- 594 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Rock Engineering Risk
About this book
This book provides a new, necessary and valuable approach to the consideration of risk in underground engineering projects constructed within rock masses. There are Chapters on uncertainty and risk, rock engineering systems, rock fractures and rock stress, the design of a repository for radioactive waste, plus two major case examples relating to th
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements: International Society for Rock Mechanics
- About the authors
- 1. Introduction and background
- 2. Uncertainty and risk
- 3. Rock Engineering Systems (RES), auditing and Protocol Sheets
- 4. Rock fractures and in situ rock stress
- 5. Radioactive waste disposal: overcoming complexity and reducing risk
- 6. Risks associated with long deep tunnels
- 7. Risks associated with hydropower cavern groups
- 8. Concluding remarks
- Appendix A: Cavern risk events during construction
- Appendix B: The Chinese ‘Basic Quality’ (BQ) system for rock mass classification
- References and bibliography
- Colour plates