This journal is concerned with original research, new developments, site measurements and case studies in rock mechanics and rock engineering. It provides an international forum for the publication of high quality papers on the subject of rock mechanics and the application of rock mechanics principles and techniques to miningand civil engineering projects built on or in rock masses. These projects include slopes, open-pit mines, quarries, shafts, tunnels, caverns, underground mines, metro systems, dams and hydro-electric stations, geothermal energy, petroleum engineering, and radioactive waste disposal. Papers are welcomed on all relevant topics and especially on theoretical developments, analytical methods, numerical methods, rock testing, site investigation, and case studies. 

Original Research, New Developments and Case Studies

Editors-in-Chief
Jian Zhao
Monash University, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Melbourne, Australia Email Jian Zhao
Robert Zimmerman
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Email Robert Zimmerman
Associate Editors
Yi-Feng Chen
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Erik Eberhardt
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ki-Bok Min
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Jonny Rutqvist
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
Jianfu Shao
Mechanics Multiphysics Multiscale Laboratory, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Wancheng Zhu
Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Editorial Board
Leandro Alejano
University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Bernard Amadei
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Majid Reza Ayatollahi
Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Nick Barton
Nick Barton & Associates, Oslo, Norway
Ted Brown
Golder Associates Pty Ltd Brisbane, Toowong, Queensland, Australia
Carlos Carranza-Torres
University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, United States
Francois Cornet
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Giovanni Crosta
University of Milan Bicocca Department of Environmental Sciences Territory and Earth Sciences, Milano, Italy
Emmanuel Detournay
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
George Exadaktylos
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Charles Fairhurst
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Xia-Ting Feng
Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Branch, Wuhan, China
Robert Fowell
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Richard Goodman
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Bezalel Haimson
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Yossef Hatzor
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Lanru Jing
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Murat Karakus
The University of Adelaide, Balhannah, South Australia, Australia
Paul La Pointe
Golder Associates Inc, Redmond, Washington, United States
Joseph F Labuz
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Derek Martin
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Yuzo Ohnishi
Kansai University, Suita, Japan
William Pariseau
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Harun Sönmez
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Ove Stephansson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Chunan Tang
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Jinan Wang
University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China