Surface parameters for quantifying the hydro-mechanical anisotropy of rock discontinuities

10th ISRM Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 415-423

  Grasselli, Giovanni ^a   Wirth, Joachim ^b   Zimmerman, Robert W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; DATA ANALYSIS METHODS; FLUID-FLOW PROPERTIES; FRACTURE TRANSMISSIVITY; MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION; ROCK DISCONTINUITY; SHEAR DISPLACEMENT; SURFACE PARAMETER;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 80052514130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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