TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kolditz, Olaf
A1  - Fischer, Thomas
A1  - Frühwirt, Thomas
A1  - Görke, Uwe-Jens
A1  - Helbig, Carolin
A1  - Konietzky, Heinz
A1  - Maßmann, Jobst
A1  - Nest, Mathias
A1  - Pötschke, Daniel
A1  - Rink, Karsten
A1  - Sattari, Amir
A1  - Schmidt, Patrick
A1  - Steeb, Holger
A1  - Wuttke, Frank
A1  - Yoshioka, Keita
A1  - Vowinckel, Bernhard
A1  - Ziefle, Gesa
A1  - Nagel, Thomas
T1  - GeomInt: geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks–experiments, models and analysis of discontinuities
Y1  - 2021-08-07
VL  - 80
IS  - 16
JF  - Environmental Earth Sciences
DO  - 10.1007/s12665-021-09787-0
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
N2  - The present paper gives an overview of the GeomInt project “Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks—experiment, modelling and analysis of discontinuities” which has been conducted from 2017–2020 within the framework of the “Geo:N Geosciences for Sustainability” program. The research concept of the collaborative project is briefly introduced followed by a summary of the most important outcomes. The research concept puts geological discontinuities into the centre of investigations—as these belong to the most interesting and critical elements for any subsurface utilisation. Thus, while research questions are specific, they bear relevance to a wide range of applications. The specific research is thus integrated into a generic concept in order to make the results more generally applicable and transferable. The generic part includes a variety of conceptual approaches and their numerical realisations for describing the evolution of discontinuities in the most important types of barrier rocks. An explicit validation concept for the generic framework was developed and realised by specific “model-experiment-exercises” (MEX) which combined experiments and models in a systematic way from the very beginning. 16 MEX have been developed which cover a wide range of fundamental fracturing mechanisms, i.e. swelling/shrinkage, fluid percolation, and stress redistribution processes. The progress in model development is also demonstrated by field-scale applications, e.g. in the analysis and design of experiments in underground research laboratories in Opalinus Clay (URL Mont Terri, Switzerland) and salt rock (research mine Springen, Germany).
UR  - http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/11085
ER  -