Evert Hoek FREng (born in 1933 in

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, now

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) is a Zimbabwean-Canadian Mechanical Engineer specialized Geotechnical Engineering and a leading international expert in rock mechanics. Hoek began his research for Rock Mechanics in 1958 (due to problems with brittle rock in deep gold mines in

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) and in 1965 at the

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PhD (rock fracture under static stress conditions). From 1965 he was at Imperial College, where he set up at the Royal School of Mines one faculty-wide center for rock mechanics. He developed there, among others In 1968, a triaxial test for Rock Mechanics. Later he became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1975 for twelve years as a senior consulting engineer at Golder Associates (where he was Senior Principal and Chairman) in

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, then an independent consulting engineer with a private engineering firm in Vancouver. Hoek was elected a member of the

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in 2006 for major worldwide contributions in the development and application of rational design procedures for engineered systems in rock. He is also a

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of the

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and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He received a doctorate degree (D. Sc.) from the

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and honorary doctorates in the

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and the

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. He received the first prize of the Mueller International Society of Rock Mechanics and was the 1983 Rankine Lecturer ( Strength of jointed rock masses ) and 2000 Terzaghi Lecturer ( Big tunnels in bad rock ). Dr. Hoek has published more than 100 papers and 3 books. His classic ''Rock Slope Engineering'' has been updated by Duncan Wyllie to a 5th edition, published by CRC Press in 2017.

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Rock Science. Hoek's Corner
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