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Hydraulic Fracturing in Geological Processes: A Review

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Hydraulic fracturing and geothermal energy

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In the Earth’s crust there occur many emplacement bodies and fissure-filling columns, such as salt plugs, igneous stocks, sheet intrusions, clastic dikes, and mineral veins. Since they were formed with relation to the activity of some fluid materials, such as plastic salt, magma, water, aqueous solution, they may be analogs of hydraulic fractures. With the increase of pore-pressure, rocks become weak and also brittle even under a relatively high confining pressure. This implies that the pore-pressure affects the fracture pattern as well as the strength of rocks.

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    Siavouche Nemat-Nasser (Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics) (Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics)

  2. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Hiroyuki Abé (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) (Professor of Mechanical Engineering)

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    Seiichi Hirakawa (Professor of Mineral Development Engineering) (Professor of Mineral Development Engineering)

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Shoji, T., Takenouchi, S. (1983). Hydraulic Fracturing in Geological Processes: A Review. In: Nemat-Nasser, S., Abé, H., Hirakawa, S. (eds) Hydraulic fracturing and geothermal energy. Mechanics of elastic and inelastic solids, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6884-4_11

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