Name :  SANO,  Osamu
            Position : Professor
            Division/Center : Earthquake Observation Center
            Research Area : Observational crustal physics,  material properties of crust
 
 
 
 

Publications :

Osam Sano, Ichiro Ito, Makoto Terada,
     Influence of Strain Rate on Dilatancy and Strength of
     Oshima Granite under Uniaxial Compression,
     J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 86, B10, pp. 9299-9311, 1981.
Osam Sano, Makoto Terada, Shoji Ehara,
     A Study of the Time-dependent Microfracturing of
     Oshima Granite,
     Tectonophysics, Vol. 84, pp. 343-362, 1982.
Osam Sano,
     A Revision of the Double-Torsion Technique for
     Brittle Materials,
     J. Mater. Sci., Vol. 23, pp. 2505-2511, 1988.
Yozo Kudo, Osam Sano, Naokuni Murashige, Yoshiaki Mizuta,
     Koji Nakagawa,
     Stress-induced Crack Path in Aji Granite under
     Tensile Stress,
     Pure and Applied Geophys., Vol. 138, No. 4, pp. 641-656, 1992.
Osam Sano, Yozo Kudo,
     Relation of Fracture Resistance to Fabric for Granitic Rocks,
     Pure and Applied Geophys., Vol. 138, No. 4, pp. 657-677, 1992.
Osam Sano, Yozo Kudo, Yoshiaki Mizuta,
     Experimental Determination of Elastic Constants of Oshima
     Granite, Barre Granite and Chelmsford Granite,
     J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 97, B3, pp. 3367-3379, 1992.
Kiyoshi Hisanaga, Yozo Kudo, Osam Sano, Koji Nakagawa,
     Preferred Orientation of Granite Joints in  Oshima,
     Southwest Japan,
     Proc. Int. Symp. Assesment and Prevention of Failure Phenomena
     in Rock Engineering, Pasamehmetoglu et al.(eds),
     Balkema Publ., pp. 543-548, 1993.
Yozo Kudo, Kenichi Hashimoto, Osam Sano, Koji Nakagawa,
     Relation Between Physical Anisotropy and Microstructures
     of Granitic Rock in Japan,
     Proc. 6th Congress on Rock Mech., I.S.R.M., Montreal,
     Canada, pp. 429-432, 1987.
Yoshiaki Mizuta, Osam Sano, Shoji Ogino, Harumi Katoh,
     Three Dimensional Stress Determination by Hydraulic
     Fracturing for Underground Excavation Design,
     Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci., Vol. 24, pp. 15-29, 1987.
Osam Sano, Yoshiaki Mizuta, Tadasuke Murakami,
     Yoshiharu Tanaka,
     Sound Velocity as a Measure of Small Stress Change,
     Rock Stress, K. Sugawara, Y. Obara (eds),
     Balkema Publ., pp. 241-246, 1997.