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CIVIL-308: Rock mechanics

Summary

Comprendre le comportement mécanique de la roche intacte, des joints et des massifs rocheux et savoir déterminer les facteurs influençant un projet. Savoir utiliser les méthodes appropriées pour analyser et dimensionner l'excavation et le soutènement des ouvrages souterrains.

Lectures

Instructors (3)

Marie Estelle Solange Violay

Federica Sandrone

from 2008: Engineer at SBB-Infrastructure, responsible for Tunnels Management and Maintenance from 2007: Assistant for the courses "Tunnel Engineering" and "Underground Construction Technology" 2004-2008: PhD Student (Structure Doctoral Program) at LMR-EPFL PhD degree: February 2008 at EPFL with a thesis entitled "Analysis of pathologies and long term behaviour of the Swiss National Road tunnels" 2003: Assistant at the Georesources and Landscape Department of Politecnico di Torino (TUSC). Main research domains: in situ surveys, monitoring measurements analysis and numerical modelling on tunnels with ageing problems and/or collapses, settling and subsiding in chalk pit, instability of slope dumps, interaction between cutting-tools of a TBM and the rock-mass 2003: Graduate at the Politecnico di Torino in Geotechnical Engineering with a Master Thesis about Stability controls and refurbishment operations on a damaged railway tunnel

Luis Felipe Orellana Espinoza

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/rock-mechanics-CIVIL-308

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/CIVIL-308

Summary

Lectures

Instructors (3)

Marie Estelle Solange Violay

Federica Sandrone

Luis Felipe Orellana Espinoza

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/rock-mechanics-CIVIL-308

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/CIVIL-308

Ontological neighbourhood

Civil engineering

Geotechnical engineering: Geotechnical investigation

Earth science

Physical geography: Geomorphology

Mathematics

Analysis: Numerical analysis

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