*Correspondence: Daniel Bonamy, Laboratoire SPHYNX, Service de Physique de l’État Condensé, DSM, Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay, CEA Saclay, CNRS URA 2464, Batiment 772, Orme des Merisiers, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France e-mail: [email protected] We analyze the intermittent dynamics of cracks in heterogeneous brittle materials and the roughness of the resulting fracture surface...

Characterisation of the heterogeneous naturally fractured reservoirs is an essential and significantly challenging task, especially due to the limited data availability. This paper presents a foundation relationship between P-wave / S-wave velocity and formation resistivity for improved fracture characterisation. Rock matrix and fluid volumetrics are combined with the basic correspondence betwe...

S U M M A R Y Under extreme conditions like those encountered during earthquake slip, frictional melt is likely to occur. It has been observed on ancient faults that the melt is mostly extruded toward local extensional jogs or lateral tension cracks. In the case of laboratory experiments with a rotary shear apparatus, melt is extruded from the sample borders. When this happens, a thin and irreg...

This study investigated the influence of surface roughness and cyclic loading on fatigue resistance in Y-TZP subjected to hot isostatic pressing (HIP). Fifty Y-TZP cylinders 3.0 mm in diameter were divided into Group A (polished by centerless method; TZP-CP) or Group B (blasted and acid-etched: TZP-SB150E). Twenty five cp-titanium cylinders (Ti-SB150E) were used as a control. Static and cyclic ...

FRACK is a fractured media freeware flow and solute transport suite currently under development that is intended to serve as both a preand post-processor to MODFLOW. As a pre-processor, FRACK generates and maps networks of deterministic and/or stochastic fractures onto a regularly-spaced finitedifference grid, according to a fracture continuum method that closely approximates flow solutions to ...

Significant work in the past few decades has lead to a well developed understanding of seismic wave propagation in fractured media. However, previous research has focused on fractures within rock as opposed to fractures at the surface of a rock. A theoretical and experimental study was performed to examine seismic wave propagation along a fracture at the surface, i.e., along the intersection of...

Geochemical reactions may alter the permeability of leakage pathways in caprocks, which serve a critical role in confining CO2 in geologic carbon sequestration. A caprock specimen from a carbonate formation in the Michigan sedimentary Basin was fractured and studied in a high-pressure core flow experiment. Inflowing brine was saturated with CO2 at 40°C and 10 MPa, resulting in an initial pH of ...

In this study, a set of laboratory experiments was carried out to study the parameters hydraulic fractures induced in dry and mineral-oil-saturated rocks compare them with geomechanical characteristics tested samples. We chose sandstone thermally treated granite as materials for research. There are very few known studies related mechanical acoustic properties oil-saturated rocks, even fewer des...