Richard Goodman后来和中国科学院出去的学者石根华合著了《Block Theory and its Application to Rock Engineering》,把拓扑数学和块体理论很好的应用到岩体力学。
Richard Goodman其他著名的著作有不连续岩体中的工程地质方法《Method of Geological Engineering in Discontinuous Rocks, 1976》,岩石力学导论《Introduction to Rock Mechanics, 1980 》,工程地质学《Engineering Geology—Rock in Engineering Construction, 1993;》,以及介绍土力学之父卡尔太沙基的书籍《卡尔-工程师抑或艺术家?》《Karl Terzaghi—The Engineer as Artist, 1999. I》。此外,还发表了200多篇学术论文,Goodman获得的荣誉也不计其数,例如: