Evert Hoek

Evert Hoek ( born 1933 in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe ) is a South African- Canadian Civil Geotechnical and a leading international expert in rock mechanics.

Hoek began his research on rock mechanics in 1958 received his doctorate ( on problems with brittle rock in deep gold mines in South Africa) and was established in 1965 at the University of Cape Town ( rock fracture under static stress conditions ). From 1965 he was at Imperial College, where he set up a cross-faculty center of Rock Mechanics at the Royal School of Mines. He developed there, among others, in 1968 for the triaxial rock mechanics. Later was a professor at the University of Toronto, twelve years senior consulting engineer was in 1975 at Golder Associates ( where he was Senior Principal and Chairman ) in Vancouver and then a self-employed consulting engineer with a private engineering firm in Vancouver.

Hoek is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He received a doctoral degree ( D. Sc.), University of London and Honorary Doctorates in Toronto and the University of Waterloo. He received the first prize Mueller of the 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).

Writings

• With John Bray Rock Slope Engineering, London, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1974, 1981
• With ET Brown: Underground Excavations in Rocks, London, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1980, 1982