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