Presentations of the ALERT Workshop 2015

ALERT Workshop 2015
28th September – 30th October 2015, Aussois, France

DAY 1, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
From discrete methods to continuum methods: Applications, Problems and Solutions
Coordinators: Yannis Dafalias, Luc Sibille, Edward Andò

DAY 2, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
How should we teach geomechanics?
Coordinators: Cino Viggiani, Ivo Herle

DAY 3, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Fracturing and fractured reservoirs
Coordinators: Euripides Papamichos, Helen Lewis, Gary Couples

  • Ductile fracturing of shale gas reservoirs: the role of diagenetic reactions in high temperature/pressure environments (M. Veveakis, T. Poulet, K. Regenauer-Lieb)
  • Mechanics of cracks in poroelastic media (APS Selvadurai)
  • A Discrete Element investigation of the effect of preexisting discontinuities on hydraulic fracturing (E. Gerolymatou, S.-A. Galindo-Torres, T. Triantafyllidis)
  • The Brittleness Index in hydraulic fracturing and its influence on propagation and containment (P. Papanastasiou)
  • Hybrid continuum/discontinuum methods for geo-mechanical modelling of hydraulic fracture growth (M. AbuAisha, D. Eaton, J. Priest, R. Wong)
  • A microstructural model for hydraulic conductivity evolution due to brittle damage (M.L. De Bellis, G. Della Vecchia, A. Pandolfi)
  • An “oily” structural geologist’s view of fractured reservoirs: A different perspective on geomechanics of fractures (H. Lewis, G. Couples)
  • Modeling flow and fracture propagation in porous fractured media by joint-enriched finite element method (A. Pouya)
  • Fractured rocks: Nature’s challenge to comfortable theories (G. Couples)
  • Micro-mechanical investigation of rock fracturing (J. Duriez, L. Scholtès, F.V. Donzé)
  • Hydraulic fracture propagation and stress field evolution during multi-stage injections: A 3D hydromechanical DEM approach (E. Papachristos, L. Scholtès, F.V. Donzé, B. Chareyre, H. Pourpak)
  • Interactions between a propagating crack and an elasto-plastic damage joint within a lattice analysis (O. Nouailletas, V. Lefort, D. Grégoire, G. Pijaudier-Cabot)