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 write a short summary (1 or 2 paragraphs) or critique of discussion papers. Please bring two copies of your summary to pass around during our discussion. Participants will be selected at random to lead discussions.
Discussion Papers:
Week 1 (13 Jan. 2016):
Organizational meeting. We will discuss paper topics and expectations for the semester.
Week 14: (29 Apr. 2016)
All Hands Meeting - bring a favorite paper you have read this semester (not one from our list) and lead a 5 min discussion of why you thought it so good.
and some that I haven't fully linked yet:
"A Novel Method for Improving Water Infectivity in Tight Sandstone Reservoirs" Mohamad Yousef Alklih,1 Bisweswar Ghosh,1 and Emad Waleed Al-Shalabi 2014.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jpe/2014/864624/
Ptychographic X-ray computed tomography at the nanoscale, Dierolf et al. 2010
doi:10.1038/nature09419
Peridynamics via finite element analysis, Macek and Shilling 2007
doi:10.1016/j.finel.2007.08.012
Yamashita, T., & Suzuki, T. (2011). Dynamic modeling of slow slip coupled with tremor. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(January), B05301. doi:10.1029/2010JB008136
Tromborg, J. K., Sveinsson, H. A., Thogersen, K., Scheibert, J., & Malthe-Sorenssen, A. (2015). Speed of fast and slow rupture fronts along frictional interfaces. Physical Review E, 92(1), 012408. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.92.012408
Thomas, M. Y., Lapusta, N., Noda, H., & Avouac, J.-P. (2014). Quasi-dynamic versus fully dynamic simulations of earthquakes and aseismic slip with and without enhanced coseismic weakening. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(3), doi:10.1002/2013JB010615
Fall 2015 Geomechanics Seminar