Course Details

Rock Mechanics

Academic Year 2023/24

BFA006 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / K Winter Semester 4th 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

doc. Ing. Vladislav Horák, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/273592

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.