A New Criterion for a Toughness-Dominated Hydraulic Fracture Crossing a Natural Frictional Interface

Yielding of steel sheets containing slits

D.S. Dugdale · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1960 · 7.6K citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +9

Widths of Hydraulic Fractures

T.K. Perkins, L.R. Kern · Journal of Petroleum Technology · 1961 · 1.4K citations

Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geology +17

A Rapid Method of Predicting Width and Extent of Hydraulically Induced Fractures

J. Geertsma, F. De Klerk · Journal of Petroleum Technology · 1969 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Engineering, Geological Engineering, Petroleum Engineering +16

Propagation of a Vertical Hydraulic Fracture

R. P. Nordgren · Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal · 1972 · 1.2K citations

Engineering, Geological Engineering, Petroleum Engineering +16

Influence of Geologic Discontinuities on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation (includes associated papers 17011 and 17074 )

N. R. Warpinski, Lawrence W. Teufel · Journal of Petroleum Technology · 1987 · 965 citations

Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geology +17