Sustainability of engineered fractured systems: An experimental study on hydro-mechanical properties

The Earth’s subsurface exhibits a high potential for generating and storing energy. Engineered fractured systems, for example geothermal or carbon storage reservoirs, highly depend on the capacity of rock to conduct and store fluids. Faults and fractures create the largest contrasts in flow in these reservoirs and can enhance the reservoir...

Permeable areas and the use of groundwater: A case study in campus I at Passo Fundo University, Brazil

The water from rainfall that may be retained in the soil or the surface can seep by gravity or capillary action and will form the underground phase of the hydrologic cycle. Permeability measures the greater or lesser ease each soil, when saturated, offers the piping of water through its interstices. The permeability depends mainly on the...