Branching of hydraulic cracks enabling permeability of gas or oil shale with closed natural fractures.
Rahimi-Aghdam S, Chau VT, Lee H, Nguyen H, Li W, Karra S, Rougier E, Viswanathan H, Srinivasan G, Bažant ZP.
Rahimi-Aghdam S, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jan 29;116(5):1532-1537. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1818529116. Epub 2019 Jan 11.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.
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A finite element crack band model, based on a recently developed anisotropic spherocylindrical microplane constitutive law, demonstrates these findings [Rahimi-Aghdam S, et al. (2018) arXiv:1212.11023]....
A finite element crack band model, based on a recently developed anisotropic spherocylindrical microplane constitutive law, demonstrates the …