Rock Joints: The Mechanical Genesis / Edition 1

by Georg Mandl

Overview

Rock Joints deals exclusively with the mechanical genesis of joints in rocks. It is aimed at a coherent, critical and comprehensible presentation of the underlying mechanical processes of various types of joints and joint systems. Special care is taken to elucidate and quantify the role of high fluid pressures in the formation of joints. The background is an offshoot of the author's courses on "Genesis of Rock Joints" in the Department of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling at the Technical University of Graz, Austria.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642063916
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Experimental Evidence and Elementary Theory.- Hydraulic Fractures.- Termination and Spacing of Tension Joints in Layered Rocks.- Multiple Sets of Tension Joints.- Shear Joints.- Joints in Faulting and Folding.- Échelon Joints and Veins.