| Why fracking works ZP Bažant, M Salviato, VT Chau, H Viswanathan, A Zubelewicz Journal of Applied Mechanics 81 (10), 2014 | 138 | 2014 |
| Wave dispersion and basic concepts of peridynamics compared to classical nonlocal damage models ZP Bažant, W Luo, VT Chau, MA Bessa Journal of Applied Mechanics 83 (11), 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| Spherocylindrical microplane constitutive model for shale and other anisotropic rocks C Li, FC Caner, VT Chau, ZP Bažant Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 103, 155-178, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Growth model for large branched three-dimensional hydraulic crack system in gas or oil shale VT Chau, ZP Bažant, Y Su Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
| Learning to fail: Predicting fracture evolution in brittle material models using recurrent graph convolutional neural networks M Schwarzer, B Rogan, Y Ruan, Z Song, DY Lee, AG Percus, VT Chau, ... Computational Materials Science 162, 322-332, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Direct testing of gradual postpeak softening of fracture specimens of fiber composites stabilized by enhanced grip stiffness and mass M Salviato, VT Chau, W Li, ZP Bažant, G Cusatis Journal of Applied Mechanics 83 (11), 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Branching of hydraulic cracks enabling permeability of gas or oil shale with closed natural fractures S Rahimi-Aghdam, VT Chau, H Lee, H Nguyen, W Li, S Karra, E Rougier, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (5), 1532-1537, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| The enigma of large-scale permeability of gas shale: Pre-existing or frac-induced? VT Chau, C Li, S Rahimi-Aghdam, ZP Bažant Journal of Applied Mechanics 84 (6), 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Reduced-order modeling through machine learning and graph-theoretic approaches for brittle fracture applications A Hunter, BA Moore, M Mudunuru, V Chau, R Tchoua, C Nyshadham, ... Computational Materials Science 157, 87-98, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| Recent advances in mechanics of fracking and new results on 2D simulation of crack branching in anisotropic gas or oil shale C Li, VT Chau, H Xie, ZP Bažant Acta Mechanica 229 (2), 975-992, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Recent advances in global fracture mechanics of growth of large hydraulic crack systems in gas or oil shale: a review ZP Bažant, VT Chau New frontiers in oil and gas exploration, 435-460, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| The combined plastic and discrete fracture deformation framework for finite‐discrete element methods E Rougier, A Munjiza, Z Lei, VT Chau, EE Knight, A Hunter, G Srinivasan International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 121 (5), 1020-1035, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Effect of high-rate dynamic comminution on penetration of projectiles of various velocities and impact angles into concrete W Luo, VT Chau, ZP Bažant International Journal of Fracture 216 (2), 211-221, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| Reduced-order modeling through machine learning approaches for brittle fracture applications A Hunter, BA Moore, MK Mudunuru, VT Chau, RL Miller, RB Tchoua, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.01949, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Three-phase cracked porous medium: Shale fracking and ASR damage ZP Bažant, VT Chau, S Rahimi-Aghdam Poromechanics VI, 1-8, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Catalyst W Hems, G Hutchings US Patent App. 10/416,053, 2004 | 5 | 2004 |
| Scale bridging damage model for quasi-brittle metals informed with crack evolution statistics K Larkin, E Rougier, V Chau, G Srinivasan, A Abdelkefi, A Hunter Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 138, 103921, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Surrogate models for estimating failure in brittle and quasi-brittle materials MK Mudunuru, N Panda, S Karra, G Srinivasan, VT Chau, E Rougier, ... Applied Sciences 9 (13), 2706, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Numerical analysis of flyer plate experiments in granite via the combined finite–discrete element method V Chau, E Rougier, Z Lei, EE Knight, K Gao, A Hunter, G Srinivasan, ... Computational Particle Mechanics 7 (5), 1005-1016, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| Can we estimate far-field stress using the mean of local stresses? An examination based on numerical simulations K Gao, Q Lei, N Bozorgzadeh, V Chau Computers and Geotechnics 116, 103188, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
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