Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part I - Dresen, G.; Stephansson, Ove.; Zang, Arno.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2006)
Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part I -- Fracture Toughness Measurements and Acoustic Emission Activity in Brittle Rocks -- Quantifying Damage, Saturation and Anisotropy in Cracked Rocks by Inverting Elastic Wave Velocities -- Ultrasonic Velocities, Acoustic Emission Characteristics and Crack Damage of Basalt and Granite -- Fracture in Westerly Granite under AE Feedback and Constant Strain Rate Loading: Nucleation, Quasi-static Propagation, and the Transition to Unstable Fracture Propagation -- Stress Sensitivity of Seismic and Electric Rock Properties of the Upper Continental Crust at the KTB -- Can Damage Mechanics Explain Temporal Scaling Laws in Brittle Fracture and Seismicity? -- An Update on the Fracture Toughness Testing Methods Related to the Cracked Chevron-notched Brazilian Disk (CCNBD) Specimen -- Cohesive Crack Analysis of Toughness Increase Due to Confining Pressure -- Fracture Toughness Evaluation Based on Tension-softening Model and its Application to Hydraulic Fracturing -- A Method for Testing Dynamic Tensile Strength and Elastic Modulus of Rock Materials Using SHPB -- True Triaxial Stresses and the Brittle Fracture of Rock -- Discrete Element Modeling of Stress and Strain Evolution Within and Outside a Depleting Reservoir -- Comparison of Numerical and Physical Models for Understanding Shear Fracture Processes -- Upscaling: Effective Medium Theory, Numerical Methods and the Fractal Dream.
Keywords: Earth sciences; Hydrogeology; Earth Sciences, general; Hydrogeology