Naturally fractured reservoirs are indescribable systems to characterize and difficult to produce and forecast. For the development of such reservoirs, the role of naturally forming fractures in the different development stages needs to be recognized...
At present, assessment techniques for the fracability of shale reservoirs, which rely on the formation of an effective fracture network, are scarce. Hence, in order to assess the fracability, it is critical to establish a quantitative correlation bet...
Current tests for plane stress characterization of fracture in automotive sheet metals include simple shear, uniaxial, plane strain, and biaxial tension, but there is a significant gap between shear and uniaxial tension. Presently, it remains uncerta...
A novel approach for the fracture characterization of soft adhesive materials using spiral cracking patterns is presented in this study. This research particularly focuses on hydrocarbon polymeric materials, such as asphalt binders. Ten different asp...
The application of braided composite materials in the automotive industry requires an in-depth understanding of the mechanical properties. To date, the intralaminar fracture toughness of braided composite materials, typically used for describing post...
The use of continuous fiber as reinforcement in polymer additive manufacturing technologies enhances the mechanical performance of the manufactured parts. This is the case of the Carbon-Fiber reinforced PolyAmide (CF/PA) used by the MarkForged MarkTw...
Acoustic emission (AE) technology is widely used in structural health monitoring. Glass sand (GS) made from waste glass is a promising replacement aggregate for quartz sand (QS) in ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC). This paper addresses the effe...
In the basement fractured reservoirs, geometric parameters of fractures constitute the main properties for modeling and prediction of reservoir behavior and then fluid flow. This study aims to propose geometric description and quantify the multiscale...
Adhesive bonding has been increasingly employed in multiple industrial applications. This has led to a large industrial demand for faster, simpler, and cheaper characterization methods that allow engineers to predict the mechanical behavior of an adh...
In this paper, we characterized the natural fracture systems and inferred the state of in situ stress field through an integrated study in a very complex and heterogeneous fractured carbonate reservoir. Relative magnitudes and orientations of the in-...
Using the conventional fracture parameters is difficult to characterize and predict the complex natural fractures in the tight conglomerate reservoirs. In order to quantify the fracture behaviors, a fractal method was presented in this work. Firstly,...
The combination of lidar and digital photography provides a new technology for creating a high-resolution 3D digital outcrop model. The digital outcrop model can accurately and conveniently depict the surface 3D properties of an outcrop profile, maki...
To address the difficulty in the characterization of the geomechanical properties of reservoirs in petroleum engineering using the traditional formula, due to the complexity of the reservoir, this study proposes a framework of inverse analysis to cha...
Additive manufacturing technologies are essential in biomedical modeling and prototyping. Polymer-based bone models are widely used in simulating surgical interventions and procedures. Distal forearm fractures are the most common pediatric fractures,...
Accurate characterization of fracture roughness is critical for modeling groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured rock aquifers, where subsurface heterogeneity significantly impacts contaminant migration and water resource management. This...
Characterization of stress-dependent single-phase and multiphase fluid transport in fractured geo-materials is essential for a wide range of applications, including CO2 sequestration, energy storage, and geo-energy extraction. However, pivotal studie...
This paper introduces a new formability test based on double-action radial extrusion to characterize material formability in the three-dimensional to plane-stress material flow transitions that are found in bulk metal-formed parts. The presentation d...
The proficient application of multistage fracturing methods enhances the status of the Duvernay shale formation as a highly esteemed shale reservoir on a global scale. Nevertheless, the challenge is in accurately characterizing unconventional fractur...
Tensile fracture behavior of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) was investigated using characterization tools. First, a high-speed infrared camera was used to monitor the surface temperature of the CMC specimen during mechanical testing. An infrared ca...
The tectonically deformed coal (TDC) reservoirs with abundant gas resources and low permeability are expected to become one of the target coal seams for carbon dioxide geological storage-enhanced coalbed methane recovery (CO2-ECBM). The pore–fr...
Reservoir simulation for unconventional reservoirs requires proper history matching (HM) to quantify the uncertainties of fracture properties and proper modeling methods to address complex fracture geometry. An integrated method, namely embedded disc...
(1) Modeling and characterization of ductile fracture in metals is still a challenging task in the field of computational mechanics. Experimental testing offers specific responses in the form of crack-mouth (CMOD) and crack-tip (CTOD) opening displac...
Cageless ball bearings with discrete grooves in the outer raceway enable the dispersion of rolling elements. Once worn, the discrete groove can cause the rolling element to discretely fail. This paper presents the discrete element method to investiga...
Nowadays, lithium-ion batteries are one of the most widespread energy storage systems, being extensively employed in a large variety of applications. A significant effort has been made to develop advanced materials and manufacturing processes with th...
In situ nanoindentation experiments have been widely adopted to characterize material behaviors of microelectronic devices. This work introduces the latest developments of nanoindentation experiments in the characterization of nonlinear material prop...
Fractured aquifers, especially dolomites, are important hydrocarbon reservoirs and sources of thermal and groundwater in many parts of the world, especially in the Alpine-Dinaric-Carpathian region. The most dominant porosity type is fracture porosity...
This study proposes a data-driven framework to predict the rock mass-specific fracture energy distributions using microstructural descriptors extracted from SEM-EDS automated characterization images. Ore textures were encoded through unsupervised k-m...
In the frame of a regional study that is aimed at defining the landslide susceptibility in the upper Susa Valley (Western Italian Alps), this paper investigated the variation in the fracture network of rock masses in correspondence to faults zones. F...
Fracture systems critically govern coal seam permeability, influencing hydrocarbon migration pathways and well placement strategies. We established a predictive framework for fracture characterization in thin-interbedded coal reservoirs by integratin...
Scanlines constitute a robust method to better understand in 3D the fracture network variability in naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs. This study aims to characterize the spacing variability and the distribution of fracture patterns in a frac...
The deformation and fracture characterization of an Mg−2Sn−1Ca alloy were studied through uniaxial isothermal compression tests. The flow stress curves, the efficiency of power dissipation, the instability parameter and the fracture behav...
The experimental study of shale fracture development is very important. As a channel of permeability, a fracture has a great influence on the development of shale gas. This study presents the results of a fracture evaluation in the Silurian Longmaxi...
The use of mini-CT specimens for the fracture characterization of structural steels is currently a topic of great interest from both scientific and technical points of view, mainly driven by the needs and requirements of the nuclear industry. In fact...
Fatigue and fracture prediction in composite materials using cohesive zone models depends on accurately characterizing the core and facesheet interface in advanced composite sandwich structures. This study investigates the use of machine learning alg...
This study investigates the influence of temperature and loading rate on the Mode I and Mode II interlaminar fracture behavior of carbon-nanotubes-enhanced carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CNT-CFRP). CNT-induced toughening of the epoxy matrix is char...
A numerical characterization of a fractured rock mass and its mechanical behavior using a discontinuum approach was carried out utilizing lattice-spring-based synthetic rock mass (LS-SRM) models. First, LS-SRM models on a laboratory scale were create...
A central challenge in tight fault-depression reservoirs is understanding how three-dimensional fracture structures control gas storage and flow. This study introduces a data-driven, geologically informed framework that integrates structural-mechanic...
Dissolving microneedles (MNs) are novel transdermal drug delivery systems that can be painlessly self-administered. This study investigated the effects of experimental conditions on the mechanical characterization of dissolving MNs for quality evalua...
Hydraulic fracturing with a horizontal well is the core technology for the efficient development of unconventional oil and gas resources such as tight oil. Quantitative characterization of formation pressure changes in tight oil reservoirs is of grea...
The cross-section effect leads to variations in the microstructure and thickness of marine engineering steel thick plates, which may result in delaminated tearing and a reduction in material plasticity and fracture toughness. The microstructural char...
Fracture healing failure affects millions globally, yet early molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study aimed to characterize initial fracture response through analyzing peripheral blood hematology, multiplex cytokine profiles, and mi...
To achieve an accurate and comprehensive characterization of the multiscale pore–fracture characteristics of Permian coal in the Jingbian Block, Ordos Basin, a combination of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray computed tomography (CT), a...
Hydraulic fracturing-assisted oil displacement (HFAOD) can improve the productivity of offshore low-permeability reservoirs, but challenges such as rapid productivity decline, difficulty in controlling fracture height, and unclear influence of geolog...
Mechanical and chemical processes experienced by carbonate rocks result in a complex network of natural fractures and dissolution features that have direct implications on porosity, permeability, and connectivity in reservoirs. Characterization of na...
A rock fracture test is a very important method in the study of rock mechanics. Based on the Mechanics Test System (MTS), the dynamic strain response of the failure process of cylindrical granite specimens under uniaxial compression was observed by u...
This research introduces an innovative fractal–fractional synergy framework for multiscale analysis of stress field dynamics in geo-energy systems. By integrating fractional calculus with multiscale fractal dimension analysis, we develop a coup...
Geomechanical characterization plays a key role in optimizing the stimulation treatment of tight reservoir formations. Petrophysical models help classify the reservoir rock as the conventional or unconventional type and determine hydrocarbon-saturate...
It is well known that the use of continuous reinforcing fibers can largely improve the typical low in-plane mechanical properties of 3D-printed parts. However, there is very limited research on the characterization of the interlaminar fracture toughn...
The successful exploration of dimension stone mainly depends on the quality, size, and shape of extractable blocks of dimension stone. The investigated area is in the Pelješac Peninsula (Croatia), in the External Dinarides orogeny, built from...
Quantitative characterization of discontinuities is fundamental to define the mechanical behavior of discontinuous rock masses. Several techniques for the semi-automatic and automatic extraction of discontinuities and their properties from raw or pro...
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