Rock mechanics 2012min07, 2012min39 topic of presentation rock mechanics challenges in ug construction and mining 2. Hadi school of civil, mining and environmental engineering, university ofwollongong, nsw, australia, 2522. Bhasin, barton, makurat, davies, hooper rock joint and rock mass characterization at sellafield. Analysis of rock mass quality and support practice in tunnelling and a guide to estimating support requirements. Barton, nick international consultant, rock engineering barton has 50 years of experience from hundreds of rock mechanics and rock engineering projects in a total of 40 countries. Pdf engineering classification of rock masses for the. Qslope method and its intended use within civil and mining engineering. Barton n 1994 a qsystem case record of cavern design in faulted rock. Over decades, rock mechanics problems have been addressed by using rock mass classification systems. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Professor nick barton has over 40 years experience in rock mechanics in 35 countries. Srmeg short course on rock mechanics and empirical methods. Authorcoauthor of 330 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. Rock quality, seismic velocity, attenuation, and anisotropy is a major step toward overcoming the boundaries and crossdiscipline complications to provide a comprehensive reference book that addresses important topics for civil engineers and engineering geologists, petroleum engineers, and tectonophysicists.
Influence of fracture roughness on aperture fracture. John cosgrove objectives this oneday short course will cover some key elements of the lecturers developments and work in rock mechanics, rock engineering and structural geology, respectively. What is the response of rocks under dynamic earthquake type loading. Barton and choubeythe shear strength of rock joints. What is the bearing capacity of rock on surface an at depths. This part covers classification of rock mass for prediction of support pressure in underground openings. Journal of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering jrmge is concerned with the latest research achievements in rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Bandis this chapter addresses the characterization and quantification of the first smallerscale set of physical attributes in detail, and the effect each of them can have on the. Many articles can be accessed online using a free service of norlin library. Limited number of places short courses and workshops must reach the breakeven, otherwise they will be canceled until september 6th. The eagcg, isrm and ags present the two day workshop. The 19th international mining congress and fair of turkey, imcet2005, izmir, turkey, june 0912, 2005 the influence of resin thickness on bolt bending n.
Nick barton was educated at the university of london from 1963 to 1970 and has a b. Qslope mobile phone application user manual rqd in core logging, rqd is the borehole core recovery percentage incorporating only pieces of solid core that are longer than 100 mm in length measured along the centerline of the core deere, 1964. Between these extremes lie seismic investigation of rock joints, boreholes, block tests, dam and bridge foundations, quarry blasting, canal excavations, hydropower and transportation tunnels, machine bored tbm tunnels, subsea sediment and midocean ridge measurements, where the emphasis is on velocitydepthage models. Hard and soft rock experience from 50 years work in 40 countries. Tbm tunnelling in jointed and faulted rock 1st edition. Journal of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Estimate and enter the rqd % from observations of the rock mass. It expresses the quality of the rock mass in the socalled qvalue, on which are based design and support recommendations for underground excavations. Most have concerned hydropower tunnelling and caverns, metro tunnels and station caverns, motorway tunnels, rock slope stability, and major dam abutment. Lecture notes mechanical properties of rocks earth.
Rock mechanics definition of rock mechanics by the free. 154 december 1977 with 7,802 reads how we measure reads. He worked for two periods in the norwegian geotechnical institute, oslo, eventually as division director, then technical advisor, and was also four. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. Jrc factor joint roughness coefficient introduced by barton nick barton, 1973 is a coefficient used to quantify rock joint roughness, it compares the joint surface duplicate taken with a profile gauge tool for a. What is the modulus of elasticity of rock and how to get it. Nick barton was educated in the university of london from 1963 to 1970, and has a b. Response of rocks to applied loads earth materials rocks soils fluids. Rock mechanics problems how will rock react when put to mens use. They are the means for most easily and economically interpreting what lies beneath the visible surface. The qslope method for rock slope engineering in faulted rocks and fault zones. In the formulation of this standard due weightage has been given to the work of nick barton who developed this classification after studying 200.
Rock mechanics concerns the behavior of rock when such rock is subjected to forces that are either natural or those applied to the rock by engineers when they build their structures or other applications that use the qualities of the rock for their own purposes. The journal of the institute of rock and soil mechanics. Barton rock mass classification for choosing between tbm and drillandblast or a hybrid solution. Pdf the shear strength of rock joints in theory and practice. Nick barton 34 sept 2014 singapore course overview this twodays short course will cover some key elements of the lecturers internationally applied developments in rock mechanics and rock engineering. Empirical methods, rock mechanics, and structural geological methods useful for excavation in jointedfractured media lecturers. The qsystem can therefore be used as a guideline in rock support design decisions and for documentation of rock mass quality. International journal of rock mechanics and mining sciences science direct online rock mechanics and rock engineering springerlink online cu schedule spring 2007 summer 2009 spring 07 final exams schedule final exam policy. Rock mass classification is an extremely powerful and useful tool in rock engineering, and this lecture gives an introduction to rock mass classification. Rock mechanics investigations for radioactive waste repository design. Paper presented at seoul symposium on rock cavern stadium project, 30th march 1995 in seoul. Lectures on rock mechanicslectures on rock mechanics.
Rock quality, seismic velocity, attenuation and anisotropy. Engineering rock mechanics volume1 linkedin slideshare. It provides an international forum for the publication of high quality papers on the subject of rock mechanics and the application of rock mechanics principles and techniques to mining and civil engineering projects built on. Nicholas barton nick barton has 40 years of experience from rock engineering projects in 35 countries, mostly concerning road, rail and metro projects, also tunnels and caverns for hydropower, rock slope stability, major dam abutment and foundation stability, and nuclear waste disposal studies. Qslope is an empirical rock slope engineering method for assessing the stability of excavated rock slopes in the field. Rock mechanics today is closely associated with, and indeed part of, construction, energy, and environmental engineering. Nick barton a1, khosrow bakhtar a1 and stavros bandis a2. Bartons principal contributions to rock mechanics is his work related to discontinuities in the rock mass. Intended for use in reinforcementfree road or railway cuttings or in opencast mines, qslope allows geotechnical engineers to make potential adjustments to slope angles as rock mass conditions become apparent during construction. Rock joint description and modelling for prediction of. The shear strength of rock joints in theory and practice article pdf available in rock mechanics and rock engineering 101. This is useful knowledge for engineers in the design of foundations for structures, during dam building and tunneling for.
The qsystem for rock mass classification is developed by barton, lien, and lunde. Characterization and modeling of the shear strength, stiffness and hydraulic behavior of rock joints for engineering purposes with nick r. The q slope method for rock slope engineering springerlink. Barton and bandissome effects of scale on shear strength of rock joints. His experience is in the multidisciplinary characterisation of rock masses for underground mining. By nick barton rock quality, seismic velocity, attenuation and anisotropy by nick barton seismic measurements take many forms, and appear to have a universal role in the earth sciences. Buddery, anglo american met coal, australia how rock mechanics can help oil well drilling latest developments.
Tbm performance, prognosis and risk caused by faulting. Rock mechanics in civil and environmental engineering collects 200 papers presented at the european rock mechanics symposium eurock 2010, covering recent developments in rock mechanics. Lectures on rock mechanicslectures on rock mechanics sarvesh chandrasarvesh chandra professor dt tfciilei idepartment of civil engineering indian institute of technology kanpur kanpur, 208016 india email. Engineering in jointed rock tunnel support nmt, q nuclear waste disposal studies. Review of a new shearstrength criterion for rock joints. Imperial college, london, 1971 phd in rock mechanics, on rock slope stability and shear strength of fractures. Anisotropy is everywhere, to see, to measure, and to model. The integration of structural geology and applied rock mechanics short course dr. It was first used in hydropower projects in norway and in a water transfer project in peru in 1974. University of london, kings college,1966 bsc eng honours, in civil engineering. Isrm 14th international congress of rock mechanics presentation 879. Where is the nonlinear rock mechanics in the linear geomechanics of gas shales.
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