Reliability-based design is relatively well established in structural engineering. its use is less mature in geotchnical design, but there is a steady progression toward relibility-based design as seen in the inclusion of a new Annex D on "Reliability of Geotechnical structures" in the third edition of ISO 2394. reliability-based design can be viewed as a simplified form of risk-based design wh…
At the timethe first edition of Rock Mechanics and Engineering was being printed, important progress was being made in theory and practice of rock mechanics. Some new advances were analysedin an 'Appendix' to the book, which is now incorporated, with the necessary additions, in the relevent chapters of the second edition. News development of the new Austrian tunnelling method (NATM) and similia…