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Geo-FracNet has evolved from collaborations between the University of Montpellier and Industry that have shown that fracture research is greatly improved by integrating multiple disciplines that are often used independently.
Our aim:
To aid optimisation of geo-resource production, deep storage safety and pollution control.Our approach:
To provide a tectono-mechanical basis enabling improved integration of fracture networks into predicative tools.Our specificity:
Coupling Field Observation and Physical Modelling
For several years Montpellier University (Prof. J.P.Petit and his students) has been developing an original coupled field-experiment approach for fracture system studies. Within Geo-FracNet, a new type of experiments is now being developed at Nice (Prof. A. Chemenda). This coupled (field-based, laboratory-based and numerical) approach is different from the many other groups proposing research on fractures