Water has a significant effect on the mechanical properties of rocks, especially for rocks
containing swelling clay minerals. The clay minerals in swelling rocks will lead to volume …

Shale gas is becoming a new energy development focus worldwide with advances in
horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing, and spontaneous water-based working fluid …

Water has a significant effect on the mechanical properties of rocks, especially those
containing expansive clay minerals. The red-layer mudstone contains various clay minerals …

During deep shale gas production, flowing water-based working fluid inevitably cools shale
reservoirs around boreholes and some fractures, and possible extraction methods induce …

Several studies have found that water can cause substantial reductions of mechanical
properties of building stones such as unconfined compressive strength, tangent Young's …

The physical and mechanical properties of rocks can be reduced significantly by an acidic
environment, resulting in engineering weaknesses, such as building foundation instability …

The humidity phenomena leads to the deterioration of walls' performance. The recovery
project relies on prior knowledge of the existing preservation levels. Innovative studies are …

Understanding the quality of intact rock is one of the most important parts of any engineering
projects in the field of rock mechanics. The expression of correlations between the …

Although Poisson's ratio is one of the basic rock mechanical parameters, it is less
investigated than the other parameters. It can be assumed, that this material constant …

The uniaxial compression experiments and acoustic emission (AE) monitoring are
conducted to investigate the macroscopic mechanical behavior and microscopic fracture …