ROCK MECHANICS

1. It is the theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behavior of rock masses.
a. Rock mechanics c. Soil mechanics
b. Geo-mechanics d. Structural geology
2. It is concerned with the mechanical responses of all geological materials including soil.
a. Mineral mechanics c. Geo-mechanics
b. Rock mechanics d. Soil mechanics
3. The concept that used to describe the intensity of internal forces set up in a body under the
influence of a set of applied surface force.
a. Force c. Stress
b. Strain d. Movement
4. It defines the shear stress components vanish, that is possible to select a particular
orientation for a plain such that it is subject to normal stress.
a. Stress Transformation c. Principal Stress
b. Stress Invariance d. Principal Plane
5. The way to describe qualitatively in which stress and strain are related in a material under
load.
a. Constitutive Behavior c. Poisson’s ratio
b. Elasticity d. stress
6. It ranks second to isotropic elasticity in the degree of expression of elastic symmetry in the
material behavior.
a. Transverse isotropic elasticity c. Modulus of Rigidity
b. Modulus of elasticity d. Poisson’s ratio
7. The term used to describe the intact rock between discontinuities.
a. Rock Mass c. rock material
b. Aperture d. filling material
8. It is the total in situ medium containing bedding planes, faults, joints and other structural
feature.
a. Rock material c. rock mass
b. Lithology d. structure
9. It is the nature and distribution of structural features within the rock mass.
a. Stress c. rock material
b. Geologic features d. Rock structure
10. The fractures on which identifiable shear displacement has taken place.
a. Spacing c. Persistence
b. Faults d. discontinuity
11. The perpendicular distance between adjacent discontinuities.
a. Dip c. Strike
b. Dip angle d. Spacing
12. Term used to describe the aerial or size of a discontinuity with a plane.
a. Aperture c. Persistence
b. Aerial photo d. Stereo net
13. The distance range of discontinuity spacing which is considered as extremely close spacing.
a. 20 -60 mm. c. 50 -200 mm.
b 60-200 mm. d. 60-200 mm.
14. The distance range of discontinuity spacing which is considered as very wide spacing.
a. 10 -25 mm. c. <20 cm.
b. 10 -20 mm. d. <20 mm.
15. The distance range used of discontinuity spacing which is considered as extremely close
spacing.
 a. 200-6000 mm. c. 2500-3000 mm.
b. 200-600 mm. d. >6000
16. It pertains to the surface unevenness and waiveness of the discontinuity relative to its mean
plane.
a. Contour Line c. Persistence
b. Roughness d. Texture
17. The distance separating the adjacent rock walls of an open discontinuity in which the
intervening space is filled with air or water.
a. Filling c. Aperture
b. Dip d. Spacing
18. The term used to describe material separating the adjacent rock walls of discontinuities.
a. Filling c. Intrusion
b. Vein d. Contact rocks
19. It is the formation of planes of separation in the rock material.
a. Bedding plane c. fracture
b. Filling d. Rock mass
20. When the rock reach its maximum stress, usually averaged over a plane, the rock can
sustain under a given set of conditions.
a. Yield c. effective
b. Strength d. Stress
21. It is the basic technique used in mapping surface of underground exposures.
a. Structural mapping c. Scan-line survey
b. Scan-line mapping d. Stereo netting
22. Set of line on the surface of the rock mass, and the survey consists of recording data for all
discontinuities that intersect the scan line along its length.
a. Scan-line c. RMR data
b. Structural data d. MRMR data
23. A most reliable way of exploring the interior of a rock mass prior to mining.
a. Geochemistry c. Core drilling
b. Geo-statistics d. Geophysics
24. The intersection of the plane and surface of the plane
a. Semi-circle c. node
b. Great circle d. pole
25. A line perpendicular to the plane and passing through center of the sphere at two
diametrically opposite points is called ________ of the plane.
a. Poles c. nodes
b. Projection d. zenith
26. It is the process by which sudden loss of strength occurs across a plane following little or no
permanent deformation.
a. Ductile c. Deformation
b. Brittle fracture d. Failures
27. When rock can sustain further permanent deformation without losing load carrying capacity,
this rock is experiencing
a. Effective stress c. failure
b. Strength d. ductile deformation
28. It is the stress, which governs the gross mechanical response of a porous material.
a. Effective stress c. Effective strain
b. Pore pressure d. porosity