人们都倾向子将岩石力学视为一门现代工程学科,然而早在1773年库伦在就读于巴黎法国科学院以前就把波迪克斯岩石试验的结果写入了他的一篇文章中。巴拿马运河是由法国工程师们于1884年开始建造,并由美国陆军工程公司于1908年完成的。据记载,在1910年至1964年的半个世纪间,沿巴拿马运河河道发生的滑坡有60次。虽然当时没有用岩石力学方法对其进行分析,但最近美国工程公司所作的研究工作表明:滑坡主要是由结构不连续面控制的,而现代岩石力学方法完全可以用来分析这些 People tend to regard rock mechanics as a modern engineering discipline, but as early as 1773, Cullen wrote the results of the Bourdis rock test into his essay before enrolling in the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. The Panama Canal was built by French engineers in 1884 and completed by the United States Army Engineering Company in 1908. It has been documented that during the half century between 1910 and 1964, 60 landslides occurred along the Panama Canal. Although rock mechanics was not used to analyze it at the time, recent work by American engineering firms shows that landslides are dominated by structural discontinuities and that modern rock mechanics methods can be used to analyze these