Crack deflection in brittle media with heterogeneous interfaces and its application in shale fracking | |
Zeng XG; Wei YJ(魏宇杰); Wei, YJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mech, LNM, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China. | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS |
2017-04-01 | |
卷号 | 101页码:235-249 |
ISSN | 0022-5096 |
摘要 | Driven by the rapid progress in exploiting unconventional energy resources such as shale gas there is growing interest in hydraulic fracture of brittle yet heterogeneous shales. In particular how hydraulic cracks interact with natural weak zones in sedimentary rocks to form permeable cracking networks is of significance in engineering practice. Such a process is typically influenced by crack deflection material anisotropy crack-surface friction crustal stresses and so on. In this work we extend the He-Hutchinson theory (He and Hutchinson 1989) to give the closed-form formulae of the strain energy release rate of a hydraulic crack with arbitrary angles with respect to the crustal stress. The critical conditions in which the hydraulic crack deflects into weak interfaces and exhibits a dependence on crack-surface friction and crustal stress anisotropy are given in explicit formulae. We reveal analytically that with increasing pressure hydraulic fracture in shales may sequentially undergo friction locking mode II fracture and mixed mode fracture. Mode II fracture dominates the hydraulic fracturing process and the impinging angle between the hydraulic crack and the weak interface is the determining factor that accounts for crack deflection; the lower friction coefficient between cracked planes and the greater crustal stress difference favor hydraulic fracturing. In addition to shale fracking the analytical solution of crack deflection could be used in failure analysis of other brittle media. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
关键词 | Brittle Materials Shale Hydraulic Fracturing Crack Deflection Strain Energy Release Rate Heterogeneous Interfaces |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jmps.2016.12.012 |
收录类别 | SCI ; EI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000398751200016 |
关键词[WOS] | HYDRAULIC-FRACTURE PROPAGATION ; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS ; ENERGY-RELEASE RATE ; 2 ORTHOTROPIC MEDIA ; NETWORK PROPAGATION ; NATURAL FRACTURES ; DISCONTINUITIES ; INITIATION ; CRITERION ; TOUGHNESS |
WOS研究方向 | Materials Science ; Mechanics ; Physics |
WOS类目 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ; Mechanics ; Physics, Condensed Matter |
项目资助者 | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)(11425211) |
课题组名称 | LNM微结构计算力学 |
论文分区 | 一类/力学重要期刊 |
力学所作者排名 | 1 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://dspace.imech.ac.cn/handle/311007/60558 |
专题 | 非线性力学国家重点实验室 |
通讯作者 | Wei, YJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mech, LNM, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China. |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zeng XG,Wei YJ,Wei, YJ . Crack deflection in brittle media with heterogeneous interfaces and its application in shale fracking[J]. JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS,2017,101:235-249. |
APA | Zeng XG,Wei YJ,&Wei, YJ .(2017).Crack deflection in brittle media with heterogeneous interfaces and its application in shale fracking.JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS,101,235-249. |
MLA | Zeng XG,et al."Crack deflection in brittle media with heterogeneous interfaces and its application in shale fracking".JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS 101(2017):235-249. |
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