Rock construction

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A Buddhist rock temple in Ella , Sri Lanka

The term rock engineering or Gesteinsbau ( English rock construction ) are used in civil engineering those methods and construction techniques summarized concerned with structures in hard rocks - such as tunnels , tunnel about a line system or for the incorporation of pipelines, and generally underground construction comprising underground cavities as infrastructure in mining and for technical underground facilities ( cavern construction in particular) - as well as special methods of foundation .

Neighboring technical subjects are foundation engineering and earthworks , these expressions are used as long as one remains in the upper layers of the earth (the soil), so there are numerous overlaps depending on the queuing and nature of the rock in the subsoil (loose / semi-solid / solid). Rock engineering and foundation engineering form one of the important sub-areas of civil engineering and appear as such in most civil engineering tasks. The rock mechanics , as applied and theoretical branch of engineering geology is a neighboring discipline of soil mechanics : Your technical and practical application in the construction industry is the cavity and rock. Overall, rock construction is a core area of mining and mining ,

At universities , rock engineering , which is the practical application of rock mechanics, is mostly represented in institutes for geotechnics , engineering geology or tunneling . The international professional association is the International Tunneling and Underground Space Association  (ITA-AITES).

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