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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Issue 6/2015

Special Issue: Including Selected Papers from the 48th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 1 - 4, 2014.

Content (33 Articles)

Original Paper

Effects of Thermal Treatment on Tensile Strength of Laurentian Granite Using Brazilian Test

Tubing Yin, Xibing Li, Wenzhuo Cao, Kaiwen Xia

Original Paper

Experimental Study on Wave Propagation Across a Rock Joint with Rough Surface

X. Chen, J. C. Li, M. F. Cai, Y. Zou, J. Zhao

Original Paper

A Mesostructure-based Damage Model for Thermal Cracking Analysis and Application in Granite at Elevated Temperatures

Q. L. Yu, P. G. Ranjith, H. Y. Liu, T. H. Yang, S. B. Tang, C. A. Tang, S. Q. Yang

Original Paper

Anisotropic Time-Dependent Modeling of Tunnel Excavation in Squeezing Ground

Huy Tran Manh, Jean Sulem, Didier Subrin, Daniel Billaux

Original Paper

Rheological Model of DMFC Rockbolt and Rockmass in a Circular Tunnel

Gang Wang, Chuanzheng Liu, Yujing Jiang, Xuezhen Wu, Shugang Wang

Original Paper

Pressurized Poroelastic Inclusions: Short-term and Long-term Asymptotic Solutions

Houman Bedayat, Arash Dahi Taleghani

Original Paper

Mechanical Behavior of Salt Caverns: Closed-Form Solutions vs Numerical Computations

Linlin Wang, Pierre Bérest, Benoît Brouard

Original Paper

Determination of Longwall Mining-Induced Stress Using the Strain Energy Method

Mohammad Rezaei, Mohammad Farouq Hossaini, Abbas Majdi

Technical Note

Sandstone Turning by Abrasive Waterjet

Petr Hlaváček, Ján Cárach, Sergej Hloch, Karol Vasilko, Dagmar Klichová, Jiří Klich, Dominika Lehocká

Original Paper

Measurement and Analysis of Full-Scale Hydraulic Fracture Initiation and Reorientation

R. G. Jeffrey, Z. R. Chen, X. Zhang, A. P. Bunger, K. W. Mills

Original Paper

Hydraulic Fracturing of Heterogeneous Rock Monitored by Acoustic Emission

Sergey Stanchits, Jeffrey Burghardt, Aniket Surdi

Original Paper

Stress-Induced Fracturing of Reservoir Rocks: Acoustic Monitoring and μCT Image Analysis

Srutarshi Pradhan, Anna M. Stroisz, Erling Fjær, Jørn F. Stenebråten, Hans K. Lund, Eyvind F. Sønstebø

Original Paper

Attenuation Properties of Fontainebleau Sandstone During True-Triaxial Deformation using Active and Passive Ultrasonics

S. D. Goodfellow, N. Tisato, M. Ghofranitabari, M. H. B. Nasseri, R. P. Young

Original Paper

Cyclic Loading Effects on the Creep and Dilation of Salt Rock

Lance A. Roberts, Stuart A. Buchholz, Kirby D. Mellegard, Uwe Düsterloh

Original Paper

A Very Slow Creep Test on an Avery Island Salt Sample

P. Bérest, J. F. Béraud, H. Gharbi, B. Brouard, K. DeVries

Original Paper

Steady-State Creep of Rock Salt: Improved Approaches for Lab Determination and Modelling

R.-M. Günther, K. Salzer, T. Popp, C. Lüdeling

Original Paper

Mechanical Response and Microprocesses of Reconsolidating Crushed Salt at Elevated Temperature

S. T. Broome, S. J. Bauer, F. D. Hansen, M. M. Mills