Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Rock and Soil Mechanics

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	542-0208/12
Abbreviation	MHZ
Course title	Rock and Soil Mechanics
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Jindřich Šancer, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Syllabus of lectures:

1st Mechanics of rocks and soils as part of mining geomechanics discipline.
2nd The rock in the geological conditions.
3rd Mutual relations of the rock samples - a mountain massif.
4th Strength and deformation of rocks and its expression influencing factors.
5th Methods, hypotheses and theories describing and explaining the manifestation of stress-deformation
rocks.
6th Technical properties of rocks
7th Energy hypotheses workability.
8th Hypotheses limit states of rocks and mountain massif.

Literature

Petroš,V.: Rock and Soil Mechanics VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Ostrava 2005, ISBN 80-248-0807-2
Ulusay, R., Hudson, J.A.:The Complete ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock characterization, Testing and monitoring: 1974-2006. Ankara Turkey 2007, ISBN 978-975-93675-4-1
DARLING, P.:SME Mining Engineering Handbook. 3rd Edition, SME 2011,
AADNOY, Bernt Sigve a Reza LOOYEH. Petroleum rock mechanics: drilling operations and well design. Oxford: Elsevier/Gulf Professional Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-0-12-385546-6.

Advised literature

LOOK, Burt. Handbook of geotechnical investigation and design tables. 2nd ed. Leiden: CRC Press, c2014. ISBN 978-1-138-00139-8
WITTKE, Walter. Rock mechanics based on an anisotropic jointed rock model (AJRM). Berlin: Ernst, c2014. ISBN 978-3-433-03079-0.

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