested structures, toe protection to vertical breakwaters, calculating wave forces on crown elements and on the stability of rock-armoured slopes with shallow foreshores new guidance on rear-side stability of rock structures, on the stability of near-bed rockfill structures, on design and construction of statically stable berm breakwaters and on the structural response to ice loads a new section on design of rock protection works in ports a completely revised chapter on monitoring, inspection, maintenance and repair.
The following changes or omissions from the earlier versions have been made in this update:
gravel beaches have been omitted, as these are covered in other reference texts on beach design detailed guidance on scour is omitted, as this subject is well covered in other reference texts and manuals appendices on rock measurement, hydraulic and geotechnical data collection have been omitted.
The chapter on construction provides reference to recent research on safety and construction risk. Chapter 10 on monitoring, inspection, maintenance and repair concentrates on practical experiences and approaches to post-construction monitoring and to upgrading and repair of structures.
This publication is available in English and French language as both a book and a CD-Rom.
The material can also be downloaded from the CIRIA and CETMEF websites (<www.ciria.org> <www.cetmef.equipement.gouv.fr>). A large number of equations from this manual are included in the software package CRESS, which is free to download from the website <www.cress.nl>.
More than 100 experts from Europe and across the world have been involved in the project to update The Rock Manual, ensuring the updated edition will retain its place as the number one reference guide worldwide for the use of rock in hydraulic engineering.
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