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Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1399-2020
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26 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 26 Jul 2020

Frictional slip weakening and shear-enhanced crystallinity in simulated coal fault gouges at slow slip rates

Caiyuan Fan, Jinfeng Liu, Luuk B. Hunfeld, and Christopher J. Spiers

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Coal is an important source rock for natural gas recovery, and its frictional properties play a role in induced seismicity. We performed experiments to investigate the frictional properties of bituminous coal, and our results show that the frictional strength of coal became significantly weakened with slip displacement, from a peak value of 0.5 to a steady-state value of 0.3. This may be caused by the development of shear bands with internal shear-enhanced molecular structure.
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