Rock Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Rock Engineering (subject code 2172206) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 35 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2172206)Unit 1 Design and Stability of Structures in Rock
- Initial rock pressure due to narrow and wide excavations
- Theories of ground movement
- criteria for design and support of underground excavations
- design of single and multiple openings in massive
- stratified and jointed rock mass
- mine pillars and their classification
- pillar stresses
- pillar design
- stability analysis of pillars
Unit 2 Subsidence
- Causes and impacts of subsidence
- mechanics of surface subsidence
- Vertical and lateral movements and their estimation
- angle of fracture
- angle of draw
- factors affecting subsidence
- discontinuous and continuous subsidence
Unit 3 Caving of Rock mass
- Caving characteristics of rocks
- capability index
- subsidence control protection of surface structures
- design of protection pillars including shafts pillars
Unit 4 Rock burst
- Phenomenology of rock bursts
- prediction and control of rockroses
- bumps and gas outbursts
Unit 5 Introduction to Methods of Stress Analysis
- Predictive methods for mine design
- principles of classical stress analysis closed form solutions for simple excavation shapes
- introduction to computational methods of stress analysis finite element
- boundary element
- distinct element methods and hybrid computational schemes
Unit 6 Monitoring Rock mass Performance
- Purpose and nature
- monitoring systems including seismic and miroseismic methods
Unit 7 Mechanics of Fragmentation
- Mechanism of rock cutting by picks
- disc and roller-cutters
- water-jet cutting
- mechanics of blasting
- methods of assessing cutability
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