Journal
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 34, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031696
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In order to better understand the interaction between pore-fluid overpressure and failure patterns in rocks we consider a porous elasto-plastic medium in which a laterally localized overpressure line source is imposed at depth below the free surface. We solve numerically the fluid filtration equation coupled to the gravitational force balance and poro-elasto-plastic rheology equations. Systematic numerical simulations, varying initial stress, intrinsic material properties and geometry, show the existence of five distinct failure patterns caused by either shear banding or tensile fracturing. The value of the critical pore-fluid overpressure p(c) at the onset of failure is derived from an analytical solution that is in excellent agreement with numerical simulations. Finally, we construct a phasediagram that predicts the domains of the different failure patterns and p(c) at the onset of failure.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available