Rock Slope Engineering detailed syllabus for Mining Engineering (MNG) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MNG students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Mining Engineering 8th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MNG 8th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VI scheme and its subjects refer to MNG Professional Elective-VI syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of rock slope engineering is as follows.
Course Objective:
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Unit I
Basic Mechanics of Rock Slope Failure
Rock slope economics; continuum mechanics approach to slope stability; slope parameters; effect of water pressure; factor of safety of slopes; slope height vs slope angle; design of slopes.
Unit II
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Unit III
Plane Failure and Wedge Failure
Plane failure analysis; graphical analysis of stability; influence of ground water on stability; influence of tension crack; analysis of failure on a rough plane; rock reinforcement of slopes; Analysis of wedge failure; wedge analysis including cohesion and water pressure; Wedge stability charts for friction only; case studies. Numerical problems.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Rock Slope Failure Monitoring and Slope Stabilization
Types of slope movement, Surface and Sub-surface monitoring methods including instrumentation and techniques and Guidelines for monitoring programs. Causes of rock falls; Rock slope stabilization programs – stabilization by rock reinforcement and rock removal; protection measures against rock falls.
Course Outcome:
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Text Books:
- Duncan C.Wylie and Christopher W. Mah, Rock Slope Engineering, 4th Edition, 4th Edition, CRC Press, 456p, 2004.
- Hoek, E and Bray, J.W., Rock Slope Engineering, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1991.
References:
- John Read and Peter Stacey, Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design, 1st Edition, CRC Press, 510p, 2009.
- William A. Hustrulid (Ed), Michael K. McCarter (Ed) and Dirk J. A. Van Zyl (Ed), Slope stability in Surface Mining, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 442p, 2001.
- John Jaeger, N. G. Cook and Robert Zimmerman, Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics, 4th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell; 4 edition, 488p, 2007.
- Goodman, R.E., Rock Mechanics, John Wiley and Sons, 1989.
- Singh, R.N. and Ghose, A.K., Engineered Rock Structures in Mining and Civil Construction, A.A. Balkema, Netherlands, 2006
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Mining Engineering 8th Sem, visit MNG 8th Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.
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