Modeling shale with consideration of bedding planes by cohesive finite element method

Shale contains distributed directional bedding planes, which make the shale transverse isotropic. To model shale with consideration of the bedding planes, a cohesive finite element method (CFEM) is developed based on the randomized triangular mesh. The interface orientation generated from such mesh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chunfang Li, Zhennan Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-11-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095034919300698