Investigation on the breakdown characteristic and crack extension mechanism of heat-treated granite under cycle hydraulic fracturing

H Dai, T Yin, Y Wu, J Ma, Y Chen, X Li - Geothermics, 2025 - Elsevier
To address the lack of research on breakdown characteristics of heat-treated rock under
cyclic hydraulic fracturing (CHF). In this study, the breakdown mechanism and crack …

Experimental research on hydraulic fracture evolution characteristics of multi-well pad fracturing in a tight conglomerate reservoir

B Zhang, T Guo, M Chen, L Xue, Y Zhang, Z Hu… - Engineering Fracture …, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural gas is considered a cleaner and more efficient energy pillar than oil and coal, so it
has become one of the focuses of global energy exploitation. The tight conglomerate gas …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of Temperature and Bedding Planes on the Mode I Fracture Toughness and Fracture Energy of Oil Shale Under Real-Time High-Temperature …

S Yang, Q Zhang, D Yang - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
The anisotropic fracture characteristics of oil shale are crucial in determining reservoir
modification parameters and pyrolysis efficiency during in situ oil shale pyrolysis. Therefore …

Differential evolution of the anisotropic fracture characteristics of laminated rock under monotonic and fatigue loading

C Li, Y Deng, H Xie, P Chu, Y Liu - Theoretical and Applied Fracture …, 2025 - Elsevier
To study the difference anisotropic fracture evolution of laminated rock between monotonic
loading and fatigue loading, this study conducts three-point bending and real-time digital …

Numerical investigation of mode I fracture toughness anisotropy of deeply textured shale

Z Cui, B Hou - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The fracturing behavior of shale is controlled by the complex interaction between texture
plane and rock matrix. This study develops a numerical model of semicircular bending of …