1. Basic fracture modes and breakage resistance of granite / M. P. Luong -- 2. Behavior of coal caused by water or carbon dioxide / J. Gustkiewicz & Y. Orengo -- 3. Coupled effects between mechanical behavior and mass transfer phenomena in rock salt / Ph. Cosenza & M. Ghoreychi -- 4. A programme of underground instrumentation and laboratory tests, to understand the rock mass behaviour on the Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex / B. P. Watson -- 5. Experimental study on physical mechanical characters of quasi-sandstones / L. X. Huang -- 6. Damage process of sedimentary rocks: advanced processing of ultrasonic waves / J. F. Couvreur et al. -- 7. Microseismic monitoring of longwall caving processes at Gordonstone Mine, Australia / X. Luo, P. Hatherly & B. McKavanagh -- 8. The laboratory study of deforming behavior and related acoustic emission of different rocks / P. Konecny -- 9. Study on stability of shaft wall by acoustic emission monitoring system / S. L. Li, K. S. Yu & Y.F. Sang -- 10. Predicting rock fracturing behaviors under creep conditions in terms of intelligent rock mechanics / X.-T. Feng & M. Seto -- 11. New Approach to Reconstruction of Large Scale In Situ Stresses and Moduli / A. N. Galybin, A. V. Dyskin & R. J. Jewell -- 12. Theoretical and practical analysis of in-situ rock stress on the underground workings in Jinchuan Mines / C. S. Tai -- 13. A method to calculate stresses and deformations in 3D layered strata / A. M. Linkov et al. -- 14. Manifold method and its applications to rock engineering / W. Y. Zhou, Q. Yang & R. Q. Yang -- 15. An elasto-plastic finite element analysis for the stability of rockmass abutment and the stress of high arch dams / Q. C. Ma, G. Y. Li & L. Qi -- 16. Application of the finite thick-plate strip method in the underground blast-resistant structures / J. Wu, Q. X. Li & F.H. Li -- 17. Flow and deformation in anisotropic fractured porous media / M. Bai & J.-C. Roegiers -- 18. Simple constitutive equations for brittle rocks, based on strain-dependent stiffness / Y. Fujii & Y. Ishijima -- 19. Poroelastic stability analyses of inclined boreholes in saturated formations / L. Cui, J.-C. Roegiers & Y. Abousleiman -- 20. Advances in the creep compliance theory of viscoelastic surrounding rock masses / L. Xue & R. Luo -- 21. Stability of underground stratified hard rock roofs / A. I. Sofianos & A. P. Kapenis -- 22. Deformation and fracturing in underground mining / A. Vervoort -- 23. A new method for stability analysis of rock slope / D. Y. Zhu & Z. S. Zhou -- 24. Load approach on circular tunnels in rock characterized by major joint sets / Ch. N. Marangos -- 25. A new approach to convergence confinement method / D. Nguyen Minh & C. Guo -- 26. Practice and theory of the integrated technology of rock reinforcement / R. Snuparek -- 27. Stability of rock in tunnel and design of support / B. Amusin -- 28. Evaluation of drilling parameters of a PDC bit / H. Geoffroy et al. -- 29. An introduction of the Chinese standard for engineering classification of rock masses (GB50218 - 94) / Y. M. Lin.

Advances in Rock Mechanics is a publication presenting the state of the art in the field of rock mechanics. This book includes 29 contributions which present ongoing or recently completed research in various aspects of rock mechanics, as well as examples of current practice with advanced technologies or methods. On the whole, this book offers an interesting and comprehensive understanding of worldwide developments in rock mechanics in recent years