Physical modelling of stress-dependent permeability in fractured rocks

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-81

  Zou, Lifang ^a,b   Tarasov, Boris G ^b   Dyskin, Arcady V ^b   Adhikary, Deepak P ^c   Pasternak, Elena ^b   Xu, Weiya ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupling; Deformation; Fracture; Permeability; Roughness; Stress

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY HEIGHTS; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CONTACT SURFACE; FLOW LENGTH; FLOW ROUTES; FRACTURED ROCK; HYDROSTATIC LOADING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOADING AND UNLOADING; MECHANICAL APERTURE; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL MODELLING; ROCK MASS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRESS-DEPENDENT; SURFACE ASPERITIES;

COUPLINGS; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MODELS; STRESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UNLOADING;

LOADING;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FRACTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; ROCK; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84872287505     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-012-0254-x     Document Type: Article

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