Rock Mechanics Mining 6th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Rock Mechanics detail syllabus for Mining Engineering (Mining), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17MN64), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

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Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to:

1. To describe the importance of Rock Mechanics in the field of mining and identify of the physical and mechanical properties of rocks.
2. To understand stress and strain in rocks and the physical and mechanical properties of rocks, and failure criteria for rock and rockmass.
3. To understand the methods of in-situ strengths of rock mass, rheological models and elastic constants of rocks.

Module 1:

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Module 2:

Analysis of Stress and Strain
Analysis of Stress: Introduction, definition and basic concepts, stress in a plane, (two dimensional stress), Mohr’s Circle of stress, Secondary principal stress, equations of equilibrium, plane stress equations. Simple numerical problems. Analysis of Strain: Introduction, definition and basic concepts, strain in a plane, (two dimensional strain), Mohr’s Circle of strain, equations of compatibility, stress-strain relationship, plain strain equations, elasto plastic behaviour of rocks.

Module 3:

Physico-Mechanical Properties of Rocks
Definition and explanation – Specific gravity, hardness, porosity, moisture content, permeability, thermal conductivity. Compressive, tensile and shear strengths. Modulus of elasticity, Poisson’s ratio and triaxial strength.Swell index, slake durability, point load index, Protodyakonov index and RQD. Creep behavior.

Module 4:

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Module 5:

Rheological and Elastic Constants of Rocks
Rheological models: Introduction, simple and complex rheological models. Elastic constants: Introduction and determination of static and dynamic elastic constant.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course students will be able to:

1. Ability to describe the importance of Rock Mechanics in the field of mining and identify of the physical and mechanical properties of rocks.
2. Ability to calculate the stress and strain in rocks and rockmass.
3. Ability to understand the time dependent behaviour by rheological models and determination of elastic constants of rocks.

Text Books:

1. Strata Mechanics in Coal Mining, Jeremic, K.L. Jeremic, Rotterdam, Balkema, 1985.
2. Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics – Jager & Cook, Methuen andco. London, 1969.

Reference Books:

1. Continuum Theory of rock Mechanics CsabaAsszonyi, Transtech Publications, 1979.
2. Hand Book on Mechanical Properties of rocks R.D. Lama, V.S.Vutukuri, Vol. I to IV, Transtech Publications, 1978.
3. Mechanics and Engineering, Charles Jaeger, Cambridge University Press, 1979.
4. Rock Mechanics for Underground Mining, 2nd edition, Brady and Brown, Kluwer Academic Publlishers, 1993.
5. Ground Mechanics in Hard rock Mining, M.L. Jeremic, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1987.

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