Presidential address: Rock engineering - Good design or good judgement?

Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 411-421

  Stacey, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EXCAVATION; MATERIALS TESTING; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES;

ROCK ENGINEERING; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION METHODS; ROCK MASS STRENGTH; ROCK SUPPORT REQUIREMENT;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 0347899337     PISSN: 0038223X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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