Advances in Rock Dynamics and Applications

Yingxin Zhou (Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), Singapore), Jian Zhao

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CRC Press
25 May 2011

Soil & rock mechanics

"The study of rock dynamics is important because many rock mechanics and rock engineering problems involve dynamic loading ranging from earthquakes to vibrations and explosions. The subject deals with the distribution and propagation of loads, dynamic responses, and processes of rocks and rate-dependent properties, coupled with the physical environment. Rock dynamics has a wide range of applications in civil, mining, geological and environmental engineering. However, due to the additional ""4th"" dimension of time, rock dynamics remains, in the discipline of rock mechanics, a relatively more challenging topic to understand and to apply, where documented research and knowledge are limited.

Advances in Rock Dynamics and Applications provides a summary of the current knowledge of rock dynamics with 18 chapters contributed by individual authors from both academia and engineering fields. The topics of this book are wide-ranging and representative, covering fundamental theories of fracture dynamics and wave propagation, rock dynamic properties and testing methods, numerical modelling of rock dynamic failure, engineering applications in earthquakes, explosion loading and tunnel response, as well as dynamic rock support."

Edited by: Yingxin Zhou (Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) Singapore), Jian Zhao
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.114kg
ISBN: 9780415613514
ISBN 10: 0415613515
Pages: 530
Publication Date: 25 May 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; State-of-the-art research progress in rock dynamics; Hopkinson pressure bar techniques; Testing of rock dynamic properties; Rock penetration; Rock fracture dynamics; Wave propagation across rock joints; Failure mechanisms; FEM modeling of rock dynamic failure and earthquake ground motion; Discontinuum based numerical modeling of rock dynamic fracturing and failure; Numerical techniques; Earthquakes as a rock dynamic problem; Numerical analysis of structural seismic failures; Explosion loading and tunnel response; Rock bolts for tunnel support.

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de mecanique des roches (LMR), Lausanne, Switzerland Manager, Defence and Technology Agency, Singapore