Coupled phase-field and plasticity modeling of geological materials: From brittle fracture to ductile flow

J Choo, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The failure behavior of geological materials depends heavily on confining pressure and
strain rate. Under a relatively low confining pressure, these materials tend to fail by brittle …

Predicting the effective mechanical property of heterogeneous materials by image based modeling and deep learning

X Li, Z Liu, S Cui, C Luo, C Li, Z Zhuang - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2019 - Elsevier
In contrast to the composition uniformity of homogeneous materials, heterogeneous
materials are normally composed of two or more distinctive constituents. It is usually …

Instrumented nanoindentation and 3D mechanistic modeling of a shale at multiple scales

KC Bennett, LA Berla, WD Nix, RI Borja - Acta Geotechnica, 2015 - Springer
Nanoindentation tests, spanning various length scales ranging from 200 nm to 5 μm deep,
were performed on a sample of organic-rich Woodford shale in both the bedding plane …

A SPH approach for large deformation analysis with hypoplastic constitutive model

C Peng, W Wu, H Yu, C Wang - Acta Geotechnica, 2015 - Springer
A hypoplastic constitutive model is implemented in a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code
for the first time. An improved wall boundary treatment is presented for better performance …

Control-volume distributed multi-point flux approximation coupled with a lower-dimensional fracture model

R Ahmed, MG Edwards, S Lamine… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
A cell-centered control-volume distributed multi-point flux approximation (CVD-MPFA) finite-
volume formulation is presented for discrete fracture-matrix simulations. The grid is aligned …

Hydromechanical modeling of unsaturated flow in double porosity media

J Choo, JA White, RI Borja - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Geomaterials with aggregated structure or containing fissures often exhibit a bimodal pore
size distribution that can be viewed as two coexisting pore regions of different scales. The …

Stabilized mixed finite elements for deformable porous media with double porosity

J Choo, RI Borja - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Natural geomaterials such as fissured rocks and aggregated soils often exhibit a pore size
distribution with two dominant pore scales, usually termed macropores and micropores …

Microstructural and mechanical property characterization of Argillaceous, Kerogen-rich, and Bituminous shale rocks

R Patel, Y Zhang, CW Lin, J Guerrero, Y Deng… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2022 - Elsevier
Shale rocks have become an indispensable natural gas and oil source. Hence, the
knowledge of the mechanical properties of shales is critical for field applications. In this …

Modeling fracture propagation in a rock‐water‐air system with the assumed enhanced strain method

F Liu - International Journal for Numerical Methods in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a fully coupled finite element method for the single cohesive fracture
propagation in a deformable porous medium (rock) interacting with two immiscible pore …

Three-dimensional control-volume distributed multi-point flux approximation coupled with a lower-dimensional surface fracture model

R Ahmed, MG Edwards, S Lamine… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel cell-centred control-volume distributed multi-point flux approximation (CVD-MPFA)
finite-volume formulation is presented for discrete fracture–matrix simulations on …