Key Engineering Materials Vols. 306-308

Abstract: A test apparatus was developed to study shear-flow coupling properties for a marble fracture with sand. Experimental tests include shear stress-flow coupling process and shear displacement-flow coupling process. The shear stress-flow coupling test results, revealed that mechanical aperture keeps constant during shear, and that hydraulic aperture and conductivity decrease almost linearly with increasing shear stress. The shear displacement-flow coupling test results showed that hydraulic behavior under shear displacement includes two phases. During the first about 0.05mm shear displacement, hydraulic aperture and conductivity decrease with increasing shear displacement, and mechanical aperture remains constant or increases only by several microns of magnitude. After shear displacement is up to about 0.05mm, the fracture dilates remarkably, and hydraulic aperture and conductivity increase with shear displacement increasing.

Abstract: It is very important to study the pristine stress field in Civil, Mining, Petroleum engineering as well as in Geology, Geophysics, and Seismology. There are various methods of determination of in-situ stress in rock mass. However, hydraulic fracturing techniques is the most convenient method to determine and interpret the test results. Based on an hydraulic fracturing stress measurement campaign at an underground liquefied petroleum gas storage project which locates in ZhuHai, China, this paper briefly describes the various uses of stress measurement, details of hydraulic fracturing test system, test procedure adopted and the concept of hydraulic fracturing in arriving at the in-situ stresses of the rock mass.

Abstract: Based on the basic idea of Sara method, A sliding block computational model for the anchored slope is established in this paper after taking into consideration the action of earthquake and influence of underground water as well as the supporting effect of rock-bolts . This model has been applied to stability analysis for the high slope project of a hydropower station and conclusions of significance to engineering design has been got.