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Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part I

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Editors:
  1. Georg Dresen

    1. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  2. Arno Zang

    1. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  3. Ove Stephansson

    1. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  • Contains fourteen original contributions from the 5th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics

Part of the book series: Pageoph Topical Volumes (PTV)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part I

    • Georg Dresen, Ove Stephansson, Arno Zang
    Pages 915-916

  3. Fracture Toughness Measurements and Acoustic Emission Activity in Brittle Rocks

    • M. H. B. Nasseri, B. Mohanty, R. P. Young
    Pages 917-945

  4. Quantifying Damage, Saturation and Anisotropy in Cracked Rocks by Inverting Elastic Wave Velocities

    • Alexandre Schubnel, Philip M. Benson, Ben D. Thompson, Jim F. Hazzard, R. Paul Young
    Pages 947-973

  5. Ultrasonic Velocities, Acoustic Emission Characteristics and Crack Damage of Basalt and Granite

    • Sergei Stanchits, Sergio Vinciguerra, Georg Dresen
    Pages 975-994

  6. Fracture in Westerly Granite under AE Feedback and Constant Strain Rate Loading: Nucleation, Quasi-static Propagation, and the Transition to Unstable Fracture Propagation

    • Ben D. Thompson, R. Paul Young, David A. Lockner
    Pages 995-1019

  7. Stress Sensitivity of Seismic and Electric Rock Properties of the Upper Continental Crust at the KTB

    • Axel Kaselow, Katharina Becker, Serge A. Shapiro
    Pages 1021-1029

  8. Can Damage Mechanics Explain Temporal Scaling Laws in Brittle Fracture and Seismicity?

    • Donald L. Turcote, Robert Shcherbakov
    Pages 1031-1045

  9. An Update on the Fracture Toughness Testing Methods Related to the Cracked Chevron-notched Brazilian Disk (CCNBD) Specimen

    • R. J. Fowell, C. Xu, P. A. Dowd
    Pages 1047-1057

  10. Cohesive Crack Analysis of Toughness Increase Due to Confining Pressure

    • Kazushi Sato, Toshiyuki Hashida
    Pages 1059-1072

  11. Fracture Toughness Evaluation Based on Tension-softening Model and its Application to Hydraulic Fracturing

    • Kazushi Sato, Toshiyuki Hashida
    Pages 1073-1089

  12. A Method for Testing Dynamic Tensile Strength and Elastic Modulus of Rock Materials Using SHPB

    • Q. Z. Wang, W. Li, X. L. Song
    Pages 1091-1100

  13. True Triaxial Stresses and the Brittle Fracture of Rock

    • Bezalel Haimson
    Pages 1101-1130

  14. Discrete Element Modeling of Stress and Strain Evolution Within and Outside a Depleting Reservoir

    • Haitham T. I. Alassi, Liming Li, Rune M. Holt
    Pages 1131-1151

  15. Comparison of Numerical and Physical Models for Understanding Shear Fracture Processes

    • John Napier, Tobias Backers
    Pages 1153-1174

  16. Upscaling: Effective Medium Theory, Numerical Methods and the Fractal Dream

    • Y. Guéguen, M. Le Ravalec, L. Ricard
    Pages 1175-1192
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Mechanical properties and fluid transport in rocks are intimately linked as deformation of a solid rock matrix immediately affects the pore space and permeability. This may result in transient or permanent changes of pore pressures and effective pressures causing rock strength to vary in space and time. Fluid circulation and deformation processes in crustal rocks are coupled, producing significant complexity of mechanical and fluid transport behavior. This often poses severe technical and economic problems for reservoir and geotechnical engineering projects involved in oil and gas production, CO2 sequestration, mining and underground waste disposal. For example, the depletion of hydrocarbon and water reservoirs leading to compaction may have adverse effects on well production. Solution/precipitation processes modify porosity and affect permeability of aquifers and reservoir rocks. Fracture damage from underground excavation will critically influence the long-term stability and performance of waste storage.

Part I of this topical volume covers mainly the nucleation and evolution of crack damage in rocks, new or modified techniques to measure rock fracture toughness and a discussion of upscaling techniques relating mechanical and fluid transport behaviour in rocks at different spatial scales.

Part II, to be published later in 2006, will include studies investigating the coupling of rock deformation and fluid flow.

Editors and Affiliations

  • GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Georg Dresen, Arno Zang, Ove Stephansson

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