The purpose of this paper is to review the development and the state of the art in desiccation
cracking characterization methods and review the desiccation cracking behaviors of soils …

Abstract Development of numerical methods for hydraulic fracture simulation has
accelerated in the past two decades. Recent advances in hydraulic fracture modeling and …

The prediction of fluid-and moisture-driven crack propagation in deforming porous media
has achieved increasing interest in recent years, in particular with regard to the modeling of …

In this paper, a fully coupled numerical model is developed for the modeling of the hydraulic
fracture propagation in porous media using the extended finite element method in …

This work develops new minimization and saddle point principles for the coupled problem of
Darcy–Biot-type fluid transport in porous media at fracture. It shows that the quasi-static …

The problem of desiccation cracks in soils has received increasing attention in the last few
years, in both experimental investigations and modeling. Experimental research has been …

A systematic hybrid approach for modelling the hydraulic fracturing process of
heterogeneous rocks with irregular inclusions is developed. This approach is based on a …

We present a novel phase field method for modeling hydraulic fracture propagation in
poroelastic media. In this approach, a new phase field evolution equation is derived to …

Based on the combined finite–discrete element method (FDEM), this paper presents a
moisture diffusion–fracture coupling model to simulate soil desiccation cracking. The …

Dynamics of the widespread saturated and semi-saturated soil–rock mixtures (SRMs) are of
importance in practical engineering. In this paper, a numerical manifold model is presented …