Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Editorial Board53
Seismic-scale finite element stress modeling of the subsurface37
Cracking of unsaturated clays using a newly developed small-beam bending apparatus and analysis by digital image correlation32
Effects of rate-dependent behavior of sandstone on performance of gas storage in aquifer32
Editor’s Highlight: Mechanical behaviour of carbonate reservoirs with single karst cavities. By Pedro A.L.P. Firme, Roberto J. Quevedo, Deane Roehl, Leonardo C. Pereira, Caroline L. Cazarin: Geomechan31
Effects of particle breakage on the mechanical characteristics of geogrid-reinforced granular soils under triaxial shear: A DEM investigation28
A methodology for incorporating thermal interference in the design of thermo-active pile groups25
Offshore geotechnical challenges of the energy transition25
Exploring different FEM strategies for hydro-mechanical coupled gas injection simulation in clay materials24
Analytical solution for transient radial interaction between energy piles and soils: Thermo-elastic cavity expansion analysis23
Proxy-based Bayesian inversion of strain tensor data measured during well tests22
Comparative analysis of quasi-static penetration characteristics of slotted granite and intact granite22
Hydraulic fracturing with low and high viscous injection mediums to investigate net fracture pressure and fracture network in shale of different brittleness index22
Rock-mass heterogeneous rheological properties caused the formation of deep tension fractures21
Hydro-Mechanical coupled analysis of gas injection in clay-based materials using different element types21
Hydraulic characterization of an unsaturated vegetated soil: The role of plant roots and hydraulic hysteresis20
Evaluation of instruments for monitoring the soil–plant continuum20
Life cycle environmental assessment of retaining walls in unsaturated soils19
Influence of dissolution on long-term frictional properties of carbonate fault gouge19
How geomechanical attributes control the morphology of stylolites in carbonate sequences? A case from Permian–Triassic gas reservoirs in the Persian Gulf18
3D in situ stress state modelling and fault reactivation risk exemplified in the Ruhr region (Germany)17
Cyclic swell shrink behaviour of lime and lignosulphonate amended expansive soil—An experimental quantification and comparison17
Analysis of barrette foundations subjected to mechanical and thermal loads16
Modelling the thermo-mechanical behaviour of a rock joint16
Geotechnical and engineering properties of expansive clayey soil stabilized with biomass ash and nanomaterials for its application in structural road layers16
Effect of temperature on gas breakthrough and permeability of compacted loess in landfill cover15
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Temperature dependence of soil-structure interface behaviour in the context of thermally-activated piles: A review15
Landslide susceptibility evaluation in Alpine environment: 2. Thermo-hydro-mechanical modeling for the response to climate-related variables15
Field tests on the prediction of heating power requirements for deicing in Jiangyin, China13
A numerical study of neutrally buoyant slickwater proppant flow and transport in rough fractures13
Post-mining related reactivation potential of faults hosted in tight reservoir rocks around flooded coal mines, eastern Ruhr Basin, Germany13
Coupled hydro-gas-mechanical 3D modeling of LASGIT experiment13
Investigation of fracture-plugging wellbore strengthening: Large scale true tri-axial experiments and field tests13
Benchmark study of a new simplified DFN model for shearing of intersecting fractures and faults12
Numerical simulation of gas injection induced hydro-Mechanical coupling and damage in COx claystone12
Field investigations on the thermo-mechanical behavior of a partially activated energy pile in Miocene sediments12
Modelling flow and transport in fractured crystalline rocks by an upscaled equivalent continuous porous media method12
An evaluation method of hydraulic fracture propagation behavior in rock containing natural fractures based on fractal dimension12
Integrated evaluation of stiffness degradation by combining Resonant-Column, Cyclic Triaxial and Cyclic Simple Shear Tests: Application to Riotinto mine tailings12
Experimental study on seepage–corrosion coupling characteristics of a single fracture in limestone subjected to acid mine drainage12
The impacts of scaled capillary pressure combined with coupled flow and geomechanics on gas hydrate deposits11
Numerical simulation of copper-contaminated sediment consolidation and remediation through vacuum electro-osmosis11
Variation of pore-network, mechanical and hydrological characteristics of sandstone specimens through CO2-enriched brine injection11
Numerical assessment of the time-dependent behaviour of a tunnel with a yielding support system for a potential repository in claystone11
Safety assessment for a geological disposal facility in domal salt: The Dutch case11
Assessing swelling-induced damage in shale samples during triaxial testing11
Advective gas flow in bentonite: Development and comparison of enhanced multi-phase numerical approaches11
Effect of heat-treatment on the pure- and mixed-mode fracture properties of a homogeneous sandstone11
Investigation of the emplacement dry density of granulated bentonite mixtures using dielectric, mass-balance and actively heated fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing methods10
Assessing the performance of geothermal pavement constructed using demolition wastes by experimental and CFD simulation techniques10
A review on the thermo-hydro-mechanical response of soil–structure interface for energy geostructures applications10
Geomechanics for energy and the environment: Current developments10
A DEM study of the effect of the loss of fine particles on the mechanical behavior of gap-graded soils10
Modeling thermally driven migration of brine in bedded salt10
Hydro-mechanical modeling of borehole breakout in naturally fractured rocks using distinct element method10
The hydro-mechanical characteristics and micro-structure of loess enhanced by microbially induced carbonate precipitation10
Study on mechanical response and strain of frozen coal after ultra-low temperature10
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
A DEM study on microstructural behaviour of soluble granular materials subjected to chemo-mechanical loading10
Experimental study on improving hydraulic characteristics of sand via microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation10
New rock strength-based UCS-Vp10
Fracture behavior of yellow sandstone under freeze–thaw cycles with varied saturation states: An investigation of mode I fracture9
Modelling unsaturated soils with the Material Point Method. A discussion of the state-of-the-art9
Fractal characteristics of rocks and mesoscopic fractures at different loading rates9
Shear strength and shear stiffness analysis of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite9
Impacts of bedding angle and cementation type of bedding planes on mechanical behavior of thin-layer structured bedded rocks under uniaxial compression9
Slip-weakening friction controls coseismic displacements in a 3D fracture network: Implications for the long-term safety of nuclear waste repositories9
Performance analysis of multi-well EGS system based on unique network structure — Voronoi fractures9
Enhancing fiber–matrix interface permeability resistance of natural fiber-reinforced, bio-cemented sand by CaCO9
Energy performance assessment of thermo-active micro-piles via numerical modeling and statistical analysis9
Value of abstraction in performance assessment – When is a higher level of detail necessary?9
Small-scale physical modelling of vertically loaded, cyclically thermally-activated helical piles8
AC-assisted microbially induced carbonate precipitation for sand reinforcement: An experimental study8
Comparative analysis of primary variables selection in modeling non-isothermal two-phase flow: Insights from EBS experiment at Horonobe URL8
Soft interface instability and gas flow channeling in low-permeability deformable media8
Numerical investigation of the thermal hydrofracturing behavior of the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone8
Thermomechanical response and crack evolution of sandstone at elevated temperatures8
Cyclic plasticity of hardened oil well cement paste: A nonlinear kinematic hardening perspective8
Multi-scale constitutive modeling of the brittle–ductile transition behavior of rocks with microcracks and two populations of pores8
Shear-induced fluid localization, episodic fluid release and porosity wave in deformable low-permeability rock salt8
Methods for enhancing resource recovery efficiency in underground coal gasification to promote its large-scale utilization8
Investigating the strength and durability properties of alkali activated red mud for tailings pond embankment material7
Synthesis of results for Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) DECOVALEX-2023 Task E7
Modeling of coupled processes in full-scale engineered barrier system performance experiment at Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Japan7
Numerical investigation of THM behavior in anisotropic poroelastic media: from element test to geological disposal applications7
A temperature-dependent model for tensile strength characteristic curve of unsaturated soils7
Research on petrophysical properties and porosity evolution of fractured coal mass under cyclic impact for coalbed methane exploitation7
Effects of in-situ stress on heat transfer in fracture networks7
Heat exchange potential of energy tunnels for different internal airflow characteristics7
Thermo-hydro mechanical coupling in a discrete modelling: Large-scale 3D application to thermal hydrofracturing7
Effect of pore fluid chemistry on uniaxial compaction creep of Bentheim sandstone and implications for reservoir injection operations6
Several challenges in advanced laboratory testing of geomaterials with emphasis on unconventional types of liquefaction tests6
Developing a constitutive approach for peats from laboratory data6
Evaluation of accuracy and convergence of numerical coupling approaches for poroelasticity benchmark problems6
Flow-geomechanics coupling constrains fault geometry in induced earthquakes6
Influence of stress-level due to self-weight on the hydraulic conductivity of permeable concrete for geotechnical applications6
Corrosion effects on axial pile capacity6
Modeling method for rock heterogeneities and multiple hydraulic fractures propagation based on homogenization approach and PHF-LSM6
Modelling of flow in backward erosion pipes6
A coupled simulation of lateral erosion, unsaturated seepage and bank instability due to prolonged high flow6
Study on the whole process application of advanced grouting pipe shed support under urban complex stratum conditions6
Assessment method for determining rock brittleness based on statistical damage constitutive relations6
Coal permeability considering mining-induced stresses subjected to fractional derivative6
Probabilistic-based geomechanical assessment of maximum operating pressure for an underground gas storage reservoir, NW China6
Effects of thermophysical parameters of fracturing fluid on hot dry rock damage in hydraulic fracturing6
Failure characteristics and brittleness index establishment based on marble energy evolution mechanism6
Editorial for the Special Issue: Innovative numerical methods for soil internal erosion processes6
Effects of supercritical CO2 based fluids imbibition on the mechanical properties of shale: An experimental study at high-temperature and high-pressure condition6
Determination of fault damage zones in sandstone rocks using numerical models and statistical analyses5
Field investigation on geothermal pavements5
Microbial induced mechano-petrophysical modified properties to improve hydrocarbon recovery in carbonate reservoirs5
Experimental study of fracture slip due to stress perturbation in fractured geo-resources5
Modelling a granular bentonite system as a discrete set of continuum units5
Quantifying the variability in fault density across the UK Bowland Shale with implications for induced seismicity hazard5
Numerical modeling of hydro-mechanical processes during hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures at the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland5
Internal erosion by suffusion on cohesionless gap-graded soils: Model and sensibility analysis5
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Numerical study of long-time growth of hydraulic fractures in a line drive5
Coupling of a water permeability function with a bounding surface hydromechanical model for unsaturated soils5
Impacts of intensive seepage flow on suffusion development in cohesionless soil: Insight from a theoretical model5
Novel and simplified method of producing microbial calcite powder for clayey soil stabilization5
Experimental study on fracture characteristics of coal due to liquid nitrogen fracturing5
Weakly cemented similar materials for in-situ desanding research on solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate5
An effective stress constitutive framework for the prediction of desiccation crack in lime-treated soil: Experimental characterization and constitutive prediction5
Engineering soil barriers to minimise annual shrinkage/swelling in plastic clays5
Forecasting and mitigating landslide collapse by fusing physics-based and data-driven approaches5
Editorial: Special issue on keynote papers from the IS-Glasgow2019 — 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials5
Experimental and constitutive modeling of the anisotropic mechanical properties of shale subjected to thermal treatment5
Erodibility improvement and scour mitigation of beach sand by enzymatic induced carbonate precipitation5
Ice-Unfrozen Water on Montmorillonite Surface: a Molecular Dynamics Study5
Thermal properties of soft clayey soils from the former Lake Texcoco in Mexico5
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Shear behavior of ice–frozen soil interface: Experiments and elastoplastic modeling4
Geological structure, geomechanical perturbations, and variability in hydraulic fracturing performance at the scale of a square mile4
Experimental study on contact erosion at the interface between the weak interlayer and the crushed zone4
Single fluid-driven crack propagation in analogue rock assisted by chemical environment4
Investigation of additive-assisted microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation in 3D printed cross fractures4
Thermal induced horizontal earth pressure changes of pipe energy piles under multiple heating cycles4
Editorial: Special Issue on Hydraulic stimulation: From research to practice4
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Fluid injection through artificially reconstituted bio-cemented sands4
Modelling production-induced dynamic rupture of intra-graben faults and related earthquakes in the North German Basin4
The influence of initial shaft resistance mobilisation in the response of seasonally, thermally-activated pile foundations in granular media4
An insight from energy index characterization to determine the proneness of rockburst for hard rock4
Differential assessment of effects of increasing model complexity in THM coupled models of the FE experiment at Mt. Terri4
Coupled CFD–DEM numerical modelling of perforation damage and sand production in weak sandstone formation4
Experimental study on P-wave response characteristics of hot dry rock under high temperature and high confining pressure4
Performance of complex energy geostructures4
Compaction localization in geomaterials: A mechanically consistent failure criterion4
Borehole observation-based in situ stress state estimation of the Los Humeros geothermal field (Mexico)4
Study on the constitutive model and brittleness variations of shale after imbibition in different fracturing fluids4
WITHDRAWN: A closed form solution for the internal stability of landfills considering spatial variability of the input seismic motion4
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Deep learning reservoir porosity prediction method based on a spatiotemporal convolution bi-directional long short-term memory neural network model3
Thermal energy transfer around buried pipe infrastructure3
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 strain3
A simple model to represent damage and fracturing in rock salt caused by heating and subsequent cooling: Understanding brine inflow data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS)3
A resolved CFD-DEM investigation of near-wellbore fine sand migration and production during methane hydrate extraction3
Thermal mechanical behavior of energy piles with cap under embedded depth3
Analysis of shear mock-up tests in a canister-clay system for spent nuclear fuel isolation3
Cement with bacterial nanocellulose cured at reservoir temperature: Mechanical performance in the context of CO3
Evaluating the effect of organic matter contained in shale on hydraulic fracturing of infill-well3
Ion-species in pore fluids with opposite effects on limestone fracturing3
Numerical investigation of the performance of engineered barriers in controlling stormwater runoff3
Numerical simulation of solute transport in argillaceous rock under thermal gradient with a coupled THM-solute transport model3
Vertical dynamic responses of model energy piles3
Modeling of cryogenic cracking behavior of tight sandstone under confinement3
Reducing uncertainty on land subsidence modeling prediction by a sequential data-integration approach. Application to the Arlua off-shore reservoir in Italy3
Ultrasonic modeling of synthetic finely layered and porous rocks: Theoretical and experimental investigation3
Assessment of mechanical behavior and failure criteria under varied confining pressures in treated calcareous sand3
Thermo-hydraulic analysis of desiccation cracked soil strata considering ground temperature and moisture dynamics under the influence of soil-atmosphere interactions3
Modeling of thermal–hydraulic–mechanical–chemical​ acid fracturing with discretized virtual internal bond3
Experiment study on shear behavior and properties of granite fractures under real-time high-temperature conditions3
Land subsidence surrogate models for normally consolidated sedimentary basins3
An international study on THM modelling of the full-scale heater experiment at Mont Terri laboratory3
Heat transfer-deformation characteristics and fracture damage analysis during LN2 freeze-thaw process in different rank coals3
Functional analysis of the constitutive role of temperature in compacted bentonites3
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 zone3
Influence of convection on the thermal storage performance of energy tunnels3
Effects of cyclic loading and unloading rates on the energy evolution of rocks with different lithology3
Errors in finite element analysis of backward erosion piping3
Experimental study on tensile strength of granite residual soil during drying and wetting3
Effect of submarine permafrost degradation on the vertical ground motions and vertical response spectrum of a single-degree-of-freedom system in polar ocean3
Experimental research on different metamorphic grades of coal bodies with macro–mesoscopic structure fractal characteristics2
Field performances of energy pile based on the secondary utilization of sonic logging pipes2
Hydro-mechanical behaviour of a cement–bentonite mixture along evaporation and water-uptake controlled paths2
Utilizing high-resolution 3D Voronoi meshing to analyze field data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS)2
Neutron imaging for geomechanics: A review2
A simple method for analyzing thermomechanical response of an energy pile in a group2
A numerical study of effect of cold temperature on growth orientation of horizontal fractures using displacement discontinuity method2
Fractional derivative modelling for consolidation of multilayered saturated soils with interfacial thermal contact resistance subjected to time-dependent heating and loading2
Energy quay walls: Performance analysis and optimisation2
A micro-mechanical insight into the thermo-mechanical behaviour of clays2
A complete experimental study on hard granites: Microstructural characterization, mechanical response, and failure criterion2
Effect of thermal cycling on the isotropic consolidation and triaxial shear behavior of lateritic clay2
Probability analysis of rock slope using FORM based on a nonlinear strength criterion2
Creep behavior and permeability evolution of red sandstone in three Gorges Reservoir area subjected to cyclic seepage pressure2
Stress field analysis: Construction of site descriptive model of underground research site in KAERI2
Soil behavior under low- and high-cycle loading—Element tests vs. constitutive models2
Numerical simulation of coupled THM behaviour of full-scale EBS in backfilled experimental gallery in the Horonobe URL2
Characterization of low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing signals in hydraulic fracturing stimulation – A coupled flow-geomechanical simulation approach2
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Experimental and simulation study of cryogenic stimulation of granites from Akmola region in Kazakhstan2
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Wellbore cement fracture permeability as a function of confining stress and pore pressure2
Free swelling behavior of MX80 bentonite under elevated temperatures up to 200 °C2
Thermal performance of geothermal pavements constructed with demolition wastes2
Centrifuge modeling of temperature effects on the pullout capacity of jacked-in energy piles in saturated soft clay2
Macroscopic effects of nano and microscopic phenomena in clayey soils and clay rocks2
A novel random angular bend (RAB) algorithm and DEM modeling of thermal cracking responses of sandstone2
Sealing failure of a cement sheath under temperature variation2
The physics of desiccation cracks 2: Modeling and prediction of the crack patterns2
Experimental study on mode I and mode II fracture properties of heated sandstone after two different cooling treatments2
Laboratory validation of a new hydro-mechanical energy-based brittleness index model for hydraulic fracturing2
Fracture and porosity evolution of coal under uniaxial compression: An in-situ X-ray tomography study2
Hybrid framework for surrogate modelling of massive solar collectors in road pavements2
Effect of damage zones around fault core on failure development during fluid injection into porous reservoirs2
Stress-state dependency of the strain ratio of quasi-elastic granular soils under cyclic loading2
Hydraulic and mechanical behavior of compacted silts modified by waste steel slag2
Experimental investigation of formation damage during drilling of ultradeep fractured carbonate reservoir2
Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of energy barrettes: Field experiments and numerical simulations2
Evolution of fracture permeability and aperture during CO2 storage in varyingly cemented sedimentary rocks2
A particle-scale investigation of mechanical behavior of cemented hydrate-bearing sediment using Discrete Element Method2
Rock factor prediction in the Kuz–Ram model and burden estimation by mean fragment size2
Editorial: Special Issue of selected papers from CouFrac2020: 2nd International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media: Observation, Modeling, and Application, Seoul, Korea, Nov2
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