Practical Rock Engineering

Covers every tunnelling method in current use: cut and cover, drill and blast, tunnel boring machines, sequential excavation and immersed tubes. Includes geotechnical investigation for tunnels, support design, ground movement control, and the systems that go in once the bore is finished.

Federal Highway Administration

A field handbook for the Q-system, with photographs showing how to assign each parameter straight from the rock face and charts that turn the resulting Q value into bolt spacing and shotcrete thickness. Short and entirely practical.

Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

Design criteria for founding large structures on rock: site investigation, rock mass characterization, bearing capacity, sliding and deformation analysis, and foundation treatment by grouting and anchoring.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers