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    This document provides an overview of the Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geoscience course EOSC316. The course is split into two 6-week sections, with the first covering Rock Mechanics topics like stress, strain, rock fracture, and faults, and the second covering Engineering Geoscience applications. Assessment includes a 3-hour exam and two practicals. Recommended texts are provided for each section. The course aims to teach students mechanics principles and their application to understanding earth processes and designing stable engineering structures like dams, tunnels, and bridges. It emphasizes understanding rock behavior at small scales to enable predictions at large scales. Examples are given of both successful engineering projects and failures that result from inadequate rock mechanics knowledge.

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    This document provides an overview of the Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geoscience course EOSC316. The course is split into two 6-week sections, with the first covering Rock Mechanics topics like stress, strain, rock fracture, and faults, and the second covering Engineering Geoscience applications. Assessment includes a 3-hour exam and two practicals. Recommended texts are provided for each section. The course aims to teach students mechanics principles and their application to understanding earth processes and designing stable engineering structures like dams, tunnels, and bridges. It emphasizes understanding rock behavior at small scales to enable predictions at large scales. Examples are given of both successful engineering projects and failures that result from inadequate rock mechanics knowledge.

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    Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geoscience

    EOSC316
    Dr. Dan Faulkner

    Rock Mechanics
    First 6 weeks: Rock Mechanics
    12 lectures 6 practicals

    Second 6 weeks: Engineering Geoscience


    12 lectures 6 practicals

    Assessment: 3 hour exam + 2 practicals

    Course structure
    Lectures 1-4
    Stress and strain

    Lectures 5-8
    Rock fracture

    Lectures 9-12
    Faults, friction and earthquakes

    Lectures 13-24
    Engineering applications of Rock Mechanics What can happen? How can we mitigate against it?

    Recommended texts
    1st 6 weeks: Rock Mechanics
    Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting by Chris Scholz (2nd Edition)
    Stress and Strain by Win Means Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics by Jaeger and Cook Structural Geology textbooks for stress/strain

    2nd 6 weeks: Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology


    Foundations of Engineering Geology by Tony Waltham Practical Rock Engineering by Evert Hoek. Available free on the web:
    http://www.rocscience.com/hoek/PracticalRockEngineering.asp

    Rock Mechanics

    Mechanics: study of motion and force Emphasis on brittle rock mechanics (top 15 to 20 km of the Earths crust)
    Fracture Friction

    Why is Rock Mechanics important?


    For understanding how the Earth works
    Fault mechanics (earthquakes, etc) Lithosphere strength Propagation of seismic waves

    For design and analysis of man-made structures:


    Dams Tunnels Waste repositories

    Scale of observations
    In order to understand the processes that contribute to the failure process, we need to investigate what occurs on a small scale. Predictions of the macroscopic behaviour is based upon what happens physically at the microscopic scale. Mechanistic rather than phenomenological approach

    What can we do with rock mechanics?


    Engineering structures Understand earth processes

    Emosson Dam, Switzerland

    Mersey tunnels: 1934 (Queensway) and 1971 (Kingsway)

    Tunnels meet, 1928

    Recent improvements to Kingsway

    Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 1937

    Akashi Kaikyo Suspension Bridge, Kobe, Japan, 1998. 1991 m span

    What happens when we dont understand?

    City Hall, San Francisco, 1906

    Statue of Louis Agassiz, Stanford University campus, 1906

    Izmit earthquake,Turkey
    M7.4, 17th August 1999

    We fundamentally dont understand how earthquakes work. After all these years, we dont have a clue.
    Mark Zoback, Science, 1992

    What happens when we get it wrong?


    Roads over landslips, Mam Tor Vaiont dam disaster, Italy

    The Vaiont dam disaster, Italian Dolomites, 1963

    The Mam Tor head scar looking west

    The Mam Tor Landslip

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