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A STUDY ON NUMERICAL COUPLING BETWEEN MECHANICAL AND HYDRAULIC BEHAVIORS IN A GRANITE ROCK MASS SUBJECT TO HIGH-PRESSURE INJECTION

  • Jeong, Woo-Chang (Research Center for Disaster Prevention and Safety Management, Hong-Ik University) ;
  • Jai-Woo (Centre d´Informatique Geologique, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris) ;
  • Song, Jai-Woo (Department of Civil Engineering, Hong-Ik University)
  • Published : 2001.04.01
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Abstract

An injection experiment was carried ut to investigate the pressure domain within which hydromechanical coupling influences considerably the hydrologic behavior of a granite rock mass. The resulting database is used for testing a numerical model dedicated to the analysis of such hydromechanical interactions. These measurements were performed in an open hole section, isolated from shallower zones by a packer set at a depth of 275 m and extending down to 840 m. They consisted in a series of flow meter injection tests, at increasing injection rates. Field results showed that conductive fractures from a dynamic and interdependent network, that individual fracture zones could not be adequately modeled as independent systems, that new fluid intakes zones appeared when pore pressure exceeded the minimum principal stress magnitude in that well, and that pore pressures much larger than this minimum stress could be further supported by the circulated fractures. These characteristics give rise to the question of the influence of the morphology of the natural fracture network in a rock mass under anisotropic stress conditions on the effects of hydromechanical couplings.

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