Focusing on the stress field of the Earth's crust, this textbook offers a comprehensive approach to understanding stress concepts through detailed explanations of mathematics, physics, mechanics, and solid earth principles. It builds knowledge progressively, making complex ideas accessible for students and professionals alike.
Mechanical properties and fluid transport in rocks are intimately linked as deformation of a solid rock matrix immediately affects the pore space and permeability. The coupling of fluid circulation and deformation processes in crustal rocks results in significant complexity of the 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, CO 2 sequestration, mining and underground waste disposal. The volume results from the 5th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, which was held in Potsdam, Germany in September 2004. Part I of the topical volume mainly contains contributions investigating 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 behavior in rocks at different spatial scales. Part II contains contributions discussing fluid flow and transport in rocks as observed on the laboratory scale and in boreholes. The evolution of rock damage pertinent to the stability of underground excavations is studied and scaling relations of elastic properties and seismic events are discussed.
Zangdokus sind der Inbegriff von modernen Knobeleien. Arno Zang sammelt in diesem Band einige der spannendsten Rätsel und beeindruckt durch sein Feingefühl beim Schweregrad seiner selbst entworfenen Zangdokus.