Investigating the interaction of hydraulic fracture with pre-existing joints based on lattice spring modeling

Computer simulation of hydraulic fractures

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Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering +14

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

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Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geology +17

Numerical analysis of initiation and progressive failure in natural rock slopes—the 1991 Randa rockslide

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Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering +17

An experimentally verified criterion for propagation across unbounded frictional interfaces in brittle, linear elastic materials

Carl E. Renshaw, David D. Pollard · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts · 1995 · 557 citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +15

The synthetic rock mass approach for jointed rock mass modelling

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Engineering, Geological Engineering, Mining Engineering +14