Preliminary study on permeability tensor calculation of fractured rock mass and its representative elementary volume

Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 740-746

  Rong, Guan ^a,b   Zhou, Chuangbing ^b   Wang, Enzhi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Joint network simulation; Permeability tensor; Representative elementary volume (REV); Rock mechanics

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SEEPAGE; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTURED ROCK MASS; JOINT NETWORK SIMULATION; PERMEABILITY TENSOR; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME (REV);

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 34248679321     PISSN: 10006915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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