Time Effects in Rock Mechanics (Materials Modelling & computation) (Paperback)

by N. D. Cristescu (Author), U. Hunsche (Author) "Knowledge of the mechanical properties of rocks is important for many engineering purposes, e.g., for the design of mines, tunnels, repositories, and deep wells, as..." (more)
Key Phrases: Northern Germany, Compressible Elastic, Dilatant Compressible (more...)

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The world requires an increasing number of underground facilities for applications such as storage, waste repositories and traffic. Accurate prediction of the stability and deformation of these facilities is essential, and calls for model calculations using reliable and comprehensive constitutive equations describing the mechanical behaviour of the rocks involved, particularly the time-dependent effects. Here the authors combine their knowledge and personal experience in this field to encourage the practical use of material laws based on a sound physical and mathematical basis. Further discussion and research on the time-dependent behaviour of rocks and related materials is supported in the text by more than 200 figures. The text covers elasticity, creep, dilatancy, creep failure and short term failure, experimental techniques and test results, micromechanical deformation mechanisms, viscoplasticity and computation using appropriate constitutive equations, including many fundamental model calculations. Rock mechanics incorporates aspects of many disciplines including structural geology, soil mechanics, material sciences, civil, mining and petroleum engineering, seismology and geophysics. This book will therefore find a wide appreciation amongst engineers, researchers and graduate students in these and other related areas.

The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
This book supplies a theoretical and experimental foundation for the determination and formulation of three-dimensional constitutive equations. Describes features such as elastic behaviour, transient and steady state creep both after increasing and decreasing load, volume change (both dilatability and compressibility), instantaneous failure, damage, creep rupture, permeability changes, failure of geomaterials. Determined directly from experiments, this equation is ready to be used in the design of underground structures. Contains examples for several rocks and practical case studies, with future trends taken into consideration.

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471955175
• ISBN-13: 978-0471955177
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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