Tag: rock mechanics

A new FLAC3D modeling study shows that including the intermediate principal stress in an extended Hoek–Brown criterion sharply reduces predicted ...

A random forest model trained on acoustic emission signals from granite hydraulic fracturing experiments forecast specimen failure up to 1800 ...

A two-stage clustering algorithm presented in Hydrogeology Journal automatically reconstructs fracture-network geometry from borehole images, reaching over 75 percent accuracy ...

A new perspective paper proposes a framework for actively steering and limiting thermally induced cracks in rocks, supported by analytical ...

Laboratory tests show flowing water cuts the compressive strength of layered sandstone by about 41 percent and sharply increases bedding ...

A new review traces nearly a century of rock mechanics research and argues that modern geoenergy and geological storage systems ...

Researchers have developed a clamp-based direct tensile testing procedure for short cylindrical rock cores and composite samples with axial interfaces, ...

Researchers have derived an analytical solution for stresses around shallow tunnels excavated in transversely isotropic rock masses, incorporating surcharge loads, ...

Laboratory flow-through experiments on Entrada Sandstone show that reaction with CO2-enriched fluid changed permeability, strain and elastic properties, and removed ...

A physics-informed generative adversarial network produced 944 physically consistent synthetic rock-strength records from 944 laboratory measurements, preserving key UCS–porosity–density relationships.