10764 (v.5) WASM Rock Testing and Instrumentation 602

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Area:	WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	25.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 25 Hours Weekly
Laboratory testing of rock samples - uniaxial and triaxial testing, tensile strength, hardness and abrasiveness tests, fracture toughness tests, post failure behaviour, elastic wave velocities. Geotechnical instrumentation in underground and open pit mining - stress and displacement measurements. Monitoring, analysis and prediction of rock mass behaviour.