1. Introduction

   • Sergio Vinciguerra
   • Yves Bernabé

   OriginalPaper Pages: 737 - 739

2. What Does Control Earthquake Ruptures and Dynamic Faulting? A Review of Different Competing Mechanisms

   • Andrea Bizzarri

   OriginalPaper 23 May 2009 Pages: 741 - 776

3. Quake Catalogs from an Optical Monitoring of an Interfacial Crack Propagation

   • M. Grob
   • J. Schmittbuhl
   • K. J. Måløy

   OriginalPaper 20 May 2009 Pages: 777 - 799

4. Fracture Toughness and Fracture Roughness Interrelationship in Thermally treated Westerly Granite

   • M. H. B. Nasseri
   • B. S. A. Tatone
   • R. P. Young

   OriginalPaper 07 May 2009 Pages: 801 - 822

5. Acoustic Emissions Monitoring during Inelastic Deformation of Porous Sandstone: Comparison of Three Modes of Deformation

   • Jerome Fortin
   • Sergei Stanchits
   • Yves Gueguen

   OriginalPaper 12 May 2009 Pages: 823 - 841

6. Initiation and Propagation of Compaction Bands in Dry and Wet Bentheim Sandstone

   • Sergei Stanchits
   • Jerome Fortin
   • Georg Dresen

   OriginalPaper 12 May 2009 Pages: 843 - 868

7. Compaction and Failure in High Porosity Carbonates: Mechanical Data and Microstructural Observations

   • P. Baud
   • S. Vinciguerra
   • T. Reuschlé

   OriginalPaper 20 May 2009 Pages: 869 - 898

8. 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

   OriginalPaper 07 May 2009 Pages: 899 - 925

9. Common Evolution of Mechanical and Transport Properties in Thermally Cracked Westerly Granite at Elevated Hydrostatic Pressure

   • M. H. B. Nasseri
   • A. Schubnel
   • R. P. Young

   OriginalPaper 04 June 2009 Pages: 927 - 948

10. 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

    OriginalPaper 12 May 2009 Pages: 949 - 968

11. Oscillating Flow of a Compressible Fluid through Deformable Pipes and Pipe Networks: Wave Propagation Phenomena

    • Y. Bernabé

    OriginalPaper 07 May 2009 Pages: 969 - 994

12. Microstructural Investigation of Naturally Deformed Leucogneiss from an Alpine Shear Zone (Southern Calabria – Italy)

    • Rosolino Cirrincione
    • Eugenio Fazio
    • Rosalda Punturo

    OriginalPaper 12 May 2009 Pages: 995 - 1010

13. Laboratory Characterization of Permeability and Its Anisotropy of Chelungpu Fault Rocks

    • Tzu-Mo N. Chen
    • Wenlu Zhu
    • Sheng-Rong Song

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2009 Pages: 1011 - 1036

14. Axial and Radial Permeability Evolutions of Compressed Sandstones: End Effects and Shear-band Induced Permeability Anisotropy

    • Jeremie Dautriat
    • Nicolas Gland
    • Jean L. Raphanel

    OriginalPaper 26 May 2009 Pages: 1037 - 1061

15. Microstructural Inhomogeneity and Mechanical Anisotropy Associated with Bedding in Rothbach Sandstone

    • Laurent Louis
    • Patrick Baud
    • Teng-fong Wong

    OriginalPaper 02 June 2009 Pages: 1063 - 1087

16. Pressure-dependent Production Efficiency of an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS): Stimulation Results and Implications for Hydraulic Fracture Treatments

    • Günter Zimmermann
    • Torsten Tischner
    • Ernst Huenges

    OriginalPaper 02 June 2009 Pages: 1089 - 1106

17. Impact of Poroelastic Response of Sandstones on Geothermal Power Production

    • Guido Blöcher
    • Günter Zimmermann
    • Harald Milsch

    OriginalPaper 07 May 2009 Pages: 1107 - 1123

18. Permeability Prediction for Low Porosity Rocks by Mobile NMR

    • H. Pape
    • J. Arnold
    • B. Blümich

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2009 Pages: 1125 - 1163