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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Physical Properties of Rocks

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 516-0890/02
Abbreviation FVH
Course title Physical Properties of Rocks
Credits 5
Coordinating department Institute of Physics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Libor Hlaváč, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction - review of the material structure and basic theories of the matter structure.
2. Physical properties of rock respective to sample size and state - influence of inner/outer factors on the rock properties.
3. Mechanical properties - density, elasticity, strength, plasticity and rheological behaviour of rocks.
4. Acoustic properties - dependence of characteristics on inner and outer factors.
5. Thermal properties - rules of heat transfer in rock, thermal dilatation of rocks.
6. Electrical and magnetic properties of rocks – polarisation, permitivity, permeability, electrical conductivity of rocks.
7. Electromagnetic radiation and rock – optical properties of rocks, X-rays and rock.
8. Radioactive radiation and rock – radioactivity of rocks, influence of radioactive radiation on rocks.
9. Multicomponent systems – equilibrium in one- and multicomponent system, metastable states, phase transformations.
10. Mutual relations – influence of the rock properties on physical phenomena, classification of rocks according to their physical properties.

Literature

Stavrogin, A.N., Tarasov, B.G.: Experimental physics and rock mechanics. Fairhurst, Ch. (ed.), Lisse: A.A. Balkema, 2001, ISBN 90-5809-213-5
Jaeger, J.C., Cook, N.G.W. and Zimmermann, R.W.: Fundamentals of rock mechanics. Malden: Blackwell, 2007, ISBN 978-0-632-05759-7

Advised literature

The komplete ISRM suggested methods for rock characterization, testing and monitoring: 1974 – 2006
Ulusay, R. and Hudson, J.A. (eds.), Ankara: Commission on Testing Methods, International Society for Rock Mechanics, 2007, ISBN 978-975-93675-4-1