Introduction

Kanji, Milton A.; He, Manchao

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29477-9_1

Milton A. Kanji⁴ &
Manchao He⁵

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This book, dealing with soft rocks and soft rock engineering, is a result of the dedication and effort made by several members of the ISRM Technical Commission on Soft Rocks, who contributed individually or in association with several coauthors.

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Funding for this work was provided by the Soft Rock Engineering Mechanics Subject Development Strategy Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017-JS-A-1).

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Polytechnical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Milton A. Kanji
State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, China
Manchao He

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Polytechnical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Milton Kanji
State Key Laboratory for GeoMechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), Tongji University, Beijing, China
Manchao He
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Luís Ribeiro e Sousa

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Kanji, M.A., He, M. (2020). Introduction. In: Kanji, M., He, M., Ribeiro e Sousa, L. (eds) Soft Rock Mechanics and Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29477-9_1

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29477-9_1
Published: 25 November 2019
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-29476-2
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