Elliptical fracture network modeling with validation in Datong Mine, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 7089-7101

  Jin, Wencheng ^a   Gao, Mingzhong ^a   Yu, Bin ^b   Zhang, Ru ^a   Xie, Jing ^a   Qiu, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tongxin Coal Mine   (China)

Author keywords

Elliptical fracture; Fracture network; Probability distributions; Rock mechanics; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COAL; COAL MINES; FRACTURE; METAL RECOVERY; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

COAL RECOVERY RATE; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE NETWORK MODELS; GAS EXTRACTIONS; INTERSECTION TYPES; MATLAB TOOLBOXES; STATISTICAL MODELING; STRUCTURAL HOMOGENEITY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84939939717     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4158-4     Document Type: Article

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