2025

Li ZHUANG, Lei WANG, Changlun SUN, Jeoung Seok YOON, Ki-Bok MIN. 2025. Thermally Induced Fault Reactivation Controlled by Heating Rate: Implications for Long-term Safety Assessment of Deep Geological Repository. Geophysical Research Letters 52, e2025GL117778, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117778

Olaf KOLDITZ, Christopher MCDERMOTT, Jeoung Seok YOON, Mostafa MOLLAALI, Wenqing WANG, Mengsu HU, Tsubasa SASAKI, Jonny RUTQVIST, Jens BIRKHOLZER, Jung-Wook PARK, Chan-Hee PARK, Hejuan LIU, Peng-Zhi PAN, Thomas NAGEL, Son NGUYEN, Saeha KWON, Changsoo LEE, Kwang-Il KIM, Alexander BOND, Teklu HADGU, Yifeng WANG, Li ZHUANG, Keita YOSHIOKA, Goncalo Benitze CUNHA, Andrew FRASER-HARRIS. 2025. A systematic model- and experimental approach to hydro-mechanical and thermo-mechanical fracture processes in crystalline rocks. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 41 (2025) 100616, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2024.100616

Soo-Gin KIM, Hong-Il KWON, Jeoung-Seok YOON, Chan-Hong KIM, Hyo HEO, Chung-Mo LEE. 2025. Site-Specific Hydrogeological Characterization for Radiological Safety: Integrating Groundwater Dynamics and Transport. Water 2025, 17(2), 186: https://doi.org/10.3390/w17020186

Mengsu HU, Jeoung Seok YOON, Tsubasa SASAKI, Hujuan LIU, Zhaofeng WANG, Jung-Wook PARK, Chan-Hee PARK, Jonny RUTQVIST, Olaf KOLDITZ, Jens BIRKHOLZER. 2025. Benchmark study of a new simplified DFN model for shearing of intersecting fractures and faults. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 41 (2025) 100644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2025.100644

Kwang-Il KIM, Saeha KWON, Changsoo LEE, Jin-Seop KIM, Jeoung-Seok YOON, Li ZHUANG. 2025. Discontinuum-based numerical analysis of thermoshearing in planar and rough granite fractures: A comparison with laboratory observations. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 41 (2025), 100630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2024.100630

 

Olaf KOLDITZ, Christopher MCDERMOTT, Jeoung Seok YOON, Jörg RENNER, Li ZHUANG, Andres FRASER-HARRIS, Michael CHANDLER, Samuel GRAHAM, Ju WANT, Mostafa MOLLAALI. 2025. SAFENET-2 – fracture evolution in crystalline rocks (from lab to in situ scale). Saf. Nucl. Waste Disposal, 3, 15-31, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5194/sand-3-15-2025

Haimeng SHEN, Jeoung Seok YOON, Arno ZANG, Hannes HOFMANN, Xiaying LI, Qi LI. 2025. Impact of injection pressure and polyaxial stress on hydraulic fracture propagation and permeability evolution in graywacke: Insights from discrete element models of a laboratory test. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 17 (2025) 2344-2359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2024.05.017

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Ying XIN, Ki-Bok MIN, Jeoung Seok YOON, Fengshou ZHANG, Jonny RUTQVIST. 2025. Coupled geomechanical investigation of depletion-induced fault reactivation. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. Accepted.

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2024

Changlun SUN, Li ZHUANG, Dong Joon YOUN, Jeoung Seok YOON, Ki-Bok MIN. 2024. Laboratory investigation of thermal stresses in fractured granite: Effect of fracture surface roughness and initial stress. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology incorporating Trenchless Technology Research 45 (2024) 105610, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tust.2024.105610

Junjie SHENTU, Botao LIN, Yan JIN, Jeoung Seok YOON. 2024. Investigation of hydraulic fracture propagation in conglomerate rock using discrete element method and explainable machine learning framework. Acta Geotechnica (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-024-02317-9

Thanh Son NGUYEN, Olaf KOLDITZ, Jeoung Seok YOON, Li ZHUANG. 2024. Modelling the thermo-mechanical behaviour of a rock joint. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 37 (2024) 100520, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2023.100520

Jung-Wook PARK, Chan-Hee PARK, Li ZHUANG, Jeoung Seok YOON, Olaf KOLDITZ, Christopher Ian McDERMOTT, Eui-Seob PARK, Changsoo LEE. 2024. Grain-based distinct element modeling of thermally induced slip of critically stressed rock fracture. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 39, September 2024, 100580, https://doi.org/10.1016(j.gete.2024.100580

Changlun SUN, Jeoung Seok YOON, Ki-Bok MIN, Li ZHUANG. 2024.Experimental insights into frictional resistance and slip pattern of granite fractures and implications for thermoshearing prediction. Earth Energy Science,

 

Kwang-Il KIM, Saeha KWON, Changsoo LEE, Jin-Seop KIM, Jeoung-Seok YOON, Li ZHUANG. 2024. Discontinuum-based numerical analysis of thermoshearing in planar and rough granite fractures: A comparison with laboratory observations. Geomehcanics for Energy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2024.100630

Hyunjin CHO, Se-Young HAMM, Jeoung Seok YOON, Soo-Gin KIM, Jae-Yeol CHEONG. 2024. Simulation of Groundwater-Level Behavior in Southeast Region of Korea Induced by 2016 Gyeong-Ju Earthquake Using 2D Hydro-Mechanical Coupled Bonded Particle Modeling. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(24), 11939, https://doi.org/10.3390/app142411939

Soo-Gin KIM, Jae-Yeol CHEONG, Chan-Hong KIM, Jeoung Seok YOON. 2024. Infiltration Analysis of a Multi-Layer Cover System Considering Bedrock Heterogeneity and Rainfall Variability. Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, Vol.22, No.4, pp.451-464, December 2024, https://doi.org/10.7733/jnfcwt.2024.045

Haimeng SHEN, Jeoung Seok YOON, Arno ZANG, Hannes HOFMANN, Xiaying LI, Qi LI. 2024. Impact of injection pressure and polyaxial stress on hydraulic fracture propagation and permeability evolution in graywa>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2024.05.017

 

 

2023

 

Changlun SUN, Li ZHUANG, Jeoung Seok YOON, Ki-Bok MIN. 2023. Thermally induced shear reactivation of critically-stressed smooth and rough granite fractures. Eurock 2022 – Rock and Fracture Mechanics in Rock Engineering and Mining, IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1124 (2023) 012119.

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Jeoung Seok YOON, Anne STRADER, Jian ZHOU, Onno DIJKSTRA, Ramon SECANNEL, Ki-Bok MIN. 2023. Modelling Gas Production Induced Seismicity Using 2D Hydro-Mechanical Coupled Particle Flow Code: Case Study of Seismicity in the Natural Gas Field in Groningen Netherlands. Tunnel & Underground Space Vol. 33, No. 1, 2023, pp. 57-59, https://doi.org/10.7474/TUS.2023.33.1.057

Mostafa MOLLAALI, Olaf KOLDITZ, Mengsu HU, Chan-Hee PARK, Jung-Wook PARK, Christopher Ian MCDERMOTT, Neil CHITTENDEN, Alexander BOND, Jeoung Seok YOON, Jian ZHOU, Peng-Zhi PAN, Hejuan LIU, Wenbo HOU, Hongwu LEI, Liwei ZHANG, Thomas NAGEL, Markus BARSCH, Wenqing WANT, Son NGUYEN, Saeha KWON, Changsoo LEE, Keita Yoshioka. 2023. Comparative verification of hydro-mechanical fracture behavior: Task G of international research project DECOVALEX-2023. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 170, October 2023, 105530, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2023.105530

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2021

Changlun SUN, Li ZHUANG, Sunggyu JUNG, Jangguen LEE, Jeoung Seok YOON. 2021. Thermally induced slip of a single sawcut granite fracture under biaxial loading. Geomech. Geophys. Geo-energy. Geo-resour. (2021) 7:96, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40948-021-00293-y

Yinlin JI, Jeoung Seok YOON, Arno ZANG, Wie WU. 2021. Mitigation of injection-induced seismicity on undrained faults in granite using cyclic fluid injection: A laboratory study. International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences 146, 104881, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2021.104881

Arno ZANG, Günter ZIMMERMANN, Hannes HOFMANN, Peter NIEMZ, Kwang Yeom KIM, Melvin DIAZ, Li ZHUANG, Jeoung Seok YOON. 2021. Relaxation damage control via fatigue-hydraulic fracturing in granitic rock as inferred from laboratory-, mine-, and field-scale experiment. Scientific Reports 11, 6780 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86094-5

Zhandong SU, Jeoung Seok YOON, Arno ZANG, Lei TANG, Hongbiao GU, Chuanbing ZHU. 2021. Stress Reorientation by Earthquakes Near the Ganzi-Yushu Strike-Slip Fault and Interpretation with Discrete Element Modelling. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 54, 5433-5447, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-021-02443-w

Eunjin SEO, Hwajung YOO, Ki-Bok MIN, Jeoung Seok YOON. 2021. Case Studies on Fluid Extraction Induced Seismicity. Tunnel & Underground Space Vo.31, No.6, 2021, pp.385-399, https://doi.org/10.7474/TUS.2021.31.6.385