Engineering Rock Mechanics Part I. An Introduction to the Principles
1.1 The subject of rock mechanics
The subject of rock mechanics started in the 1950s from a rock physics base and gradually became a discipline in its own right during the 1960s. As explained in the Preface, rock mechanics is the subject concerned with the
response of rock to an applied disturbance, which is considered here as an engineering, i.e. a man-induced, disturbance. For a natural disturbance, rock mechanics would apply to the deformation of rocks in a structural geology context, i.e. how the folds, faults, and fractures developed as
stresses were applied to the rocks during orogenic and other geological pro- cesses. However, in this book we will be concerned with rock mechanics applied to engineering for civil, mining, and petroleum purposes.
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1.1 The subject of rock mechanics
The subject of rock mechanics started in the 1950s from a rock physics base and gradually became a discipline in its own right during the 1960s. As explained in the Preface, rock mechanics is the subject concerned with the
response of rock to an applied disturbance, which is considered here as an engineering, i.e. a man-induced, disturbance. For a natural disturbance, rock mechanics would apply to the deformation of rocks in a structural geology context, i.e. how the folds, faults, and fractures developed as
stresses were applied to the rocks during orogenic and other geological pro- cesses. However, in this book we will be concerned with rock mechanics applied to engineering for civil, mining, and petroleum purposes.
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