Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

• X. Shen, F. Marinelli, and G. Buscarnera, 2022. Constitutive modeling of structured granular materials with anisotropic grain skeleton and cement bonds. Acta Geotechnica, DOI: 10.1007/s11440-022-01717-z.
• T. Xu, X. Shen, M. Reed, N. West, K. L. Ferrier, and C. Arson, 2022. Anisotropy and microcrack propagation induced by weathering, regional stresses and topographic stresses. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, DOI: 10.1029/2022JB024518.
• X. Shen, G. Buscarnera, 2022, Fabric-enriched Continuum Breakage Mechanics (F-CBM), Géotechnique DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.21.00308.
• X. Shen, G. Buscarnera, 2022, A breakage–damage framework for porous granular rocks in surface-reactive environments, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2022.105111.
• X. Shen, J. Ding, I. Lordkipanidze, C. Arson, J. Chester, F.M. Chester, 2021, Fabric evolution and crack propagation in salt during consolidation and cyclic compression tests, Acta Geotechnica DOI: 10.1007/s11440-020-01117-1.
• J. Ding, F. M. Chester, J. S. Chester, X. Shen, C. Arson, 2021, Coupled Brittle and Viscous Micromechanisms Produce Semibrittle Flow, Grain-Boundary Sliding, and Anelasticity in Salt-Rock, Journal of Geophyscial Research: Solid Earth DOI: 10.1029/2020JB021261.
• X. Shen, J. Ding, C. Arson, J. S. Chester, F. M. Chester, 2021, Micromechanical modeling for rate-dependent behavior of salt rock under cyclic loading, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, DOI: 10.1002/nag.3133.
• X. Shen, C. Arson, J. Ding, F. M. Chester, J. S. Chester, 2020, Mechanisms of anisotropy in salt rock upon microcrack propagation, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s00603-020-02096-1.
• X. Shen, C. Arson, K. Ferrier, N. West, S. Dai, 2020, Mineral weathering and bedrock weakening: Modeling microscale bedrock damage under biotite weathering, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, DOI: 10.1029/2019JF005068.
• X. Shen, C. Arson, 2019, Simulation of salt cavity healing based on a micro-macro model of pressure-solution, Petroleum Geoscience, DOI: 10.1144/petgeo2018-094.
• X. Shen, C. Arson, 2019, An isotropic self-consistent homogenization scheme for chemo-mechanical healing driven by pressure solution in halite, International Journal of Solids and Structures, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.11.010.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

• X. Shen, C. Arson, J. Ding, F. Chester, J. Chester, Discrete frictional wing crack based damage model for salt rock, IS Atlanta 2018, ISSMGE conference micro-tomacro geomechanics from theory to practice, Atlanta, GA, Sept. 9-12, 2018.
• X. Shen, C. Zhu, C. Arson, Analysis of microstructure, deformation and permeability of salt/sand mixtures during creep, 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Paris, France, July 9-13, 2017.
• X. Shen, C. Arson, J. Ding, F.M. Chester, J. Chester, Experimental characterization of microstructure development for calculating fabric and stiffness tensors in salt rock, 51st US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium of the American Rock Mechanics Association, San Francisco, CA, June 25-28, 2017.
• J. Ding, F.M. Chester, J. Chester, X. Shen, C. Arson, Microcrack network development in salt rock during cyclic loading at low confining pressure, 51st US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium of the American Rock Mechanics Association, San Francisco, CA, June 25-28, 2017.
• C. Zhu, X. Shen, C. Arson, Numerical study of thermo-mechanical effects on the viscous damage behavior of rock salt caverns, 51st US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium of the American Rock Mechanics Association, San Francisco, CA, June 25-28, 2017.
• X. Shen, C. Zhu, C. Arson, Chemo-mechanical damage and healing of granular salt: micro-macro modeling, 50th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium of the American Rock Mechanics Association, Houston, TX, June 26-29, 2016.