New Paper

Date: 05/07/2025 

A new paper by Iman R. Kivi entitled “Revealing hydro-mechanical properties of a natural fracture in low-permeable shale” has been published in the Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. In this paper, we have numerically simulated hydromechanical processes of CO2 injection into a fracture shale sample in the laboratory. The shale sample is Opalinus Clay from the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, Switzerland, as a representative caprock for geologic CO2 storage. From the simulation results, we characterize hydromechanical properties of the fracture under realistic subsurface conditions. Our findings from this study have important implications for safe deployment of geologic carbon storage. ‎