Geosc598A: Geomechanics Seminar

2 Credits, Spring 2016

Prof. C. Marone and D. Elsworth
Penn. State University

Time: Friday 2:45-4:15 Room: 240 Deike


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 2: (22 Jan. 2016)
Lavallee et al, Thermal vesiculation during volcanic eruptions, Nature, 2015
Paterson, 1973; Nonhydrostatic Thermodynamics and Its Geologic Applications

Week 3: (29 Jan. 2016)
Latour, Schubnel, et al., Characterization of nucleation during laboratory earthquakes, GRL, 2013
Kim and Moridis, 2015; Numerical analysis of fracture propagation during hydraulic fracturing operations in shale gas systems
Middleton et al., 2015; Shale gas and non-aqueous fracturing fluids: Opportunities and challenges for supercritical CO2

Week 4: (5 Feb. 2016)
Liu, Chen, Elsworth, et al., Evolution of coal permeability from stress-controlled to displacement-controlled swelling conditions, 2011
Enayatpour et al., 2013, FreezeFrac Improves the Production of Gas Shales

Week 5: (12 Feb. 2016)
Yabe et al., Tidal modulation and triggering of low-frequency earthquakes in northern Cascadia, JGR, 2015
Segall and Fitzgerald; A note on induced stress changes in hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs

Week 6: (19 Feb. 2016)
Segall and Rice, 1995; Dilatancy, compaction, and slip instability of a fluid-infiltrated fault
Ikari et al., 2015; Experimental investigation of incipient shear failure in foliated rock

Week 7: (26 Feb. 2016)
Ben will present both papers:
Pyrak-Nolte & Nolte, Approaching a universal scaling relationship between fracture stiffness and fluid flow
van der Elst, N. J. & Savage, H. M. Frequency dependence of delayed and instantaneous triggering on laboratory and simulated faults governed by rate-state friction. JGR, 2015

Week 8: (18 Mar. 2016)
Ferno et al., GRL 2015: Flow visualization of CO2 in tight shale formations at reservoir conditions
Guo and Morgan, 2004: Influence of normal stress and grain shape on granular friction: Results of discrete element simulations

Week 9: (25 Mar. 2016)
Rathbun et al., 2013; Numerical investigation of the interplay between wall geometry and friction in granular fault gouge
Niemeijer_et al., 2016; Large-displacement, hydrothermal frictional properties of DFDP-1 fault rocks, Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Implications for deep rupture propagation

Week 10: (1 Apr. 2016)
Lastakowski et al., 2015; Granular friction: Triggering large events with small vibrations
We will continue discussion of this paper and hear detailed insights by K. Ryan, followed by reponses from the author
Niemeijer_et al., 2016; Large-displacement, hydrothermal frictional properties of DFDP-1 fault rocks, Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Implications for deep rupture propagation

Week 11: (8 Apr. 2016)
Niemeijer and Spiers, JGR, 2007; A microphysical model for strong velocity weakening in phyllosilicate-bearing fault gouges

Week 12: (15 Apr. 2016)
Audet & Burgmann, Nature, 2014; Possible control of subduction zone slow-earthquake periodicity by silica enrichment
Rabinowicz, 1951; The Nature of the static and kinetic coefficients of friction
Rabinowicz, 1956; Stick and Slip

Week 13: (22 Apr. 2016)
Veedu & Barbot, Nature, 2016; The Parkfield tremors reveal slow and fast ruptures on the same asperity



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.

Possible papers
Crawford and Yale, SPE, 2002; Constitutive Modeling of Deformation and Permeability: Relationships between Critical State and Micromechanics
Segall, 1989; Earthquakes triggered by fluid extraction
Villegas-Lanza et al., 2015; A mixed seismic-aseismic stress release episode in the Andean subduction zone
Hobbs, Ord and Regenauer-Lieb, JSG, 2011; The thermodynamics of deformed metamorphic rocks: A review,
Royer et al., Tidal sensitivity of tectonic tremors in Nankai and Cascadia subduction zones, JGR, 2015
Shelly, Complexity of the deep San Andreas Fault zone defined by cascading tremor, Nature Geosc. 2015
Harpalani and Schraufnage, Shrinkage of coal matrix with release of gas and its impact on permeability of coal, Fuel, 1990
Peng and Gomberg 2010; An integrated perspective of the continuum between earthquakes and slow-slip phenomena
Brodsky and Van der Elst 2014; The Uses of Dynamic Earthquake Triggering
McNamara et al, GRL, 2015; Reactivated faulting near Cushing Oklahoma: increased potential for a triggered earthquake in an area of United States strategic infrastructure
Karner et al., 2003, Subcritical compaction and yielding of granular quartz sand
Brodsky et al., JGR, 2003; A mechanism for sustained groundwater pressure changes induced by distant earthquakes
Kaproth and Marone, 2014; Evolution of elastic wave speed during shear-induced damage and healing within laboratory fault zones

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


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