Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics (Science Paperbacks) - Softcover

Jaeger, John Conrad; Cook, Neville George Wood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0412208202 ISBN 13: 9780412208201

Publisher: Chapman and Hall, 1971

Synopsis

1971. Reprint. 515 pages. Brown paper covers. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges and reverse of covers. Pen inscriptions to half title page. Light cracking and staining to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Paper covers have prominent edge-wear and corner curling with noticeable sunning, creasing and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier splitting, rolling and creasing.

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Review

"An excellent book, very well presented, and is a must for the shelves of serious engineers and scientists active or interested in the fields of rock mechanics and rock engineering.... Highly recommended." ( South African Geographical Journal, 2008)

"...I consider this book to be an invaluable reference for studying and understanding the fundamental science at the base of rock mechanics. I believe this to be a must–have textbook and I strongly recommend it to anyone, student or professional, interested in the subject." (Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering)

About the Author

John Conrad Jaeger received a first–class honours degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney, was Wrangler (class I) in the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge, and received a DSc in applied mathematics from the University of Sydney. He was a professor at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University. He was the author of several monographs in applied mathematics, including, with H. S. Carslaw, Conduction of Heat in Solids, and was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society.

Neville G. W. Cook received a BS and PhD in geophysics from the University of Witwatersrand. He was the founder and first director of the Mining Research Laboratory of the South African Chamber of Mines, and in 1971 he received the Gold Medal of the Scientific and Technical Societies, the highest scientific award in South Africa. He was Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and was a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering.

Robert Zimmerman received BS and MS degrees from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a staff scientist in the Earth Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Reader in Rock Mechanics at Imperial College, London. He is currently Professor of Engineering Geology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and co–editor of the International Journal of Rock Mechanics. He is also the author of the monograph Compressibility of Sandstones.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412208202
• ISBN 13: 9780412208201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 532