Geomechanics and Fluidodynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Deformation and Fracture of Geomaterials

   • Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

   Pages 1-49

3. Mechanics of a Saturated Geostratum

   • Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

   Pages 50-93

4. Hydrodynamics of Reservoirs

   • Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

   Pages 94-138

5. Complicated Phenomena in Reservoirs

   • Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

   Pages 139-187

6. Explosions and Seismic Waves in Geostrata

   • Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

   Pages 188-237

7. Structure and Rheology of the Lithosphere

   • Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

   Pages 238-277

8. Geodynamical Processes

   • Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

   Pages 278-328

9. Back Matter

   Pages 329-351

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Geomechanics is the basic science for many engineering fields, including oil and gas recovery, mining, civil engineering, water supply, etc., as well as for many environmental sciences, including earthquake prediction, ecology, landscape dynamics, and explosion works. Historically, the major concepts of geomechanics were founded on the methods of the elasticity theory and the static equilibrium of joints with solid friction. Underground hydrodynamics was developed quite separately and included only simple, conventional ideas of elastic pore-space deformation. Today, the situation is drastically different. Tremendous achievements in numerical computer technique have eliminated many of the routine difficulties of problem solution with respect to selected mathematical models. As the result, major efforts now are applied to sophisticated experimental studies and to new applications of generalized continuum theories. Of course, traditional rheological schemes have been adjusted to be into account the real properties of such geomaterials as soils, rocks and ice. The main changes have been connected with the kinematics of the internal structure of geomaterials that influences their strength and that can play unusual roles in dynamic processes. The theoretical considerations are in good agreement with experimental observations in situ because of precise measuring devices, impact of modern physics concepts and large-scale monitoring.

• Borehole
• Moho
• Reservoir
• geophysics
• thermodynamics
• terrestrial pollution

• Moscow State Oil and Gas Academy, and Laboratory on Applied Geomechanics, United Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  Victor N. Nikolaevskiy

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