fracture mapping of late permian-early triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the sydney basin,new south wales, australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. joints with a regional distribution fall into two (early and late) formed groups. group i joints propagatedhorizontally and never interfered with each other. these joints were subsequent...

In recent papers [1, 2] the authors introduced a new method for simulating subsurface flow in a system of fractures based on a PDE-constrained optimization reformulation, removing all difficulties related to mesh generation and providing an easily parallel approach to the problem. In this paper we further improve the method removing the constraint of having on each fracture a non empty portion ...

This paper aims at presenting what induced microseismicity is and how it is useful to produce source rock and tight formations. We use our 30-year experience in the field to discuss on data acquisition, processing and interpretation issues. In particular, we establish the difference between hydraulic fracture mapping and long-term monitoring of reservoir mechanical behavior. We comment on advan...

The generalization of p-frame in Banach spaces is considered in this paper. The concepts of an $tilde{X}$-frame and a system conjugate to $tilde{X}$-frame were introduced. Analogues of the results on the existence of conjugate system were obtained. The stability of $tilde{X}$-frame having a conjugate system is studied.

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the simulation of progressive fracture in disordered quasi-brittle materials using discrete lattice networks. The main computational bottleneck involved in modelling the fracture simulations using large discrete lattice networks stems from the fact that a new large set of linear equations needs to be solved every time a lattice bond is broken. Usin...

The quantitative characterization of crack tip loads is fundamental in fracture mechanics. Although the potential influence higher order terms on growth and stability known, classical studies solely rely first stress intensity factors. We calculate Williams coefficients using an integral technique based conjugate work integrals study convergence with increasing distance. compare method to state...

manufacturing new hepatitis b virus vaccines, specifically by the use of nanoparticles, is of high global interest. in this paper, a new biocompatible and biodegradable structure of nano-sized hepatitis b virus’ surface antigen (hbsag) was generated by conjugation with dendrimers, a low cost biodegradable and biocompatible polymer. the physicochemical properties of the conjugate were characteri...

miRNAs as one of the potential therapeutic agents have been recently considered for cancer treatment. AS1411 (aptNCL) is a DNA aptamer specifically binding to nucleolin protein on the cancer cell surface with antiproliferative effect. The aim of the study was to develop a conjugate consisted of aptNCL (as targeted delivery of therapeutic agent) and miRNA let-7d (as a tumor suppressor) using two...

the generalization of p-frame in banach spaces is considered in this paper. the concepts of an $tilde{x}$-frame and a system conjugate to $tilde{x}$-frame were introduced. analogues of the results on the existence of conjugate system were obtained. the stability of $tilde{x}$-frame having a conjugate system is studied.