Publications
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

(Co) Author: Zang, A.






















  • Zang, A.; Wong, T. F. (1995): Elastic stiffness and stress concentration in cemented granular material. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 32, 6, 563-574.



  • Zang, A. (1993): Finite element study on the closure of thermal microcracks in feldspar / quartz-rocks - II. Intra-, transgranular and mixed cracks. Geophysical Journal International, 113, 1, 32-44.

  • Zang, A.; Berckhemer, H. (1993): Classification of crystalline drill cores from the KTB deep well based on strain, velocity and fracture experiments. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 30, 4, 331-342.











  • Zang, A.; Dresen, G. (2002): Sprechende Steine : Rückschlüsse auf Bruchvorgänge durch Erdbebenwellen. Potsdamer Universitätszeitung.


  • Zang, A.; Wolter, K.; Berckhemer, H. (1989): Strain recovery, microcracks and elastic anisotropy of drill cores from KTB deep well. Scientific Drilling : geophysics, geochemistry, and technology, 1, 115-126.

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  • Yoon, J.-S.; Yeon, S.; Zang, A.; Stephansson, O. (2011): Bonded particle model simulation of laboratory rock tests for granite using particle clumping and contact unbonding. - In: Sainsbury, D. P.; Hart, R. D.; Detournay, C. J.; Nelson, M. J. (Eds.), Continuum and Distinct Element Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics 2011 : proceedings of the 2nd International FLAC/DEM Symposium, February 14-16, 2011, Melbourne, Australia, Itasca International Inc., 467-474.


  • Stephansson, O.; Zang, A. (2010): How to generate the Final Rock Stress Model (FRSM) at a site or area. - In: Xie, F. (Eds.), Rock stress and earthquakes : proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on In-Situ Rock Stress, Beijing, China, 25 - 27 August 2010, CRC Press, 15-26.

  • Yoon, J.; Hou, M.; Zang, A.; Stephansson, O. (2010): Sensitivity analysis on parameters of lab-scale bonded particle models for rock simulations using Plackett-Burman experimental design method. - In: Zhao, J. (Eds.), Rock mechanics in civil and environmental engineering : proceedings of the European Rock Mechanics Symposium (EUROCK) 2010 : Lausanne, Switzerland, 15-18 June 2010, CRC Press, 185-188.













  • Stephansson, O.; Zang, A. (2012): World stress databases and rock stress models as ressources for rock mechanics and rock engineering. 4th Traditional International Colloquium on Geomechanics and Geophysics (Ostrava, Czech Republic 2012), 16-17.

  • Yoon, J.; Zang, A.; Stephansson, O. (2012): Use of particle based numerical model for simulating rock fracture in compression. ESIS-Workshop on Computational and Experimental Failure Mechanics Joint meeting of TC1 & TC8 ( Berlin 2012).



  • Stephansson, O.; Zang, A. (2011): How to reach the final rock stress model for underground works. International Conference on Underground Space Technology and the 8th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG - ICUST 2011 (Bangalore/India 2011).

  • Yoon, J.-S.; Yeon, S.; Zang, A.; Stephansson, O. (2011): Numerical modeling of strength and cracking of granite under unaxial, biaxial and Brazilian test using bonded particle model with clumping and contact unbonding. 2nd FLAC/DEM Symposium (Melbourne/Australia 2011).

  • Zang, A. (2011): Bruchprozesse in Gestein auf verschiedenen Skalen. Geokolloquium (Karlsruhe, Germany 2011).

  • Zang, A. (2011): Progress towards understanding induced seismicity in geothermal reservoirs. 2nd GEISER General Meeting, Geothermal Week (Zürich/Switzerland 2011).











  • Yoon, J.; Zang, A.; Jeon, S. (2007): Bonded particle model simulation of fracture and friction triaxial compression test. Proceedings, Conference Korean Society for Geosystem Engineering (Daejeon, Korea 2007), 338-344.




  • Zang, A.; Stanchits, S.; Dresen, G. (2002): Acoustic Emission Controlled Triaxial Rock Fracture and Friction Tests. International Conference on Structural Integrity and Fracture (Perth, Australia 2002), 289-294.





  • Wagner, F. C.; Zang, A.; Dresen, G. (1995): State of damage in dry and wet deformed sandstone by laboratory study of acoustic emissions. Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Mechanics of Jointed and Faulted Rock (Vienna 1995), 463-467.


  • Zang, A. (1994): Drei nicht-fraktale Gesteinsmodelle. Kolloquium 'Gesteinsmodelle-Petrophysik und Umwelt' (Bucha 1994).









  • Zang, A.; Wagner, F. C. (1998): Uniaxiale Druckbruchversuche an Asse-Salzkernen mit akustischer Emissionsmessung. Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), 14.




  • Zang, A.; Berckhemer, H.; Lienert, M. (1990): Entspannungsrisse in KTB-Bohrkernen als Indikatoren für das in situ Spannungsfeld. KTB-Report ; 90-4, Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung (NLfB), 264-292.

  • Zang, A.; Berckhemer, H.; Wolter, K. (1990): Inferring the in situ state of stress from stress relief microcracking in drill cores. KTB-Report ; 90-8, Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung (NLfB).


  • Zang, A. (1989): Numerische Simulation Thermischer Entspannungsrisse in Zwei-Phasen-Systemen. Wissenschaftlicher Bericht - Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik, W 9/89, 80.



  • Zang, A. (1987): Eigenspannungen in Tiefbohrkernen - Modellrechnungen und experimenteller Methodenvergleich. 102.




  • Zang, A. (1991): Theoretische Aspekte der Mikrorissbildung in Gesteinen. Frankfurter geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten : Serie B, Meteorologie und Geophysik ; Bd. 4, 209.