This book provides practicing engineers working in the field of design, construction and monitoring of rock structures such as tunnels and slopes with technical

Engineers wishing to build structures on or in rock use the discipline known as rock mechanics. This discipline emerged as a subject in its own right about thir

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

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering: From the Past to the Future contains the contributions presented at EUROCK2016, the 2016 International Symposium of the Int

The development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials, with the help of numerical models, have increased notably the ability to predict and to in