Back analysis in rock engineering / Обратный анализ в горном деле

This book is dedicated to practising engineers working in rock engineering practice, as well as for graduate students studying and doing research on rock mechanics and rock engineering. The aim of this book is to make the engineers and the students understand how to apply the theory of rock mechanics to engineering practice, in order to achieve the rational design and construction of rock structures such as tunnels, underground caverns, and slopes, and to assess not only the stability of them during/after construction, but also to ensure the safety of the workers. In order to verify the adequacy of the original design and assess the stability of the rock structures during construction, observational methods are extremely useful. In the method field measurements play a major role, but the measurement data are only numbers unless they are properly interpreted. Back analyses can be used for interpreting the data quantitatively, resulting in the rational design and construction of the structures being achieved.
It is noted that back analysis is a highly non-linear problem, even in the simple case of linear elastic materials. This non-linearity of back analyses may attract the interest of mathematicians in back analysis problems, but only from the mathematical point of view. However, this book is not for mathematicians, but for practising rock engineers so that the back analyses should be used for engineering practice. The contents of this book are mainly based on the original works carried out in the Rock Mechanics Laboratory of Kobe University, Japan. <...>