... to new deformed state under the various orientations considered with the average differential stress climbing (Figure 10). 3.2 Results Fracture-dependent stress heterogeneity is signifi- cant in the deformed areas (Figure 8). The AFN and DFN models possess distinctly different loca- tions for high...

... stress also increases with depth, Fig. 1a. It follows from eqs. 1 and 2 and Fig. 1a that the differential stress (v h = 1 - 3) increases with depth. Figure 1b shows the failure criteria for extensional and shear failure and the relationship between the two types of fractures and their causative...