EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 29 August 2022Sec. Geohazards and Georisks https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.977496

Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) is a modeling framework for fractured rocks. The core element the description of geological medium as network discrete fractures that can be either generated from statistical distributions or imported deterministic surfaces. It an alternative to continuum methods with both advantages easily integrating properties fracture networks, and not assuming any homogeniza...

[1] Joint sets within sedimentary basins are commonly interpreted to have formed by tensile failure in conditions where pore fluid pressure was elevated. Such tensile fractures are inferred to be a part of the process that relieves high fluid pressure by locally increasing rock permeability. In spite of the importance of this feedback mechanism, the detailed mechanics of hydraulic fracture gene...

In this research attempts were made to estimate the in-situ stresses acting on a hydrocarbon reservoir based on routine activities of acid injection in oil reservoir. It was found that the relation between the re-opening pressure of fracture and principal in-situ stresses can be estimated using rock mechanics equations for the circular underground cavities. An appropriate relation between the m...

The fracture of interfacial crack is the main failure type jointed rock mass. Therefore, it very important to study For similarity mass and composites (all are composed by two parts, intact materials their contact interfaces), interface mechanics widely used for analysis (bimaterials) can be applied based on basic theories mechanics, was analyzed, one new criterion initiation proposed. Moreover...

Pseudotachylyte, a fault rock formed through coseismic frictional melting, provides an important record of coseismic mechanics. In particular, injection veins formed at a high angle to the fault surface have been used to estimate rupture directivity, velocity, pulse length, stress and strength drop, as well as slip weakening distance and wall rock sti ness. These studies, however, have generall...

Numerical methods such as boundary element and finite element methods are widely used for the stress analysis in solid mechanics. This study presents boundary element method based on the displacement discontinuity formulation to solve general problems of interaction between hydraulic fracturing and discontinuities. The crack tip element and a higher order boundary displacement collocation techn...

A continuum damage mechanics (CDM) based constitutive model has been developed to describe elastic, plastic and damage behavior of porous rocks. The pressure sensitive inelastic deformation of porous rocks together with their damage mechanisms are studied for drained and undrained conditions. Fracture mechanics of microcrack andmicro-void nucleation and their coalescence are incorporated into t...