Overview
- There is no text book on the Stress Field of the Earth`s Crust
- Brick by brick development of stress concept - Maths, Physics, Mechanics and Solid Earth
- Impact of stress from recent case studies and experiments
- A number of summary boxes and exercises facilitates the reading and understanding
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction
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Definition and Terminology
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Measuring Stress
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Interpreting Stress Data
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Reviews
Endorsements:
"The book thoroughly and convincingly integrates in situ stress, its sources, measurement, and applications, into the fields of geophysics, geology, geomechanics, and geoengineering. It is therefore that I enthusiastically recommend Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust."
(Bezalel Haimson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, June 2009)
"I think it is a very good text that covers the most important aspects of the Kaiser effect, its mechanisms and how it can be used for stress measurements in rocks."
(Alexandre Lavrov, SINTEF Petroleum Research, Norway)
"It is beautifully laid out, easy to read, and impossible not to understand!. I especially like the way that many of the diagrams have such iconic simplicity so that the extranneous detail has been removed - leaving only the message that the diagram is transmitting."
(John A. Hudson, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College, UK, President, International Society for Rock Mechanics)
From the reviews:
“The presentation of the book is clear, with an abundant bibliography. … I found the Note boxes that summarize important results to be particularly welcome. … In conclusion, this book is undoubtedly focused on stress field of the Earth crust. … I definitely would recommend this book to Earth Scientists in need to better understanding of stress measurement techniques, and to Rock Mechanics engineers who want to improve their understanding of the stress field at the scale of plate tectonics.” (François Henri Cornet, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, September, 2010)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stress Field of the Earth's Crust
Authors: Arno Zang, Ove Stephansson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8444-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8443-0Published: 24 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9515-0Published: 05 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8444-7Published: 06 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 324
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Classical Mechanics, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences