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Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics

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This is a good book, kind of classic in rock mechanics. And it covered almost every aspect of rock mechanics. This is a good hand book if you are working on rock mechanics. However, it is not very readable. It has too many calculus equations and sometimes jumps too quick. After I read Means book 'Stress and Strain' which is very readable, I still find the first chapter of this book difficult to understand at some parts. So I would say, it is not very "fundamental".

Sign errors almost on every page in the entire introductory chapter on stress and strain.
Author uses convention that compressive stress is positive, as is usual in rock mechanics.
Then the traction given by the stress tensor should be
-T*n_vector, but author uses T*n_vector.

The sign error is "remedied" by the mathematically nonsens statement on page 11
"The Chartesian component of the traction p in any direction r is considered to
be a positive number if the inner product of p and a unit vector in the r direction is NEGATIVE."

Well, everywhere else in mathematics and physics the component of a vector p
along a unit vector n is defined as p * n, and is positive if p * n is POSITIVE.

It took some time for the book to be delivered, but apart from that the book was new and in good condition.

The book on Rock MechanicsFUNDAMENTALS OF ROCK MECHANICS by JAEGER.J.C et al.,is an excellent presentation on the fundamentals.As a professional consultant and academecian I consider this book as a must in the library.
While on the subject I appreciate the promptness of Amazon.com for the prompt services.
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Dr.V.Balakumar,
Consultant, Chennai 600 010.