Upgrading the Rock Mechanics Laboratory at Saint Louis University

这项奖励将提供升级圣路易斯大学岩石力学实验室所需资金的一半。圣路易斯大学已经承诺提供额外的资金来实现这一目标。这将是对从德克萨斯A&A；M借来的设备进行升级，这是一笔长期、可再生的贷款。这次升级将涉及建造由PI专门设计的仪器，以进行科学家们对研究断裂带中材料行为的特别感兴趣的实验。拟议的升级包括建造一个计算机化的数据采集和伺服控制系统、一个渗流孔隙流体系统、一个简化的密封和样品组装，以及一个实现高温的炉子和控制器。岩石变形仪器和实验室的升级将允许开发一个研究项目，该项目将包括研究生和其他研究人员，他们对断层带岩石在有利于溶解转移和破裂机制的条件下的摩擦和脆性行为感兴趣。

This award will provide half the funds necessary to upgrade the rock mechanics laboratory at St. Louis University. The additional funding to make this possible has been committed by St. Louis University. This will be an upgrade of equipment borrowed from Texas A&M on a long term,renewable loan. The upgrade will involve the building of apparatus especially designed by the PI to carry out experiments of special interest to scientists studying the behavior of materials in fault zones. The proposed upgrade involves construction of a computerized data acquisition and servo- controlled system,a flow- through pore fluid system,a simplified sealing and sample assembly,and a furnace and controller to achieve elevated temperatures. Upgrade of the rock deformation apparatus and laboratory will allow the development of a research program that will involve graduate students and other researchers interested in the frictional and brittle behavior of rock in fault zones under conditions that favor soluttion transfer and cataclastic mechanisms.