Xie F. (Ed.). Rock stress and earthquakes

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on In-situ Rock Stress, Beijing, China, 25-27 August 2010. — CRC Press, 2010. – 821 p. — ISBN: 978-0-203-83610.The evaluation of in-situ rock stress is not only important in the exploration and engineering involving rock masses for mining, hydropower, tunneling, oil and gas production, and stone quarrying, but also in the geodynamics and earthquake prediction. The methods of determining these stresses for shallow crust in the engineering practice, including hydraulic fracture method, stress relief method, and acoustic emission method, have not developed substantially to satisfy the increasing utilization of rock masses. The geophysical methods for stresses determination of deep crust only determine the stress fields of deep crust qualitatively. Contributed by a group of leading experts from engineering and geophysical community, this symposium addresses new developments in numerical modeling and advanced measuring techniques in engineering practices, and build new connections between traditional and geophysical methods, which will both benefit earthquake prediction based on the concept of the crustal stresses.Organization
Keynote presentation
Difficulties with hydraulic fracturing stress measurements and ways to overcome them
Method and theory of in-situ stress measurement
Engineering application of in-situ stress
Numerical modeling
Active tectonics and crustal dynamics
Stress-strain observation and earthquake prediction
Author index