Rock Stress and Earthquakes

Furen Xie (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

894 Seiten

2010
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-415-60165-8 (ISBN)

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The evaluation of in-situ rock stress is not only important in the exploration and engineering involving rock masses for mining, hydropower, tunneling, oil and gas production, and stone quarrying, but also in the geodynamics and earthquake prediction. The methods of determining these stresses for shallow crust in the engineering practice, including hydraulic fracture method, stress relief method, and acoustic emission method, have not developed substantially to satisfy the increasing utilization of rock masses. The geophysical methods for stresses determination of deep crust only determine the stress fields of deep crust qualitatively. Contributed by a group of leading experts from engineering and geophysical community, Rock Stress and Earthquakes addresses new developments in numerical modeling and advanced measuring techniques in engineering practices, and build new connections between traditional and geophysical methods, which will both benefit earthquake prediction based on the concept of the crustal stresses.

Rock Stress and Earthquakes reflects the developments in this area, covering measuring techniques, interpretation methods, and the application of in-situ stress in engineering practice and geophysics, and is of interest to academics and engineers in rock mechanics, geophysics, geology, and seismology.

Furen Xie

1. Keynote presentations (Variability of in situ rock stress, J.A. Hudson & X.T. Feng; The effect of lithology, inhomogeneity, topography, and faults, on in situ stress measurements by hydraulic fracturing, and the importance of correct data interpretation and independent evidence in support of results, B.C. Haimson; How to generate the Final Rock Stress Model (FRSM) at a site or an area, O. Stephansson &A. Zang; Tunnel stability and in-situ rock stress, M. Lu, E. Grøv, K.H. Holmøy, N.Q. Trinh &T.E. Larsen; The recent tectonic stress districts and strong earthquakes in China, F.R. Xie, H.Y. Zhang &Y. Du) 2. Difficulties with hydraulic fracturing stress measurements and ways to overcome them 3. Method and theory of in-situ stress measurement 4. Engineering application of in-situ stress 5. Numerical modeling 6. Active tectonics and crustal dynamics 7. Stress-strain observation and earthquake prediction

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.7.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1769 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Technik ► Bergbau
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-415-60165-7 / 0415601657
ISBN-13	978-0-415-60165-8 / 9780415601658
Zustand	Neuware