Rock Physics and Natural Hazards - Vinciguerra, Sergio; Bernabé, Yves.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009)
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.
Keywords: Earth sciences; Engineering geology; Engineering-Geology.; Foundations; Hydraulics; Natural disasters; Earth Sciences, general; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics; Natural Hazards