• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.407-426
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• 2011

This technical report is to introduce the paper which was presented in the 2011 ISRM Congress at Beijing by Prof. Edwin T. Brown. In commemoration of the fiftieth year of the life of ISRM, the emergence of rock mechanics as a distinctive engineering and scientific discipline is described. And the state and achievements of the discipline at the time the ISRM was founded in 1962, the events leading up to the formation of the Society, the development and achievements of the Society in the 50 years since 1962, and the progress made in the discipline of rock mechanics and rock engineering since that time are also discussed.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.33-43
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• 2004

The six grades weathering system is normally used in weathered rock classification. In this study. fresh and weathered rock block of grade I to V were sampled in Jang-soo ana but samples of the grade VI was omitted from this study. The variation quantities of chemical weathering indices with weathering degree are smaller than those of physical and mechanical properties. Increase of Weathering degree is well indicated by physical and mechanical properties such as strength, hardness, ultrasonic velocity and slake durability result. Especially, absorption and porosity ratio is a good indicator. As weathering proceeds. a number of the cracks affect the rock deformation. Therefore, stress-strain curves of weathered rocks in unconfined state are quite different from ones of fresh rocks.