ABSTRACT

This book provides a new, necessary and valuable approach to the consideration of risk in underground engineering projects constructed within rock masses. There are Chapters on uncertainty and risk, rock engineering systems, rock fractures and rock stress, the design of a repository for radioactive waste, plus two major case examples relating to th

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction and background

chapter 2|20 pages

Uncertainty and risk

chapter 4|28 pages

Rock fractures and in situ rock stress

chapter 6|140 pages

Risks associated with long deep tunnels

chapter 8|2 pages

Concluding remarks