Book review: Soil and rock description in engineering practiceSoil and rock description in engineering practice. NorburyD.. Caithness: Whittles, 2010. 302 pp. ISBN 978-1904445-65-4. £80·00

Probabilistic design: The future of rock engineering

A brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. The variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. However, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

probabilistic design - the future of rock engineering

a brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. the variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. however, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

Module 12: Numerical Modelling in Rock Engineering

A.L. Allan, Principles of Geospatial Surveying (2007) Whittles Publishing, CRC Press, Dunbeath, UK 978-1904445-21-0 456 pp., price: £65

Principles of Geospatial Surveying is the successor of a previous textbook, Practical Surveying and Computations, written by the same author and published in 1997. Today the author is Emeritus Reader at University College London and he does not disavow his teaching background. By a simple class room example, in which students have to draw and measure a line 300 mm in length with a 100 mm ruler,...

probabilistic design: the future of rock engineering

a brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. the variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. however, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...