ABSTRACT
A unique opportunity to review the latest progress in an expanding area of interest: the Mechanical Behaviour of Salt. These Proceedings include over fifty papers and summaries describing the latest findings in ongoing studies from a number of research groups. For the 2007 conference, there was a particular focus on the understanding of thermal, mechanical, hydraulic and chemical coupled processes (THMC). Such processes are of specific interest when considering advanced problems in waste disposal, storage and mining. The book includes a number of themes:
- laboratory and in-situ investigations modelling, e.g. derivation of constitutive equations
- numerical computations and prediction of long-term behaviour
- THMC processes in mining projects, storage and permanent disposal
- case studies
- geology
- mining and storage applications and abandonment
The International Conferences on the Mechanical Behaviour of Salt have a long tradition, being initiated in 1981 at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. The present conference, the sixth of the series, took place in Hannover, Germany, in May 2007. The conference brought together mining engineers, researchers, and university professors interested in the mechanical behaviour of salt, mostly from Europe and beyond.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|74 pages
THM-processes in salt rocks – observations at laboratory and in-situ scales
part 2|71 pages
Constitutive models for the mechanical behavior of rock salt
part 3|36 pages
Deformation processes at very large temporal and spatial scales – geological systems
part 4|66 pages
THM-processes in crushed salt backfill of final repositories – observations at laboratory and in-situ scales, modeling
part 5|43 pages
THMC-processes in backfill materials – laboratory observations and modeling
part 6|58 pages
Studies of mining and mine abandonment
part 7|63 pages
Cavern design for gas storage and solution mining
part 8|38 pages
Abandonment of caverns