Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

- Introduction (S. Vinciguerra, Y. Bernabé)

- Earthquake Source and Rock Failure

- What Does Control Earthquake Ruptures and Dynamic Faulting? A Review of Different Competing Mechanisms (A. Bizzarri)

- Quake Catalogs from an Optical Monitoring of an Interfacial Crack Propagation (M. Grob, J. Schmittbuhl, R. Toussaint, L. Rivera, S. Santucci, K.J. Maloy)

- Fracture Toughness and Fracture Roughness Interrelationship in Thermally Treated Westerly Granite (M.H.B. Nasseri, B.S. Tatone, G. Grasselli, R.P. Young)

- Rock Deformation and Coupled Processes in Rocks

- Strain Localization in the Laboratory

- Acoustic Emissions Monitoring During Inelastic Deformation of Porous Sandstone: Comparison of Three Modes of Deformation (J. Fortin, S. Stanchits, G. Dresen, Y. Guéguen)

- Initiation and Propagation of Compaction Bands in Dry and Wet Bentheim Sandstone (S. Stanchits, J. Fortin, Y. Guéguen, G. Dresen)

- Compaction and Failure in High Porosity Carbonates: Mechanical Data and Microstructural Observations (P. Baud, S. Vinciguerra, G. David, A. Cavallo, E. Walker, T. Reuschlé)

- Pressure Solution

- Stress Transfer During Pressure Solution Compression of Rigidly Coupled Axisymmetric Asperities Pressed Against a Flat Semi-Infinite Solid (Y. Bernabé, B. Evans, D.D. Fitzenz)

- Thermal Cracking

- Common Evolution of Mechanical and Transport Properties in Thermally Cracked Westerly Granite at Elevated Hydrostatic Pressure (M.H.B. Nasseri, A. Schubnel, P.M. Benson, R.P. Young)

- Transport Properties Modelling and Poro-elasticity

- Improved Interpretation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance T1 and T2 Distributions for Permeability Prediction: Simulation of Diffusion Coupling for a Fractal Cluster of Pores (H. Pape, C. Clauser)

- Oscillating Flow of a Compressible Fluid Through Deformable Pipes and Pipe Networks: Wave Propagation Phenomena (Y. Bernabé)

- Shear Induced Anisotropy

- Microstructural Investigation of Naturally Deformed