Rock mechanics and engineering / Горная механика и горная инженерия

At the time the first edition of Rock Mechanics and Engineering was being printed, important progress was being made both in theory and practice of rock mechanics. Some new advances were analysed in an 'Appendix' to the book, which is now incorporated, with the necessary additions, in the relevant chapters of the second edition. New developments of the new Austrian tunnelling method (NATM) and similar methods caused the important chapter on underground power-stations to be rewritten, and several new chapters to be added. <...>