ABSTRACT

Boundaries of Rock Mechanics. Recent Advances and Challenges for the 21st Century contains 180 papers from the International Young Scholars Symposium on Rock Mechanics 2008 (Beijing, China, 28 April-2 May 2008). The symposium was organized by the ISRM Commission on Education, and sponsored by the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and

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Field investigation and instrumentation

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Rock properties and mechanical behavior

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Underground mining and excavation engineering

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Rock slopes and landsides

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Tunnels and foundations

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Dynamics and blasting

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New techniques and methods