Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

The aim of the Journal is to publish research results of the highest quality and of lasting importance on the subject of geomechanics, with the focus on applications to geological energy production and storage, and the interaction of soils and rocks with the natural and engineered environment. Special attention is given to concepts and developments of new energy geotechnologies that comprise intrinsic mechanisms protecting the environment against a potential engineering induced damage, hence warranting sustainable usage of energy resources.The scope of the journal is broad, including fundamental concepts in geomechanics and mechanics of porous media, the experiments and analysis of novel phenomena and applications. Of special interest are issues resulting from coupling of particular physics, chemistry and biology of external forcings, as well as of pore fluid/gas and minerals to the solid mechanics of the medium skeleton and pore fluid mechanics. The multi-scale and inter-scale interactions between the phenomena and the behavior representations are also of particular interest. Contributions to general theoretical approach to these issues, but of potential reference to geomechanics in its context of energy and the environment are also most welcome.The purpose of the Journal is to foster scientific understanding of various processes in geomaterials, both induced by technology and natural, and their relationship to the underlying mechanisms. The intrinsic nature of coupling of chemical, biological, thermal and mechanical properties, variables and fields distinguishes the related problems from those in classical geomechanics. Thus, emphasis is placed on the development and fusion of fundamental concepts in mechanics, physics, geochemistry and geo-biology and applications of such concepts to novel technologies related to geological energy production and storage as well as to the prevention of the damage to the environment, in which solid and fluid mechanics of geomaterials is of relevance.

Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment期刊中文简介

该杂志的目的是发表关于地质力学的研究成果，其质量最高，并具有持久的重要性，其重点是在地质能源生产和储存方面的应用，以及土壤和岩石与自然和工程环境的相互作用。特别注意新能源地球技术的概念和发展，这些技术包括保护环境免受潜在工程引起的破坏的内在机制，从而保证可持续地利用能源。杂志的范围是广泛的，包括地质力学和多孔介质力学的基本概念，实验和分析新的现象和应用。特别令人感兴趣的问题是由于特定的物理、化学和生物的外力，以及孔隙流体/气体和矿物与介质骨架的固体力学和孔隙流体力学的耦合而产生的。现象与行为表征之间的多尺度和跨尺度交互也特别令人感兴趣。对这些问题的一般理论方法的贡献，但对地质力学在能源和环境方面的潜在参考也是最受欢迎的。该杂志的目的是促进科学理解各种地质材料的过程，包括由技术和自然诱导的过程，以及它们与潜在机制的关系。化学、生物、热和力学性质、变量和场耦合的内在性质，使相关问题有别于经典地质力学中的问题。因此,强调基本概念的发展和融合力学、物理、地球化学和geo-biology这样的概念和应用新技术相关的地质能源生产和储存的预防以及对环境的破坏,固体和流体力学的相关性。