Faults, fractures, and other deformation features produced during loading of granite in triaxial equipment

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane E. Moore ◽  
R. Summers ◽  
J.D. Byerlee
Keyword(s):  
Deformation Features

scholarly journals Fast deformation of shocked quartz and implications for planar deformation features observed in shocked quartz

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshimori Sekine ◽  
Tomoko Sato ◽  
Norimasa Ozaki ◽  
Kohei Miyanishi ◽  
Ryosuke Kodama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planar Deformation ◽  
Deformation Features ◽  
Shocked Quartz ◽  
Planar Deformation Features

scholarly journals Buckling Failure Mechanism of a Rock Dam Foundation Fractured by Gentle Through-Going and Steep Structural Discontinuities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5426
Author(s):  
Donghui Chen ◽  
Huie Chen ◽  
Wen Zhang ◽  
Chun Tan ◽  
Zhifa Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Method ◽  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Shear Failure ◽  
Distinct Element ◽  
Mechanism Analysis ◽  
Rock Masses ◽  
Dam Foundation ◽  
Deformation Features ◽  
Universal Distinct Element Code ◽  
Distinct Element Code

The failure mechanism analysis of dam foundations is key for designing hydropower stations. This study analyses the rock masses in a sluice section, which is an important part of the main dam of the Datengxia Hydropower Station currently built in China. The stability of the sluice rock masses is predominantly affected by gentle through-going soft interlayers and steep structural fractures. Its foundation failure mechanism is investigated by means of a numerical method, i.e., Universal Distinct Element Code (UDEC) and the geomechanical model method. The modeling principle and process, and results for the rock dam foundation are introduced and generated by using the abovementioned two methods. The results indicate that the failure mechanism of the foundation rock masses, as characterized by gentle through-going and steep structural discontinuities, is not a conventional type of shear failure mechanism but a buckling one. This type of failure mechanism is verified by analyzing the deformation features resulting from the overloading of both methods and strength reduction of the numerical method.

scholarly journals Geology of the orogenic Cheminis gold deposit along the Larder Lake – Cadillac deformation zone, Ontario

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1093-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Lafrance
Keyword(s):  
Deformation Zone ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Tholeiitic Basalt ◽  
Hydrothermal Fluids ◽  
South Side ◽  
Shear Sense ◽  
Abitibi Subprovince ◽  
Deformation Features ◽  
Shear Sense Indicators ◽  
Host Rocks

The Larder Lake – Cadillac deformation zone (LLCDZ) is one of two major, auriferous, deformation zones in the southern Abitibi subprovince of the Archean Superior Province. It hosts the Cheminis and the giant Kerr Addison – Chesterville deposits within a strongly deformed band of Fe-rich tholeiitic basalt and komatiite of the Larder Lake Group (ca. 2705 Ma). The latter is bounded on both sides by younger, less deformed, Timiskaming turbidites (2674–2670 Ma). The earliest deformation features are F1 folds affecting the Timiskaming rocks, which formed either during D1 extensional faulting or during early D2 north–south shortening related to the opening and closure, respectively, of the Timiskaming basin. Continued shortening during D2 imbricated the older volcanic rocks and turbidites and produced regional F2 folds with an axial planar S2 cleavage. D2 deformation was partitioned into the weaker band of volcanic rocks, producing the strong S2 foliation, L2 stretching lineation, and south-side-up shear sense indicators, which characterize the LLCDZ. Gold is present in quartz–carbonate veins in deformed fuchsitic komatiites (carbonate ore) and turbiditic sandstone (sandstone-hosted ore), and in association with disseminated pyrite in altered Fe-rich tholeiitic basalts (flow ore). All host rocks underwent strong mass gains in CO2, S, K2O, Ba, As, and W, during sericitization, carbonatization, and sulphidation of the host rocks, suggesting that they interacted with the same hydrothermal fluids. Textural relationships between alteration minerals and S2 cleavage indicate that mineralization is syn-cleavage. Thus, gold was deposited as hydrothermal fluids migrated upward along the LLCDZ during contractional, D2 south-side-up shearing. The gold zones were subsequently modified during D3 reactivation of the LLCDZ as a dextral transcurrent fault zone.

Fully Free-Form Deformation Features (δ-F4) Incorporating Discontinuities

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Cheutet ◽  
Jean-Philippe Pernot ◽  
Jean-Claude Leon ◽  
Bianca Falcidieno ◽  
Franca Giannini
Keyword(s):  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Geometric Constraints ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Initial Surface ◽  
Cad Systems ◽  
Free Form Deformation ◽  
Deformation Features ◽  
Generate Surface ◽  
Prototype Software ◽  
Free Form Surfaces

To limit low-level manipulations of free-form surfaces, the concept of Fully Free Form Deformation Features (δ-F4) have been introduced. They correspond to shapes obtained by deformation of a surface area according to specified geometric constraints. In our work, we mainly focused on those features aimed at enforcing the visual effect of the so-called character lines, extensively used by designers to specify the shape of an object. Therefore, in the proposed approach, 3D lines are used to drive surface deformation over specified areas. Depending on the wished shape and reflection light effects, the insertion of character lines may generate surface tangency discontinuities. In CAD systems, such kind of discontinuities is generally created by a decomposition of the initial surface into several patches. This process can be tedious and very complex, depending on the shape of the deformation area and the desired surface continuity. Here, a method is proposed to create discontinuities on a surface, using the trimming properties of surfaces. The corresponding deformation features produce the resulting surface in a single modification step and handle simultaneously more constraints than current CAD systems. The principle of the proposed approach is based on arbitrary shaped discontinuities in the parameter domain of the surface to allow the surface exhibiting geometric discontinuities at user-prescribed points or along lines. The proposed approach is illustrated with examples obtained using our prototype software.

Comment and Reply on "Microscopic lamellar deformation features in quartz: Discriminative characteristics of shock-generated varieties"

Geology ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald B. Parker ◽  
Heinrich Toots ◽  
R.A.F. Grieve ◽  
J. S. Alexopoulos ◽  
R. B. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Deformation Features

A Study on Tensile Deformation Features of Ni-Based Super-Alloy Prepared by EB-PVD

2011 ◽  
Vol 55-57 ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
Li Ma ◽  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Xiao Li ◽  
Zhao Hui Hu
Keyword(s):  
Physical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Tensile Deformation ◽  
Alloy Sheet ◽  
Dislocation Climb ◽  
Dislocation Glide ◽  
Double Phase ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Deformation Features ◽  
Super Alloy

Large-scale Ni-based super-alloy sheet has been prepared by electron beam physical vapor deposition (EB-PVD). Microstructure and the dislocation structures in the γ-γ′ double phase alloy under different temperature after tensile strain are studied with Transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results show that the dislocation glide in single slip system and shearing mechanics, the dislocation climb with part shearing, absolute dislocation climb and cross slip, dislocation round are a course of the interacting degree between dislocation and γ′ phase gradually weakened under the tensile temperature from room temperature to high temperature, so as to decrease materials strength and increase plasticity.

Kinematic crustal deformation features of Wenchuan earthquake obtained by GPS

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongliang Xiong ◽  
Dingfa Huang ◽  
Shaoguang Xue ◽  
Hua Liao ◽  
Yaoqiang Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wenchuan Earthquake ◽  
Crustal Deformation ◽  
Deformation Features
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