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Baotang Shen is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The scientist's research covers various main topics including:

  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Geomechanics and Mining Engineering

Baotang Shen has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publication outlets being:

  • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (3 publications)
  • Geomechanics and Engineering (2 publications)
  • Journal of Central South University (2 publications)
  • Applied Sciences (2 publications)
  • Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment (2 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Shen include:

  • "Monitoring and modelling stress state near major geological structures in an underground coal mine for coal burst assessment," 2020, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • "Compression characteristics of filling gangue and simulation of mining with gangue backfilling: An experimental investigation," 2020, Geomechanics and Engineering
  • "Shear behavior of intact granite under thermo-mechanical coupling and three-dimensional morphology of shear-formed fractures," 2022, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
  • "3D morphology and formation mechanism of fractures developed by true triaxial stress," 2022, International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
  • "Comparative analysis on the heat transfer efficiency of supercritical CO2 and H2O in the production well of enhanced geothermal system," 2020, Energy

Baotang Shen frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Shichuan Zhang (11 co-authored papers)
  • Jingyu Shi (9 co-authored papers)
  • Bing Chen (5 co-authored papers)
  • Manoj Khanal (5 co-authored papers)
  • Buchu Zhang (5 co-authored papers)

Best Publications

  • Coalescence of fractures under shear stresses in experiments

    Baotang Shen;Ove Stephansson;Herbert H. Einstein;Bidjan Ghahreman

  • Modification of the G-criterion for crack propagation subjected to compression

    B. Shen;O. Stephansson

  • Mining-induced strata stress changes, fractures and gas flow dynamics in multi-seam longwall mining

    Hua Guo;Liang Yuan;Baotang Shen;Qingdong Qu

  • Coal Mine Roadway Stability in Soft Rock: A Case Study

    Baotang Shen;Baotang Shen

  • Displacement, stress and seismicity in roadway roofs during mining-induced failure

    B. Shen;A. King;H. Guo

  • Effective evaluation of pressure relief drilling for reducing rock bursts and its application in underground coal mines

    Shichuan Zhang;Yangyang Li;Baotang Shen;Baotang Shen;Xizhen Sun

  • The mechanism of fracture coalescence in compression—experimental study and numerical simulation

    B. Shen

  • THE DISTURBED ZONE AROUND TUNNELS IN JOINTED ROCK MASSES

    B. Shen;N. Barton

  • Characterising and modelling the excavation damaged zone in crystalline rock in the context of radioactive waste disposal

    John A. Hudson;Ann Bäckström;J. Rutqvist;Lanru Jing

  • Numerical analysis of mixed Mode I and Mode II fracture propagation

    B. Shen;O. Stephansson

  • Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes

    Baotang Shen;Ove Stephansson;Mikael Rinne

  • The influence of roadway backfill on the coal pillar strength by numericalinvestigation

    Hongwei Wang;Brett A. Poulsen;Baotang Shen;Sheng Xue

  • Numerical modelling of uniaxial compressive failure of granite with and without saline porewater

    Ann Bäckström;Juha Antikainen;Tobias Backers;Xiating Feng

  • Risk of shear failure and extensional failure around over-stressed excavations in brittle rock

    Nick Barton;Baotang Shen

  • Experimental Investigation on Rockbolt Performance Under the Tension Load

    Qiuhong Wu;Lu Chen;Lu Chen;Baotang Shen;Bongani Dlamini

  • An approximate nonlinear modified Mohr-Coulomb shear strength criterion with critical state for intact rocks

    Baotang Shen;Baotang Shen;Jingyu Shi;Nick Barton

  • Assessment of excavation damaged zone around roadways under dynamic pressure induced by an active mining process

    Hongwei Wang;Yaodong Jiang;Sheng Xue;Baotang Shen

  • A multiple-code simulation study of the long-term EDZ evolution of geological nuclear waste repositories

    Jonny Rutqvist;Ann Bäckström;Masakazu Chijimatsu;Xia-Ting Feng

  • Compression characteristics of filling gangue and simulation of mining with gangue backfilling: An experimental investigation

    Changxiang Wang;Baotang Shen;Juntao Chen;Weixin Tong

  • Simulation of hydraulic fracturing and its interactions with a pre-existing fracture using displacement discontinuity method

    Linmao Xie;Ki-Bok Min;Baotang Shen

  • Introduction to Rock Fracture Mechanics

    Baotang Shen;Ove Stephansson;Mikael Rinne

  • Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes: A Fracture Mechanics Approach Using FRACOD

    Baotang Shen;Ove Stephansson;Mikael Rinne

Frequent Co-Authors

Ove Stephansson
Ove Stephansson University of Potsdam
Lanru Jing
Lanru Jing Royal Institute of Technology
Nick Barton
Nick Barton University of Oxford
John A. Hudson
John A. Hudson Imperial College London
Ki-Bok Min
Ki-Bok Min Seoul National University
Jonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Xia-Ting Feng
Xia-Ting Feng Northeastern University
Zilong Zhou
Zilong Zhou Central South University
Eric Sonnenthal
Eric Sonnenthal Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ivars Neretnieks
Ivars Neretnieks Royal Institute of Technology

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