Cosserat medium constitutive model for laminated salt rock and numerical analysis of cavern stability in deep bedded salt rock formations

Proceedings of the 41st U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium - ARMA's Golden Rocks 2006 - 50 Years of Rock Mechanics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yang, C H ^a   Li, Y P ^a   Yin, X Y ^a   Chen, F ^a   Zhang, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE LAYERS; CONVERGENCE AND STABILITY; COSSERAT; CRUDE OIL; HOST ROCKS; NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS; OIL STORAGE; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; ROCK LAYERS; SALT ROCKS; SURROUNDING ROCK; TWO LAYERS; UNDERGROUND OPENING; UNIT CELLS;

CAVES; CELL MEMBRANES; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; LAMINATING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; ROCK MECHANICS; SAFETY FACTOR; SALT DEPOSITS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ROCKS;

EID: 69149094720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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