Rock Slope Engineering

Duncan Wyllie is President of Wyllie & Norrish Rock Engineers based in Vancouver, Canada. He has been working exclusively in the field of applied rock engineering for almost fifty years, initially in underground and open pit mining and then in civil engineering. He has worked on slope, landslide, tunnel, blasting and foundation projects throughout North America, as well as in such countries as India, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Turkey and Peru. The major portion of this work is for highways, railways and power projects, and involves both new construction and the evaluation and remediation of existing slopes and tunnels. Dr. Wyllie is also the author of Rock Fall Engineering (2014) and Foundations on Rock (1999), both published by CRC Press. He has prepared manuals on rock slope engineering for the Federal Highway Administration, and taught about 80 courses throughout the U.S. for the National Highway Institute in Washington D.C.

Principles of Rock Slope Design. Structural Geology and Data Interpretation. Weathered Rock and Slope Stability. Site Investigation and Geological Data Collection. Rock Strength Properties and Their Measurement. Groundwater. Plane Failure. Wedge Failure. Circular Failure. Toppling Failure. Seismic Analysis of Rock Slopes. Numerical Analysis. Blasting. Stabilization of Rock Slopes. Movement Monitoring. Civil Engineering Applications. Appendices: Stereonets For Hand Plotting of Structural Geology Data; Quantitative Description of Discontinuities in Rock Masses; Comprehensive Solution Wedge Stability; Conversion Factors.