This book provides practicing engineers working in the field of design, construction and monitoring of rock structures such as tunnels and slopes with technical

Engineers wishing to build structures on or in rock use the discipline known as rock mechanics. This discipline emerged as a subject in its own right about thir

This book provides practicing engineers working in the field of design, construction and monitoring of rock structures such as tunnels and slopes with technical

A collection of papers addressing the issue of the failure of rock engineering structures. This phenomenon occurs in different forms depending on the geometry o

The development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials, with the help of numerical models, have increased notably the ability to predict and to in