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Rock Mechanics Issues in Petroleum Engineering
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Discrete Fracture Approaches for Oil and Gas Applications
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Rock Engineering and Civil Construction
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Competitive at Depth: Re-Engineering and Hardrock Mining Process
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Structuring of Rock Engineering in South Africa and Critical Review of Developments Up to 1993
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Field Evidences on the Orientation of Forced Water Flow With Respect to the Regional Principal Stress Directions
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Variations of the Least Horizontal Stress Magnitude in Sedimentary Rocks
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Effect of the Critical Path on Fluid Flow Through a Fracture
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Fluid Flow Network and Fractal Diffusion Fronts in Fractured Rock Mass
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Physically-Based Models of Rock Fracture
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Modeling of Joint Compliance Using Dynamic Discontinuous Deformation Analysis
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
An Investigation of Rock Joint Models on Prediction of Joint Behavior Under Pseudostatic Cyclic Shear Loads
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Mechanics of Progressive Shear Failure at All Scales in Rock Masses
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Development of Bedding Plane Faults and Fracture Localization in a Flexed Multilayer: A Numerical Model
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Experimental Observations of Static and Dynamic Properties of Joints
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Seismic Geotomography: Amplitude Versus Velocity in Consideration of Joint Aperture and Spacing
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Guided Waves Propagation Along a Fracture With ContactNumerical Modelling of the Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Single Fractures
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Numerical Modelling of the Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Single Fractures
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Hydraulic Fracture Orientation and Pressure Response During Fracturing of Producing Wells
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Hydraulic Fracture From the Interface of a Cased Well Bore
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Influence of Constitutive Behavior on the Fracture Process Zone and Stress Field Evolution During Hydraulic Fracturing
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Shearing Motion of Dense Proppant Material in Hydraulic Fracturing
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Behaviour and Stability Analysis of a Wellbore Embedded in an Elastoplastic Medium
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Modeling of Episodic Failure Leading to Borehole Breakouts in Alabama Limestone
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Borehole Breakout Interpretation in the Gulf Coast, Offshore Louisiana
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Experimental Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Well Casing Loading by Rock Creep
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Prediction of Boom Tunnelling Machine Excavation Rates
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Geotechnical Parameters and Tunnel Boring Machine Performance at Goodwin Tunnel, California
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Rock Mechanics Conditions in Circular Tunnels Through Austin Chalk
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Use of Probability and Risk in Blast Design
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Survivability of Shotcrete Near Blasts
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Effect of 'Crack-Like' Defects on Rock Fracture
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Rock Fragmentation Results for a Simulated Underground Leaching Stope
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Numerical Simulation of Delay Blasting by the Dynamic Lattice Network Model
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A Boreability Model for TBM's
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Development of a Mechanized Excavation System Performance Simulation Package
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Indentation Fracture Mechanics and Rock Disc Cutting
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Observation and Simulation of Rock Indentation Fracture
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A New Approach for Simulation of the Rock Cutting Process
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Effect of Surface-Active Chemical Agents on Rock Cutting With Shear/Drag Bits
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
In-Situ Stress Predictions and Measurements in an Unconsolidated Sandstone Formation, The Lower Frio, East Texas
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Influence of Near Surface Faults on In Situ Stresses in the Canadian Shield
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Measurement of In-Situ Initial Stress and Excavation-Induced Stress Changes in the Vicinity of Underground Opening
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
First Application of the RPR Method to Field Measurements
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
In-Situ Stress and Hydraulic Fracture Orientation in the Mid-Continent Area, US
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Use of Thermal Strain Relaxation of Core to Determine Stress Directions
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Material-Dependent Size Effect of Hollow Cylinder Stability: Theory and Experiment
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Quantifying Drilling-Induced Damage in Samples of Lac du Bonnet Granite
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Dynamic Stress Mapping Utilizing Ultrasonic Tomography
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Tensile Properties of Rocks in Four-Point Beam Tests Under Confining Pressure
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Determination of the Microcrack Tensor in Rock: Evaluation of Coring Induced Damage
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Modelling Crack Propagation in Compression
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Static and Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Carbonates
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Static and Dynamic Elastic Moduli in Granite: The Effect of Strain Amplitude
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A Thermodynamic Basis for Static and Dynamic Scaling Laws in the Design of Structures in Rock
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Strain Amplitude and Stress Dependence of Static Moduli in Sandstones and Limestones
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Effects of Strain Amplitude on the Static and Dynamic Nonlinear Deformation of Berea Sandstone
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Relationship Between Static and Dynamic Rock Properties in Welded and Nonwelded Tuff
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Application of the Unit-Cell Method to Determine the Optimum Tunnel Orientation
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A Test is Worth a Thousand Guesses - A Paradox
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Probabilistic Analysis of Progressive Block Failures
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Uncertainty, Reliability and Risk in Rock Block Stability
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Variability and Uncertainty Evaluations for Rock Slope Design
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Modeling the Effect of Disorder on the Compressive Strength of Rock
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A New Empirical Peak Shear Strength Criterion for Rock Joints
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Mechanical Analysis of the Accumulation of Stress and Slip on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Modeling Fracturing of Rock Masses With the DDA Method
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Modeling Dynamic Rock Failure by Discontinuous Deformation Analysis With Simplex Integrations
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Discontinuous Deformation Analysis and 'The Artificial Joint Concept'
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Application of the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis to the Evaluation of Rock Reinforcement for Tunnel Stabilization
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Environmentally Motivated Tracking of Geologic Layer Movement During Bench Blasting Using Discrete Element Methods
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A Curved Structural Element Model for Rock Surface Linings in Discontinuous Rock Analysis
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Numerical Studies Relating to Micro Fracture in Granular Materials
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Evaluation of Pressure and Stresses Due to Fluid Sources in A Semi-Infinite Medium
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Dilation-Induced Permeability Increase Around Caverns in Salt
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Time Effect in Rocks Surrounding a Horizontal Tunnel
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Complex Tunnel Intersections of the SSC: The Inter-Relationship of Analysis, Design and Construction
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Recovery of a Double Width Stope at Golden Giant Mine: A Successful Application of Numerical Modelling and Conventional Methods for Stability Analysis
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Constitutive Modeling of Rock Masses Containing Fracturing Joints and Analysis of Large-Scale Excavation
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Edge Function Method: An Efficient New Numerical Technique in Rock Mechanics
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Numerical Simulation of Stress Wave Interaction With Cracks in Layered Rock
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Influence of Geological Burial on the Deformation Characteristics of Bonded Carbonate Rocks
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Probability Distributions for Parameters of the Munson-Dawson Salt Creep Model
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Experimental Identification of Kinematic and Isotropic Hardening in Rocksalt
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Thermomechanical Damage Recovery Parameters for Rocksalt From the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Laboratory Testing of Lägerdorf Chalk
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A Study of the Coupling Between Mechanical Loading and Flow Properties in Tuffaceous Rock
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Deformation of Wilcox Shale: Undrained Strengths and Effects of Strain Rate
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Pore Collapse Mechanisms in Cordoba Cream Limestone
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Acoustic Velocity Anisotropies in Cordoba Cream Limestone During Different Deformational Stress Paths
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Effect of Clay-Fluid Interactions on Ultrasonic Seismic Wave Propagation
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Fractal Point Patterns and Fractal Fracture Traces
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
On the Paradox of Systematic, Contemporaneous, Orthogonal Opening-Mode Fractures
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Fracturing and Stress History of the Devonian Antrim Shale, Michigan Basin
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Limestone Cantilevers Subjected to Very Long-Term Tensile Stress in Natural Caves
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Widespread Occurrence of Healed Microfractures in Siliciclastic Rocks: Evidence From Scanned Cathodoluminescence Imaging
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Containment of Natural Fractures in Brittle Beds of the Austin Chalk
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Strength and Deformation Properties of a Physical Model Melange
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Estimating the Block Volumetric Proportions of Melanges and Similar Block-in-Matrix Rocks (Bimrocks)
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Translational Slope Instabilities in Weak Rock
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Impact of Tropical Weathering on the Mechanical Behaviour of Mudrocks
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Integrated Seismic-Stress-Geomechanical Analysis of a Cable Bolted Back Failure, Mines Gaspe, Canada
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
An Integrated Rock Mechanics Program at the David Bell Mine
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Nature and Possible Source Mechanisms of Seismic Events From a Shallow Pillar Supported, Platinum Mine in South Africa
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
A Conceptual Model of a Hard Rock, Deep Level, Tabular Ore Body That Incorporates the Potential for Face Bursting as a Natural Product Of Mining
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Numerical Modelling of the Behaviour of Concrete Stabilising Pillars Compared to Reef Pillars in Deep Level Narrow Reef Mining
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Development of a Rationale for the Design of Stope and Gully Support in Tabular South African Mines
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Spotlight on New Developments in the Support of Tunnels in South African Mines Under High Stress Conditions
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Analysis of Induced Seismicity in a Hard-Rock Mine in the Sudbury Basin, Ontario, Canada
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
On the Use of the Brittleness Index Modified (BIM) to Estimate the Post-Peak Behavior of Rocks
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The (in?)Significance of Creep in a Prestressed Polyester Resin Grouted Rock Anchor
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Rockholt Behaviour Under Dynamic Loading: Field Trials and Numerical Simulation
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Geomechanics of Sill Pillar Mining
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Composite Source Mechanism Solutions for Rockbursts at the Lucky Friday Mine, Mullan, Idaho
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Chimneying Disintegration Failure Mechanisms of Hard Rock Mines
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Three-Dimensional Elasto-Plastic Analysis of Coal Pillars for Highwall Mining
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Three Dimensional Modeling of a Four-Way Coal Mine Intersection for Analysis of Roof-Pillar-Floor Interaction
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
The Role of Local Mine Stiffness in Pillar Bump Prediction
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Overburden Failure Due to Longwall Mining
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
High Amplitude Stress Wave Generation and Damage Induced by Roof Caving in Mines
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Roof Fall Monitoring and Prediction at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Rock Mechanics Dam Safety Studies for Seminoe Arch Dam
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Stability of a Concrete Gravity Structure
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Seepage Investigations and 3-D Finite Element Analysis
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Long-Term Stability of the Santa Rosa Dam Left Abutment
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Durability Issues in the Production of Rock for Erosion Control
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Rock Mechanics at the Fiesta Texas Theme Park
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Application of the Adaptive Filtering Technique for Rock Mass Displacement Monitoring by the Global Positioning System (GPS)
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Stability Analysis of a Penstock Slope
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Estabilidad de Taludes en Los Cortes del Tramo Río Balsas-Chilpancingo de la Nueva Autopista México-Acapulco
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Estabilización de un Talud Excavado en Riolitas
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Discrete Element Modeling for the Belden Siphon Rock Slope Remediation Project - Verification and Reliability
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
Estudio de Estabilidad de Taludes y Propuesta Para Aumentar el Grado de Inclinacion de Los Mismos en La Mina a Cielo Abierto de Minera Real de Angeles
Paper presented at the 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 1994.
