AN APPROACH TO ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WORKS

Existing rock mass classifications are analysed, and a classification proposed which is developed in stages, similar to the evolution of the design. Classification should start right from the choice of site and be developed all the way through to the final completion of the work. All the stages of classification together must constitute an integral system. In each successive stage the classification is filled in with new, more reliable and specific data, with more and more quantitative parameters, as produced by current investigations and required by the current stage of design. Thus its character changes from the most general in the initial stage to become completely specific at the end. The number of the covering abstract of the congress is TRIS no. 385148. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented at the Fifth International Congress on Rock Mechanics, Melbourne, Australia, 1983, Volume 1, Theme B.
• Corporate Authors:

  AA Balkema

  P.O. Box 1675
  Rotterdam,   Netherlands  BR-3000

  Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

  204 Lygon Street
  Carlton, Victoria  Australia  3053
• Authors:
  • Lokin, P
  • Nijajilovic, R
  • Vasic, M
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 87-92
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Balkema (AA)
  • Publisher: AA Balkema

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Conferences; Construction; Design; Mass; Rocks; Tunnels; Underground structures
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rock mass; Site investigation; Subterranean
• Old TRIS Terms: Underground
• ITRD Terms: 8513: Classification; 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 4154: Rock; 5722: Site investigation; 4372: Subterranean; 3374: Tunnel
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Geotechnology; Highways; I43: Rock Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00385186
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 90 6191 237 7
• Report/Paper Numbers: BOOK
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 28 1984 12:00AM