This two-day short course will cover some key elements of the lecturer’s internationally applied developments in rock mechanics and rock engineering.

The course will start with a thorough treatment of the Q-system of rock mass classification and its many site-interpretation and tunnel-design aspects.  Extensive work in TBM tunneling, with the QTBM prognosis method for estimating penetration rate PR and actual advance rate AR, will also be described, and illustrated by many case records.

International experiences will be reflected in numerous case record examples, from hydropower projects and from metro projects, including a dramatic cavern collapse. Mapping techniques, core logging interpretation, and so-called ‘histogram-logging’ will be emphasized. Fundamentals of rock joint characterization will be covered as these are fundamental to many areas of rock engineering and numerical modelling.

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Speaker

Dr. Nick Barton was educated in the University of London from 1963 to 1970, and has a B.Sc. in civil engineering from King’s College, and a Ph.D. on rock slope stability from Imperial College. He worked for two periods in the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, eventually as Division Director, then Technical Advisor, and was also four years in the USA, becoming Manager of Geomechanics in Terra Tek, now Schlumberger. Since 2000 he has had his own international rock engineering consultancy, registered as Nick Barton & Associates in Oslo, and also has an office in São Paulo. He has consulted on several hundred projects in a total of 35 countries, and has published widely (280 papers, and two text books). He has ten international awards including election as Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctor) in Argentina. Recently he gave the 6th Mueller Award Lecture of ISRM, in the Beijing ISRM congress in 2011. This is awarded once every four years.

Contact

Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering Geology (Singapore) 
1 Liang Seah Street, #02-11, Liang Seah Place Singapore 189022 
Tel: +65 6336 2328 
Fax: +65 6336 2583 
Email: srmeg@cma.sg
Website: www.srmeg.org.sg