Engineering Behaviour of Rocks

1 Engineering Description of Rocks.- 1.1 Rock testing.- 1.2 Uniaxial or unconfined strength.- 1.3 Empirical field and laboratory tests.- 1.4 Porosity and permeability.- 1.5 Discontinuous rock.- 2 Stress and Strain.- 2.1 Stress at a point.- 2.2 Pore pressure and effective stress.- 2.3 Strain at a point.- 2.4 Representation of stress and strain.- 2.5 Relation between stress and strain.- 2.6 Geostatic stresses.- 2.7 Measurement of in situ stress.- 3 Rock Deformation.- 3.1 Rock tests in compression.- 3.2 Rock deformation in compression.- 3.3 Mechanics of microfracture.- 3.4 Rock macrofracture.- 3.5 The complete rock deformation curve.- 4 Rock Strength and Yield.- 4.1 Rock strength criteria.- 4.2 Yield criteria.- 4.3 The critical state concept.- 4.4 Triaxial testing.- 4.5 Axial and volumetric strain data.- 4.6 The Hvorslev surface in rocks.- 5 Time Dependency.- 5.1 Creep strain.- 5.2 Phenomenological models of creep.- 5.3 Time-dependent deformation.- 5.4 Time-dependent strength reduction.- 5.5 Cyclic loading.- 5.6 Rapid loading.- 6 Discontinuities in Rock Masses.- 6.1 Discontinuity measurement.- 6.2 Discontinuity orientation data.- 6.3 Shear resistance of a rock containing a discontinuity.- 6.4 Shear resistance of a discontinuity.- 6.5 A critical state model for rock discontinuity strength.- 6.6 Measurement of discontinuity shear resistance.- 7 Behaviour of Rock Masses.- 7.1 Discontinuity frequency.- 7.2 Rock mass classification systems.- 7.3 Rock mass strength criterion.- 7.4 The relevance of rock mass strength.- References.- Author Index.