Workshop on Advancing Experimental Rock Deformation Research: Scientific and Technical Needs

Tullis, Terry E.¹ 

[1] Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)

关键词: Workshop;    Rock deformation;    Rock mechanics;    Experimental;    DEFORM;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1254832
RP-ID  :  NA
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1254832

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

A workshop for the experimental rock deformation community was held in Boston on August 16-19, 2012, following some similar but smaller preliminary meetings. It was sponsored primarily by the NSF, with additional support from the DOE, the SCEC, and in-kind support by the USGS. A white paper summarizing the active discussions at the workshop and the outcomes is available (https://brownbox.brown.edu/download.php?hash=0b854d11). Those attending included practitioners of experimental rock deformation, i.e., those who conduct laboratory experiments, as well as users of the data provided by practitioners, namely field geologists, seismologists, geodynamicists, earthquake modelers, and scientists from the oil and gas industry. A considerable fraction of those attending were early-career scientists. The discussion initially focused on identifying the most important unsolved scientific problems in all of the research areas represented by the users that experiments would help solve. This initial session was followed by wide-ranging discussions of the most critical problems faced by practitioners, particularly by early-career scientists. The discussion also focused on the need for designing and building the next generation of experimental rock deformation equipment required to meet the identified scientific challenges. The workshop participants concluded that creation of an experimental rock deformation community organization is needed to address many of the scientific, technical, and demographic problems faced by this community. A decision was made to hold an organizational meeting of this new organization in San Francisco on December 1-2, 2012, just prior to the Fall Meeting of the AGU. The community has decided to name this new organization ???Deformation Experimentation at the Frontier Of Rock and Mineral research??? or DEFORM. As of May 1, 2013, 64 institutions have asked to be members of DEFORM.