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Volume 52, Issue 2

February 2019

Special Issue: Hydraulic Fracturing in Hard Rocks

Issue Editors:

Arno Zang,
Arno Zang,
Ove Stephansson

23 articles in this issue

Water, CO₂ and Argon Permeabilities of Intact and Fractured Shale Cores Under Stress
Reinier van Noort
Viktoriya Yarushina
Original Paper Open access 28 September 2018 Pages: 299 - 319
Mechanical Behavior of Claystone in Lateral Decompression Test and Thermal Effect
Zaobao Liu
Jianfu Shao
Jean Talandier
Original Paper 18 August 2018 Pages: 321 - 334
Anisotropy Characteristics of Stress Relaxation in Coal: An Improved Fractional Derivative Constitutive Model
Tingting Cai
Zengchao Feng
Xiaoqiang Zhang
Original Paper 28 September 2018 Pages: 335 - 349
Lugeon Tests at Partial Saturation: Experimental and Empirical Contributions
Brendon R. Jones
J. Louis Van Rooy
Matthys A. Dippenaar
Original Paper 14 September 2018 Pages: 351 - 372
Analysis on the Precursor Information of Water Inrush in Karst Tunnels: A True Triaxial Model Test Study
Shucai Li
Chenglu Gao
Jing Wang
Original Paper 03 September 2018 Pages: 373 - 384
A Method for Estimating the Highest Potential Hydraulic Conductivity in the Excavation Damaged Zone in Mudstone
Kazuhei Aoyagi
Eiichi Ishii
Original Paper 20 August 2018 Pages: 385 - 401
An SHPB Test Study on Stress Wave Energy Attenuation in Jointed Rock Masses
J. C. Li
L. F. Rong
S. N. Hong
Original Paper 17 September 2018 Pages: 403 - 420
Gas Pressure Prediction Model for Carbon Dioxide Injection in a Large-Scale Coal Matrix Experiment
Wen Nie
Lin Chen
Yulong Chen
Original Paper 06 September 2018 Pages: 421 - 433
The Influence of Admixtures on the Hydration Process of Soundless Cracking Demolition Agents (SCDA) for Fragmentation of Saturated Deep Geological Reservoir Rock Formations
V. R. S. De Silva
P. G. Ranjith
T. D. Rathnaweera
Original Paper 01 October 2018 Pages: 435 - 454
Experimental Study of Multiple-Step Triaxial Compression for the Determination of Rock Strength Parameters
Junpeng Zou
Yu-Yong Jiao
Technical Note 04 October 2018 Pages: 455 - 463
The Stress Conditions of Rock Core Disking Based on an Energy Analysis
Jie Li
Pengxian Fan
Mingyang Wang
Technical Note 01 November 2018 Pages: 465 - 470
Special Issue “Hydraulic Fracturing in Hard Rock”
Arno Zang
Ove Stephansson
Editorial 04 February 2019 Pages: 471 - 473
How to Reduce Fluid-Injection-Induced Seismicity
Arno Zang
Günter Zimmermann
Kwang Yeom Kim
Original Paper 17 April 2018 Pages: 475 - 493
Permeability Enhancement and Fracture Development of Hydraulic In Situ Experiments in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden
Günter Zimmermann
Arno Zang
Hana Semiková
Original Paper 15 May 2018 Pages: 495 - 515
Stress Measurements for an In Situ Stimulation Experiment in Crystalline Rock: Integration of Induced Seismicity, Stress Relief and Hydraulic Methods
Hannes Krietsch
Valentin Gischig
Florian Amann
Original Paper 27 September 2018 Pages: 517 - 542
Crack Expansion and Fracturing Mode of Hydraulic Refracturing from Acoustic Emission Monitoring in a Small-Scale Field Experiment
Tsuyoshi Ishida
Wataru Fujito
Hiroya Matsui
Original Paper 02 January 2019 Pages: 543 - 553
Effect of Foliation and Fluid Viscosity on Hydraulic Fracturing Tests in Mica Schists Investigated Using Distinct Element Modeling and Field Data
Márton Pál Farkas
Jeoung Seok Yoon
Gyula Dankó
Original Paper 03 October 2018 Pages: 555 - 574
Effect of Water Infiltration, Injection Rate and Anisotropy on Hydraulic Fracturing Behavior of Granite
Li Zhuang
Kwang Yeom Kim
Ki-Bok Min
Original Paper Open access 14 February 2018 Pages: 575 - 589
A Numerical Study on the Effect of Anisotropy on Hydraulic Fractures
V. Valliappan
J. J. C. Remmers
D. M. J. Smeulders
Original Paper Open access 24 November 2017 Pages: 591 - 609
Modeling Three-Dimensional Fluid-Driven Propagation of Multiple Fractures using TOUGH-FEMM
Xuhai Tang
Jonny Rutqvist
Nithin Manohar Rayudu
Original Paper 02 January 2019 Pages: 611 - 627
Laboratory Pulse Test of Hydraulic Fracturing on Granitic Sample Cores from Äspö HRL, Sweden
O. Stephansson
H. Semikova
A. Zang
Technical Note 17 February 2018 Pages: 629 - 633
Comments on: The Effects of Density and Porosity on the Correlation Between Uniaxial Compressive Strength and P-wave Velocity by Amin Jamshidi, Hasan Zamanian, Reza Zarei Sahamieh, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2018) 51:1279–1286
Saffet Yagiz
Discussion 04 December 2018 Pages: 635 - 638
Reply to the Discussion by Saffet Yagiz on “The Effect of Density and Porosity on the Correlation Between Uniaxial Compressive Strength and P-Wave Velocity”
Amin Jamshidi
Reply 19 January 2019 Pages: 639 - 640