Anmerkung: Front Cover -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Laboratory testing -- Joint project III on the comparison of constitutive models for the mechanical behavior of rock salt II. Extensive laboratory tes program with clean salt from WIPP -- Joint project III on the comparison of constitutive models for the mechanical behavior of rock salt III. Extensive laboratory test program with argillaceous salt from WIPP and comparison of test results -- Permeability of layered rock salt at different stresses and geometries -- Laboratory investigations of geotechnical properties of rock salt in Polish salt deposits -- Image processing of fabric evolution in granular salt subject to diffusive mass transfer -- The compaction behaviour of salt backfill as a THM-process -- Improved lab tests to verify the long term integrity of abandoned cavities -- Hydrocarbons in rock salt of the Gorleben salt dome& -- #8212 -- amount, distribution, origin, and influence on geomechanical properties -- Field applications -- The shaft Saale seal concept for the abandonment of the former potash mine Teutschenthal& -- #8212 -- improvement of crushed salt/clay backfill -- On the potential of In-Situ Acoustic Emission (AE) technology for the monitoring of dynamic processes in salt mines -- Deformation of thin layered anhydrite rocks within the Gorleben salt dome, Germany -- Numerical investigations on the anisotropic damage of the EDZ of drifts in rock salt -- Impact of tensile stresses and tensile fractures in rock salt on the evolution of the EDZ& -- #8212 -- capability of numerical modeling -- Gas pressure effects on salt& -- #8212 -- the large scale in-situ test Merkers -- The scale effect of Dead Sea salt velocities based on seismic-acoustic measurements -- Barriers -- Construction engineering: Grouting measures in damaged rock salt. , Interaction between salt concrete sealing structures and rock salt -- Integrity of saliferous barriers for heat-generating radioactive waste& -- #8212 -- natural analogues and geomechanical requirements -- Design of a pilot plant to analyse sealing systems based on rock salt bricks -- Salt reconsolidation applied to repository seals -- Solution caverns -- Introducing a probabilistic-based method for analyzing dilation in salt caverns -- Rheological and geometrical reverse creep in salt caverns -- Hydrocarbon production and storage using offshore underground salt caverns -- Stability and integrity of salt caverns under consideration of hydro-mechanical loading -- Operation, maintenance, and monitoring of large-diameter caverns in oil storage facilities in domal salt -- Fabric-based modeling of thermo-mechanical damage and healing around salt caverns -- Numerical modeling of solution-mined caverns located near salt dome boundaries -- Computer modeling applied in the design of salt caverns for natural gas storage -- From birth to long-term life& -- #8212 -- main aspects regarding THM-coupled simulation of salt cavern behavior as well as regarding improved salt cavern design with special consideration of rock salt damage -- Salt structure information system (InSpEE) as a supporting tool for evaluation of storage capacity of caverns for renewable energies/rock mechanical design for CAES and H2 storage caverns -- Constitutive modeling -- Description of damage reduction and healing with the CDM constitutive model for the thermo-mechanical behavior of rock salt -- Validation of a mineralogy-dependent constitutive model for potash -- Theoretical study of damage accommodation in salt subject to viscous fatigue -- A thermal-mechanical constitutive model to describe deformation, damage and healing of rock salt. , Multi-mechanism deformation creep model applied to Brazilian salt rocks -- Modeling and simulation -- Joint Project III on the comparison of constitutive models for the thermo-mechanical behavior of rock salt I. Overview and results from model calculations of healing of rock salt -- Two problems to benchmark numerical codes for use in potential HLW salt repositories -- Geomechanical analysis and assessment of the integrity of the southern part in the Morsleben repository -- Coupled modelling of the Thermal Simulation for Drift Emplacement underground test -- Geomechanical assessment of the Asse II operation phase until radioactive waste retrieval using large 3D-models -- Thermomechanical analysis of a fictive HLW repository in the Gorleben salt dome -- HM-coupled processes to be considered in the context of a safety case analysis for sealed caverns in rock salt used for waste diposal -- Numerical analysis of a drift intersection in a waste repository in rock salt -- Sensitivity study of the finite element modeling applied in the closure analysis of the pre-salt wells in Brazil.