This book focuses on the implementation and application of new concepts and methods to modelling, analysis, building, performance control and repair of structures of and in jointed rock and rock masses. It provides a forum for presentation of new research results and discussion for researchers.
Plenary lectures 1. Application of numerical modelling to the analysis of excavations in jointed rock 2. Numerical modelling of jointed and faulted rock 3. The blocky nature of rock 4. Analysis of explosions in hard rocks: The power of discrete element modelling 5. Modelling incipient tectonic faulting in the brittle crust of the earth 6. The dualism discrete-continuum of jointed rock 7. Damage tensor theory and its application to tunnelling 8. Joint hydraulics 9. Physical models and the limits of the continuum approach in tunnelling Geology 10. A mathematical representation of jointed rock masses and its application 11. Stochastic three dimensional joint geometry modelling including a verification to an area in Stripa Mine, Sweden 12. Fractal approaches in mechanics of jointed rocks 13. Procedure for the execution of detailed geomechanical structural surveys on rock masses with a rigid behavior 14. Physical and mechanical properties of shear zones in a gneiss massif 15. Study of the rock mass discontinuity system using photoanalysis 16. Borehole-breakouts as geological indications of crustal tensions in the Vienna Basin 17. Evaluating the potential for sliding failure in boreholes in fractured rock 18. Application of seismic tomography to the rock mass modelling 19. Healed microcracks in granitic rocks and their use in paleostress analysis 20. On the kinematics of mountain-splitting processes based on continuous monitoring 21. Structural deformations in the Periadriatic collision zone determined by audiomagnetotellurics 22. Geophysical analysis of some fracture zones in the Hercynian and Alpine system 23. Formation of joints and faults in the south-eastern Aegean 24. A sequential partitioning of structural data from Silius mine, Sardegna, Italy 25. Tectonic processes on the contact of the Adriatic platform and the Dinarides in the area of the Northern Dalmatia, Yugoslavia 26. Kinematics of the alpine deformation of the Caucasus and adjacent areas 27. Joints and the
