Fracturing of Coal and Rock Mass
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 September 2022) | Viewed by 33721
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydraulic fracturing; fracture propagation; displacement methane; hard roof control; top coal weakening
Interests: rock fracture mechanics; hydraulic fracture propagation; rock fracturing characterization; rock thermoplasticity; acoustic emission and microseismics
Interests: rock mechanics; hydraulic fracturing; stress disturbance; fracture propagation
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Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of Minerals, I would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue related to the fracturing of coal and rock mass. Fracturing is considered as one of the most favorable stimulation approaches towards coal, dramatically mitigating its inherent low permeability. Over the last several decades, huge successes have been achieved by the use of hydraulic fracturing technology in coal mining and in the oil industry, with capacity to considerably improve methane extraction efficiency and production performance for CBM reservoirs. At the same time, although a great deal of effort has been devoted and many excellent advances have been made, a good understanding of a couple of key issues continues to elude us, including underlying mechanisms or control methods for directional hydraulic fracturing, the methane-driven characteristics caused by fracturing, newly emerged gas fracturing, and so on.
This Special Issue aims to collect recent advances in the hydro-mechanical behavior of coal-rock fractures or fracture networks. We expect to bring together researchers in the aforementioned fields to highlight the current development of new techniques, to exchange the latest understanding of the underlying mechanisms, to present advanced algorithms for modeling, and to facilitate collaboration between researchers in different fields. We invite you to submit comprehensive review papers and original articles.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Theoretical modeling of fracturing in coal and rock mass;
- Advanced techniques for monitoring or characterizing hydraulic fracture propagation;
- Permeability evolution and multiphase fluid flow in fracturing coal-rock;
- Novel laboratory testing approaches in the hydraulic fracturing of coal;
- Field test of multistage hydraulic fracturing in the directional borehole;
- Evaluation of fracturing effect in laboratory testing or field experiments.
Prof. Dr. Bingxiang Huang
Dr. Yuekun Xing
Dr. Xinglong Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydraulic fracture propagation mechanism
- multiphase fluid flow in fracturing coal-rock
- directional hydraulic fracturing
- novel laboratory testing approaches or field experiments
- predictive models for permeability of rock fractures
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