Rock Slope Engineering: Third EditionThis classic handbook deals with the geotechnical problems of rock slope design. It has been written for the non-specialist mining or civil engineer, with worked examples, design charts, coverage of more detailed analytical methods, and of the collection and interpretation of geological and groundwater information and tests for the mechanical properties of rock. |
Contents
Contents | 7 |
CONTENTS | 25 |
Graphical presentation of geological data | 37 |
Construction of a great circle and a pole representing a plane | 45 |
Evaluation of potential slope problems | 55 |
references | 62 |
Chapter | 83 |
Rock Slope Engineering was extensively revised in 1977 and | 113 |
Acknowledgements | 169 |
Wedge failure | 199 |
HOEK E BRAY J W and BOYD J M The stability of | 224 |
Circular failure | 226 |
Toppling failure | 257 |
A number of individuals have made important contributions | 262 |
Blasting | 271 |
Miscellaneous topics | 309 |
Groundwater flow permeability and pressure | 127 |
Flow nets | 134 |
Measurement of water pressure | 143 |
Plane failure | 150 |
Analysis of laboratory strength test data | 333 |
Factor of safety for reinforced rock slopes | 352 |
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