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Commissariat a L'energie Atomique Applications CEA-BIB-152 COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE Notice 619 5.0 APPLICATIONS PACIFIQUES DES EXPLOSIONS NUCLEAIRES Géologie, Séismologie , îomportement des Sols et des Roches par Micheline BERTON Centre d'Etudes de Bruyères-le-Chate! Bibliographie CEA-BIB-152 (Additif IVP1) 1971 SERVICE CENTRAL DE DOCUMENTATION DU C.E.A Na C.E.N-SACLAY B.P. n°2, 91-GIF-sur-YVETTE-France PLAN DE CLASSIFICATION DES RAPPORTS ET BIBLIOGRAPHIES CEA - Bibliographie CEA-BIB-152 - (Additif N°l) 1. APPLICATIONS INDUSTRIELLES DES 8. PHYSIQUE ISOTOPES ET DES RAYONNEMENTS 8. 1 Accélérateurs 2. BIOLOGIE ET MEDECINE 8. 2 Electricité, électronique, détection des rayonnements 2. 1 Biologie générale 8. 3 Physique des plasmas 2. 2 Indicateurs nucléaires en biologie 8. 4 Physique des états condensés de la 2. 3 P/Iédecine du travail matière 2. 4 Radiobiologie, radioagronomie 8. 5 Physique corpusculaire à haute énergie 2. 5 Médecine nucléaire 8. 6 Physique nucléaire Centre d'Etudes de Bruyères-le-Chatel 8. 7 Optique, électronique quantique 3. CHIMIE 8. 8 Physique atomique et moléculaire 3. 1 Chimie générale et organique, 9. PHYSIQUE THEORIQUE Chimie physique ET MATHEMATIQUES 3. 2 Chimie analytique 3. 3 Procédés de séparation 10. PROTECTION ET CONTROLE DES 3. 4 Radiochimie RAYONNEMENTS, TRAITEMENT DES EFFLUENTS 4. ETUDES DU DOMAINE DE L'ESPACE 10.1 Protection sanitaire 10. 2 Contrôle des rayonnements APPLICATIONS PACIFIQUES DES EXPLOSIONS NUCLEAIRES 10. 3 Traitement des effluents 5. GEOPHYSIQUE, GEOLOGIE, MINERALOGIE ET METEOROLOGIE Géologie, Seismology, Comportement des Sols et des Roches 11. SEPARATION DES ISOTOPES 6. METAUX, CERAMIQUES 12. TECHNIQUES ET AUTRES MATERIAUX 12.1 Mécanique des fluides, techniques du vide 6. 1 Fabrication, propriétés et structure et des hautes pressions des matériaux 12.2 Transferts thermiques, techniques du froid 6. 2 Effets des rayonnements sur les et de la chaleur matériaux 12.3 Mécanique, outillage par 6. 3 Corrosion 12.4 Contrôle des matériaux 7. NEUTHONIQUE, PHYSIQUE ET 13 UTILISATION ET DEVELOPPEMENT TECHNOLOGIE DES REACTEURS DE L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE 7. 1 Neutronique et physique des réacteurs 13 1 Centres d'études nucléaires, laboratoires 7. 2 Refroidissement, protection, contrôle et usines et sécurité 13 2 Divers (documentation, administration, 7. 3 Matériaux de structure et éléments legislation, etc ) classiques des réacteurs Micheline BERTON 14 ETUDES ECONOMIQUES ET PROGRAMMES La diffusion, à titre d'échange, des rapports et bibliographies du Commissariat à /'Energie Atomique est assurée par le Service Central de Documentation du CEA, CEN-Saclay, B P n° 2, 91 • G if-sur-Yvette (France). « Ces rapports et bibliographies sont également en vente a l'unité auprès de la Documentation Française, 31, quai Voltaire, 75 - PARIS (VIft} - Août 1971 Répons and bibliographies of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique are available, on an exchange basis, from the Service Central de Documentation du CEA, CEN Saclay, BP n° 2, 91 - G if-sur-Yvette (France). Individual reports and bibliographies are sold by the Documentation l-rancaise, 31, quai Voltaire, 75 - PARIS (VIft) CEA-lîIl)-l52(Additif n° i) - BEHTON Micheline APPLICATIONS PACIFIQUES DES EXPLOSIONS NUCLEAIRES : Géologie, Séismologie, Comportement des Sols et des Roches Sommaire. - Cette bibliographie sert d'additif à 1:>. bibliographie n° 152. Elle comporte 643 références complémentaires. Lt-s documents ont été classés suivant deux chapitres : séismologie, étude des sols et fracture des roches lors des explosions nucléaires ou sous des conditions de très hautes pres- sions ou températures. On trouvera plusieurs index : matières, rapports, articles de revue, congrès, thèses. 1971 203 t Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - France CEA-BIB-152(Addendum nc 1) - BERTON Michtline PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS : Geology, Seismology, Behavior of the Ground and Rocks Summary. - This bibliography is supplementary to n° 152. It consists of 643 complementary references. The documents are classified into two chapters : seismology, the study of the ground and of rock fractures after nuclear explosions or exposure to very high pressures or temperatures. Several in- dexes are to be found : various subjects, reports, review articles, congreses,. theses. 1971 203 p. Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - France TABLE LES MATIERES Pages INDEX MATIERES 5 CHAPITRE I : Références relatives à la seismologie 21 CHAPITRE II : Références relatives à l'étude des sols et à la fracture des roches .... 131 INDEX DES AUTEURS 179 INDEX DES RAPPORTS 189 INDEX DES ARTICLES DE REVUE 195 INDEX DES CONFERENCESf DES LIVRES ET DES THESES .... 199 INDEX MATIERES - 7 - ÎJ° de reference Adsorption de certains gaz^: azote et argon par des roches à basse température (granit - carbonate et pierre ponce) 557 Analyse en potassium et argon de roches naturelles choquées par des explosions nucléaires 642 Analyse numérique de la propagation d'ondes symétriques dans un milieu élastoplastique 460 Appareils : - accélérographes 462 - Jauges de contrainte du sol, de déformations du sol^ 356-510-514 - pour déterminer les caractéristiques de compression brusque de sols 106 - de mesure de l'amplitude de mouvements du sol .. 261 (Direct - Reading Sealer) - russes de séismologie 263 Argile - effets sismiques des explosions nucléaires souterraines en milieu argileux y8 - explosions chimiques dans l'argile 523 Atlas de l'Asie et de l'Est de l'Europe des stations de détection séismologique des explosions souterraines 166-167-160 Atténuation du choc des explosions 107 des mouvements du sol du aux explosions 234-236 Basalte - effet des surpressions > 495 - métamorphisme thermique du basalte sous l'in- fluence des explosions nucléaires 5^-9-633 - transformation de phase sous pression 42.000 atm. entre 1200 et 2000°G 631 Bibliographies - sur les caractéristiques tf^s sols 563 - sur la déformation des roches 466 - sur la dynamique des sols 484 - sur la mécanique des sols 79-5^5 - sur la séismologie et la géologie 198 - Vesiac 20-53 - S '- - 9 - 1<° de N° de référence référence Contrôle des tremblements de terre 452-453-455 Calcaire - amplitude des signaux sismiques dans le calcaire 401 Corrélation entre tremblements de terre et explosions - fractures 626 nucléaires 456 Calculs Cratères 205 - théoriques pour explosion en cavité 121 pour champ de rayonnement dans le cas djexplosions nucléaires 122 Croûte terrestre - concernant le mécanisme des sources sismiques .. 449 - étude de la structure de la croûte terrestre .. 23 52-61-71-103-115-116-141-438-451-614-625 Calculateurs - emploi de calculateurs en seismologie 179 Déclenchement de tremblement de terre par des explosions Cavités nucléaires souterraines 437-452-453 calculs théoriques pour déterminer les formes d'impulsions provenant d'une explosion dans une cavité pour une géométrie bi- et tri-dimen- Déformation d'un milieu isotrope sous contrainte contenant sionnelles , 121 une inclusion cylindrique 500 caractères de la cavité créée par une explosion souterraine .... * 521 Détection des explosions nucléaires souterraines par seismologie .5-7-10-15-16-95-133-140-155-156-201-204 Codes 213-237-247-248-266-267-278-281-342-344-357-407-442-446 - DYNAX (effets des explosions sur les structures - analyse de facteurs limitant la sensibilité souterraines) 200 d'un détecteur sismique 56 - SLAM (Stress waves in layered media) 235 - automatique $3-39 - SOC - calcul des effets d'explosions souterraines - d'explosions françaises 457 sur le milieu environnant 341 -527-529-539 - de microséisme 95 - SPEC ANAL 254 - par ondes sismiques à période longue 175 - SPLIT, réponse des structures 285 - SIPRI : seismic methods for monitoring under- de calcul de mouvements du sol 300 ground explosions 435-436 - TDYNE, réponse des structures aux mots du sol dus à une explosion nucléaire 252 - TENSOR, phénoménologie des explosions nucléaires Diorite - équation d'état 495 pour le programme Plowshare (pression et volume des roches) 527-578 - pour les calculs de compression des roches ..... 488 Digues - de calcul de courbes de dispersion d'ondes 'de - effets de la pression des ondes de Rayleigh dues surface à travers des couches multiples 360 aux explosions nucléaires sur les digues 265 - pour évaluer les coefficients de compressibilité des sols „ 560 Documents allemands 103 Colloques anglais 218-219-220-221-222-403 -429-430-431-432-433 sur la détection des explosions nucléaires 435-440-447-448-450 souterraines australiens 437 canadiens 85-390-395-396 français 224-225-226-227-228-229-245-353-355-399-400 Comparaison entre les effets seismologiques des explosions 401-402-521-522-523-524-525-532-534-536-537 souterraines et les tremblements de terre ... 148-151 538-541-617-618 -152-189-314-364-393-417-425-435 italien 613-632 israélien 180-181-182 - 10 - N° de - 11 - K° de référence référence Explosion de surface (suite) Documents (suite) - opération SNOWBALL (mouvements du sol) indiens 223-366-388-434 - projet BLUE ICE 02 japonais 638 néerlandais 265-438 norvégiens 135-147-177-202-209 Explosion sous-marine 136-139-147-199-523 russes ... 15-19-98-111-184-205-263-264-348-404-405 - projet AMCHITKA 161-286 406-458-459-486-543-559-620-623-631-635 636 suédois 95-97-117-123-247-248-249-281-391 Filtres - pour seismogrammes 60-75 Dolomite - fractures 626 Foyer détermination de la profondeur du foyer lors de perturbations sismiques dues à des explo- sions nucléaires 54-77 Eau effet de la profondeur du foyer sur les - analyse de l'eau dans les matériaux terrestres spectres d'ondes 116 importance dans les explosions souterraines ... 531 Fracture des
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