Integrating damage zone heterogeneities based on stochastic realizations of fracture networks for fault stability analysis

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 325-336

  Nguyen, Trung Kien ^a   Pouya, Ahmad ^b   Rohmer, Jérémy ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Fault shear reactivation; Fluid injection into porous reservoirs; Homogenization; Poroelasticity; Reservoir engineering; Rock mechanics

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; ROCK MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

DAMAGE ZONES; FAULT SHEAR REACTIVATION; FLUID INJECTION INTO POROUS RESERVOIR; FLUID INJECTIONS; FRACTURE NETWORK; HOMOGENIZATION; PORO-ELASTICITY; POROUS RESERVOIRS; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; STOCHASTIC REALIZATION;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOT THEORY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; POROELASTICITY; ROCK MECHANICS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84945254612     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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