Effective Elastic and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses with High Contrast of Permeability: Numerical Calculation by an Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach
Table 1
Selected parameters for the generation of the fractures network in the Sellafield fractured rock mass.
Fracture’s characteristics
Distribution
Selected parameters
Trace lengths
Power-law distribution
C = 4.0, D = 2.2 (rock masses with high density of fractures)
Minimum cutoff lengths: 0.5 m
Orientations
Fisher's distribution
Joint set
Dip/dip direction (degrees)
Fisher constant (K)
1
8/145
5.9
2
88/148
9
3
76/21
10
4
69/87
10
Aperture
Uniform distribution
= 65 μm
Location
Poisson's distribution
The midpoint coordinates () of every fracture where (,) and (,) are coordinate ranges. are number in the range