A framework alternative to that of classical slope stability analysis is developed, wherein the soil mass is treated as a continuum and in-situ soil stresses and strengths are computed accurately using inelastic "nite element methods with general constitutive models. Within this framework, two alternative methods of stability analysis are presented. In the "rst, the strength characteristics of ...

To accurately predict production in compactible reservoirs, we must use coupled models of fluid flow and mechanical deformation. Staggered-in-time loose coupling of flow and deformation via a high-level numerical interface that repeatedly calls first flow and then mechanics allows us to leverage the decades of work put into individual flow and mechanics simulators while still capturing realisti...

This paper compares three techniques for coupling multiphase porous flow and geomechanics. Sample simulations are presented to highlight the similarities and differences in the techniques. One technique uses an explicit algorithm to couple porous flow and displacements in which flow calculations are performed every timestep and displacements are calculated only during selected timesteps. A seco...

This paper deals with two relevant and interrelated directions of coal mining development. Firstly, the resource-saving complete extraction reserves, secondly, intensification activity through operations conducted on several seams. The objective overworking mine workings a real representation mining-and-geological mining-engineering conditions has been formulated. Five peculiarities geomechanic...

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 17 January 2023Sec. Structural Geology and Tectonics Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1135659