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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Issue 3/2017

Special Issue: Selected Contributions from GeoProc, the 5th International Conference on Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Process in Geosystems held in Salt Lake City, Utah from 25 to 27 February, 2015

Content (19 Articles)

Original Paper

Estimation of REV Size for Fractured Rock Mass Based on Damage Coefficient

Pengpeng Ni, Shuhong Wang, Cungen Wang, Simiao Zhang

Original Paper

On the Variable Dilatancy Angle in Rocks Around Underground Galleries

Fatemeh Salehnia, Frédéric Collin, Robert Charlier

Original Paper

Energy Dissipating Devices in Falling Rock Protection Barriers

L. Castanon-Jano, E. Blanco-Fernandez, D. Castro-Fresno, F. Ballester-Muñoz

Open Access Original Paper

Discrete/Finite Element Modelling of Rock Cutting with a TBM Disc Cutter

Carlos Labra, Jerzy Rojek, Eugenio Oñate

Technical Note

Measurement of Bulk volume and Density of Irregular Solid Samples by Sand Displacement Method

Tushar Gupta, Mohan Yellishetty, T. N. Singh

Technical Note

Development of a New Direct Shear Testing Device for Investigating Rock Failure

Yixin Liu, Jiang Xu, Guangzhi Yin, Shoujian Peng

Technical Note

Productivity of a Continuous Mining System for Block Caving Mines

L. F. Orellana, R. Castro, A. Hekmat, E. Arancibia

ISRM Suggested Method

ISRM Suggested Method for Laboratory Acoustic Emission Monitoring

Tsuyoshi Ishida, Joseph F. Labuz, Gerd Manthei, Philip G. Meredith, M. H. B. Nasseri, Koichi Shin, Tatsuya Yokoyama, Arno Zang

Original Paper

A Thermoplasticity Model for Oil Shale

Joshua A. White, Alan K. Burnham, David W. Camp

Original Paper

A Framework for Fracture Network Formation in Overpressurised Impermeable Shale: Deformability Versus Diagenesis

Sotiris Alevizos, Thomas Poulet, Mustafa Sari, Martin Lesueur, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Manolis Veveakis

Original Paper

Prediction of Fracture Initiation Pressure and Fracture Geometries in Elastic Isotropic and Anisotropic Formations

H. Li, Y. S. Zou, S. Liu, G. Q. Liu, Y. Z. Jing, C. A. Ehlig-Economides