Degrees incorporating this pedagocial element :
Description
Physical properties of rock (origin, types of rock, porosity, anisotropy, etc.)
Mechanical behaviour (experimental observations)
Constitutive modeling (general principles, anisotropic elasticity, elastoplasticity)
Failure, rupture, damage, localized deformation
Hydromechanics of rock, poroelasticity
Wave propagation in rock
Discontinuities, joints, interfaces