Book Description:
Rock mechanics is the theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behaviour of rock and rock masses. Rock mechanics, as applied in mining, petroleum, and civil engineering practice, is concerned with the application of the principles of engineering mechanics to the design of the rock structures. This book examines the hydraulic characterization of fractured rocks, with specific reference to the fluid flow in single fractures, the interpretation of hydraulic tests, the geometrical characterization and modeling of fracture networks. An appropriate model for the fluid flow and transport in fractured formations is based on these items. Indications are also given about the best strategy to undertake in order to set up this model.
This book develops the conditions, criteria, basic approaches and test case results for establishing the elastic compliance tensor, hydraulic permeability tensor, and numerical techniques for investigating stress effect on hydraulic behavior of fractured rocks. The correlation between the fracture aperture and size (represented by trace length) is also examined. In addition, the role of CO2 saturated water on the fracturing behavior of rock samples and the geomaterials geotechnical parameter changes after subjection to environmental solutions are examined.

We’ve partnered with Copyright Clearance Center to make it easy for you to request permissions to reuse Nova content.
For more information, click here or click the "Get Permission" button below to link directly to this book on Copyright Clearance Center's website.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Research and Review Studies

Chapter 1. Waved-Associated with Seabed Behaviour Near Submarine Buried Pipelines; pp. 3-108
(Behnam Shabini, Division of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Univ. of Queensland, Australia, Dong-Sheng Jeng, Division of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics, Univ. of Dundee, Scotland, UK, John Small, School of Civil Engineering, The Univ. of Sydney, Australia)

Chapter 2. Stress and Scale-Dependency of the Hydromechanical Properties of Fractured Rocks; pp. 109-165
(Lanru Jing, Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Ki-Bok Min, Seoul National University, Seoul,South Korea, Alireza Baghbanan, Isfahan Universityof Technology, Isafahan,Iran)

Chapter 3. Fault-Related Carbonate Ro; pp. 167-190
(Andrea Billi, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Universitá Roma Tre, Roma, Giulio Di Toro, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Universitá di Padova, Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Unitá operativa di Padova, Italy)

Chapter 4. How Do CO2 Promoting the Fractures of Rocks? An Experimental and Numerical Perspective; pp. 191-209
(Qi Li, Inst. of Geology and Geoinformation, Geology Survey of Japan, National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Japan)

Chapter 5. Mysteries of Rock Massifs Destruction; pp. 211-231
(Alexander Strom, Inst. of Geospheres Dynamics, Geodynamic Research Center LTD, Moscow, Russia, Mikhail Groshev, Geodynamic Research Center LTD, Moscow, Russia)

Chapter 6. Hydraulic Characterization of Fractured Rocks; pp. 233-262
(Corrado Fidelibus, Bari Technical University, Italy, Giuseppe Cammarata, Golder Associates S.r.l, Torino, Italy, Masantonio Cravero, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering - CNR, Torino, Italy)

Chapter 7. *Magnetic, Geochemical and Mineralogical Properties of Rocks Around Oil and Gas Reservoirs: Implications for Mechanism of "Chimney Effect"; pp. 263-273
(Qingsheng Liu, Tao Yang, Dept. of Geophysics, China Univ. of
Geosciences, Wuhan, P.R. China)

Chapter 8. *Correlation between Microstructure and Permeability in Sandstone ; pp. 275-297
(S. Baraka-Lokmane, School of Geosciences, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt Univ., UK, I.G. Main, B.T. Ngwenya, S.C. Elphick, School of Geosciences, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)

Short Communication

Environmental Impact on Geotechnical Parameters of Limestones Used as Geomaterials on New Cairo Construction, Egypt; pp. 301-312
(Hani A.M. Ibrahim, Gamal M.E. Kamh, Geology Dept., Faculty of Science, Menofia Univ., Sheben El Kom, Egypt)

Index