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Xiaoyu Tang, Wen Wan, Zhenxing Lu and Wei Chen
To investigate the influence of non-singular terms (T stress) in the stress field on the composite fractures of hard rock Type I?II, such as rock splitting failure and hydraulic fracture propagation, this study focused on hard rocks in metallic mines. Th...
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Zhu Li, Chengen Qi, Rui Gao, Bin Yu, Yiran Zhu, Hong Zhang and Jingyu Zhang
Fracturing hard roofs by ground hydraulic action is an important control technology for the strong mine pressure in the stope. In this paper, a new simulation method, ?separate + interface,? is proposed, and two physical simulation experiments are conduc...
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Dennis Delali Kwesi Wayo, Sonny Irawan, Alfrendo Satyanaga and Jong Kim
Data-driven models with some evolutionary optimization algorithms, such as particle swarm optimization (PSO) and ant colony optimization (ACO) for hydraulic fracturing of shale reservoirs, have in recent times been validated as one of the best-performing...
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Sotirios Nik. Longinos, Azza Hashim Abbas, Arman Bolatov, Piotr Skrzypacz and Randy Hazlett
Research of microstructure and permeability evolution of coal following LN2 treatment elucidate the process of cryogenic fracturing due to environmentally friendly behavior in comparison with conventional hydraulic fracturing. The evolution of the 2D mic...
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Liming Zhang, Xingyu Zhou, Jijia Sun, Peiyin Jiang, Zhihao Lu and Cheng Cheng
The stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) technology extends conventional fracturing technology. Understanding how to effectively and accurately determine modified fracture shape and volume is the key point to evaluating the stimulation effect. Using electro...
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Shuaifang Guo, Yunxing Cao, Li Wang, Xinsheng Zhang, Wenying Zhang, Haixiao Lin, Zhengzheng Cao and Bingbing Meng
Confining stress response is considered an accompanying behavior of hydraulic fracturing. Along these lines, an evaluation model of confining stress response was presented in this work. It was established on a rock representative volume element (RVE) and...
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Mohammed Ali Badjadi, Hanhua Zhu, Cunquan Zhang and Muhammad Safdar
The escalating production of shale gas and oil, witnessed prominently in developed nations over the past decade, has sparked interest in prospective development, even in developing countries like Algeria. However, this growth is accompanied by significan...
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George Xiroudakis, George Saratsis and Ilias Lazos
This paper uses the displacement discontinuity method, one of the boundary element methods, to solve two major engineering problems. The first one addresses the safe design of underground excavations in fractured rock masses. The implemented method was u...
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Elena V. Novikova, Mariia A. Trimonova, Sergey B. Turuntaev, Evgeny V. Zenchenko and Petr E. Zenchenko
This work presents an analysis of data obtained through unique laboratory experiments on hydraulic fracturing. In the experiments, sufficiently large artificial samples were used to model a reservoir. Thus, it was possible to simulate several wells simul...
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Shihao Wang, Xiangyu Yu, Philip H. Winterfeld and Yu-Shu Wu
Real-time simulation of hydraulic fracturing operations is of critical importance to the field-scale stimulation applications. In this paper, we present an efficient yet reasonably accurate program for the numerical modeling of dynamic fractures. Our pro...
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