Course Details

Rock Mechanics

Academic Year 2024/25

BFA006 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / K Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vladislav Horák, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281593

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.