Course Details

Rock Mechanics

Academic Year 2025/26

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/289758

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.