1st Edition

Rock Mechanics and Engineering Volume 3 Analysis, Modeling & Design

Edited By Xia-Ting Feng Copyright 2017

    Analysis, Modeling & Design is the third volume of the five-volume set Rock Mechanics and Engineering and contains twenty-eight chapters from key experts in the following fields:
    - Numerical Modeling Methods;
    - Back Analysis;
    - Risk Analysis;
    - Design and Stability Analysis: Overviews;
    - Design and Stability Analysis: Coupling Process Analysis;
    - Design and Stability Analysis: Blast Analysis and Design;
    - Rock Slope Stability Analysis and Design;
    - Analysis and Design of Tunnels, Caverns and Stopes.

    The five-volume set “Comprehensive Rock Engineering”, which was published in 1993, has had an important influence on the development of rock mechanics and rock engineering. Significant and extensive advances and achievements in these fields over the last 20 years now justify the publishing of a comparable, new compilation. Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng, with the editorial advice of Professor John A. Hudson. This new compilation offers an extremely wideranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock engineering and is composed of peer-reviewed, dedicated contributions by all the key experts worldwide.

    Key features of this set are that it provides a systematic, global summary of new developments in rock mechanics and rock engineering practices as well as looking ahead to future developments in the fields. Contributors are worldrenowned experts in the fields of rock mechanics and rock engineering, though younger, talented researchers have also been included. The individual volumes cover an extremely wide array of topics grouped under five overarching themes: Principles (Vol. 1), Laboratory and Field Testing (Vol. 2), Analysis, Modelling and Design (Vol. 3), Excavation, Support and Monitoring (Vol. 4) and Surface and Underground Projects (Vol. 5).

    This multi-volume work sets a new standard for rock mechanics and engineering compendia and will be the go-to resource for all engineering professionals and academics involved in rock mechanics and engineering for years to come.

    Numerical Modeling Methods

    1 Coupled THMC modeling for safety assessment of geological disposal of radioactive wastes: The DECOVALEX project (1992–2015)
    J.A. Hudson, C.-F. Tsang & L. Jing

    2 Dynamic relaxation applied to continuum and discontinuum numerical models in geomechanics
    P. Cundall & C. Detournay

    3 The numerical Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) method: Benchmark tests
    G. Yagoda-Biran & Y.H. Hatzor

    4 Continuum–discontinuum element method
    S.H. Li, D. Zhou, J.Wang & C. Feng

    5 Discrete element modeling: Principle and application in weak cemented particulate materials
    T.G. Sitharam & S.D. Anitha Kumari

    6 Practical equivalent continuum analyses of jointed rockmass: Experiments, numerical modeling, validation and field case studies
    T.G. Sitharam

    Back Analysis

    7 Back analysis in rock engineering practice
    S. Sakurai

    8 Back-analysis of rock landslides to infer rheological parameters
    S. Martino, M. Della Seta & C. Esposito

    9 Multi-approach back analysis in mining
    L.R. Alejano

    Risk Analysis

    10 Groundwater and underground excavations: From theory to practice
    M. Sharifzadeh & M. Javadi

    11 Reliability assessment of ultimate and serviceability limit states of underground rock caverns
    A.T.C. Goh & W. Zhang

    12 Risk assessment of CO2 injection processes and storage
    L. Ribeiro e Sousa, R. Leal e Sousa, E. Vargas Jr., R. Velloso & K. Karam

    Design and Stability Analysis: Overviews

    13 Empirical design methods in underground mining
    P.B. Hughes, D. Milne, R.C. Pakalnis & A. Samaniego

    14 20 years of intelligent rock mechanics
    X.T. Feng & C.X. Yang

    15 Rock Engineering Systems (RES): An update
    J.A. Hudson

    Design and Stability Analysis: Coupling Process Analysis

    16 Multiphysics of coal-gas interactions
    M.Y. Wei, Z.W. Chen, J.S. Liu, G.L. Cui, Y.L. Tan & S.W. Zhang

    17 Geomechanical stability and integrity of nuclear waste disposal mines in salt structures
    S. Heusermann, S. Fahland & R. Eickemeier

    18 Rock engineering in underground compressed air energy storage
    D. Ryu, H. Kim & D. Park

    Design and Stability Analysis: Blast Analysis and Design

    19 Blast-induced damage
    F.G. Bastante

    20 Blasting propagation velocity
    C. González-Nicieza & M.I. Álvarez-Fernández

    21 Statistical estimation of blast fragmentation
    J.-H. Han & J.-J. Song

    22 Blasting parameters
    E. Ghasemi & M. Rahmanpour

    Rock Slope Stability Analysis and Design

    23 Application of fracture mechanics to rock slopes
    D. Elmo & D. Stead

    24 Development and application of numerical limit analysis for geotechnical materials
    Z. Yingren

    25 Open pit slope design
    J.R.L. Read & P.F. Stacey

    Analysis and Design of Tunnels, Caverns and Stopes

    26 Q-system: An illustrated guide for tunneling
    N. Barton & E. Grimstad

    27 TBM performance, prognosis and risk reduction
    N. Barton

    28 Design guidelines for open stope support
    Y. Potvin

    Biography

    Xia-Ting Feng graduated in 1986 from the Northeast University of Technology and obtained his PhD in 1992 at the Northeastern University, China. He was then appointed and acted as Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor at the same university. In 1998, he was admitted by the Hundred Talents Programme to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Subsequently, he permanently joined CAS - Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics at Wuhan, China. In 2003, he obtained the support of the China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists; in 2010, he became a Chair Professor of the Cheung Kong Scholars Programme, Ministry of Education, China; and, in 2009, he was elected as President of the International Society for Rock Mechanics for the period 2011-2015. He is currently Director of the State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Wuhan. Additionally, in 2012, Professor Feng became the Co-President of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering. He has made original contributions to the subject of "intelligent rock mechanics" and his methods have been applied to large rock engineering projects in China and other countries.

    "There is no doubt that this compendium not only will be of great assistance to all those working in the subject area, whether in research or practice, but it also marks just how far the subject has developed in the 50+ years since 1962 and especially in the 20+ years since the last such survey."

    John A. Hudson, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London, UK. President of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) 2007-2011

     

    "Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work that, as with the first edition, is deftly edited by Professor Feng, along with the editorial advice of Professor John A. Hudson. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock engineering and is composed of peer-reviewed, dedicated contributions by all the key experts worldwide.

    Impressively comprehensive, exceptionally well organized and presented, this five volume work clearly sets a new standard as a rock mechanics and engineering compendia that will be the indispensable go-to resource for all engineering professionals and academics involved in rock mechanics and engineering for years to come."

    Paul T. Vogel in The Midwest Book Review, September 2017