Comparison of dfn modelled microfracture systems with petrophysical data in excavation damaged zone
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Applied Sciences, Volume 11, issue 7
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Physical and petrographic properties of drill core specimens were determined as a part of investigations into excavation damage in the dedicated study area in the ONKALO® research facility in Olkiluoto, Western Finland. Microfractures in 16 specimens from two drillholes were analysed and used as a basis for fractal geometry-based discrete fracture network (DFN) modelling. It was concluded that the difference in resistivity between pegmatoid granite (PGR) and veined gneiss (VGN) specimens of similar porosity was likely due to differences in the types of microfractures. This hypothesis was confirmed from microfracture analysis and simulation: fractures in gneiss were short and mostly in one preferred orientation, whereas the fractures in granite were longer and had two preferred orientations. This may be due to microstructure differences of the rock types or could suggests that gneiss and granite may suffer different types of excavation damage. No dependencies on depth from the excavated surface were observed in the geometric parameters of the microfractures. This suggests that the excavation damaged zone cannot be identified based on the changes in the parameters of the microfracture networks, and that the disturbed layer observed by geophysical methods may be caused by macro-scale fractures.Description
Funding Information: This research is based on work funded by Posiva Oy. This research was funded by the Academy of Finland, grant number 319798. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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Kiuru, R, Király, D, Dabi, G & Jacobsson, L 2021, 'Comparison of dfn modelled microfracture systems with petrophysical data in excavation damaged zone', Applied Sciences, vol. 11, no. 7, 2899. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11072899