MIN E 323 - Rock Mechanics

Course Career Undergraduate
Units 4.5
Approved Hours 3-0-3
Fee index 8
Faculty Engineering
Department Civil & Environmental Eng
Typically Offered either term

Description
Mechanical properties of rock masses, field and laboratory determination; classification and index testing; permeability and flow; stresses around underground openings, elastic prototypes and numerical methods; ground support principles and mechanics of common support systems, loads on supports; hydraulic backfill, earth pressures, consolidation theory and practical consequences in mining; mechanics of subsidence and caving; rockburst mechanics; slope stability, rock mechanics instrumentation. Prerequisite: CIV E 270.