Rock Engineering Civil 6th Sem Syllabus for BE 2017 Regulation Anna Univ (Professional Elective II) detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2017 regulation is collected from the Anna Univ official website and presented for students of Anna University. The details of the course are: course code (CE8003), Category (PE), Contact Periods/week (3), Teaching hours/week (3), Practical Hours/week (0). The total course credits are given in combined syllabus.
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Course Objective:
- To impart knowledge on fundamentals of rock mechanics and its application in solving simple problems associated with rock slopes and underground openings.
- Student gains the knowledge on the mechanics of rock and its applications in underground structures and rock slope stability analysis.
Unit I
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Unit II
Rock Strength and Failure Criteria
Modes of rock failure – Strength of rock – Laboratory measurement of shear, tensile and compressive strength. Stress – strain behaviour of rock under Hydrostatic compression and deviatoric loading – Mohr -Coulomb failure criteria and Hock and Brown empirical criteria
Unit III
Initial Stresses and Their Measurements
Estimation of initial stresses in rocks – influence of joints and their orientation in distribution of stresses – measurements of in-situ stresses – Hydraulic fracturing – Flat jack method – Over coring method
Unit IV
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Unit V
Rock Stabilisation
Introduction – Rock support and Rock reinforcement – Principles – Support reaction curves -Shotcreting.
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course the student will be able to
- Classify the rocks, study the index properties of rock systems.
- Understand the modes of rock failure, stares-strain characteristics, failure criteria.
- Estimate the stresses in rocks.
- Apply rock mechanics in engineering.
- Get knowledge on rock stabilization.
Text Books:
- Goodman, P.E. Introduction to Rock Mechanics, John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
- Stillborg B., Professional User Handbook for rock Bolting, Tran Tech Publications, 1996.
- Ramamurthy T., Engineering in Rocks for Slopes Foundations and Tunnels, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 3rd Edition, 2014.
References:
- Brown, E.T. Rock Characterisation Testing and Monitoring. Pergaman Press 1991.
- Arogyaswamy, R.N.P., Geotechnical Application in Civil Engineering, Oxford and IBH, 1991.
- Brady, B.H.G. and Brown, E.T., Rock mechanics for underground mining (Third Edition), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2006.
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