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SUBMITTER: O'Keeffe NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6187166 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180925 41
The formation of a fracture network is a key process for many geophysical and industrial practices from energy resource recovery to induced seismic management. We focus on the initial stage of a fracture network formation using experiments on the symmetric coalescence of two equal coplanar, fluid-driven, penny-shaped fractures in a brittle elastic medium. Initially, the fractures propagate independently of each other. The fractures then begin to interact and coalesce, forming a bridge between th ...[more]