Boundaries of Rock Mechanics

Presents various concerns and advances in rock mechanics, with special attention to: field investigation and instrumentation; rock properties and mechanical behavior; underground mining and excavation engineering; rock slopes and land sides; tunnels and foundations; dynamics and blasting, and fresh techniques and methods.

Zusammenfassung
Boundaries of Rock Mechanics. Recent Advances and Challenges for the 21st Century contains 180 papers from the International Young Scholars Symposium on Rock Mechanics 2008 (Beijing, China, 28 April-2 May 2008). The symposium was organized by the ISRM Commission on Education, and sponsored by the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and