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[en] The modeling of fracture networks is useful for fluid flow and rock mechanics studies. About 6600 fracture traces were recorded on drifts of a uranium mine in a granite massif. The traces have an extension of 0.20-20 m. The network was studied by fractal and by geostatistical methods but can be considered neither as a fractal with a constant dimension nor a set of purely randomly located fractures. Two kinds of generalization of conventional models can still provide more flexibility for the characterization of the network: (a) a nonscaling fractal model with variable similarity dimension (for a 2-D network of traces, the dimension varying from 2 for the 10-m scale to 1 for the centimeter scale, (b) a parent-daughter model with a regionalized density; the geostatistical study allows a 3-D model to be established where: fractures are assumed to be discs; fractures are grouped in clusters or swarms; and fracturation density is regionalized (with two ranges at about 30 and 300 m). The fractal model is easy to fit and to simulate along a line, but 2-D and 3-D simulations are more difficult. The geostatistical model is more complex, but easy to simulate, even in 3-D
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MGUS '87; Redwood City, CA (USA); 13-15 Apr 1987; CONF-8704137--
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COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, DATA COVARIANCES, DIAGRAMS, FRACTALS, FRACTURE MECHANICS, GEOLOGIC FRACTURES, GEOLOGIC SURVEYS, GRANITES, ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS, STATISTICAL MODELS, STOCHASTIC PROCESSES, TECTONICS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS, URANIUM DEPOSITS, URANIUM MINES
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