Description
This publication contains three special lectures, six keynote addresses and sixty-eight technical papers presented at the symposium. The wide variety of topics covered are grouped in the proceedings according to subject under the following headings: hydraulic fracturing method; new horizon of stress evaluation; stress measurement at a great depth; stress state in the Earth’s crust; back analysis; numerical simulation; special session; applications in mining and civil engineering; applications in petroleum engineering. The reader of this book will find innovative tools and techniques that should serve to meet future needs and challenges of the rock engineering industry.
