H53C:
Fracturing and Near-Fracture Processes II Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Laura J Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue Univ, Department of Physics, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Laura J Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue Univ, Department of Physics, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Peter S Nico, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Peter S Nico, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

864
 
Impact of Wettability on Fracturing of Nano-Granular Materials
Mathias Trojer and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
865
 
Fracture patterns in synclinal folds, Miaofengshan, Beijing
Xiaoxue Zhuang Liu1, Zonghu Liao1 and Zeev Reches2, (1)China University of Petroleum, College of Geosciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
866
 
MICROMECHANICAL ASPECTS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PROCESSES
Sergio-andres Galindo-torres1, Somayeh Behraftar1, Alexander Scheuermann2, Ling Li3 and David Williams2, (1)University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (2)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, (3)Hohai University, State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing, China
867
 
Investigation of Crack Propagation in Rock using Discrete Sphero-Polyhedral Element Method
Somayeh Behraftar1, Sergio-andres Galindo-torres1, Alexander Scheuermann2, Ling Li3 and David Williams2, (1)University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (2)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, (3)Hohai University, State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing, China
868
 
Permeability of calcite-cemented fractures in mudrocks: Flow highway or hindrance?
Christopher James Landry1, Peter Eichhubl1, Masa Prodanovic2 and Adenike Tokan-Lawal1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States
869
 
Studying Cryogenic Fracturing Process and Fracture Morphology using Transparent Specimens
Minsu Cha1, Xiaolong Yin1, Timothy J Kneafsey2, Yu-Shu Wu1, Naif Alqahtani1, Taylor Patterson1, Bowen Yao1 and Jennifer Miskimins1, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
870
 
Laboratory Visualization Experiments of Temperature-induced Fractures Around a Borehole (Cryogenic Fracturing) in Shale and Analogue Rock Samples
Timothy J Kneafsey1, Seiji Nakagawa1, Yu-Shu Wu2 and Sumit Mukhopadhyay1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
871
 
Laboratory Experiments on Wave Emissions Generated by the Variable Viscosity of Fracturing Fluids
Arash Dahi Taleghani and Juan M Lorenzo, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
872
 
Influence of Natural Fractures Cohesive Properties on Geometry of Hydraulic Fracture Networks
Miguel Alejandro Gonzalez-Chavez, Arash Dahi Taleghani and Ping Puyang, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
873
 
Discrete fracture modeling of hydro-mechanical damage processes in geological systems
Kunhwi Kim, Jonny Rutqvist, James E. Houseworth and Jens T Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
874
 
Cohesive model applied to fracture propagation in Indiana Limestone
Thomas A Dewers1, Alex J Rinehart2 and Joseph E Bishop1, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States
875
 
Gravity-Driven Hydraulic Fractures
Leonid N Germanovich, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States, Dmitry Garagash, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, Larry C Murdoch, Clemson Univ, Clemson, SC, United States and Marvin Robinowitz, Grand Resources, Tulsa, OK, United States
876
 
Optimizing Hydraulic Fracture Spacing and Frac Timing in Unconventionals – Taking Advantage of Time-Dependent Pressure Diffusion
Farrokh Sheibani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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