Upgrading the Rock Mechanics Laboratory at Saint Louis University

该奖项将提供升级所需资金的一半 圣路易斯大学的岩石力学实验室的 额外的资金，使这成为可能，已承诺由圣。 路易斯大学。这将是一个升级的设备借用 从德州农工大学获得了一笔长期可再生贷款升级将 包括建造PI特别设计的设备 进行科学家特别感兴趣的实验， 断层带中物质的行为拟议的升级 包括建造一个计算机化的数据采集和伺服系统， 控制系统，通过孔隙流体系统，简化 密封和样品组装，以及一个炉和控制器，以实现 高温岩石变形仪的升级改造 和实验室将允许开发一个研究项目 这将涉及研究生和其他研究人员 对断层中岩石的摩擦和脆性行为感兴趣 有利于溶液转移的条件下的区域， 崩溃机制

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.