Fractals In Rock Mechanics

Author : Heping Xie
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000099660
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Rock Mechanics written by Heping Xie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important developments in the progress of the theory of rock mechanics during recent years are based on fractals and damage mechanics. The concept of fractals has proved to be a useful way of describing the statistics of naturally occurring geometrics. Natural objects, from mountains and coastlines to clouds and forests, are found to have boundaries best described as fractals. Fluid flow through jointed rock masses and clusterings of earthquakes are found to follow fractal patterns in time and space. Fracturing in rocks at all scales, from the microscale (microcracks) to the continental scale (megafaults), can lead to fractal structures. The process of diagenesis and pore geometry of sedimentary rock can be quantitatively described by fractals, etc. The book is mainly concerned with these developments, as related to fractal descriptions of fragmentations, damage and fracture of rocks, rock burst, joint roughness, rock porosity and permeability, rock grain growth, rock and soil particles, shear slips, fluid flow through jointed rocks, faults, earthquake clustering, and so on. The prime concerns of the book are to give a simple account of the basic concepts, methods of fractal geometry, and their applications to rock mechanics, geology, and seismology, and also to discuss damage mechanics of rocks and its application to mining engineering. The book can be used as a textbook for graduate students, by university teachers to prepare courses and seminars, and by active scientists who want to become familiar with a fascinating new field.

Author : Heping Xie
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000150348
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Rock Mechanics written by Heping Xie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important developments in the progress of the theory of rock mechanics during recent years are based on fractals and damage mechanics. The concept of fractals has proved to be a useful way of describing the statistics of naturally occurring geometrics. Natural objects, from mountains and coastlines to clouds and forests, are found to have boundaries best described as fractals. Fluid flow through jointed rock masses and clusterings of earthquakes are found to follow fractal patterns in time and space. Fracturing in rocks at all scales, from the microscale (microcracks) to the continental scale (megafaults), can lead to fractal structures. The process of diagenesis and pore geometry of sedimentary rock can be quantitatively described by fractals, etc. The book is mainly concerned with these developments, as related to fractal descriptions of fragmentations, damage and fracture of rocks, rock burst, joint roughness, rock porosity and permeability, rock grain growth, rock and soil particles, shear slips, fluid flow through jointed rocks, faults, earthquake clustering, and so on. The prime concerns of the book are to give a simple account of the basic concepts, methods of fractal geometry, and their applications to rock mechanics, geology, and seismology, and also to discuss damage mechanics of rocks and its application to mining engineering. The book can be used as a textbook for graduate students, by university teachers to prepare courses and seminars, and by active scientists who want to become familiar with a fascinating new field.

Author : Dongjie Xue
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811697167
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractal Algorithm and Its Application in Rock Mechanics written by Dongjie Xue and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on learning and adapting nonlinear geometry tool in rock engineering through fractal theories, hypotheses, algorithm, practical understandings, and case studies. Understanding self-similarity and self-affinity is a prerequisite to the fractal model in rock mechanics. The book aims to provide a guide for the readers seeking to understand and build nonlinear model by fractal algorithm. The book is motivated by recent rapid advances in rock engineering in China including application of fractal theory, in addition to percolation theory. It is an essential reference to the most promising innovative rock engineering. Chapters are carefully developed to cover (1) new fractal algorithms (2) five engineering cases. This authored book addresses the issue with a holistic and systematic approach that utilizes fractal theory to nonlinear behavior in rock engineering. The book is written for researchers interested in rock and geological engineering as well as organizations engaged in underground energy practices.

Author : W. Dershowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Implication of Fractal Dimension in Hydrogeology and Rock Mechanics Version 1.1 written by W. Dershowitz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dimitrios Kolymbas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783832505837
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Geotechnical Engineering written by Dimitrios Kolymbas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-similarity is a striking and ubiquitous characteristic of structures in geology. On the other hand, capturing of scale effects is one of the main challenges in geotechnical engineering. There, the usual approach is to extrapo-late laboratory findings toward large scale problems. Whereas this procedure is passable for small grained soils, it proves unrealistic for coarse grained soils and rock, especially jointed one. As a consequence, the prediction of e.g. water inrush into a large tunnel based on the examination of rock samples and spot-wise packer tests proves to be hardly possible. The new branch of fractal analysis encompasses both notions, self-similarity and scale effects. Therefore, it pricks up the geotechnical engineer's ears and evokes the hope that it can help to treat the related problems. A more thorough view, however, shows that the exploitation of fractal analysis in the above sense is not so straightforward. First of all, our limited range of observance over several scales inhibits to check and quantify the scale effect. At that, we lack the mathematical tools to treat problems that exhibit a continuous scale dependence, as this is the case with fractal materials.

Author : Paul C. McWilliams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Estimation of Shear Strength Using Fractals as a Measure of Rock Fracture Roughness written by Paul C. McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C.C. Barton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489913971
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals in the Earth Sciences written by C.C. Barton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fractals have changed the way we understand and study nature. This change has been brought about mainly by the work of B. B. Mandelbrot and his book The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Now here is a book that collects articles treating fractals in the earth sciences. The themes chosen span, as is appropriate for a discourse on fractals, many orders of magnitude; including earthquakes, ocean floor topography, fractures, faults, mineral crystallinity, gold and silver deposition. There are also chapters on dynamical processes that are fractal, such as rivers, earthquakes, and a paper on self-organized criticality. Many of the chapters discuss how to estimate fractal dimensions, Hurst exponents, and other scaling exponents. This book, in a way, represents a snapshot of a field in which fractals has brought inspiration and a fresh look at familiar subjects. New ideas and attempts to quantify the world we see around us are found throughout. Many of these ideas will grow and inspire further work, others will be superseded by new observations and insights, most probably with future contributions by the authors of these chapters.

Author : Meifeng Cai
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203883209
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries of Rock Mechanics written by Meifeng Cai and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boundaries of Rock Mechanics. Recent Advances and Challenges for the 21st Century contains 180 papers from the International Young Scholars Symposium on Rock Mechanics 2008 (Beijing, China, 28 April-2 May 2008). The symposium was organized by the ISRM Commission on Education, and sponsored by the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and

Author : SCHOLZ
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034863896
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fractals in Geophysics written by SCHOLZ and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint from Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Volume 131 (1989), No. 1

Author : W. Hustrulid
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000151360
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Mechanics Contributions and Challenges written by W. Hustrulid and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the 31st US Symposium on Rock Mechanics is 'Rock Mechanics contributions and challenges', having as objective the examination and quantification of the progress that has been achieved in addressing the major practical challenges facing the science of rock mechanics and mine design. The 124 papers included in the proceedings cover areas such as: experimental studies (laboratory and field); conceptual, analytical, and numerical modeling; design and construction methods. 35 papers deal with practical mining problems and include information on rock reinforcement technology, blasting, rock bursts, open pit mining, remote sensing and borehole geophysics, mechanical fragmentation, and subsidence. Areas emphasized are coal and metal mine design problems. Other papers deal with the newest computer models, new instruments, fracture mechanics, new laboratory testing techniques, and in situ testing.