Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part II (Pageoph Topical Volumes) (Pt. 2)

Mechanical properties and fluid transport in rocks are intimately linked as deformation of a solid rock matrix immediately affects the pore space and permeability. Part I of this topical volume covers mainly the nucleation and evolution of crack damage in rocks, new or modified techniques to measure rock fracture toughness and a discussion of upscaling techniques relating mechanical and fluid transport behaviour in rocks at different spatial scales. Mechanical properties and fluid transport in rocks are intimately linked as deformation of a solid rock matrix immediately affects the pore space and permeability. The coupling of fluid circulation and deformation processes in crustal rocks results in significant complexity of the mechanical and fluid transport behavior. This often poses severe technical and economic problems for reservoir and geotechnical engineering projects involved in oil and gas production, CO2 sequestration, mining and underground waste disposal. The volume results from the 5th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, which was held in Potsdam, Germany in September 2004. Part I of the topical volume mainly contains contributions investigating the nucleation and evolution of crack damage in rocks, new or modified techniques to measure rock fracture toughness and a discussion of upscaling techniques relating mechanical and fluid transport behavior in rocks at different spatial scales. Part II contains contributions discussing fluid flow and transport in rocks as observed on the laboratory scale and in boreholes. The evolution of rock damage pertinent to the stability of underground excavations is studied and scaling relations of elastic properties and seismic events are discussed 3764379936......Page 1 Rock Damage and FluidTransport, Part II......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 01_Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part II......Page 6 02_Short-Timescale Chemo-Mechanical Effects and their......Page 8 03_Permeability Evolution During Non-linear Viscous Creep of......Page 28 04_Experimental Investigation into the Scale Dependence of......Page 60 05_Determination of Porosity and Permeability out of Dispersion......Page 81 06_Fluid Pressure Variation in a Sedimentary Geothermal......Page 97 07_Characterisation of Tensile Damage in Rock Samples......Page 109 08_Monitoring Fracture Propagation in a Soft Rock (Neapolitan......Page 127 09_Understanding the Seismic Velocity Structure of Campi......Page 161 10_Spatial Scaling of Effective Modulus and Correlation of......Page 178 11_Analysis of Temporal Structures of Seismic Events on......Page 198 pt. 1. Simulations, analysis, and infrastructure pt. 2. Rock damage and fluid transport.