1st Edition

Rock Joints Proceedings of a regional conference of the International Society for Rock Mechanics, Loen, 4-6 June 1990

Edited By Nick Barton, Ove Stephansson Copyright 1990
820 Pages
by CRC Press

820 Pages
by CRC Press

Rock joint behaviour impacts many branches of engineering including surface and underground mining, dam foundations, tunnelling for hydro power and transport, petroleum reservoirs and nuclear waste storage. The subject is in a very active stage of development, and engineers, geologists, and scientists involved in these developments have indicated by their 110 papers that rock joints are of great... Read more
The Loen rockslides 1. Characterization 2. Mechanical properties 3. Hydraulic properties 4. Dynamic properties 5. Coupled behaviour 6. Constitutive models; Late papers

Biography

Nick Barton, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo; Ove Stephansson, Luleâ University of Technology