Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES
Volume 119, Issue -, Pages 140-148Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2019.04.006
Keywords
Fractured rock mass; Hydro-mechanical coupling; FEM; Hydraulic stimulation; Affiliations
Funding
- University of Ulsan [2013-0100]
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Fractures control the hydro-mechanical behavior of rock masses. Explicit numerical analyses require detailed information on fracture properties, spacing, and orientation. This paper advances an implicit joint-continuum model for the coupled hydro-mechanical analysis of regularly spaced-persistent fractured rock masses. The stiffness tensor combines the compliance of each fracture set and the intact rock; similarly, the permeability tensor adds the fluid transport through fractures and the matrix. The fully coupled hydro-mechanical analysis incorporates the rock mass stiffness and permeability tensors, and satisfies force equilibrium and macroscopic fluid mass balance. We implement the implicit joint-continuum model within a finite element framework and verify the numerical simulator against closed-form solutions for simple boundary conditions. The application of the code to the hydraulic stimulation of a fractured rock mass shows the effect of stress anisotropy and fracture orientation on the development of open-mode discontinuities (i.e., hydraulic fracture) and hydro-shearing. The implicit joint-continuum model can be readily extended to more complex coupled processes, including thermal and chemical phenomena.
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