Table of Contents

1. Description and engineering phenomenon of rockburst2. Case histories of rockburst at tunnels3. Case histories of rockburst at metal mines4. Case histories of rockburst at coal mines5. Laboratory experiment of rockburst evolution mechanism6. Understanding of rockburst evolution process by in situ comprehensive monitoring in a deep tunnel7. Understanding of rockburst evolution mechanism using numerical modelling8. Monitoring systems in rockburst9. Microsiesmic monitoring method of rockburst evolution process10. Latest developments on analysis of data monitored11. Assessment of rockburst risk12. Warning of rockburst13. Avoiding high stress concentration by making reasonable excavation 14. Destressing15. Excavation vulnerability and selection of effective rock support to mitigate rockburst damage16. Successful examples for mitigating rockburst17. Mitigating rockburst effects for civil engineering infrastructure and buildings18. Conclusions and Future Developments

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About the Author

Received his PhD in rock mechanics from the Northeastern University, China, in 1992. Then he has been affiliated as Lecturer, Associate Professor (from 1993-1996) and Professor (from 1996-2001) at the same university, from September 1995 to March 1996 as a Visiting Researcher and from December 1996 to November 1997 as a ITIT Special Research Officer at National Institute for Resource and Environment, Tsukuba, Japan, and from May to November 1996 as a Research Officer at Department of Mining Engineering, the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Prof. Feng is a member of the ISRM, through the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (CSRME - ISRM National Group for China) (1995-present), President of International Society for Rock Mechanics (2011-present) and Vice President of Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (2012-present).
He is also Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2011-present), Members of Editorial Board of International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences -Elsevier - (2003-present), Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering – Springer - (2010-present), Geomechanics and Tunnelling – Wiley - and (2008-present), and Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering – Elsevier - (2009-present), and Member of the Advisory Board of International Journal of Analytic and Numerical Methods in Geomechanics – Wiley - (2007-present). He has authored/co-authored six books and more than 200 technical papers.