1st Edition

Rock Stress '03 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Rock Stress, Kumamoto, Japan, 4-6 November 2003

Edited By K. Sugawara, Y. Obara, A. Sato Copyright 2003

    This publication contains three special lectures, six keynote addresses and sixty-eight technical papers presented at the symposium. The wide variety of topics covered are grouped in the proceedings according to subject.

    Preface, Acknowledgements, Organization, Special lectures, Keynote presentations, Technical sessions, Session A: Hydraulic fracturing method, Session B: Overcoring method, Session C: ASR method & core disking, Session D: AE method, Session E: New horizon of stress evaluation, Session F: Stress measurements at a great depth, Session G: Stress state in the earth’s crust, Session H: Back analysis, Session I: Numerical simulation, Session J: Special session, Session K: Applications in mining & civil engineering, Session L: Applications in petroleum engineering, Author index

    Biography

    K. Sugawara, Y. Obara and A. Sato