Syllabus

Module1: Stress around mine openings, in-situ Stress- Determination of in-situ rock mass properties, in-situ testing methods and instrumentations.
Module 2: Design of underground workings: Structural Design Approaches including applicability of Wilson’s approach, Safety factors.
Module 3: Slope Stability: Shear Strength, Slope failure types, mechanisms, and theories.
Module 4: Rock Reinforcement and Support: Mechanisms of failure in rock structures-intact and anisotropy, Rock Load and stability, Supporting and reinforcement members, Design of support and reinforcement systems
Module 5: Surface Subsidence: Subsidence mechanisms and control measures,
Module 6: Basics of numerical methods in geomechanics and applications, Case studies involving rock mechanics fundamentals.

To decide the rock parameters affecting its behaviour and their behaviour

To predict the excavation geometry

To determine the stress and its solutions

To determine optimum dimension of excavation and predict safety factor

1: To explain the advanced trends in determination of in situ rock mass properties
2: To study slope stability factors and predict the safety factors through different approaches
3. To predict rock reinforcement techniques for underground and opencast applications
4: To design underground excavation and its different elements
5: To analyse rock excavation dimensions numerically and predict different situations and the resultant stress-strain

R E Goodman, Introduction to Rock Mechanics,, John Wiley and Sons, , 1980

B. H. G. Brady and E. T. Brown, Rock Mechanics for Underground Mining,, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., , 1992

Franklin and Dusseault, Rock Engineering, Barnes and Noble

. E. Hoek and J. Bray, , Rock Slope Engineering, 3 rd Ed.,, Inst. Of Mining and Metallurgy, London, , 1980