Order of intermittent rock fractured surfaces

- Aligholi, Saeed, Khandelwal, Manoj

Title
Order of intermittent rock fractured surfaces
Creator
Aligholi, Saeed; Khandelwal, Manoj
Date
2023
Type
Text; Journal article
Identifier
http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/192894
Identifier
vital:18058
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010745
Identifier
ISSN:2071-1050 (ISSN)
Abstract
According to chaos theory, some underlying patterns can disclose the order of disordered systems. Here, it has been discussed that intermittency of rough rock fractured surfaces is an orderable disorder at intermediate length scales. However, this kind of disorder is more complicated than simple fractal or even multi-scaling behaviours. It is planned to deal with some multifractal spectra that systematically change as a function of the analysed domain. Accordingly, some parameters are introduced that can perfectly take into account such systematic behaviour and quantify the intermittency of the studied surfaces. This framework can be used to quantify and model the roughness of fractured surfaces as a prerequisite factor for the analysis of fluid flow in rock media as well as the shear strength of rock joints. Ultimately, the presented framework can be used for analysing the intermittency of time series and developing new models for predicting, for instance, seismic or flood events in a short time with higher accuracy. © 2022 by the authors.
Publisher
MDPI
Relation
Sustainability (Switzerland) Vol. 15, no. 1 (2023), p.
Rights
All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
Copyright © 2022 by the authors
Rights
Open Access
Subject
MD Multidisciplinary; Chaos; Multi-affine; Roughness; Statistical intermittency
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