Stability of cavities in rocksalt
Abstract
Thousands of cavities have been leached in salt beds or salt domes throughout the world, either to withdraw brine for chemical plants or to store oil and gas. The present paper is specially devoted to deep cavities (say, when the depth is at least five times more than the largest dimension of the cavern). The stability of such cavities has raised up many theoretical publications ; this interest can be explained by the remarkable particularities of the rock salt rheological behaviour.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Weak Rock - Soft, Fractured and Weathered Rock, Vol. 1
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Pages
- 473–478
- Publication date
- 26 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter