Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cracking of unsaturated clays using a newly developed small-beam bending apparatus and analysis by digital image correlation43
Shear strength and shear stiffness analysis of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite40
Assessing swelling-induced damage in shale samples during triaxial testing40
The impacts of scaled capillary pressure combined with coupled flow and geomechanics on gas hydrate deposits33
Temperature dependence of soil-structure interface behaviour in the context of thermally-activated piles: A review32
Field tests on the prediction of heating power requirements for deicing in Jiangyin, China31
Hydromechanical simulation of argillaceous rocks: From laboratory tests to drift excavation30
Experimental study on seepage–corrosion coupling characteristics of a single fracture in limestone subjected to acid mine drainage29
Proxy-based Bayesian inversion of strain tensor data measured during well tests28
Effects of rate-dependent behavior of sandstone on performance of gas storage in aquifer28
How geomechanical attributes control the morphology of stylolites in carbonate sequences? A case from Permian–Triassic gas reservoirs in the Persian Gulf26
Fractal characteristics of rocks and mesoscopic fractures at different loading rates25
Comparative analysis of quasi-static penetration characteristics of slotted granite and intact granite25
Post-mining related reactivation potential of faults hosted in tight reservoir rocks around flooded coal mines, eastern Ruhr Basin, Germany24
AC-assisted microbially induced carbonate precipitation for sand reinforcement: An experimental study22
The hydro-mechanical characteristics and micro-structure of loess enhanced by microbially induced carbonate precipitation22
Temperature- and Displacement-Dependent Model for unsaturated Earth pressures behind thermo-active retaining walls22
Engineering soil barriers to minimise annual shrinkage/swelling in plastic clays21
Single fluid-driven crack propagation in analogue rock assisted by chemical environment21
Effects of supercritical CO2 based fluids imbibition on the mechanical properties of shale: An experimental study at high-temperature and high-pressure condition20
Novel and simplified method of producing microbial calcite powder for clayey soil stabilization20
Effects of thermophysical parameters of fracturing fluid on hot dry rock damage in hydraulic fracturing20
Coupling of a water permeability function with a bounding surface hydromechanical model for unsaturated soils20
Influence of stress-level due to self-weight on the hydraulic conductivity of permeable concrete for geotechnical applications20
Numerical investigation of THM behavior in anisotropic poroelastic media: from element test to geological disposal applications19
Flow-geomechanics coupling constrains fault geometry in induced earthquakes19
Synthesis of results for Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) DECOVALEX-2023 Task E18
The nucleation of injection-induced earthquakes on low-permeability strike-slip faults18
Modeling of coupled processes in full-scale engineered barrier system performance experiment at Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Japan18
Experimental and constitutive modeling of the anisotropic mechanical properties of shale subjected to thermal treatment18
Soft interface instability and gas flow channeling in low-permeability deformable media18
Editorial Board17
Experimental study on tensile strength of granite residual soil during drying and wetting17
Wellbore cement fracture permeability as a function of confining stress and pore pressure16
Fluid injection through artificially reconstituted bio-cemented sands16
Analysis of shear mock-up tests in a canister-clay system for spent nuclear fuel isolation15
Shear behavior of ice–frozen soil interface: Experiments and elastoplastic modeling15
Heat transfer-deformation characteristics and fracture damage analysis during LN2 freeze-thaw process in different rank coals15
Thermal energy transfer around buried pipe infrastructure15
Thermo-hydraulic analysis of desiccation cracked soil strata considering ground temperature and moisture dynamics under the influence of soil-atmosphere interactions15
Modeling of thermal–hydraulic–mechanical–chemical​ acid fracturing with discretized virtual internal bond15
Assessment of mechanical behavior and failure criteria under varied confining pressures in treated calcareous sand15
Designing a repository in domal salt: The influence of design variants in different modelling environments14
Assessment of sensor performance in the context of geological radwaste disposal—A first case study in the Belgian URL HADES14
Dam impoundment near active faults in areas with high seismic potential: Case studies from Bisri and Mseilha dams, Lebanon14
Experimental investigation into the effect of porosity on the strains developing during anhydrite to gypsum transformation14
Hydraulic and mechanical behavior of compacted silts modified by waste steel slag14
Laboratory validation of a new hydro-mechanical energy-based brittleness index model for hydraulic fracturing14
Experimental and simulation study of cryogenic stimulation of granites from Akmola region in Kazakhstan14
Influence of the strain rate on the deformation and failure of rocks with multiscale cracks14
Effect of particle size on mechanical properties of bio-cemented sand using enzyme-induced calcite precipitation14
Integrating geomechanical proxy models with data assimilation for energy transition applications13
A fast approximate method for simulating thermal pile heat exchangers13
Comparing modelling approaches for a generic nuclear waste repository in salt13
Evaluating the subsidence above gas reservoirs with an elasto-viscoplastic constitutive law. Laboratory evidences and case histories13
Corrigendum to “Self-sealing behavior of compacted bentonite–sand mixtures containing technological voids” [Geomech Energy Environ 25 (2021) 100213]13
Transient temperature and water distributions in unconstrained compacted granular bentonite under elevated temperatures13
Creep behavior and permeability evolution of red sandstone in three Gorges Reservoir area subjected to cyclic seepage pressure13
3D numerical modelling and analysis of heat harvesting and pavement temperature regulation of a thermo-active road13
NMR-based analysis of pore water state of unsaturated compacted bentonite considering the saline effect13
Study on novel alkali-activated cementitious grout for scour control of offshore foundation13
A preliminary investigation on the mechanical behaviour of a stiff Italian clay in the context of hydrogen storage13
Study on energy consumption and failure mechanism of water-saturated coal sample during impact cracking13
Effective stress in unsaturated soils: Lessons from capillarity in regular sphere arrangements12
Experimental and numerical studies on an energy piled wall: The effect of thermally activated pile spacing12
An assessment of the salt caprock creep impact on Pre-salt reservoir geomechanics12
A three-dimensional elastoplastic constitutive model incorporating Lode angle dependence12
Internal erosion of sandy gravels and occurrence of open-framework gravels in the subsoil of a river dike12
Influence of mechanical strength on gas migration through bentonite: Numerical analysis from laboratory to field scale12
Insights from an extensive triaxial testing campaign on a shale for comparative site characterization of a deep geological repository12
Insight into the mechanical degradation of coal corroded by concentrated brine solution12
Comparison of performance assessment models and methods in crystalline rock: Task F1 DECOVALEX-202312
Effects of heat source conditions on the early temperature rise in heated fiber-optic cable emplaced in granulated bentonite mixture12
Constraint strategies for estimating in-situ stress from borehole measurements11
Impact of shear displacement on advective transport in a laboratory-scale fracture11
Landslide susceptibility evaluation in Alpine environment: 2. Thermo-hydro-mechanical modeling for the response to climate-related variables11
A Hybrid Data-Driven/Physics-Based Modeling Approach for Hydraulic Fracture Initiation and Early-Phase Propagation in Shale11
Strengthening effect of nano-SiO2 on microbial induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) solidified sediment: Macro- and micro-analysis11
A review of fiber optic sensing in geomechanical applications at laboratory and field scales11
Prediction of the shale gas permeability: A data mining approach11
Rock-mass heterogeneous rheological properties caused the formation of deep tension fractures11
Experimental study on the swelling pressure of compacted bentonite under high temperatures above 100 °C10
Detection of potential voids in the granulated bentonite mixture and concrete plug in the Full-scale Emplacement experiment using a parallel-wire cable as an extra-long TDR waveguide10
Benchmark study of a new simplified DFN model for shearing of intersecting fractures and faults10
New rock strength-based UCS-Vp10
A methodology for incorporating thermal interference in the design of thermo-active pile groups10
A comparative analysis of numerical approaches for the description of gas flow in clay-based repository systems: From a laboratory to a large-scale gas injection test10
Life cycle environmental assessment of retaining walls in unsaturated soils10
Triaxial unloading effects on pre-holed sandstone energy characteristics and damage evolution mechanism: Comparative analysis of diffrent borehole bottom locations10
A data-driven and machine learning-assisted interpretation of hydraulic fracturing experiments in various formations10
Surrogate models for development of unconventional shale reservoirs by an integrated numerical approach of hydraulic fracturing, flow and geomechanics, and machine learning9
Effects of in-situ stress on heat transfer in fracture networks9
Impacts of intensive seepage flow on suffusion development in cohesionless soil: Insight from a theoretical model9
Effect of temperature on gas breakthrough and permeability of compacted loess in landfill cover9
Comparative analysis of primary variables selection in modeling non-isothermal two-phase flow: Insights from EBS experiment at Horonobe URL9
Numerical study of the effect of soil-plant-atmosphere interaction under future climate projections and different vegetation covers9
Experimental study on the settlement behavior of soil–rock mixtures under reservoir water level rise and fall9
Failure characteristics and brittleness index establishment based on marble energy evolution mechanism9
Thermo-hydro mechanical coupling in a discrete modelling: Large-scale 3D application to thermal hydrofracturing9
Effect of multifractal characteristics of pore structure in coal adsorbed by low pressure gas on thermal conductivity and thermal diffusion9
Reducing uncertainty on land subsidence modeling prediction by a sequential data-integration approach. Application to the Arlua off-shore reservoir in Italy8
Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of energy barrettes: Field experiments and numerical simulations8
Numerical simulation of solute transport in argillaceous rock under thermal gradient with a coupled THM-solute transport model8
Full-scale in-situ tests on a displacement cast in situ energy pile: Effects of cyclic thermal loads under different mechanical load levels on pile stress and strain8
Numerical study of fluid injection-induced deformation and seismicity in a mature fault zone with a low-permeability fault core bounded by a densely fractured damage zone8
A thermodynamically consistent model of strain coupling in expansive soils8
Free swelling behavior of MX80 bentonite under elevated temperatures up to 200 °C8
Effect of thermal cycling on the isotropic consolidation and triaxial shear behavior of lateritic clay8
Determination of fault damage zones in sandstone rocks using numerical models and statistical analyses8
Study on the characteristics of coal pore structure changes during hot flue gas displacement and their impact on the gas displacement effect8
Thermal performance of geothermal pavements constructed with demolition wastes8
Vertical dynamic responses of model energy piles8
Creep characteristics and damage mechanisms of rock in the plateau tunnel: Insights from acoustic emission and energy evolution7
Probability analysis of rock slope using FORM based on a nonlinear strength criterion7
A simple method for analyzing thermomechanical response of an energy pile in a group7
Modelling of failure and fracture development of the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone during an in-situ heating experiment associated with geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste7
The physics of desiccation cracks 1: Ductile fracturing and dependence on relative humidity7
A constitutive framework for caprocks accounting for viscoplastic cyclic degradation and coupled geo-chemo-mechanical processes7
Study on the interaction between pile and soil under lateral load in coral sand7
Sealing failure of a cement sheath under temperature variation7
Development of bio-grout injection strategy and design guide using reactive transport model for field-scale soil improvement based on microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP)7
Micro-macro investigation on bio-cemented sand under different grouting saturation: An effective enhancement method7
Early-stage thermal performance design of thermo-active walls implemented in underground infrastructures7
Three dimensional wellbore feature of air drilling hole and its influence on bit side force7
Physical–mechanical properties and microstructure degradation of acid–alkali contaminated granite residual soil7
Investigation of additive-assisted microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation in 3D printed cross fractures7
Numerical simulation study of proppant transport within fractures under the influence of interlayers and weak planes7
Numerical modeling of the fracturing mechanisms of unconsolidated sand reservoirs under water injection7
A novel random angular bend (RAB) algorithm and DEM modeling of thermal cracking responses of sandstone7
Experimental analysis of a thermoactive underground railway station7
The influence of hydrating mineral components on wellbore sealing capacity of salt-plugged wells7
Mechanism of gas seepage enhancement based on the evolution of micro-pores and energy dissipation in coal under dynamic load7
Modelling a granular bentonite system as a discrete set of continuum units6
Experimental study on improving hydraulic characteristics of sand via microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation6
Geotechnical and engineering properties of expansive clayey soil stabilized with biomass ash and nanomaterials for its application in structural road layers6
Study on gas extraction efficiency using in-seam borehole method considering influence of plastic zone induced by borehole drilling6
Quantitative assessment of well leakage, part I: Cement stress evolution6
Critical review of wellbore ballooning and breathing literature6
Creep properties and model of fractured sandstone under freezing environment6
A hysteretic hydraulic constitutive model for unsaturated soils and application to capillary barrier systems6
Editorial for the Special Issue: Innovative numerical methods for soil internal erosion processes6
Investigation of fracture propagation dynamics during multi-stage water injection shearing in fault-fracture reservoirs6
Thermomechanical response and crack evolution of sandstone at elevated temperatures6
Investigation of fracture-plugging wellbore strengthening: Large scale true tri-axial experiments and field tests6
Geomechanics for energy and the environment: Current developments6
A thermoplastic clay constitutive model with temperature dependent evolution of stress anisotropy6
Displacement analysis for energy pile foundations under thermomechanical loads6
Utilization of Fan Palm, Date Palm, and Phragmites Australis fibers for improving the mechanical behavior of sandy soil6
Application of discrete element numerical simulation methods in mechanical characterization of hydrate-bearing sediments: Research status and challenges6
Thermal influence zone of energy tunnels in sandy soils under the hydrostatic condition6
Performance analysis of multi-well EGS system based on unique network structure — Voronoi fractures6
Numerical modeling of hydro-mechanical processes during hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures at the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland6
Effect of heat-treatment on the pure- and mixed-mode fracture properties of a homogeneous sandstone6
Modelling flow and transport in fractured crystalline rocks by an upscaled equivalent continuous porous media method6
Study on the fracture propagation rule of simultaneous fracturing under cyclic injection6
Development and validation of TOUGH-3DEC: A three-dimensional discontinuum-based numerical simulator for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis6
Analysis of wellbore stability for overbalanced drilling in marine methane hydrate-bearing sediments under non-hydrostatic stresses6
An integral approach using InSAR and data assimilation to disentangle and quantify multi-depth driven subsidence causes in the Ravenna coastland, Northern Italy6
Impact of initial effective stress on the thermo-mechanical behavior of normally consolidated clay6
Cyclic swell shrink behaviour of lime and lignosulphonate amended expansive soil—An experimental quantification and comparison6
Investigation of the emplacement dry density of granulated bentonite mixtures using dielectric, mass-balance and actively heated fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing methods6
Unified models for water permeability in hydrate-bearing sandy soil considering pore morphology evolution6
Erodibility improvement and scour mitigation of beach sand by enzymatic induced carbonate precipitation5
Cement with bacterial nanocellulose cured at reservoir temperature: Mechanical performance in the context of CO5
Effects of cyclic loading and unloading rates on the energy evolution of rocks with different lithology5
Modelling production-induced dynamic rupture of intra-graben faults and related earthquakes in the North German Basin5
Field investigation on geothermal pavements5
An effective stress constitutive framework for the prediction of desiccation crack in lime-treated soil: Experimental characterization and constitutive prediction5
WITHDRAWN: A closed form solution for the internal stability of landfills considering spatial variability of the input seismic motion5
An insight from energy index characterization to determine the proneness of rockburst for hard rock5
Experimental study on P-wave response characteristics of hot dry rock under high temperature and high confining pressure5
Coal permeability considering mining-induced stresses subjected to fractional derivative5
Numerical study of long-time growth of hydraulic fractures in a line drive5
Cyclic plasticity of hardened oil well cement paste: A nonlinear kinematic hardening perspective5
Multi-scale constitutive modeling of the brittle–ductile transition behavior of rocks with microcracks and two populations of pores5
Editorial Board5
Numerical simulation of coupled THM behaviour of full-scale EBS in backfilled experimental gallery in the Horonobe URL5
Evaluating the effect of organic matter contained in shale on hydraulic fracturing of infill-well5
Internal erosion by suffusion on cohesionless gap-graded soils: Model and sensibility analysis5
The influence of initial shaft resistance mobilisation in the response of seasonally, thermally-activated pile foundations in granular media5
Accelerating the Energy Transition with Energy Geotechnics: editorial4
Closed-form modeling of matric suction in unsaturated soils under undrained heating4
The physics of desiccation cracks 2: Modeling and prediction of the crack patterns4
FEM for prediction of surface deformations induced by flooding of steeply inclined mining seams4
The impact of soil layering and groundwater flow on energy pile thermal performance4
Importance of drilling-related processes on the origin of borehole breakouts — Insights from LWD observations4
Coupled hydro–mechanical simulation of the interaction between adjacent lined rock caverns subject to internal gas pressurisation4
Utilizing high-resolution 3D Voronoi meshing to analyze field data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS)4
Hydro-mechanical and homogenization behaviour of GMZ bentonite pellets/block assemblies upon hydration4
Experiment study on shear behavior and properties of granite fractures under real-time high-temperature conditions4
Stress-state dependency of the strain ratio of quasi-elastic granular soils under cyclic loading4
Research on hydrate-bearing reservoir deformation and wellbore wall stability during natural gas hydrate exploitation4
Effect of fault activation on the hydraulic connectivity of faults in mudstone4
In situ static elastic properties assessment and validation with pressuremeter testing using a formation tester tool4
3D modelling of backward erosion piping experiments4
Evolution of the micromechanical properties of reaction layers in wellbore cement under geologic CO2 storage conditions4
Microscale thermo-hydro-mechanical modeling of thermal recovery of shale gas4
Fracture and porosity evolution of coal under uniaxial compression: An in-situ X-ray tomography study4
Discontinuum-based numerical analysis of thermoshearing in planar and rough granite fractures: A comparison with laboratory observations4
Quantitative assessment of well leakage, part II: Case studies for CCS4
Earth stabilisation via carbonate precipitation by plant-derived urease for building applications4
Flow simulation in 3D fractured porous medium using a generalized pipe-based cell-centered finite volume model with local grid refinement3
Quantification of energy consumed in simulated percussive drilling process using dynamic indentation experiment3
Geomechanics for energy and the environment3
A study on the hydraulic aperture of microannuli at the casing–cement interface using a large-scale laboratory setup3
Study on mechanical response and strain of frozen coal after ultra-low temperature3
Borehole observation-based in situ stress state estimation of the Los Humeros geothermal field (Mexico)3
Assessing the performance of geothermal pavement constructed using demolition wastes by experimental and CFD simulation techniques3
Modelling the thermo-mechanical behaviour of a rock joint3
Thermally induced tensile hoop stresses in energy piles: Implications for design and operation3
Evaluation of instruments for monitoring the soil–plant continuum3
Analysis of barrette foundations subjected to mechanical and thermal loads3
Thermo-mechanical behavior of an energy retaining pile for geothermal extraction3
Experimental investigation of proppant flow and transport dynamics through fracture intersections3
Calculation of the representative temperature change for the thermomechanical design of energy piles3
Numerical assessment of the time-dependent behaviour of a tunnel with a yielding support system for a potential repository in claystone3
Editorial Board3
Small-scale physical modelling of vertically loaded, cyclically thermally-activated helical piles3
Analytical solution for transient radial interaction between energy piles and soils: Thermo-elastic cavity expansion analysis3
Enhancing fiber–matrix interface permeability resistance of natural fiber-reinforced, bio-cemented sand by CaCO3
Production performance analysis of low permeability reservoirs using a new water flooding characteristic curve and Weibull model3
A finite discrete element approach for modeling of desiccation fracturing around underground openings in Opalinus clay3
A DEM study on microstructural behaviour of soluble granular materials subjected to chemo-mechanical loading3
Integrated evaluation of stiffness degradation by combining Resonant-Column, Cyclic Triaxial and Cyclic Simple Shear Tests: Application to Riotinto mine tailings3
Impacts of temperature on the mechanical properties of Longmaxi shale outcrops using instrumented nanoindentation3
Damage and acoustic characteristics of water-saturated coals with different ranks under liquid nitrogen freezing and thawing treatments3
Modelling of mass transport in fractured crystalline rock using velocity interpolation and cell-jump particle tracking methods3
Centrifuge modelling of energy geostructures in soil: A review3
Seismic-scale finite element stress modeling of the subsurface3
Evolution of rock mass stress, movement, and deformation during injection-production processes in coal mines that have been converted into natural gas storage facilities3
Modeling thermally driven migration of brine in bedded salt3
Modelling unsaturated soils with the Material Point Method. A discussion of the state-of-the-art3
Hydro-mechanical modeling of borehole breakout in naturally fractured rocks using distinct element method3
Editorial Board3
Coupled hydro-gas-mechanical 3D modeling of LASGIT experiment3
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