Some Fundamental Mechanisms of Hydraulic Fracturing

This dissertation focuses mainly on three topics: (1) mixed-mode branching and segmentation of hydraulic fractures in brittle materials, (2) hydraulic fracture propagation in particulate materials, and (3) hydraulic fracturing in water flooding conditions. Mixed-mode loading is one of the primary c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wu, Ruiting
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2006
Subjects:
DEM
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/10513