Download or read book Assessment and Prevention of Failure Phenomena in Rock Engineering written by O. Aydan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. This volume is a collection of papers addressing the issue of the failure of rock engineering structures. This phenomenon occurs in different forms depending on the geometry of structure, material properties of intact rock, structure of rock mass, environmental conditions and initial state of stress.