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Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Across Pre-existing Discontinuities in an Anisotropic Rock: Experimental Evidence and Insights from Scaling Relations

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Seyyedmaalek Momeni

Laboratory experiments have been conducted on anisotropic slate specimens to study the behavior of hydraulic fractures (HFs) when encountering discontinuities. The experiments target specific propagation regimes, including toughness-dominated, lag-viscosit ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Morphology of buoyancy-driven multiple hydraulic fractures

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

We investigate the problem of simultaneous propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures in situations when the effect of buoyancy is important. While such fractures often occur in nature as magmatic dikes, they also bear technological relevance. For instanc ...

Elsevier BV2025

How Stress Barriers and Fracture Toughness Heterogeneities Arrest Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Carlo Peruzzo

In our study, we investigated the impact of changes in Mode I fracture toughness and stress barriers on fully developed planar, buoyant hydraulic fractures assuming linear elastic hydraulic fracture mechanics. We present scaling-based arguments to predict ...

Springer Wien2024

The energy balance of a hydraulic fracture at depth

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

We detail the energy balance of a propagating hydraulic fracture. Using the linear hydraulic fracture model which combines lubrication flow and linear elastic fracture mechanics, we demonstrate how different propagation regimes are related to the dominance ...

Elsevier BV2024

Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

In impermeable media, a hydraulic fracture can continue to expand even without additional fluid injection if its volume exceeds the limiting volume of a hydrostatically loaded radial fracture. This limit depends on the mechanical properties of the surround ...

Cambridge University Press2023

Arrest Mechanisms of Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Dmitriy Garagash, Carlo Peruzzo

Hydraulic fracturing (HF) treatments can form widespread fractures. Understanding their containment at depth is critical, given the positive buoyancy contrast between the fracturing fluid and the surrounding rock, promoting upward growth. We study arrest m ...

American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), OnePetro2023

Data and Workflow to: Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release (Möri and Lecampion, (2023))

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

This upload contains the relevant scripts, notebooks, and datasets to reproduce the numerically obtained results of the Journal article "Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release" by Möri and Lecampion, (2023). ...

Zenodo2023

Propagation of planar three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures

Andreas Möri

Hydraulic fractures are driven by an internal fluid pressure exceeding the minimum compressive stress, propagating in a direction perpendicular to the latter. This class of tensile fractures has gained interest over the last fifty years due to the developm ...

EPFL2023

Data and Workflow to: Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fracture growth: constant release from a point source (Möri and Lecampion, (2022))

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

This upload contains the relevant scripts, notebooks, and datasets to reproduce the numerically obtained results of the Journal article "Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fracture growth: constant release from a point source" by Möri and Lecampion, (2022 ...

2022

Arrest of a radial hydraulic fracture upon shut-in of the injection

Andreas Möri, Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

We investigate the propagation and arrest of a radial hydraulic fracture upon the end of the injection. Depending on the regime of propagation at the time of shut-in of the injection, excess elastic energy may be stored in the surrounding medium. Once the ...

2021