Includes bibliography

Planning considerations ; 2. Classification of rock masses ; 3.Geological data collection ; 4. graphical presentation of geological data ; 5. Stresses around underground excavations ; 6. Strength of rock and rock masses ; 7. Underground excavation failure mechanisms ; 8. Underground excavation support desing ; 9.Rockbolst. Shotcrete and mesh ; 10 Blasting in underground excavations ; 11 Instrumentation.

Anyone setting out to write a book on the desing of underground excavation in rock soon realizes the enormity of the task being undertaken and the impossibility of satisfying the requirements of all possible readers. Underground excavation are constructed for a wide variety of uses in a large number of different rock types. In the mining industry, many different underground mining methods are used. Depending upon the dip and the thickness of the ore body and the characteristics of the country rock. In civil engineering applications, excavations designed to store gas or oil, to house power generating equipment, for the disposal of waste materials, to conduct water or to low the passage of vehicles must all satisfy different requirements.