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The mechanical behaviour of rock is determined by its reaction, characterized by deformation, to the force field of its physical environment. This paraphrases a definition of rock mechanics quoted by Judd (1964) as emanating from the US National Academy of Sciences Committee on Rock Mechanics. Coates (1965), a civil engineer who wrote one of the seminal books on the subject, put it more directly as the ‘study of the effects of forces on rocks’.
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© 1983 Ian W. Farmer
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Farmer, I. (1983). Stress and Strain. In: Engineering Behaviour of Rocks. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5753-4_2
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