This is a reading seminar focused on current and foundational research contributions in Geomechanics, including ongoing work by current students.
Topics will include selections from: Fault mechanics, fluid flow, poromechanics, nano-porosity connectivity, shale geomechanics, rheology, time-dependence of deformation, reservoir geomechanics, geothermal energy production, friction laws, strain localization, stability conditions for deformation, slow earthquakes and the spectrum of tectonic fault slip behaviors.
Requirements
Participants will read assigned material, participate in choosing topics, lead discussion, and present results from their ongoing research.
To facilitate discussion all participants are required to read the papers and arrive prepared to lead a dicussion of them. Participants will volunteer and/or be selected at random to lead discussions.
9/28
Robert Valdez
- rock and fault strength
- soil mechanics
9/4
No Class - Labor Day
9/11
Kerry Ryan
- frictional healing, role of shear stress
9/18
Srisharan Shreedharan
- rate and state models
9/25
Peter Miller
- poromechanics, consolidation, elastic moduli
- high-T friction and clays
10/2
Abby Kenigsberg
- mechanical and elastic properties of faults, fabrics
