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Mechanical Behaviour of Rocks Under High Pressure Conditions

By: Mitsuhiko Shimada

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Hardcover | 1 January 2000 | Edition Number 1

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A summmary of work carried out in the field of experimental rock mechanics. The title looks at triaxial testing, types of brittle fracture and the geophysical and geological implications of two types of fracture amongst other topics which should be of interest to engineers.

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Non-Fiction Nature & The Natural World Rocks, Gems, Minerals & Fossils Engineering & Technology Technology in General Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Earth Sciences Geology & The Lithosphere Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Soil & Rock Mechanics Science

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Preface	p. IX
Introduction	p. 1
Triaxial Testing Under High Confining Pressures	p. 4
Triaxial testing	p. 4
Triaxial testing apparatus	p. 6
Conventional apparatus	p. 6
Solid-medium Griggs type apparatus	p. 9
Cubic press	p. 9
Ultra-high pressure apparatus	p. 12
The method of triaxial testing in a cubic press	p. 13
Apparatus and sample assembly	p. 13
Experimental procedures at room temperature	p. 16
Experimental procedures at high temperatures	p. 19
Pressure scale	p. 22
Observed examples of the effect of axial loading on confining pressure	p. 23
Experimental Results on Low Porosity Silicate Rocks	p. 25
Compressive strength	p. 25
Pressure dependence of strength at moderate confining pressures	p. 25
Pressure dependence of strength at high confining pressures	p. 27
Acoustic emission	p. 30
Frictional strength under high confining pressures	p. 35
Fault features	p. 38
Sample preparation	p. 39
Features of faulting	p. 39
Stress-strain curves at room temperature	p. 46
Strength data at room temperature	p. 47
Two Types of Brittle Fracture	p. 51
High pressure type of fracture	p. 51
Comparison with previous high temperature experiments	p. 52
Transitional regime and semibrittle regime	p. 55
Other examples of two types of fracture	p. 57
Gneiss	p. 57
Experiments in a cubic press at high temperatures	p. 61
Temperature dependence of strength in the high-pressure type regime	p. 68
Micromechanics	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Micro-fracture styles	p. 73
Discussion on the mechanisms of fracturing	p. 79
Summary	p. 83
Strength data at elevated temperatures	p. 84
Geophysical and Geological Implications of the Two Types of Fracture	p. 86
The conditions for application to the earth's interior	p. 86
The effect of size on rock strength under confining pressures	p. 88
The effect of size on uniaxial compressive strength and characteristic length	p. 88
The effect of size under confining pressure	p. 90
Implications in the earth's crust	p. 92
Strength of the lithosphere	p. 96
Brittle-ductile model	p. 96
A model including the high-pressure type fracture	p. 98
An approach to earthquake prediction research	p. 104
Mechanical Behavior of Porous Silicate Rocks	p. 108
Introduction	p. 108
Mechanical properties of a porous basalt under high confining pressure	p. 109
Volumetric strain	p. 109
AE activity	p. 112
Boundaries of mechanical states in the differential stress--confining pressure field	p. 114
Microstructural observations of porous basalt and the mechanism of cataclastic ductile flow	p. 117
Macroscopic observations	p. 119
Microscopic observations	p. 119
The mechanism of cataclastic ductile flow	p. 127
Change in the mechanism of cataclastic flow of porous rock under high confining pressure	p. 132
Creep analysis and equivalent viscosity	p. 133
Pressure-induced change in the mechanism of cataclastic flow	p. 138
High-pressure embrittlement	p. 140
High-pressure embrittlement in porous sandstone	p. 141
Microscopic observations of high-pressure embrittlement in eclogite	p. 143
Conditions and mechanism of high-pressure embrittlement	p. 145
Structure of a fault zone and related geophysical and geological implications	p. 147
Experimental data on the deformation of dry Yakuno basalt with 7% porosity at room temperature	p. 150
Characteristics of the cubic press with a large axial displacement	p. 152
References	p. 155
Subject Index	p. 171
Author Index	p. 175
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