Journal Articles

2025

How Stress Biaxiality Controls Crack Morphology and Apparent Fracture Energy of Dikes and Sills

A. Guggisberg; M. Lebihain; J. Moore; M. Violay

Geophysical Research Letters. 2025. Vol. 52, num. 4, p. e2024GL112638. DOI : 10.1029/2024GL112638.

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Alteration’s Control on Frictional Behavior and the Depth of the Ductile Shear Zone in Geothermal Reservoirs in Volcanic Arcs

B. Fryer; F. Jermann; P. Patrier; B. Lanson; S. Jelavic et al.

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 2025. Vol. 130, num. 2. DOI : 10.1029/2024JB030213.

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2024

The Influence of Micro- and Macrocracks on the Permeability of Granite

L. Carbillet; L. Griffiths; M. J. Heap; H. Duwiquet; P. Baud et al.

ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-024-04174-0.

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Off-fault deformation feedback and strain localization precursor during laboratory earthquakes

G. G. Meyer; C. Giorgetti; S. Guérin-Marthe; M. Violay

Communications Earth & Environment. 2024. Vol. 5, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s43247-024-01756-2.

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Permeability partitioning through the brittle-to-ductile transition and its implications for supercritical geothermal reservoirs

G. Meyer; G. Shahin; B. Cordonnier; M. Violay

Nature Communications. 2024. Vol. 15, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-52092-0.

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Post-failure deformation mode switching in volcanic rock

J. I. Farquharson; M. J. Heap; L. Carbillet; P. Baud

Royal Society Open Science. 2024. Vol. 11, num. 8, p. 240792. DOI : 10.1098/rsos.240792.

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Compaction and Permeability Evolution of Tuffs From Krafla Volcano (Iceland)

M. J. Heap; K. Bayramov; G. Meyer; M. Violay; T. Reuschlé et al.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2024. Vol. 129, num. 8. DOI : 10.1029/2024JB029067.

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Introduction to special section on the rock physics contribution to the energy transition challenge

I. H. Falcon-Suarez; L. Adam; H. Marin-Moreno; G. Papageorgiou; L. X. Pimienta

Geophysical Prospecting. 2024. DOI : 10.1111/1365-2478.13521.

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Fault roughness controls injection-induced seismicity

L. Wang; G. Kwiatek; F. Renard; S. Guerin-Marthe; E. Rybacki et al.

Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2024. Vol. 121, num. 3, p. e2310039121. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2310039121.

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Water weakening and the compressive brittle strength of carbonates: Influence of fracture toughness and static friction

C. Noël; B. Fryer; P. Baud; M. Violay

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2024. Vol. 177, p. 105736. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2024.105736.

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Frictional weakening leads to unconventional singularities during dynamic rupture propagation

F. Paglialunga; F. Passelègue; M. Lebihain; M. Violay

Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2024. Vol. 626, p. 118550. DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118550.

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2023

Assessing continuum plasticity postulates with grain stress and local strain measurements in triaxially compressed sand

R. Hurley; G. Shahin; B. S. Kuwik; K. M. Lee

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2023. Vol. 120, num. 32. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2301607120.

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A new high-pressure high-temperature deformation apparatus to study the brittle to ductile transition in rocks

G. G. Meyer; M. Acosta; H. Leclere; L. Morier; M. Teuscher et al.

Review Of Scientific Instruments. 2023. Vol. 94, num. 4, p. 043903. DOI : 10.1063/5.0135947.

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Influence of Viscous Lubricant on Nucleation and Propagation of Frictional Ruptures

F. Paglialunga; F. Passelegue; S. Latour; A. Gounon; M. Violay

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2023. Vol. 128, num. 4, p. e2022JB026090. DOI : 10.1029/2022JB026090.

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Posters

2023

Permeability of Lanhelin granite through the brittle-ductile transition.

G. Meyer; M. Violay

EGU 2023, Vienna, April 23-28, 2023.

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Talks

2023

Effect of stress biaxiality on fracture energy and microstructures of tensile cracks

A. Guggisberg; M. Lebihain; J. Moore; M. Violay

EGU 2023, Vienna, April 23-28, 2023.

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Effect of water on sandstone and limestone, fracture toughness, frictional parameters and brittle strength.

M. Violay; C. Noël; P. Baud

EGU 2023, Vienna, April 23-28, 2023.

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The role of loading path on fault reactivation: a laboratory perspective

C. Giorgetti; M. Violay; C. Collettini

EGU 2023, Vienna, April 23-28, 2023.

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Investigating the nucleation of laboratory ruptures and the dependence with loading rate and geometrical heterogeneities

S. Guérin-Marthe; M. Violay

ISTerre seminar, Chambéry, April 5, 2023.

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Student Projects

2024

Vérifications et Impacts d’un microtunnelier. Etude de cas dans le contexte de l’excavation d’un système de récupération des eaux d’un tunnel ferroviaire

N. E. Dufour

2024.

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