With the development of economic construction, underground space development continues to move towards the deep. "More, long, big, deep," will be the general trend of the development of underground engineering in the 21st century. Rock burst is a kind of sudden geological disasters with a higher frequency in deep tunnel construction. Rock burst prediction has very important significance for the...

W. Wu,1 J. B. Zhu2 and J. Zhao1 1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory of Rock Mechanics (LMR), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories and Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, California Institute of Techn...

The main rock mass classification systems make use of similar rock mass parameters. Due to lack of comprehensive estimation systems, determining the real specifications of jointed rocks faces some difficulties. A vast number of parameters with various degrees of impact are involved in such definitions. Combination impact of all the effective parameters is to be figured out in order to come up w...

The Article is devoted to the applied problem of identifying the linguistic features of engineering texts. The study of Russian-language texts of engineering discourse is usually of an applied nature, in our case, this applied research is caused by the need to teach foreigners who receive professional engineering education in Russia and in Russian language. The object of the research is the Rus...

Since rock fracture is a key property for different rock engineering applications, rock fracture measurement is often carried out in classifying the rock mass. Most geo-mechanics models (e.g. finite element) are of the equivalent continuum type in which fractures are represented not individually, but by their influence on a large element of the rock mass. Elastic modulus, for example, is obtain...