Rock engineering and rock mechanics structures in and on rock masses / Горная инженерия и механика горных пород: конструкции в массивах горных пород и на них

This book is a peer-reviewed and edited volume that contains keynote lectures and extended abstracts of papers that were received for EUROCK 2014 – The 2014 ISRM European Symposium, which will be held in the city of Vigo SPAIN on 27–29 May, 2014.The Symposium was organized by the Spanish Society for Rock Mechanics (SEMR) and the School of Mining Engineering of the University of Vigo with the main aim of providing a forum for engineers, practitioners, researchers and students to meet, to integrate industry professionals and scientific research communities, to share experiences and create opportunities to update and improve knowledge and to present the most recent contributions in the field of rock mass engineering.
EUROCK 2014 is the latest symposium in the series of annual European rock mechanics symposia that started in 1992 with the symposium “Rock Characterization” that was held in Chester UK. It was preceded last year by EUROCK 2013, which was held in Wroclaw POLAND, and will be followed next year by EUROCK 2015, which will be held in Salzburg AUSTRIA.
EUROCK 2014 is the first of this series of Symposia to be held in Spain. However, previous specialized conferences like ‘Rock Mechanics and Power Plants’ hold in Madrid in 1988 and ‘Volcanic Rock Mechanics’ hold in Tenerife in 2010 have preceded this Symposium in our country. Additionally, workshops on ‘Preservation of Natural Stone and Rock Weathering’ and ‘Underground works under special conditions’ were also held in Merida and Madrid within the framework of the 11th International ISRM congress that took place in 2007 in Lisbon, capital of Portugal and home of the secretariat of the ISRM <...>