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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Issue 2/2019

Special Issue: Hydraulic Fracturing in Hard Rocks

Content (23 Articles)

Open Access Original Paper

Water, CO2 and Argon Permeabilities of Intact and Fractured Shale Cores Under Stress

Reinier van Noort, Viktoriya Yarushina

Original Paper

Mechanical Behavior of Claystone in Lateral Decompression Test and Thermal Effect

Zaobao Liu, Jianfu Shao, Shouyi Xie, Nathalie Conil, Jean Talandier

Original Paper

Anisotropy Characteristics of Stress Relaxation in Coal: An Improved Fractional Derivative Constitutive Model

Tingting Cai, Zengchao Feng, Yulong Jiang, Dong Zhao, Xiaoqiang Zhang

Original Paper

Lugeon Tests at Partial Saturation: Experimental and Empirical Contributions

Brendon R. Jones, J. Louis Van Rooy, Matthys A. Dippenaar

Original Paper

Analysis on the Precursor Information of Water Inrush in Karst Tunnels: A True Triaxial Model Test Study

Shucai Li, Chenglu Gao, Zongqing Zhou, Liping Li, Meixia Wang, Yongcai Yuan, Jing Wang

Original Paper

An SHPB Test Study on Stress Wave Energy Attenuation in Jointed Rock Masses

J. C. Li, L. F. Rong, H. B. Li, S. N. Hong

Original Paper

Gas Pressure Prediction Model for Carbon Dioxide Injection in a Large-Scale Coal Matrix Experiment

Wen Nie, Lin Chen, Xin Wu, Hongwei Yang, Bobo Li, Yidu Hong, Yulong Chen

Technical Note

The Stress Conditions of Rock Core Disking Based on an Energy Analysis

Jie Li, Pengxian Fan, Mingyang Wang

Editorial

Special Issue “Hydraulic Fracturing in Hard Rock”

Arno Zang, Ove Stephansson

Original Paper

How to Reduce Fluid-Injection-Induced Seismicity

Arno Zang, Günter Zimmermann, Hannes Hofmann, Ove Stephansson, Ki-Bok Min, Kwang Yeom Kim

Original Paper

Permeability Enhancement and Fracture Development of Hydraulic In Situ Experiments in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden

Günter Zimmermann, Arno Zang, Ove Stephansson, Gerd Klee, Hana Semiková

Original Paper

Stress Measurements for an In Situ Stimulation Experiment in Crystalline Rock: Integration of Induced Seismicity, Stress Relief and Hydraulic Methods

Hannes Krietsch, Valentin Gischig, Keith Evans, Joseph Doetsch, Nathan Oliver Dutler, Benoît Valley, Florian Amann

Original Paper

Crack Expansion and Fracturing Mode of Hydraulic Refracturing from Acoustic Emission Monitoring in a Small-Scale Field Experiment

Tsuyoshi Ishida, Wataru Fujito, Hiroto Yamashita, Makoto Naoi, Hirokazu Fuji, Kenichirou Suzuki, Hiroya Matsui

Original Paper

Effect of Foliation and Fluid Viscosity on Hydraulic Fracturing Tests in Mica Schists Investigated Using Distinct Element Modeling and Field Data

Márton Pál Farkas, Jeoung Seok Yoon, Arno Zang, Günter Zimmermann, Ove Stephansson, Michael Lemon, Gyula Dankó

Open Access Original Paper

Effect of Water Infiltration, Injection Rate and Anisotropy on Hydraulic Fracturing Behavior of Granite

Li Zhuang, Kwang Yeom Kim, Sung Gyu Jung, Melvin Diaz, Ki-Bok Min

Open Access Original Paper

A Numerical Study on the Effect of Anisotropy on Hydraulic Fractures

V. Valliappan, J. J. C. Remmers, A. Barnhoorn, D. M. J. Smeulders

Original Paper

Modeling Three-Dimensional Fluid-Driven Propagation of Multiple Fractures using TOUGH-FEMM

Xuhai Tang, Jonny Rutqvist, Mengsu Hu, Nithin Manohar Rayudu

Technical Note

Laboratory Pulse Test of Hydraulic Fracturing on Granitic Sample Cores from Äspö HRL, Sweden

O. Stephansson, H. Semikova, G. Zimmermann, A. Zang