Discontinuities 1 Characterization and modeling of the shear strength, stiffness and hydraulic behavior of rock joints for engineering purposesN.R. Barton & S.C. Bandis 2 Statistical fracture toughness study for rocks M.R.M. Aliha & M.R. Ayatollahi Anisotropic 3 Rock damage mechanicsF.L. Pellet & A.P.S. Selvadurai 4 Experimental and numerical anisotropic rock mechanicsK-B.Min, B. Park, H. Kim, J-W. Cho & L. Jing 5 Characterization of rock masses based on geostatistical joint mapping and rock boring operations M. Stavropoulou & G. Exadaktylos Rock Stress 6 Hydraulic fracturing stress measurements D.R. Schmitt & B. Haimson 7 Hydrofracturing S.O. Choi 8 Methodology for determination of the complete stress tensor and its variation versus depth based on overcoring rock stress data D. Ask 9 Measurement of induced stress and estimation of rock mass strength in the near-field around an opening Y. Obara & K. Sakaguchi Geophysics 10 Compressive strength–seismic velocity relationship for sedimentary rocks T. Takahashi & S. Tanaka 11 Elastic waves in fractured isotropic and anisotropic media L.J. Pyrak-Nolte, S. Shao & B.C. Abell Strength Criteria 12 On yielding, failure, and softening response of rock J.F. Labuz, R. Makhnenko, S-T. Dai & L. Biolzi 13 True triaxial testing of rocks and the effect of the intermediate principal stress on failure characteristics B. Haimson, C. Chang & X. Ma 14 The MSDPu multiaxial criterion for the strength of rocks and rock masses L. Li, M. Aubertin & R. Simon 15 Unified Strength Theory (UST) M.-H. Yu 16 Failure criteria for transversely isotropic rock Y.M. Tien, M.C. Kuo & Y.C. Lu 17 Use of critical state concept in determination of triaxial and polyaxial strength of intact, jointed and anisotropic rocks M. Singh 18 Practical estimate of rock mass strength and deformation parameters for engineering design M. Cai Modeling Rock Deformation and Failure 19 Constitutive modeling of geologic materials, interfaces and joints using the disturbed state concept C.S. Desai 20 Modeling brittle failure of rock V. Hajiabdolmajid 21 Pre-peak brittle fracture damage E. Eberhardt, M.S. Diederichs & M. Rahjoo 22 Numerical rock fracture mechanics M. Fatehi Marji & A. Abdollahipour 23 Linear elasticity with microstructure and size effects G. Exadaktylos 24 Rock creep mechanics F.L. Pellet