Analysis on the current research status, this article studies on the dynamic subsidence principles of overburden rock strata during coal mining based on similar material simulation test. Close ranged industrial photogram metric system was introduced to collect data. After coordinate transformation, matching and model amendment, dynamic subsidence curves which can be used to analyze the continui...

The ejection of material from Mars is thought to be caused by large impacts that would heat much of the ejecta to high temperatures. Images of the magnetic field of martian meteorite ALH84001 reveal a spatially heterogeneous pattern of magnetization associated with fractures and rock fragments. Heating the meteorite to 40 degrees C reduces the intensity of some magnetic features, indicating tha...

In the past, rock slope stability analysis were performed either graphically or using a hand-held calculator, but nowadays there are variety of slope stability analysis which can be used according to the field condition and potential failure mode. In 2-D analysis, effect of convex and concave walls are neglected, however concave slopes are believed to be more stable than straight walls due to t...

In this paper a one-dimensional analytical model for the mechanism of rock fracturing in hydrothermal regimes is described. The model is based upon the modern thermo-poro-elasticity theory and its two non-linear heat-like equations. On the boundary aquifer-caprock a buried thermomechanical source is supposed to be built up in terms of subsurface fluid-rock coupling dynamics. With this considera...

As known, most important, and the hard part of pattern recognition for rock particles, is image segmentation. Segmentation can be divided into two steps, one is segmentation based on gray levels (called image binarization, sometimes) in which a gray level image is processed and converted into a binary image. Another is segmentation based on rock particle shapes in a binary image, in which overl...

Laboratory experiments are an effective way to study the initiation and propagation of hydraulic fractures for complex stress level structure underground reservoirs. However, it is difficult observe directly in rock or mortar specimens. In this study, a kind transparent rock-like material whose tension–compression ratio reaches 1/9.5 at normal temperature was obtained, which helped us directly....

A sound knowledge of mechanical properties of rocks at high temperatures and pressures is essential for modelling volcanological problems such as fracture of lava flows and dike emplacement. In particular, fracture toughness is a scale invariant material property of a rock that describes its resistance to tensile failure. A new fracture mechanics apparatus has been constructed enabling fracture...

Buckle folds are common traps for hydrocarbon in several contractional provinces. Buckle folds form where stratified sequences rest a top salt or some other utterly weak rock as a decollemet zone in units with high competency contrasts by a compressive stress which acted along the length of the rock layers. An important parameter affecting buckle folding of a competent zone above a mobile decol...