Coalescence of thermal fractures initiated at parallel cooling surfaces

• Published in: Engineering Computations
• Main Authors: Chen, Bin, Zhou, Quanlin, Wang, Yuan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Emerald 2023
• Subjects: Long Rock
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ec-10-2022-0634; https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/EC-10-2022-0634/full/xml; https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/EC-10-2022-0634/full/html

Purpose Thermal fractures initiated under cooling at the surfaces of a 2-D or 3-D structure propagate, arrest and coalesce, leading to its structural failure and material-property changes, while the same processes can happen in the rock mass between parallel hydraulic fractures filled with cold flui...