Underground Excavations in Rock: Published for the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy by Elsevier Applied Science

Underground Excavations in Rock deals with the geotechnical aspects of the design of underground openings for mining and civil engineering processes. It has been written for the engineer or geologist who is not a specialist in rock or soil mechanics and contains a number of worked examples to assist the reader in applying the techniques described to his or her own problems Descripción del editor: "Underground Excavations in Rock deals with the geotechnical aspects of the design of underground openings for mining and civil engineering processes" (CRC Press) "Underground Excavations in Rock deals with the geotechnical aspects of the design of underground openings for mining and civil engineering processes."--Provided by publisher Annotation Deals with the geotechnical aspects of the design of underground openings for mining and civil engineering processes For many centuries miners have been excavating below the ground surface in their ceaseless search for minerals.