The development of faults and shear fracture systems over a broad range of temperature
and pressure and for a variety of rock types involves the growth and interaction of …

Scaling in fracture systems has become an active field of research in the last 25 years
motivated by practical applications in hazardous waste disposal, hydrocarbon reservoir …

This monograph deals with the part of the field of experimental rock deformation that is
dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another. Thus a distinction …

Discrete element (particle) modeling is now often used to simulate the behavior of rock.
While the method is attractive because it does not require the formulation of complex …

In this paper, a numerical approach to modeling progressive failure leading to collapse in
rock and associated seismicity is reported. In the first part, a newly developed numerical …

В книге обобщены данные лабораторных и натурных наблюдений за изменениями
физических полей, предшествующих землетрясениям. Изложены результаты …

We present a model for the nucleation and growth of faults in intact brittle rocks. The model
is based on recent experiments that utilize acoustic emission events to monitor faulting …

The deformation associated with several small, brittle faults was investigated on both
microscopic and macroscopic scales. While the dominant macroscopic structures are …

Microcracking related to the formation of a laboratory shear fracture in a cylinder of Westerly
granite has been investigated using image-analysis computer techniques. Well away from …

The location of acoustic emission (AE) sources during deformation of rock has proven to be
a useful non-destructive analytic technique. We present experimental results, based on AE …