Effective Elastic and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses with High Contrast of Permeability: Numerical Calculation by an Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach

<div>Sketch of fracture cell and matrix cell concept in the EFC approach using the uniform Cartesian mesh obtained from the global refinement technique (a) and nonuniform Cartesian mesh based on the local refinement technique with the hanging nodes (b).</div>

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Figure 1: Effective Elastic and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses with High Contrast of Permeability: Numerical Calculation by an Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach 

Figure 1 | Effective Elastic and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses with High Contrast of Permeability: Numerical Calculation by an Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach 