1st Edition

Rock Dynamics and Applications - State of the Art

Edited By Jian Zhao, Jianchun Li Copyright 2013
632 Pages
by CRC Press

Rock dynamics studies the response of rock materials and rock masses under dynamic loading conditions. In the last a couple of decades, the development of experimental and computational techniques has been able to capture the progress of fracturing in microsecond steps, allowing the exploration on how the fracture is initiated, propagated and branc

Preface, Keynotes, Laboratory testing and field observation, Dynamics theory and numerical modelling, Engineering design and case studies

Biography

Jian Zhao, Jianchun Li