Evaluation of the hydraulic aperture of a rock joint using wavelet theory

Geosystem Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-127

  Mehrishal, Ahmad ^a   Sharifzadeh, M ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

hydraulic aperture; joint surface roughness; mechanical aperture

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FRACTURE WALL ROUGHNESS; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR; JOINT SURFACES; LASER SCANNING SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL APERTURE; NEW EVALUATION METHODS; STATISTICAL INDICES; MODELING PROCEDURE; WAVE DECOMPOSITION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ROCKS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ROCKS; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DISPLACEMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; JOINT; LABORATORY METHOD; LASER METHOD; ROCK MECHANICS; ROUGHNESS; SHEAR TEST; WAVELET ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE APERTURE; GRANITE; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 84880956075     PISSN: 12269328     EISSN: 21663394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/12269328.2013.780745     Document Type: Article

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