A laboratory acoustic emission experiment and numerical simulation of rock fracture driven by a high-pressure fluid source

Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-34

  Lei, Xinglin ^a,b   Funatsu, Takahiro ^a,c   Ma, Shengli ^b   Liu, Liqiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission (AE); Fluid injection; Fracture; Laboratory experiment; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINING PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID INJECTION; FRACTURE; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 84969822780     PISSN: 16747755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrmge.2015.02.010     Document Type: Article

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