Course Details
Rock Mechanics
Academic Year 2022/23
BF005 course is part of 3 study plans
B-P-C-SI (N) Winter Semester 1st year
B-K-C-SI (N) Winter Semester 1st year
B-P-E-SI (N) Winter Semester 1st year
Appreciation of the rock environment as co-operative background with the structure. Physical-mechanical and technological properties verified by laboratory and in situ tests. Strain and stress in rock mass. Special field measuring, instrumentation and monitoring. Stability of rock and weak rock slopes and walls. Anchorage into rocks.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Student gains basic checking of rocky environment (rock and weak rocks) as co-operative background with the structure. The student will be acquainted with physical, mechanical and technological properties of rocks and their verification by laboratory and in situ tests in stress state of rocky massive. The student will be able to propose special in situ tests, measurements and monitoring and to do basic check of stability of rock slopes and design of rock anchors.
Knowledge
Student gains basic checking of rocky environment (rock and weak rocks) as co-operative background with the structure. The student will be acquainted with physical, mechanical and technological properties of rocks and their verification by laboratory and in situ tests in stress state of rocky massive. The student will be able to propose to do basic check of stability of rock slopes and design of rock anchors.
Syllabus
1. Physical, mechanical and technological properties of rocks verified in laboratory I.
2. Physical, mechanical and technological properties of rocks verified in laboratory II.
3. In situ tests in Rock Mechanics I.
4. In situ tests in Rock Mechanics II. Strain and stress in rock mass and their checking.
5. Special field measuring, instrumentation and monitoring.
6. Stability of rock and weak rock slopes and walls.
7. Anchorage into rocks.
Prerequisites
Students must have a basic knowledge of at least: Geology, soil mechanics, building materials, basic structural mechanics and elasticity and plasticity theory.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Physical, mechanical and technological properties of rocks verified in laboratory I.
2. Physical, mechanical and technological properties of rocks verified in laboratory II.
3. In situ tests in Rock Mechanics I.
4. In situ tests in Rock Mechanics II. Strain and stress in rock mass and their checking.
5. Special field measuring, instrumentation and monitoring.
6. Stability of rock and weak rock slopes and walls.
7. Anchorage into rocks.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction to the discipline, videos - "Field tests of rock mechanics" and "Laboratory of rock mechanics"
2. Work in the laboratory of rock mechanics. Determination of the rock sample.
3. Field plate test. Evaluation.
4. Field shear test. Evaluation.
5. The stability of rock walls.
6. Anchoring in rock mass.
7. Control of a credit.