Experimental evaluation of fluid flow through artificial shear fracture in Granite

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn 30 I, Issue , 2006, Pages 361-366

  Watanabe, Noriaki ^a   Hirano, Nobuo ^a   Tsuchiya, Noriyoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coupling; Direct shear test; EGS; Flow; Flow through experiment; Fluid flow; Fracturing; Granite; Permeability; Shear fracture; Stress

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE MECHANICS; GRANITE; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COUPLING; SHEAR DISPLACEMENT; SHEAR FRACTURES; SHEAR TESTS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 34248152743     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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