The online course of Rock Dynamics and Recent Advances is by Professor Ömer Aydan.

Rock dynamics has become one of the most important topics in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering. The spectrum of rock dynamics is very wide and it includes the failure of rocks, rock masses and rock engineering structures such as rockbursting, spalling, popping, collapse, toppling, sliding, blasting, non-destructive testing, geophysical explorations, science and engineering of rocks, impacts etc. The main purpose of this course is to describe the State of the Art on Rock Dynamics and recent advances in experimentation and monitoring, together with some field implementations. It is hoped that this would be a milestone in advancing the knowledge in this field and leading to new techniques for experiments, analytical and numerical modelling as well as monitoring in dynamics of rocks and rock engineering structures.

The course has 11 parts, each of them with several topics. The first part was made available in October 2023, and the remaining parts will be available in the coming months. Find it on the Courses page.