Rock Mechanics: An Introduction

This graduate textbook introduces rock mechanics fundamentals simply way and with a strong practical bias, and can also suit undergraduates and engineers. This new edition brings in a completely new chapter on tunneling as well as more on numerical analysis and software, and sections on slope failure mechanisms and petroleum geology.

Nagaratnam Sivakugan is an Associate Professor and former Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at James Cook University, Australia.

Sanjay Kumar Shukla is Associate Professor and Program Leader of the Discipline of Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Australia.

Peter To is Lecturer in Civil Engineering at James Cook University, Australia.

Braja M. Das was Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento, USA.