... a guideline for testing procedures focusing on rock engineering purposes. 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Rock joints and other discontinuities control the behaviour of rock masses being, therefore, essential to understand how they behave. One of the most relevant parameters to assess the stability...

... of the construction works". Rock engineering design is, therefore, included in the scope of EC7, but this is often overlooked (Lamas et al. 2014). EC7 is based on the limit state design (LSD) method that is a semi-probabilistic method inwhich partial factors are applied to characteristic parameter values in order...

... and used in rock engineering, some of the people behind these solutions are vaguely known, if at all. The paper gives a chronological account of the lives and the mathematical solutions of the following scientists: Lamé and Clapeyron, two Frenchmen who presented the solution for elastic stresses occurring...

..., deformational, and permeable characteristics varying with direction, differing from those of isotropic engineering materials and conventional models used in analysis and design tasks. Therefore, the influence of anisotropy must be considered in design and construction of rock engineering, such as rock tunneling...

... assume the OM in rock engineering can be regarded as a series of measurements of structural responses when the structure and loading system are uncertain. We rationalize this by examining the behaviour of a beam whose bending stiffness and support conditions are only partially known, as a simple analogue...

... mechanics assessment characteristic point cloud Simulation discontinuity data gamma distribution generate input ferrero variability discontinuity rock engineering Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering: From the Past to the Future Ulusay et al. (Eds) © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN...

... influencing the rock strength and stiffness including the test condition, temperature and water content were comprehensively reviewed by Hawkes & Mellor (1970), Dyke & Dobereiner (1991), Vasarhelyi & Van (2006). For rock engineering applications in particular, the water weakening effect...

... ABSTRACT: This paper covers progress report of the study on the development process of rock bursts in underground hard rock engineering. It introduces real-time monitoring techniques including microseismicity, digital borehole televiewer, wave velocity and deformation for evolution process...

... fracturing anisotropic slate cleavage shear strength Upstream Oil & Gas Bochum specimen hydraulic fracture ruhr-university bochum schistosity Reservoir Characterization orientation slate engineering geology rock engineering triaxial strength reservoir geomechanics perpendicular strength...

...Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses Alejano, Perucho, Olalla & Jiménez (Eds) © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-00149-7 Pit excavation for underground construction in an urban area near an old tunnel . Arbanas & M. Vivoda Faculty of Civil...

...10. Applicability of EUROCODE-7 in rock engineering Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses Alejano, Perucho, Olalla & Jiménez (Eds) © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-00149-7 Towards an improved observational method J. Spross, F. Johansson, H. Stille...

...-system that can be suitable for this. The Geotechnical Category (GC) in EC7 is an important part of the rock design. The paper presents ground conditions where prescriptive measures may be used in rock engineering, design and construction. 1. Introduction The Eurocodes were initiated for bridge...

... considering more relevant aspects of rock engineering will help to unify methods and criteria used, but the variety of possible existing approaches, some of them showed in this paper, stresses the actual difficulties for that unification. 1. Introduction There are some key aspects that make the mechanical...

.... As part of this, aWorkshop on the application of EC7 to rock engineering was arranged to be held at Eurock 2014. In this paper, following a brief explanation of both the history of EC7 and the principles of limit state design within the Eurocode suite, the papers submitted to thisWorkshop are unified...

...Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses Alejano, Perucho, Olalla & Jiménez (Eds) © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-00149-7 How to refine the observational method as described in EC7 in applied rock mechanics H. Stille KTH Royal Institute of Technology...

...Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses Alejano, Perucho, Olalla & Jiménez (Eds) © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-00149-7 Reliability against translational slip of rock slopes designed according to Eurocode 7 P.P. Nomikos & A.I. Sofianos Tunnelling...

... Abstract The use of partial factors in rock engineering designs is currently debatable: one school of thought is that the limit state design method with partial factors in Eurocode 7 is inapplicable to rock engineering; another is that this method needs to be modified for use in rock...

...Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses Alejano, Perucho, Olalla & Jiménez (Eds) © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-00149-7 Foundation properties of variably weathered rock beneath a heavy mineral processing plant D.C. Starr & E.T. Brown Golder...

...Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses Alejano, Perucho, Olalla & Jiménez (Eds) © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-00149-7 On the use of the continuity factor for rock mass properties based on a literature review of the representative elementary volume...

... Abstract This work aims to emphasise the importance of geoengineering software use on the study of rock-mass classifications for rock engineering design and ground behaviour. This approach demonstrated the importance of geomechanical classifications (e.g., Rock Mass Rating – RMR, Rock...