Effective storage and containment of injected fluids, over a range of spatial and temporal
scales, is reliant upon the sealing capacity of the lithologies overlying geological stores. Low …

The stability of geological environment in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) has
experienced severe challenges due to the 30 m hydro-fluctuation belt (HFB). The vertical …

Over the last 30 years, discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling has been increasingly
utilized in various practical applications in geoengineering and geosciences. The geometric …

In this study, the cracked straight through Brazilian disc (CSTBD) specimen was applied to
study the I/II mixed mode static fracture of diorite. The fracture load and fracture toughness …

The influence of the loading rate on the mode I fracture property of rocks has been
extensively investigated through experiments. However, the rate-effect of the dynamic mode …

Surfaces of rocks are usually not perfectly “smooth”, and two box-counting methods, ie the
conventional cubic covering method (CCM) and improved cubic covering method (ICCM) …

For engineering projects in cold regions, the failure behaviour of jointed rocks is affected by
freeze–thaw (FT) cycle action. To reveal the fracture characteristics of rock under the …

A rock mechanics test system and the acoustic emission (AE) test system were employed to
perform experiments on bedded rock salt samples under uniaxial compression and indirect …

This paper presents qualitative and quantitative analysis of single and multiphase flow in a
single fracture based on experimental results and demonstrates relationships between the …

Fracture networks play a more significant role in conducting fluid flow and solute transport in
fractured rock masses, comparing with that of the rock matrix. Accurate estimation of the …