Course Details
Rock Mechanics
Academic Year 2024/25
BF005 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
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
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.