Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

Natural hazards events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions involve activation of coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes in rocks. The present book assembles unpublished contributions to the 7th Euro-Conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, held in 2007 in Erice, Italy. It presents...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vinciguerra, Sergio (Editor), Bernabé, Yves (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Pageoph Topical Volumes
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • What Does Control Earthquake Ruptures and Dynamic Faulting? A Review of Different Competing Mechanisms
  • Quake Catalogs from an Optical Monitoring of an Interfacial Crack Propagation
  • Fracture Toughness and Fracture Roughness Interrelationship in Thermally treated Westerly Granite
  • Acoustic Emissions Monitoring during Inelastic Deformation of Porous Sandstone: Comparison of Three Modes of Deformation
  • Initiation and Propagation of Compaction Bands in Dry and Wet Bentheim Sandstone
  • Compaction and Failure in High Porosity Carbonates: Mechanical Data and Microstructural Observations
  • Stress Transfer During Pressure Solution Compression of Rigidly Coupled Axisymmetric Asperities Pressed Against a Flat Semi-Infinite Solid
  • Common Evolution of Mechanical and Transport Properties in Thermally Cracked Westerly Granite at Elevated Hydrostatic Pressure
  • Improved Interpretation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance T1 and T2 Distributions for Permeability Prediction: Simulation of Diffusion Coupling for a Fractal Cluster of Pores
  • Oscillating Flow of a Compressible Fluid through Deformable Pipes and Pipe Networks: Wave Propagation Phenomena
  • Microstructural Investigation of Naturally Deformed Leucogneiss from an Alpine Shear Zone (Southern Calabria-Italy)
  • Laboratory Characterization of Permeability and Its Anisotropy of Chelungpu Fault Rocks
  • Axial and Radial Permeability Evolutions of Compressed Sandstones: End Effects and Shear-band Induced Permeability Anisotropy
  • Microstructural Inhomogeneity and Mechanical Anisotropy Associated with Bedding in Rothbach Sandstone
  • Pressure-dependent Production Efficiency of an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS): Stimulation Results and Implications for Hydraulic Fracture Treatments
  • Impact of Poroelastic Response of Sandstones on Geothermal Power Production
  • Permeability Prediction for Low Porosity Rocks by Mobile NMR.