rockmass.net
a site for information and communication in
engineering geology and rock engineering
 
home   about   Information   contact





 

Information

The RockMass web site

Rockmass.net has been operating since 2001 presenting information on rock construction topics. From time to time, some new, updated or adjusted items will be given.

The book ROCK ENGINEERING will be in sale from 8 July 2010. Click here for information on the book. See the Table of contents here.
 
The book can be ordered via the Thomas Telford bookshop: http://www.thomastelford.com/books/bookshop_main.asp?ISBN=9780727740830  The price is 65.00 GBP. 
It would be useful to include the ISBN: ISBN 9780727740830.

Updates of the web site:
- October 2001: Presentation of the Rockmass.net, version 1
- October 2001 to October 2003: several updates
- October 2003: Rockmass.net, version 2 is presented
- October 2003 to January 2008: several updates of version 2

 - 18 January 2008: The new, updated version 3 of rockmass.net. The whole page has been rebuilt and some new information presented. 
 - 30 March 2008: Some adjustments and two new published papers.
 - 21 July 2008: Update of the two RMi spreadsheets.
  
 - March 2009: Version 3.1. Some adjustments of the Home page. New papers published on rock engineering and on combining classification systems. A new spreadsheet to help calculating the RMR, Q and RMi values.
- 2 June 2009: New, better quality pdf files of the Ph.D thesis on RMi. An updatiing of spreadsheet RMR-Q-RMi (version 2.1) 
- 6 May 2010: 366 more references have been added; additional terms are presented in the glossay list, now with 733 terms. A few new papers have been added. Quotations on the welcome page has been introduced. New quotations will be presented here from time to time. 
-11 June 2010: Information on the Rock engineering book 

Copyright © 2000- 2010 RockMass AS