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Transition from a radial to a 3D buoyancy-driven hydraulic fracture
Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Andreas Möri
Magmatic dikes are a naturally occurring type of fluid-driven fractures (Rivalta et al. 2015) propagating in the lithosphere due to buoyant forces emerging from the density difference between the host material and the injected fluid (more precisely the dif ...
2020Stiffness, force and drift capacity of in-plane loaded modern unreinforced brick masonry walls
In countries of low to moderate seismicity, such as Switzerland, unreinforced masonry (URM) is mainly used in residential buildings due to its good insulation capacity and fire resistance along with a fair compressive strength. URM walls however show a lim ...
EPFL2018Porosity evolution at the brittle-ductile transition in the continental crust: Implications for deep hydro-geothermal circulation
Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Mateo Alejandro Acosta, Michael Heap
Recently, projects have been proposed to engineer deep geothermal reservoirs in the ductile crust. To examine their feasibility, we performed high-temperature (up to 1000 degrees C), high-pressure (130 MPa) triaxial experiments on granite (initially-intact ...
Springer Nature2017Fluid thermodynamics control fault heating and weakening under upper crustal stress conditions
Marie Estelle Solange Violay, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Mateo Alejandro Acosta
Although fluids are pervasive among tectonic faults, thermo-hydro-mechanical couplings during earthquake slip remain unclear. In particular, fluid induced seismicity is today a subject of major interest for the geo-energy community. We report full dynamic ...
2017Punching shear strength and behaviour of compact reinforced concrete footings
Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões
concrete footings with and without transverse reinforcement. Even though that punching shear failures have already been deeply investigated, there is still scanty experimental information on full-scale reinforced concrete footings failing in punching shear ...
11th fib International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering2016A model of the western Laurentide Ice Sheet, using observations of glacial isostatic adjustment
Jean-Philippe Lucien Montillet
We present the results of a new numerical model of the late glacial western Laurentide Ice Sheet, constrained by observations of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), including relative sea level indicators, uplift rates from permanent GPS stations, contempo ...
Elsevier2016Chemical Characterisation of Deep Earth Reservoirs
Seismic imaging of the internal Earth has emphasized the inhomogeneity of its mantle. This interface layer of nearly 3000 km surrounding the central metallic core conducts heat released from the latter, which played a significant role in shaping the actual ...
EPFL2016Thermoelasticity of Fe3+- and Al-bearing bridgmanite: Effects of iron spin crossover
We report ab initio (LDA + U-sc) calculations of thermoelastic properties of ferric iron (Fe3+)- and aluminum (Al)-bearing bridgmanite (MgSiO3 perovskite), the main Earth forming phase, at relevant pressure and temperature conditions and compositions. Thre ...
American Geophysical Union2016Changes in snow distribution and surface topography following a snowstorm on Antarctic sea ice
Michael Lehning, Katherine Colby Leonard, Ernesto Trujillo Gomez
Snow distribution over sea ice is an important control on sea ice physical and biological processes. We combine measurements of the atmospheric boundary layer and blowing snow on an Antarctic sea ice floe with terrestrial laser scanning to characterize a t ...
Wiley-Blackwell2016Atmospheric and oceanic climate forcing of the exceptional Greenland ice sheet surface melt in summer 2012
The NASA announcement of record surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet in July 2012 led us to examine the atmospheric and oceanic climatic anomalies that are likely to have contributed to these exceptional conditions and also to ask the question of how ...
Wiley-Blackwell2014