Download or read book In-Situ Rock Stress written by Ming Lu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the stress state in the earth's crust is crucial for engineers working in rock, particularly with regard to underground construction. Experience shows that an adequately high horizontal in-situ stress has a positive effect in stabilizing large span rock caverns close to the ground surface. On the other hand, high stresses resulting fr