Geol.734 KINEMATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSES (3 C.H)
Deformation and its types, rules for/limitation of strain analysis, measurement of strain in folds, faults, shear zones and foliations, the strain ellipse, the fundamental strain equations, the Mohr strain diagram and its applications, tensor representation of strain, the strain ellipsoid and its application, strain field diagram and its components, applications of strain analysis, concept of stress and stress types, stress in the earth, techniques for determining and calculating stress in the earth, stress tensor analysis, the stress ellipse and the stress ellipsoid, fundamental stress equations, the Mohr stress diagram and its components, the stress-component matrix, experimental relationship between stress and strain, a standard axial compression test, elastic, plastic and viscous models of rock behavior.
Book Recommended:
- Structural geology by Twiss, R.J. and Moores, E.M., 2007. 2nd Edition, Freeman and Company, New York.
- The techniques of modern structural geology, strain analysis by Ramsay, J. G. and Huber, M. I., 1983. Volume 1, Academic Press, London.
- Structural geology of rocks and regions by Davis, G.H. and Reynolds, S.J., 1996. 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York.