Publications

2025

Journal Articles

Morphology of buoyancy-driven multiple hydraulic fractures

A. Möri; E. Dontsov; B. Lecampion 

Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 2025. Vol. 319. DOI : 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2025.111005.

Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Across Pre-existing Discontinuities in an Anisotropic Rock: Experimental Evidence and Insights from Scaling Relations

G. Lu; A. Möri; S. Momeni; B. Lecampion 

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2025. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-024-04359-7.

Adaptive Interface-Pinns (Adai-Pinns) for Transient Diffusion: Applications to Forward and Inverse Problems in Heterogeneous Media

S. Roy; R. Sarkar; C. Annavarapu; P. Roy; B. Lecampion et al. 

Finite Elements in Analysis and Design. 2025. Vol. 244. DOI : 10.1016/j.finel.2024.104305.

2024

Journal Articles

The energy balance of a hydraulic fracture at depth

C. Peruzzo; A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

International Journal of Engineering Science. 2024. Vol. 205. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2024.104151.

Fluid-mediated impact of soft solids

J. Bilotto; J. M. Kolinski; B. Lecampion; J-F. Molinari; G. Subhash et al. 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2024. Vol. 997, p. A35. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.820.

How Stress Barriers and Fracture Toughness Heterogeneities Arrest Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures

A. Mori; C. Peruzzo; D. Garagash; B. Lecampion 

Rock Mechanics And Rock Engineering. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-024-03936-0.

Rock Anisotropy Promotes Hydraulic Fracture Containment at Depth

G. Lu; S. Momeni; C. Peruzzo; F-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2024. Vol. 129, num. 4, p. e2023JB028011. DOI : 10.1029/2023JB028011.

Conference Papers

Design of a Meso-Scale Test of a Fracture Thermal Energy Storage (FTES) System

J. Burghardt; B. Lecampion; A. Möri; D. Linneman 

2024. 58 US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, Golden, United States, 2024-06-23 – 2024-06-26. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2024-0831.

Hydraulic Fracture Closure Revealed Under Controlled Laboratory Condition

M. Talebkeikhah; B. Lecampion 

2024. SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, United States, 2024-06-17 – 2024-06-19. DOI : 10.15530/urtec-2024-4044523.

Experimental Study of Underground Heat Storage via Hydraulic Fractures

A. Möri; J. Naftalski; T. Liardon; M. Talebkeikhah; B. Lecampion et al. 

2024. 58 US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, Golden, United States, 2024-06-23 – 2024-06-26. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2024-0540.

Advanced Acoustic Emission-based SHM for Concrete Structures: Real-Time, High-Precision Imaging of Crack Geometry and Damage Source-type Using Moment Tensor Inversion

S. Momeni; T. Schumacher; L. Linzer; B. Lecampion 

2024. 11 European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Potsdam, Germany, 2024-06-10 – 2024-06-13. DOI : 10.58286/29814.

Measuring hydraulic fracture propagation and closure in sandstone

M. Talebkeikhah; S. Momeni; B. Lecampion 

2024. 58 US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, Golden, United States, 2024-06-23 – 2024-06-26. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2024-0802.

Posters

3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability

E. Gallyamov; N. Richart; B. Lecampion; J-F. Molinari; G. Anciaux 

Poroelasticity Minisimposium, Geopolis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-5 March 2024.

Talks

3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability

E. Gallyamov; B. Lecampion; N. Richart; G. Anciaux; J-F. Molinari 

MEGA Seminar, EPFL, Switzerland, 2024-03-21.

Student Projects

Pumped-Storage Plant in an Arctic Context. Design and Construction of Underground Structures.

D. De Almeida Sousa 

2024.

Unpredicted displacements in glaciolacustrine deposits on sheet piles following pile driving

M. A. Touré 

2024.

2023

Journal Articles

Fluid-driven slow slip and earthquake nucleation on a slip-weakening circular fault

A. Saez; B. Lecampion 

Journal Of The Mechanics And Physics Of Solids. 2023. Vol. 183, p. 105506. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105506.

Post-injection aseismic slip as a mechanism for the delayed triggering of seismicity

A. Saez; B. Lecampion 

Proceedings Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences. 2023. Vol. 479, num. 2273, p. 20220810. DOI : 10.1098/rspa.2022.0810.

Modeling of solids particle diversion to promote uniform growth of multiple hydraulic fractures

B. Luo; G. K. Wong; J. Guo; W. Fu; G. Lu et al. 

Journal Of Petroleum Science And Engineering. 2023. Vol. 220, p. 111159. DOI : 10.1016/j.petrol.2022.111159.

Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2023. Vol. 972, num. A20. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2023.711.

Conference Papers

Automatic and high-precision microseismic monitoring of progressive failure prior, during, and after tunnel excavation

S. Momeni; M. Ziegler; C. Nussbaum; B. Lecampion 

2023. ACOUSTIC EMISSION WORKING GROUP, Princeton, NJ, USA, September 26-28, 2023.

Automatic and high-precision acoustic emission-based structural health monitoring of concrete structures

S. Momeni; T. Schumacher; L. Linzer; B. Lecampion 

2023. 14th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, CA, September 12-14, 2023. DOI : 10.12783/shm2023/36857.

Shearing and opening of a pre-existing discontinuity in response to fluid injection

B. Lecampion; A. Sáez; A. Gupta 

2023. 57th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Atlanta, GA, USA, June 25-28, 2023.

Arrest Mechanisms of Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures

A. Möri; C. Peruzzo; B. Lecampion; D. Garagash 

2023. 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 25-28, 2023. p. ARMA – 2023. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2023-0711.

Elongated hydraulic fracture emerging from layers of alternating fracture toughness

C. Peruzzo; B. Lecampion 

2023. 57th US Rock Mechanics Geomechanics Symposium, Atlanta, USA, June 25-28, 2023.

Theses

Propagation of planar three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures

A. Möri / B. T. A. Lecampion (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Three-dimensional fluid-driven frictional ruptures: theory and applications

A. A. Sáez Uribe / B. T. A. Lecampion (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Three-dimensional hydraulic fracture propagation in homogeneous and heterogeneous media

C. Peruzzo / B. T. A. Lecampion (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Posters

The effect of in-situ linear stress gradient on the frictional shear rupture growth in 2D

R. Fakhretdinova; A. Sáez; B. Lecampion 

EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 24, 2023.

Transition from Vertical to Lateral Diking at the Neutral Buoyancy Line

A. Möri; D. Garagash; B. Lecampion 

European Geosciences Union, Annual Meeting 2023 (EGU2023), Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2023.

Talks

3D Geomechanical Modelling of a Potential CO2 Storage Site with focus on Fault Stability

E. Gallyamov; N. Richart; B. Lecampion; J-F. Molinari; G. Anciaux 

AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15.

Gravitational effects on the emergence,propagation, and arrest of hydraulic fractures

A. Möri; C. Peruzzo; D. Garagash; B. Lecampion 

Geoseminar Series EPFL, 2023-2024, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 2023-11-21.

Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures: How they Emerge, Grow, and get Arrested

A. Möri; C. Peruzzo; D. Garagash; B. Lecampion 

ARMA HFC 2023 Series, Online, November 16, 2023.

Ascent and movement of buoyant fluids in the lithosphere

A. Möri; C. Peruzzo; D. Gargash; B. Lecampion 

MEGA Seminar Series, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 2023-10-26.

Birth and ascent of buoyant hydraulic fractures

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

MCE Seminar, Pasadena, California, USA, June 21, 2023.

A fully-coupled highly-parallelized geomechanical simulator for assessing induced seismicity

E. Gallyamov; B. Lecampion; J-F. Molinari; G. Anciaux; N. Richart 

SIAM GS 23, Bergen, Norway, June 19-22, 2023.

Magmatic Intrusions From a Hydraulic Fracture Modeling Perspective

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2023.

Can a bi-lateral stress jump really arrest the height growth of a hydraulic fracture?

C. Peruzzo; B. Fryer; B. Lecampion 

The Seventh International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 June 2023.

Extraction of fluids to mitigate the seismic risk associated with post-injection aseismic slip

A. Sáez; B. Lecampion 

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023.

Student Projects

Numerical modeling of ground movement above underground salt mines in Tuzla city, Bosnia and Herzegovina

S. Marceta 

2023.

Testing Benchmark for a Block Conjugate Gradient Solving Scheme in Poroelasticity

T. Heipke 

2023.

Datasets

Data and Workflow to: Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release (Möri and Lecampion, (2023))

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

2023.

2022

Journal Articles

Effects of velocity-dependent apparent toughness on the pre- and post-shut-in growth of a hydraulic fracture

D. Liu; G. Lu 

Computers And Geotechnics. 2022. Vol. 155, p. 105195. DOI : 10.1016/j.compgeo.2022.105195.

Laboratory investigation of hydraulic fracture growth in Zimbabwe gabbro

D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2022. Vol. 127, p. e2022JB025678. DOI : 10.1029/2022JB025678.

Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: constant release from a point source

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2022. Vol. 950, p. A12. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2022.800.

Improving the Accuracy of Fracture Toughness Measurement in Burst Experiments

K. Yoshioka; Y. Zhang; G. Lu; A. Bunger; J. Adachi et al. 

Rock Mechanics And Rock Engineering. 2022. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-022-03097-y.

Weakening effect of various pore fluids on the tensile strength of granite

G. Lu; W. Zhao; J. Zheng; A. P. Bunger 

Geomechanics And Geophysics For Geo-Energy And Geo-Resources. 2022. Vol. 8, num. 5, p. 144. DOI : 10.1007/s40948-022-00452-9.

Long-term triggered seismicity on the Mosha fault by Damavand volcano, Iran: Implications on the seismic hazard of Tehran metropolis

S. Momeni; R. Madariaga 

Frontiers in Earth Science. 2022. Vol. 10. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2022.945297.

The influence of roughness on experimental fault mechanical behaviour and associated microseismicity

B. Fryer; C. Giorgetti; F. Passelègue; S. Momeni; B. Lecampion et al. 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2022. Vol. 127, num. 8. DOI : 10.1029/2022JB025113.

Three-dimensional fluid-driven stable frictional ruptures

A. Sáez; B. Lecampion; P. Bhattacharya; R. C. Viesca 

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2022. Vol. 160, p. 104754. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104754.

Conference Papers

Experimental Investigation of Hydraulic Fracture Closure in a Porous Sandstone

M. Talebkeikhah; S. Momeni; G. Lu; B. Lecampion 

2022. International Geomechanics Symposium, Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 5-10, 2022. DOI : 10.56952/IGS-2022-175.

Experimental investigation of hydraulic fracture growth in an anisotropic rock with pre-existing discontinuities under different propagation regimes

G. Lu; S. Momeni; B. Lecampion 

2022. 56th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 26–29, 2022. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2022-0239.

Book Chapters

Measurements of the Evolution of the Fluid Lag in Laboratory Hydraulic Fracture Experiments in Rocks

D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing: Experiment, Model, and Monitoring; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022. p. 11 – 23.

Posters

Numerical Scheme for the Large-scale Geomechanical Simulations of CO2-storage

E. Gallyamov 

Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland, Novembre 18-20, 2022.

Talks

Numerical simulations of mixed shear and opening modes fluid driven fracture propagation on pre-existing discontinuities

B. Lecampion; A. Sáez; R. Fakhretdinova 

The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS Congress 2022,, Oslo, Norway, 5-9 June 2022.

Hydraulic fracturing experiments in quasi- brittle rocks

B. Lecampion; D. Liu; S. Momeni; M. Talebkeikhah 

11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July 2022.

When, and for how long, two tough layers can contain the propagation of a fracture driven by the injection of a viscous fluid

C. Peruzzo; J. Capron; B. Lecampion 

8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS Congress 2022), Oslo, Norway, 5-9 June 2022.

The Transient Phase of Planar, Three-Dimensional Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures Emerging from a Point Source

A. Möri; C. Peruzzo; B. Lecampion 

The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2022), Oslo, 5 – 9 June.

The birth and death of buoyant hydraulic fractures

B. Lecampion; A. Möri; C. Peruzzo; Z. Haseeb 

Swiss Mech Seminar Series, Online organized by ETH Zürich, April 14, 2022.

Three-dimensional fluid-driven stable frictional ruptures

A. Sáez; B. Lecampion 

11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July.

Spatio-temporal patterns of fluid-driven aseismic slip transients: implications to seismic swarms

A. Saez; B. Lecampion 

EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May, 2022.

Steadily Moving Semi-Infinite Hydraulic Fracture in a Poroelastic Media

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Irland, 4 – 8 July 2022.

Teaching Resources

Elastodynamics – notes for earthquake source physics

B. Lecampion 

2022.

Media

3D Buoyancy-Driven Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures and their Applications to Magmatic Plumbing Systems

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

2022.

2021

Journal Articles

A plane‐strain hydraulic fracture driven by a shear‐thinning Carreau fluid

L. Pereira; B. Lecampion 

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2021. Vol. 45, num. 11, p. 1603 – 1623. DOI : 10.1002/nag.3216.

Arrest of a radial hydraulic fracture upon shut-in of the injection

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2021. Vol. 219-220, p. 151 – 165. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2021.02.022.

Propagation of a plane-strain hydraulic fracture accounting for a rough cohesive zone

D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2021. Vol. 149, p. 104322. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104322.

Conference Papers

Combining active and passive acoustic methods to image hydraulic fracture growth in laboratory experiments

S. Momeni; D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

2021. Mechanics and Rock Engineering from Theory to Practice – the 2021 ISRM International Symposium (EUROCK 2021), Torino, Italy, September, 20-24, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1755-1315/833/1/012088.

Remembering François H. Cornet’s contribution to the geomechanics and geophysics communities

R. Prioul; J. Desroches; E. Gaucher; T. Bérard; M-l. Doan et al. 

2021. 55th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 18-25, 2021.

Aseismic slip propagation in fractured rock masses driven by pore-fluid diffusion

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion 

2021. 55th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 20-23, 2021.

Theses

Hydraulic fracture growth in quasi-brittle materials

D. Liu / B. T. A. Lecampion (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Posters

Limiting Regimes of a Three-Dimensional Buoyant Hydraulic Fracture Emerging from a Point Source

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA, USA, 13 – 17 December 2021.

A Scaling Relation Between the Moment Release due to Aseismic Motion and the Injected Volume of Fluid

A. Sáez; B. Lecampion 

AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, December 13-17, 2021.

Talks

The breakthrough time of a hydraulic fracture contained between two tough layers

C. Peruzzo; J. Capron; B. Lecampion 

19th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Geneva 2021, [Online], 19-20 November 2021.

Interaction and coalescence of fluid-driven fractures: numerical predictions versus experiments

C. Peruzzo; B. Lecampion; N. O’Keeffe; P. Linden 

APS physics March Meeting 2021, [Online], March 15-19, 2021.

Simulations of hydraulic fracture initiation, growth and closure driven by a viscoplastic mud

H. Zia; B. Lecampion; L. Pereira; J. Desroches 

14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, online, 11-15 January 2021.

Scaling as a key component of the modelling of fluid driven fractures

B. Lecampion 

2nd International conference on coupled processes in fractured geological media: observations, modeling and applications – CouFrac 2020, Seoul, Korea, 11-13 November 2020.

Three-dimensional aseismic ruptures driven by fluid injection

A. Sáez; B. Lecampion; P. Bhattacharya; R. C. Viesca 

EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, April 19-30, 2021.

Improved fracture front reconstruction in planar 3D fluid driven fractures simulation

C. Peruzzo; B. Lecampion; H. Zia 

14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV) and 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2020) (Eccomas Congress 2020 & 14th WCCM), Virtual Congress, January 11-15, 2021.

Student Projects

Revisiting the Pohang Induced Earthquake

T. Liardon 

2021.

Physics Informed Neural Networks for Surrogate Modelling and Inverse Problems in Geotechnics

N. Olsen 

2021.

Rock Heterogeneity and Fractures

J. Capron 

2021.

2020

Journal Articles

Reply to comments on “Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth” (Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech., 2019, 43 (6), 1300-1315)” by Prof. Linkov

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

International Journal For Numerical And Analytical Methods In Geomechanics. 2020. Vol. 44, num. 18, p. 2524 – 2526. DOI : 10.1002/nag.3141.

A fast boundary element based solver for localized inelastic deformations

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion; F. Fayard; S. Chaillat 

International Journal For Numerical Methods In Engineering. 2020. Vol. 121, num. 24, p. 5696 – 5718. DOI : 10.1002/nme.6520.

Time-lapse reconstruction of the fracture front from diffracted waves arrivals in laboratory hydraulic fracture experiments

D. Liu; B. Lecampion; T. Blum 

Geophysical Journal International. 2020. Vol. 223, num. 1, p. 180 – 196. DOI : 10.1093/gji/ggaa310.

Planar hydraulic fracture growth perpendicular to the isotropy plane in a transversely isotropic material

F-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion; H. Zia 

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2020. Vol. 137, p. 103878. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103878.

PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

Computer Physics Communications. 2020. Vol. 255, p. 1 – 11, 107368. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107368.

Modeling of Simultaneous Propagation of Multiple Blade‑Like Hydraulic Fractures from a Horizontal Well

D. Nikolskiy; B. Lecampion 

Rock Mechanics Rock Engineering. 2020. Vol. 53, p. 1701 – 1718. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-019-02002-4.

Theses

Propagation of fluid driven fractures in transversely isotropic material

F-E. Moukhtari / B. T. A. Lecampion (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Hydraulic stimulation of pre-existing discontinuities in tight rocks

F. Ciardo / B. T. A. Lecampion (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Posters

Fully-coupled 3D modelling of magmatic dike Propagation – finite pulse release from a point source

A. Möri; B. Lecampion; H. Zia 

EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4 – 8 May 2020.

Talks

Laboratory studies of hydraulic fracture growth in quasi-brittle rocks with different grain sizes

D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, 2020-11-07.

Transition from a radial to a 3D buoyancy-driven hydraulic fracture

A. Möri; B. Lecampion 

18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2020 (SGM 2020), Zürich, Switzerland, 6 – 7 September 2020.

Student Projects

In-situ stress and rock characterisation via dry reopening test

S. Zarate 

2020.

Numerical back-analysis & future risk assessment of the Hirschigraben landslide(s)

A. Möri 

2020.

2019

Journal Articles

Slickwater hydraulic fracture propagation: near-tip and radial geometry solutions

B. Lecampion; H. Zia 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2019. Vol. 880, p. 514 – 550. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2019.716.

Propagation of a fluid-driven fracture with fracture length dependent apparent toughness

D. Liu; B. Lecampion; D. Garagash 

Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 2019. Vol. 220, p. 106616. DOI : 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.106616.

On stepwise advancement of fractures and pressure oscillations in saturated porous media

C. Peruzzo; L. Simoni; B. A. Schrefler 

Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 2019. Vol. 215, p. 246 – 250. DOI : 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.05.006.

Effect of dilatancy on the transition from aseismic to seismic slip due to fluid injection in a fault

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2019. Vol. 124, p. 3724 – 3743. DOI : 10.1029/2018JB016636.

Dynamics of fracturing saturated porous media and self-organization of rupture

C. Peruzzo; D. T. Cao; E. Milanese; P. Favia; F. Pesavento et al. 

European Journal Of Mechanics A-Solids. 2019. Vol. 74, p. 471 – 484. DOI : 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2018.12.004.

Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2019. Vol. 43, num. 6, p. 1300 – 1315. DOI : 10.1002/nag.2898.

Conference Papers

Propagation of a planar hydraulic fracture perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material

F-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion; H. Zia 

2019. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.

Effects of spatial variation of cluster entry friction on hydraulic fracture propagation in multistage fracturing

D. Nikolskiy; B. Lecampion; H. Pourpak; A. Onaisi 

2019. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.

Propagation of a plane-strain hydraulic fracture accounting for the presence of a cohesive zone and a fluid lag

D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

2019. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, New York City, June, 23-26, 2019.

Growth of a radial hydraulic fracture accounting for the viscous fluid flow in a rough cohesive zone

D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

2019. 2019 ARMA-CUPB Geothermal International Conference, Beijing, China, August 5-8, 2019.

Reports

STIMDESIGN: Hydraulic stimulation design for deep geothermal reservoirs – a numerical approach

B. Lecampion; F. Ciardo 

2019

Posters

Fluid injection driven, a-seismic fracture growth with remote nucleation on heterogeneous fault

A. Möri; B. Lecampion; F. Ciardo 

SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2019, EPFL,Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 – 4 September 2019.

A-seismic fracture growth driven by fluid injection and remote nucleation of dynamic rupture in a weaker part of the fault

A. Möri; B. Lecampion; F. Ciardo 

Third Schatzalp Workshop on Induced Seismicity, Davos, Switzerland, 5 – 8 March, 2019.

Talks

Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth.

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

CFRAC 2019: VI International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Braunschweig, Germany, 12-14 June 2019.

2018

Journal Articles

Impact of the anisotropy of fracture toughness on the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fracture

H. Zia; B. Lecampion; W. Zhang 

International Journal of Fracture. 2018. Vol. 211, num. 1-2, p. 103 – 123. DOI : 10.1007/s10704-018-0278-7.

A mechanically-based model of snow slab and weak layer fracture in the Propagation Saw Test

L. Benedetti; J. Gaume; J-T. Fischer 

International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2018. Vol. 158, p. 1 – 20. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2017.12.033.

A lined hole in a viscoelastic rock under biaxial far-field stress

S. G. Mogilevskaya; B. Lecampion 

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2018. Vol. 106, p. 350 – 363. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2018.02.019.

A semi-infinite hydraulic fracture driven by a shear-thinning fluid

F-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2018. Vol. 838, p. 573 – 605. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2017.900.

Immersive Wave Propagation Experimentation: Physical Implementation and One-Dimensional Acoustic Results

T. S. Becker; D-J. van Manen; C. M. Donahue; C. Bärlocher; N. Börsing et al. 

Physical Review X. 2018. Vol. 8, num. 3, p. 031011. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031011.

Numerical methods for hydraulic fracture propagation: a review of recent trends

B. Lecampion; A. Bunger; X. Zhang 

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 2018. Vol. 49, p. 66 – 83. DOI : 10.1016/j.jngse.2017.10.012.

Conference Papers

Accounting for near-wellbore fracture behavior to unlock the potential of unconventional gas wells

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches 

2018. 27th World Gas Conference, Washington, DC, USA, June 25-29.

Talks

Hydraulic fracture growth in transversely isotropic rocks

B. Lecampion 

Warren Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA,

Hydraulic fracture growth & turbulent flow

B. Lecampion 

Departmental seminar, Skolkovo Institute of Technology, Moscow,

Propagation of a Radial Fluid-driven Fracture in Nonlinear Solid –around the tip of a fluid-driven fracture: process zone vs deviated fluid flow

D. Liu; B. Lecampion 

International Summer School on Mechanics and Physics of Stretchable Objects (MEPHiSTO 2018), Cargese, Corsica, France, 7-17 August 2018.

Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracture growth: advances & remaining challenges

B. Lecampion 

10th European Sold Mechanics Conference, Bologna, Italy, July 2-6, 2018.

The Importance of coupling wellbore hydraulic & simultaneous fractures propagation in multistage design

B. Lecampion 

2018 ARMA-DGS Workshop: the Role of Geomechanics in Stimulations, Bahrain, April 3-5, 2018.

Slickwater is not water

B. Lecampion; H. Zia 

Hydraulic Fracturing: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiment workshop 18w5085 – Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, June 3-8.

2017

Journal Articles

Experiments versus theory for the initiation and propagation of radial hydraulic fractures in low permeability materials

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches; R. G. Jeffrey; A. P. Bunger 

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2017. Vol. 122, num. 2, p. 1239 – 1263. DOI : 10.1002/2016JB013183.

Propagation of a height contained hydraulic fracture in turbulent flow regimes

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2017. Vol. 110-111, p. 265 – 278. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2016.12.029.

The Role of Geological Barriers in Achieving Robust Well Integrity

M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; S. Mogilevskaya 

Energy Procedia. 2017. Vol. 114, p. 5193 – 5205. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1673.

Book Chapters

Four Critical Issues for Successful Hydraulic Fracturing Applications

A. Bunger; B. Lecampion 

Rock Mechanics and Engineering; CRC Press, 2017.

Posters

Modeling of the propagation of hydraulic fracture using cohesive zone models

D. Liu; B. Lecampion; L. Benedetti 

15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, November 17-18,2017.

Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion 

6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Champs-sur-Marne, Paris, July 9-13, 2017.

Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion 

2nd Induced Seismicity Workshop, Davos-Schatzalp, March 14-17, 2017.

Effect of dilatancy on a frictional weakening fault subjected to fluid injection

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion 

European Geoscience Union, Vienna, April 23-28, 2017.

Talks

Torsion and bending failure of skew notched beams: 3D numerical modelling of quasi brittle materials with the mixed strain-displacement FEM

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti 

COMPLAS 2017. XIV International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications, UPC- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 5th-7th September 2017.

High-fidelity numerical analysis of experimental tests on concrete specimens via mixed strain-displacement FE

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti 

CMN 2017 – Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain, 3rd-5th July 2017.

Modeling the growth of planar 3D hydraulic fractures in the presence of in-situ stress contrast

B. Lecampion; H. Zia 

Geothermal for Electricity Production: dreams & realities

B. Lecampion 

Geothermal Energy Day, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 23, 2017.

Tip asymptotic of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid accounting for the presence of a fluid lag

F-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion 

6th International Conference on Coupled THMC Processes in Geosystems, Paris, France, July 5-7, 2017.

Hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity

B. Lecampion 

2nd Schatzalp workshop on Induced Seismicity, Davos, Switzerland, March 14-17, 2017.

Hydraulic Fractures – Modeling and realities

B. Lecampion 

Workshop on Multiphysics, Multiscale, and Coupled Problems in Subsurface Physics, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, An NSF Math Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca, USA, April 3-7, 2017.

Patents

In-situ property determination

B. Lecampion; E. Siebrits; R. Prioul 

US2017204726; US9647765; US2016134377; US9264147; WO2011119897; US2011274429; WO2011119897.

2017.

2016

Conference Papers

Laminar – turbulent transition in the propagation of height contained hydraulic fracture

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

2016. American Rock Mechanics Association Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 26-29, 2016.

The role of geological barriers in achieving robust well integrity

M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; S. Mogilevskaya 

2016. 13th Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-13), Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 14-18, 2016.

Posters

The tip region of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid

F-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion 

SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2016, Sion, Switzerland, September 12-13, 2016.

Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion 

14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.

Acoustic monitoring of laboratory hydraulic fracture growth under stress and pore pressure

T. Blum; B. Lecampion 

14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.

Simulating fully three-dimensional pressurized fracture propagation

D. Nikolskiy; B. Lecampion 

14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.

The tip region of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid

F-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion 

14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.

Fluid injection in a frictional weakening fracture

F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion 

SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2016, Sion, Switzerland, September 13, 2016.

Talks

A new mechanical framework to interpret weak layer and slab fracture in the propagation saw test

L. Benedetti; J-T. Fischer; J. Gaume 

ISSW 2016 – International Snow Science Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, United States, 3rd-7th October 2016.

Fluid Driven Fractures – Modeling and realities

B. Lecampion 

SCCER / SoE Geo-Energy seminar, Zurich, Switzerland, October 14, 2016.

Impact of the propagation algorithm on the convergence rate of hydraulic fracturing simulator to reference solutions

B. Lecampion 

ECCOMAS Congress 2016, Crete Island, Greece, June 5-10, 2016.

Fluid-driven fractures: modeling and realities

B. Lecampion 

Annual MAGS-2 / SHynergie Projects Workshop, Bochum, Germany, October 4-5, 2016.

Turbulent – laminar transition in the propagation of height-contained hydraulic fracture

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 17–22, 2016.

Implicit level set scheme to model the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fractures

H. Zia; B. Lecampion 

14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.

2015

Journal Articles

Robustness to formation geological heterogeneities of the limited entry technique for multi-stage fracturing of horizontal wells

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches 

Rock Mechanics And Rock Engineering. 2015. Vol. 48, num. 6, p. 2637 – 2644. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-015-0836-5.

Pressure-Driven Suspension Flow near Jamming

S. Oh; Y-Q. Song; D. I. Garagash; B. Lecampion; J. Desroches 

Physical Review Letters. 2015. Vol. 114, num. 8, p. 088301. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.088301.

Simultaneous initiation and growth of multiple radial hydraulic fractures from a horizontal wellbore

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches 

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2015. Vol. 82, p. 235 – 258. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2015.05.010.

Full-wavefield modeling and reverse time migration of laser ultrasound data: A feasibility study

J. Shragge; T. E. Blum; K. Van Wijk; L. Adam 

Geophysics. 2015. Vol. 80, num. 6, p. D553 – D563. DOI : 10.1190/geo2015-0020.1.

Conference Papers

Geomechanical drivers of the (in)-efficiencies of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches 

2015. Second EAGE Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy, Celle, Germany, October 13-15, 2015.

Modeling Simultaneous Initiation and Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches 

2015. 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 13), San Diego, Ca, July 26-30, 2015.

Laboratory study of the Effect of well Orientation, Completion Design and rock fabric on near-wellbore hydraulic fracture geometry in shales

J. Burghardt; J. Desroches; B. Lecampion; S. Stanchits; A. Surdi et al. 

2015. 13th ISRM International Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Montreal, May 10-13, 2015.

Can we engineer better multistage horizontal completions? Evidence of the importance of near-wellbore fracture geometry from theory, lab and field experiments

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches; X. Weng; J. Burghardt; E. Brown 

2015. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, February 3-5, 2015.

Initiation versus Breakdown pressure of transverse hydraulic fracture: theory and experiments

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches; R. Jeffrey; A. Bunger; J. Burghardt 

2015. 13th ISRM International Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Montreal, May 10-13, 2015.

Well Integrity and CO2 injection: Interface debonding in a cased and cemented wellbore as a potential risk

B. Lecampion 

2015. Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, Barcelona, Spain, June 2–4, 2015.

Talks

A Mixed Finite Element Formulation For Geotechnical Problems Involving Localization In Plasticity

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti 

COMPLAS 2015 – XIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalana, Barcelona, Spain, 1st-3rd September 2015.

Mixed FE for strain localization in plasticity

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti; R. Codina 

CMN 2015 – Conference on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 29th June – 2nd July 2015.

Mixed strain-displacement finite elements for landslide and avalanche release prediction

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti 

EMI 2015 – Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Stanford University, California, United States, 16th-19th June 2015.

Towards a unified solution of localization failure with mixed finite elements

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti; A. Zeidler; J-T. Fischer 

EGU – European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12th-17th April 2015.

Hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resources development: challenges & opportunities for the mechanical community

B. Lecampion 

ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas, USA, November 13-19, 2015.

Introduction to Hydraulic Fracturing Practices in the Oil and Gas Industry

B. Lecampion; A. Savitski 

Institute for Mathematics and its Application – Hot-Topic Workshop:Hydraulic Fracturing: From Modeling and Simulation to Reconstruction and Characterization, May 16, 2015.

Particle laden fluids in hydraulic fracturing

B. Lecampion 

68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachussets, USA, November 21-23, 2015.

2014

Journal Articles

Scattering amplitude of a single fracture under uniaxial stress

T. E. Blum; K. Van Wijk; R. Snieder 

Geophysical Journal International. 2014. Vol. 197, num. 2, p. 875 – 881. DOI : 10.1093/gji/ggu039.

Confined flow of suspensions modelled by a frictional rheology

B. Lecampion; D. I. Garagash 

Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2014. Vol. 759, p. 197 – 235. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2014.557.

Conference Papers

Limited Height Growth and Reduced Opening of Hydraulic Fractures due to Fracture Offsets: An XFEM Application

S. Abbas; E. Gordeliy; A. Peirce; B. Lecampion; D. Chuprakov et al. 

2014. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 4–6 February, 2014. DOI : 10.2118/168622-MS.

Simultaneous Initiation and propagation of multiple transverse hydraulic fractures in a horizontal well

B. Lecampion; J. Desroches 

2014. 48th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1–4 June, 2014.

Benefits of Controlled Hydraulic Fracture Placement: Theory and Field Experiment

J. Desroches; B. Lecampion; H. Ramakrishnan; R. Prioul; E. Brown 

2014. SPE/CSUR Unconventional Resources Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2014.

Reports

1DPlanarHF – Simulation of the initiation and propagation of a single plane-strain or radial hydraulic fracture: algorithm description

B. Lecampion 

2014

Talks

Encompassing incompressibility and strain localization in plasticity with mixed FE

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti 

WCCM – XII World Conference on Computational Mechanics 2014, UPC- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Spain, 20th-25th July 2014.

Simultaneous initiation and propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures from a horizontal well

B. Lecampion 

Reunion Thématique du Comité Français de Mécanique des Roches – Fracturation artificielle des roches, October 16, 2014.

Complex fluid proppant placement in the hydraulic fracturing of oil gas wells

B. Lecampion 

Seminar School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, March 26, 2014.

Patents

Competition between transverse and axial hydraulic fractures in horizontal well

B. Lecampion; R. Prioul 

US10267131; US2015218925; CN104755699; WO2014028432.

2014.

2013

Journal Articles

Interface debonding driven by fluid injection in a cased and cemented wellbore: Modeling and experiments

B. Lecampion; A. Bunger; J. Kear; D. Quesada 

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 2013. Vol. 18, p. 208 – 223. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.07.012.

A macroscopic poromechanical model of cement hydration

B. Lecampion 

European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering. 2013. Vol. 17, num. 3, p. 176 – 201. DOI : 10.1080/19648189.2013.768554.

Noncontacting benchtop measurements of the elastic properties of shales

T. E. Blum; L. Adam; K. Van Wijk 

Geophysics. 2013. Vol. 78, num. 3, p. C25 – C31. DOI : 10.1190/geo2012-0314.1.

Conference Papers

Initiation and Breakdown of an Axisymmetric Hydraulic Fracture Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore

S. Abbas; B. Lecampion 

2013. The International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing, Brisbane, Australia, May 20–22, 2013.

The impact of the near-tip logic on the accuracy and convergence rate of hydraulic fracture simulators compared to reference solutions

B. Lecampion; A. Peirce; E. Detournay; X. Zhang; Z. Chen et al. 

2013. The International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing, Brisbane, Australia, May 20-22, 2013.

Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing using the XFEM

S. Abbas; E. Gordeliy; B. Lecampion; A. Peirce 

2013. Society of Engineering Science, ASME-AMD Summer Meeting, Brown University School of Engineering, Providence, RI, USA,

Competition between transverse and axial hydraulic fractures in horizontal wells

B. Lecampion; S. Abbas; R. Prioul 

2013. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 4–6 February, 2013.

Reports

Lubrication flow of wet granular medium / dense suspension

B. Lecampion; D. Garagash 

2013

Talks

Mixed Finite Elements applied to Slope Stability Problems

L. Benedetti; M. Cervera; M. Chiumenti 

COMPLAS 2013 – XII International Conference on Computational Plasticity, UPC- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Spain, 3rd-5th September 2013.

Interface debonding driven by fluid injection in a cased and cemented wellbore

B. Lecampion 

Friday Geoseminar, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, April 5, 2013.

Crystallization Preferred Orientation induced by mechanical stresses

B. Lecampion 

Strains induced by phase changes in deformable porous solids: What about building materials ? A workshop supported by Lafarge, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, July 8, 2013.

Patents

Method to optimize perforations for hydraulic fracturing in anisotropic earth formations

R. Prioul; F. Karpfinger; G. Waters; B. Lecampion 

US2017145818; US9376902; US2013206475.

2013.

2012

Journal Articles

Discrete element modeling of tool-rock interaction, I. rock cutting: Modeling Of Tool-Rock Interaction I

H. Huang; B. Lecampion; E. Detournay 

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2012. Vol. 37, num. 13, p. 1913 – 1929. DOI : 10.1002/nag.2113.

Analyzing the coda from correlating scattered surface waves

T. Dylan Mikesell; K. Van Wijk; T. E. Blum; R. Snieder; H. Sato 

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2012. Vol. 131, num. 3, p. EL275. DOI : 10.1121/1.3687427.

Modeling size effects associated with tensile fracture initiation from a wellbore

B. Lecampion 

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2012. Vol. 56, p. 67 – 76. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2012.07.024.

A modified delay-time method for statics estimation with the virtual refraction

T. D. Mikesell; K. van Wijk; E. Ruigrok; A. Lamb; T. E. Blum 

GEOPHYSICS. 2012. Vol. 77, num. 6, p. A29 – A33. DOI : 10.1190/geo2012-0111.1.

Conference Papers

Case Studies for Monitoring of CO2 Storage Sites, based on Ground Deformation Monitoring with Radar Satellites

J. Granda; A. Arnaud; B. Pays; B. Lecampion 

2012. Third EAGE CO2 Geological Storage Workshop, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26–27 March, 2012.

CO2 Storage in Coal Seams: Coupling Surface Adsorption and Strain

S. Nikoosokhan; L. Brochard; M. Vandamme; P. Dangla; R. Pellenq et al. 

2012.  p. 115 – 132. DOI : 10.1002/9781118577424.ch7.

Hydraulic Fracture initiation in quasi-brittle material

B. Lecampion 

2012. Hydraulic Fracturing Summit XII, Country Club, Johannesburg, South Africa, May, 2012.

Hydraulic Fracture Initiation From an Open-hole: Wellbore Size, Pressurization Rate And Fluid-solid Coupling Effects

B. Lecampion 

2012. 46th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 24–27, 2012.

Reports

Size Effects associated with Tensile Fracture Initiation from a Wellbore: Comparison between Brittle Criteria and Cohesive Zone Models

B. Lecampion 

2012

Talks

Hydraulic Fracture Modeling and Design

B. Lecampion 

EAP Event Science and Engineering of Gas Shales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 20, 2012.

2011

Journal Articles

Interface debonding as a controlling mechanism for loss of well integrity: Importance for CO2 injector wells

B. Lecampion; D. Quesada; M. Loizzo; A. Bunger; J. Kear et al. 

Energy Procedia. 2011. Vol. 4, p. 5219 – 5226. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.500.

Monitoring CO2 migration in an injection well: Evidence from MovECBM

M. Loizzo; S. Lombardi; L. Deremble; B. Lecampion; D. Quesada et al. 

Energy Procedia. 2011. Vol. 4, p. 5203 – 5210. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.498.

Theory and laboratory experiments of elastic wave scattering by dry planar fractures

T. E. Blum; R. Snieder; K. Van Wijk; M. E. Willis 

Journal of Geophysical Research. 2011. Vol. 116, num. B8, p. B08218. DOI : 10.1029/2011JB008295.

Laser Excitation of a Fracture Source for Elastic Waves

T. E. Blum; K. Van Wijk; R. Snieder; M. E. Willis 

Physical Review Letters. 2011. Vol. 107, num. 27, p. 275501. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.275501.

Stability of a leakage pathway in a cemented annulus

L. Deremble; M. Loizzo; B. Huet; B. Lecampion; D. Quesada 

Energy Procedia. 2011. Vol. 4, p. 5283 – 5290. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.508.

Conference Papers

Evolution of Portland Cement Mechanical Properties exposed to CO2-rich fluids: investigation at different scales

B. Lecampion; J. Vanzo; F. Ulm; B. Huet; C. Germay et al. 

2011. Symposium on the Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids: A tribute to Pr. Olivier Coussy. p. 129 – 152.

Adsorption and strain: from the molecule to a coal bed reservoir

L. Brochard; S. Nikoosokhan; M. Vandamme; P. Dangla; R. Pellenq et al. 

2011.  p. 181 – .

Inversion of time-lapse InSAR data for reservoir pressure monitoring: Example of the Krechba field, Algeria

B. Lecampion; G. Cooksley; M. Loizzo; A. Arnaud; J. Garcia Robles et al. 

2011. EAGE / SPE EUROPEC Annual Conference and Exhibition, Vienna,

Carbon dioxide injection in coal beds: from molecular simulations to reservoir simulations

S. Nikoosokhan; L. Brochard; M. Vandamme; P. Dangla; R. Pellenq et al. 

2011. 

Reports

Prediction of Foamed Cement Ultrasonic Properties

S. Contraires; S. Iverson; B. Lecampion; R. Welty 

2011

Hydraulic fracture initiation in boreholes with pre-existing notches: preliminary static analysis of stress and stress-intensity factor controls on longitudinal and transverse fracture initiation

R. Prioul; D. Chuprakov; F. Karpfinger; B. Lecampion 

2011

Talks

Evolution of Portland Cement Mechanical Properties exposed to CO2-rich fluids: investigation at different scales

B. Lecampion 

Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids – a tribute to Pr. O. Coussy, Ecole des Ponts, Champs sur Marne, April, 2011.

Patents

Compositions and methods for well treatment

I. Khalfallah; M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; K. Dennis 

BR112012028422; US2013105160; AU2011254886; EP2404884; CA2797283; WO2011144433.

2011.

2010

Journal Articles

Reconstructing the 3D initial stress state over reservoir geo-mechanics model from local measurements and geological priors: a Bayesian approach

B. Lecampion; T. Lei 

Schlumberger J. of Modeling, Design, and Simulation. 2010. Vol. 1, p. 100 – .

Adsorption and strain: The CO2-induced swelling of coal

M. Vandamme; L. Brochard; B. Lecampion; O. Coussy 

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2010. Vol. 58, num. 10, p. 1489 – 1505. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2010.07.014.

Multicomponent wavefield characterization with a novel scanning laser interferometer

T. E. Blum; K. Van Wijk; B. Pouet; A. Wartelle 

Review of Scientific Instruments. 2010. Vol. 81, num. 7, p. 073101. DOI : 10.1063/1.3455213.

Stress-induced crystal preferred orientation in the poromechanics of in-pore crystallization

B. Lecampion 

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2010. Vol. 58, num. 10, p. 1701 – 1715. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2010.07.001.

Reusing O&G-Depleted Reservoirs for CO2 Storage: Pros and Cons

M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; T. Bérard; A. Harichandran; L. Jammes 

SPE Projects, Facilities & Construction. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 03, p. 166 – 172. DOI : 10.2118/124317-PA.

Conference Papers

The geometry of a hydraulic fracture growing along a wellbore annulus

A. Bunger; J. Kear; B. Lecampion; D. Quesada 

2010. 9th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Limassol, Cyprus, July 12-14, 2010. p. 341 – .

Assessment of Leakage Pathways Along a Cemented Annulus

L. Deremble; M. Loizzo; B. Huet; B. Lecampion; D. Quesada 

2010. SPE International Conference on CO2 Capture, Storage, and Utilization.

Challenges in Modeling of Temperature Effects in CO2 Injection Operations

M. Loizzo; M. Sengul; B. Lecampion; L. Jammes; B. Huet 

2010. Sour Oil Gas Advanced Technology Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 28 – April 1, 2010.

Reports

Consistent upscaling / downscaling for double porosities / double permeabilities geomechanical models: microporomechanics of fractured media

B. Lecampion 

2010

Cement Hydration: a macroscopic poromechanical point of view

B. Lecampion 

2010

Defect prediction in a cased and cemented wellbore

D. Quesada; B. Lecampion 

2010

Hydration of a Cement Annulus under Downhole Conditions

B. Lecampion 

2010

Patents

Hydraulic fracturing

B. Lecampion; E. Detournay 

US7677306; RU2006112550; US2007235181; CA2539118; WO2005026496.

2010.

System and method for performing wellsite containment operations

M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; L. Deremble; B. Huet 

BRPI1013494; EA201171400; US2012109611; MX2011011951; WO2010131113; WO2010131113.

2010.

2009

Journal Articles

An extended finite element method for hydraulic fracture problems

B. Lecampion 

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering. 2009. Vol. 25, num. 2, p. 121 – 133. DOI : 10.1002/cnm.1111.

Long-term well bore integrity in Otway: Integrating ultrasonic logs, cement petrophysics, and mechanical analysis

S. Contraires; M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; S. Sharma 

Energy Procedia. 2009. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 3545 – 3552. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.148.

Conference Papers

Measuring Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Naturally Fractured Rock

R. Jeffrey; A. Bunger; B. Lecampion; X. Zhang; Z. Chen et al. 

2009. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.

Reusing Oil and Gas Depleted Reservoirs for CO2 Storage: Pros and Cons

M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; T. Berard; A. Harichandran; L. Jammes 

2009. SPE Offshore Europe.

Chemo-Poro-Mechanical Model of {MgO} Hydration in Hydrated Cement Paste

B. Lecampion; B. Huet 

2009. Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics.

Reports

A MATLAB 3-D Initial Stress Inversion Tool: User’s Manual and Tutorial

T. Lei; B. Lecampion 

2009

Collocation of Fundamental Solutions in the homogeneous half-space: Preliminary Geomechanical Appraisal associated with CO2 injection

B. Lecampion; Z. Zhun 

2009

Talks

Preferred Orientation Effects in the Poromechanics of in-pore crystallization

B. Lecampion 

9th Euro Conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, Ascona, Switzerland, September, 2009.

2008

Conference Papers

Fluid driven debonding of the casing – cement interface of an oil-well

B. Lecampion 

2008. Hydraulic fracturing summit VIII, Halifax, NS, Canada, July, 2008.

Crystallization Preferred Orientation in Porous Media

B. Lecampion 

2008. 1st South Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium, Perth, Australia, 16–19 September, 2008. p. 587 – . DOI : 10.36487/ACG_repo/808_96.

Reports

Vertical propagation of a micro-annulus in a cemented wellbore: plane-strain approximation, negligible leak-off, incompressible fluid solution

B. Lecampion 

2008

Integrating local measurements and geological priors for 3D Initial Stress Inversion: Algorithm description

B. Lecampion; T. Lei 

2008

Predictions of hydrated cement properties: Multiscale micro-poro-mechanical modeling

B. Lecampion 

2008

Talks

Effect of Cement Carbonation on Mechanical Properties

B. Lecampion 

Workshop of the IEA-GHG Well-Integrity network, Paris, March, 2008.

2007

Journal Articles

An implicit algorithm for the propagation of a hydraulic fracture with a fluid lag

B. Lecampion; E. Detournay 

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 2007. Vol. 196, num. 49-52, p. 4863 – 4880. DOI : 10.1016/j.cma.2007.06.011.

Multipole moment decomposition for imaging hydraulic fractures from remote elastostatic data

B. Lecampion; A. Peirce 

Inverse Problems. 2007. Vol. 23, num. 4, p. 1641 – 1658. DOI : 10.1088/0266-5611/23/4/016.

Model selection in fracture mapping from elastostatic data

B. Lecampion; J. Gunning 

International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2007. Vol. 44, num. 5, p. 1391 – 1408. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.06.022.

Conference Papers

CO2 Storage Geomechanics for Performance and Risk Management

T. Berard; L. Jammes; B. Lecampion; C. Vivalda; J. Desroches 

2007. 

An extended Finite Element Method for hydraulic fracture problems

B. Lecampion 

2007. 18th Engineering Mechanics Division Conference of the ASCE (EMD2007), Virginia Tech., June, 2007.

Practical lessons on Tiltmeter Hydraulic Fracturing Mapping: the Ridgeways and NorthParkes cases

B. Lecampion; R. Jeffrey 

2007. Hydraulic fracturing summit VII, Atlanta, GA, USA, June, 2007.

Reports

Geodetic monitoring for CO2 Storage: a brief review

B. Lecampion 

2007

2006

Journal Articles

Identification of Poroelastic Constants of “Tight” Rocks from Laboratory Tests

B. Lecampion; A. Constantinescu; L. Malinsky 

International Journal of Geomechanics. 2006. Vol. 6, num. 3, p. 201 – 208. DOI : 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2006)6:3(201).

Conference Papers

Extended finite element for hydraulic fracture modeling

B. Lecampion 

2006. Hydraulic Fracturing Summit VI, Pemburton, WA, Australia, July, 2006.

Reports

Static-TAL: a Tilt Analysis Library using static fracture models

B. Lecampion 

2006

E48 Hydraulic Fracture Experiment: Tiltmeter Monitoring, Installation and preliminary analysis

B. Lecampion 

2006

Patents

Hydraulic fracturing

B. Lecampion 

RU2006104788; US2006219402.

2006.

2005

Journal Articles

Resolving the Geometry of Hydraulic Fractures from Tilt Measurements

B. Lecampion; R. Jeffrey; E. Detournay 

Pure and Applied Geophysics. 2005. Vol. 162, num. 12, p. 2433 – 2452. DOI : 10.1007/s00024-005-2786-4.

Conference Papers

Model Selection in Hydraulic fracture monitoring from Elastostatic Measurements

B. Lecampion; J. Gunning 

2005. Hydraulic Fracturing Summit V, Vancouver, BC, Canada,

Onset of Interaction between a Hydraulic Fracture and a Natural Joint: Scaling Considerations

B. Lecampion; X. Zhang 

2005. Alaska Rocks, The 40th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Anchorage, June 25–29, 2005.

Plane-strain analysis of post-coalescence interaction between fluid-driven cracks and pre-existing fractures

X. Zhang; R. Jeffrey; E. Llanos; B. Lecampion 

2005. Alaska Rocks, The 40th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Anchorage, June 25–29, 2005.

Model Selection in Hydraulic Fracture imaging from elastostatic measurements

B. Lecampion; J. Gunning 

2005. 5th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Cambridge, UK, 11–15th July, 2005.

Reports

Thermoporoelastic induced fracture initiation in Horizontal well

B. Lecampion; R. Jeffrey 

2005

2004

Journal Articles

Sensitivity analysis for parameter identification in quasi-static poroelasticity

B. Lecampion; A. Constantinescu 

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2004. Vol. 29, num. 2, p. 163 – 185. DOI : 10.1002/nag.409.

Conference Papers

Tiltmeter fracture monitoring

B. Lecampion; R. Jeffrey 

2004. Hydraulic Fracturing Summit IV, Moscow, Russia,

Real-time {Bayesian} Inversion of Hydraulic Fracturing Treatment Efficiency from Tiltmeter Measurements

B. Lecampion; R. Jeffrey; E. Detournay 

2004. ATCE, Houston, September 26–29, 2004.

Real-time estimation of fracture volume and hydraulic fracturing treatment efficiency

B. Lecampion; R. Jeffrey; E. Detournay 

2004. 

2003

Journal Articles

Mapping of hydraulic fractures from tiltmeter measurements

B. Lecampion; R. Jeffrey 

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. Vol. 1, p. 7.

Conference Papers

A discussion of sensitivity analysis for the identification of poroelastic material parameters

A. Constantinescu; B. Lecampion 

2003. 7th US National Conference on Computational Mechanics, July, 2003.

Resolution of fracture dimensions from Elastostatic measurements

B. Lecampion 

2003. Hydraulic fracturing summit III, Moose Lake, WI, USA, June, 2003.

2002

Journal Articles

Parameter identification for lined tunnels in a viscoplastic medium

B. Lecampion; A. Constantinescu; D. Nguyen Minh 

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2002. Vol. 26, num. 12, p. 1191 – 1211. DOI : 10.1002/nag.241.

Conference Papers

On the determination of elastoviscoplastic constants of hard marls from in situ measurements performed on a motorway tunnel in the Alps

B. Lecampion; A. Constantinescu; D. Nguyen Minh; D. Allagnat 

2002. North American Rocks Mechanics Symposium, Toronto, p. 251 – .

Identification of poroelastic constant of deep argillaceous rocks II: Inverse analysis

B. Lecampion; A. Constantinescu 

2002. 2nd Biot conference on Poromechanics. p. 245 – 250. DOI : 10.1201/9781003078807-37.

Theses

Sur l’identification des paramètres des lois de comportement des roches argileuses

B. Lecampion / P. Bérest (Dir.)  

Ecole Polytechnique – France, 2002. 

2001

Conference Papers

Identification of constitutive parameters in engineering problems

A. Constantinescu; B. Lecampion; L. Verger; N. Tardieu 

2001. Workshop on Inverse Problems: Detection of Internal Damage, Karlsruhe, Germany,

Study of the creep behavior of a possible host clayed rock

M. Gasc-Barbier; S. Chanchole; B. Lecampion; P. Berest; N. Hoteit 

2001. 6th International Workshop on Key Issues in Waste Isolation Research, ENPC, Paris,

1999

Student Projects

A Numerical study of Rock Cutting

B. Lecampion 

1999.