Porous Rock Fracture Mechanics: with Application to Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling and Structural Engineering

Porous Rock Failure Mechanics: Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling and Structural Engineering focuses on the fracture mechanics of porous rocks and modern simulation techniques for progressive quasi-static and dynamic fractures. The topics covered in this volume include a wide range of academic and industrial applications, including petroleum, mining, and civil engineering.

Chapters focus on advanced topics in the field of rock’s fracture mechanics and address theoretical concepts, experimental characterization, numerical simulation techniques, and their applications as appropriate. Each chapter reflects the current state-of-the-art in terms of the modern use of fracture simulation in industrial and academic sectors. Some of the major contributions in this volume include, but are not limited to: anisotropic elasto-plastic deformation mechanisms in fluid saturated porous rocks, dynamics of fluids transport in fractured rocks and simulation techniques, fracture mechanics and simulation techniques in porous rocks, fluid-structure interaction in hydraulic driven fractures, advanced numerical techniques for simulation of progressive fracture, including multiscale modeling, and micromechanical approaches for porous rocks, and quasi-static versus dynamic fractures in porous rocks.

This book will serve as an important resource for petroleum, geomechanics, drilling and structural engineers, R&D managers in industry and academia.

Includes a strong editorial team and quality experts as chapter authorsPresents topics identified for individual chapters are current, relevant, and interestingFocuses on advanced topics, such as fluid coupled fractures, rock’s continuum damage mechanics, and multiscale modelingProvides a ‘one-stop’ advanced-level reference for a graduate course focusing on rock’s mechanics

Part I Introduction 1. Application of Rock Failure Simulation in design optimization of the hydraulic fracturing 2. Importance of rock’s failure studies in drilling technology 3. Rock’s fracture in structural engineering

Part II Coupled fluid structural deformation and fracture mechanisms in porous rocks 4. Anisotropic Poroelasticity in Fluid Saturated Porous Media: Effect of confining pressure and elevated temperature 5. Anisotropic poroplasticity in saturated porous media, Effect of confining pressure and elevated temperature 6. Fracture Mechanics in Porous Rocks: Introduction and Basics of Modeling 7. Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rocks 8. Fluid Driven Fracture and coupling between fluid and rock’s fracture governing relations

Part III Progressive fracture 9. Cohesive Zone Models 10. Discrete Elements Approach 11. Enriched finite element method 12. Anisotropic Continuum Damage Mechanics

Part IV Advanced topics and future prospects 13. Multiscale Modeling Approaches and Micromechanics of porous rocks 14. Principles of Dynamic Fracture Simulation Techniques