ABSTRACT
Rock salt has been recognized as an ideal medium
for the underground strategic energy reserves, un-
derground storage of CO
and high-level radioactive
waste disposal with its low porosity, low permeabili-
ty and damage recovery. However, in the long term
large deformation and even loss of effective storage
volume may frequently occur to salt rock reserves,
resulting from a variety of the internal pressures and
a time-dependent creep behavior of salt rock. There-
fore, a mathematical modeling approach to creep of
salt rock plays an important role in the prediction of
long-term time-dependent deformation of salt rock
reserves.
