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Injection-Induced Aseismic Slip in Tight Fractured Rocks

Ciardo, Federico
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Lecampion, Brice  
February 9, 2023
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

We investigate the problem of fluid injection at constant pressure in a 2D Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) with randomly oriented and uniformly distributed frictionally-stable fractures. We show that this problem shares similarities with the simpler scenario of injection in a single planar shear fracture, investigated by Bhattacharya and Viesca (2019); Viesca (2021) and whose results are here extended to include closed form solutions for aseismic moment as function of injected volume V-inj. Notably, we demonstrate that the hydro-mechanical response of the fractured rock mass is at first order governed by a single dimensionless parameter T associated with favourably oriented fractures: low values of T (critically stressed conditions) lead to fast migration of aseismic slip from injection point due to elastic stress transfer on critically stressed fractures. In this case, therefore, there is no effect of the DFN percolation number on the spatio-temporal evolution of aseismic slip. On the other hand, in marginally pressurized conditions ( T ? 1 ), the slipping patch lags behind the pressurized region and hence the percolation number affects to a first order the response of the medium. Furthermore, we show that the aseismic moment scales proportional to V- inj(2) in both limiting conditions, similarly to the case of a single planar fracture subjected to the same injection condition. The factor of proportionality, however, depends on the DFN characteristics in marginally pressurized conditions, while it appears to be only mildly dependent on the DFN properties in critically stressed conditions.

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