Hydraulic and Mechanical Relationship of Individual Fracture in Rock under Compression and Shearing: Theoretical Study

Table 1

Parameter values used for matching the data obtained under normal stress.

Sample no.	Initial aperture ()	Fracture elastic modulus ()	Fracture half length ()	Threshold stress ()	Fitting parameters		Ref.
						n
Dr-1	0.38 mm	4 GPa	47 mm	1.9 MPa	7.73	0.59	Malama et al. [42]
Grd-1	0.505 mm	4 GPa	47 mm	1.5 MPa	17.62	0.23
IG10	0.526 mm	4 GPa	75 mm	0.5 MPa	1.88	0.75	Matsuki et al. [41]
IG15	0.589 mm	4 GPa	75 mm	0.63 MPa	4.36	0.27
IG20	0.39 mm	4 GPa	75 mm	1.09 MPa	7.99	0.16
IG25	0.697 mm	4 GPa	75 mm	0.4 MPa	8.78	0.13