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24-MMP-B1 Applied Rock Mechanics: May 2014

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  1. Question 1 Direct Shear Box Test on a Planar Discontinuity
  2. Question 2 Triaxial Testing of Intact Granite — Mohr-Coulomb and Hoek-Brown Criteria
  3. Question 3 Plane Failure Analysis of a Jointed Rock Slope
  4. Question 4 Room-and-Pillar Design for a Uranium Orebody
  5. Question 5 Rock Bolt Anchor Systems
  6. Question 6 Surface Support and Circular Excavation Behaviour at Depth

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EGBC National Exam — Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering, 09-MMP-B1 Applied Rock Mechanics, 2014-May. 3 hours duration, open-book exam, any non-communicating calculator permitted.

Reference texts: Brady & Brown, Rock Mechanics for Underground Mining, 3rd ed. (direct shear and triaxial testing, Mohr-Coulomb and Hoek-Brown failure criteria, pillar design, Kirsch elastic-boundary-stress solution); Wyllie & Mah, Rock Slope Engineering (after Hoek & Bray), 4th ed. (plane failure analysis, tension-crack water pressure, rock-bolt slope reinforcement); Hoek, Kaiser & Bawden, Support of Underground Excavations in Hard Rock (mechanical point anchors, friction bolts, surface support systems); Hoek, Practical Rock Engineering (Hoek-Brown criterion background and worked plane-failure methodology).