Mechanics of Crustal Rocks (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences: Courses and Lectures)

Hardcover, viii + 239 pages, NOT ex-library. Printed in Italy. Gently used, book is clean with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show regular shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Linear Theory of Anisotropic Poroelastic Solids / Florian K. Lehner [Introduction; Work Potentials for Isothermal Deformation; Linear Constitutive Relations; Elastic Bulk Moduli from Unjacketed Tests; Isotropic Response; Gassmann's Relation. Generalization and Alternative Forms]; Eshelby's Technique for Analyzing Inhomogeneities in Geomechanics / John W. Rudnicki [Introduction; Results from Linear Elasticity; Results from Eshelby; Applications]; Effective Elastic Properties of Cracked Rocks: An Overview / Yves Guéguen & Mark Kachanov [Introduction; Quantitative Characterization of Microstructures: General Considerations; Dry Rock with Cracks; Fluid-Saturated Rock with Cracks; Implications for Wavespeeds; Conclusions]; Three-Dimensional Morphology Evolution of Solid-Fluid Interfaces by Pressure Solution / Jean L. Raphanel [Introduction; Pressure Solution as a Deformation Mechanism; Linear Stability; Stability Criterion for the Interface Morphology; Application to the Experiments of den Brok and Morel; Concluding Remarks]; Introduction to the Finite-Element Method for Elastic and Elasto-Plastic Solids / Yves M. Leroy [Introduction; First Example: 1D Compaction for a Poro-Elastic Column; Second Example: Triangular Elements for 2D Linear Problems; Quadrature Rules: Gauss and Lobatto; Lagrange Elements and the Serendipity Family; Plasticity for Small Perturbations and Finite Transformation; Exercises and a Problem; Solution Hints] -- The mechanical behaviour of the earth's upper crust enters into a great variety of questions in different areas of the geological and geophysical sciences as well as in the more applied geotechnical disciplines. This volume presents a selection of papers from a CISM course in Udine on this topic. While each of these chapters will make for a useful contribution in its own right, the present bundle also illustrates, by way of examples, the variety of theoretical concepts and tools that are currently brought to bear on earth deformation studies, ranging from reviews of poroelastic field theory to micro-mechanical and homogenization studies, chemomechanics and interfacial stability theory of soluble solids under stress, and finally to an introduction to the finite element method.…