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  1. BeeAx: A New Biaxial Apparatus to Investigate Shallow Brittle Rock Deformation and Frictional Sliding

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Mike Chandler

  2. SAFENET-2 – fracture evolution in crystalline rocks (from lab to in situ scale)

    Article • Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal, March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Mike Chandler

  3. SAFENET – Fracture evolution in crystalline rocks (from lab to in-situ scale)

    Article • September 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Mike Chandler

  4. Constraining the impact of cyclic hydraulic stimulation on granites

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Mike Chandler

  5. Time-lapse nanometre-scale 3D synchrotron imaging and image-based modelling of the response of shales to heating

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mike Chandler

  6. In-situ synchrotron characterisation of fracture initiation and propagation in shales during indentation

    Article • Energy, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Mike Chandler

  7. Linking multi-scale 3D microstructure to potential enhanced natural gas recovery and subsurface CO2storage for Bowland shale, UK

    Article • Energy & Environmental Science, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Mike Chandler

  8. The role of fractures in flow partitioning during minewater geothermal energy extraction

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Mike Chandler

  9. Fluid Injection Experiments in Shale at Elevated Confining Pressures: Determination of Flaw Sizes From Mechanical Experiments

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, June 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mike Chandler

  10. Correlative optical and X‐ray imaging of strain evolution during Double Torsion Fracture Toughness measurements in shale

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, December 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mike Chandler

  11. Fracture Properties of Nash Point Shale as a Function of Orientation to Bedding

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, October 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Mike Chandler

  12. Variability in spatial distribution of mineral phases in the Lower Bowland Shale, UK, from the mm- to μm-scale: Quantitative characterization and modelling

    Article • Marine and Petroleum Geology, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Mike Chandler

  13. An enhanced understanding of the Basinal Bowland shale in Lancashire (UK), through microtextural and mineralogical observations

    Article • Marine and Petroleum Geology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Mike Chandler

  14. Effect of temperature on the fracture toughness of anisotropic shale and other rocks

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2017, Geological Society

    Dr Mike Chandler

  15. Fracture toughness anisotropy in shale

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mike Chandler

  16. Experimental Determination of the Fracture Toughness and Ductility of the Mancos Shale, Utah

    Article • January 2013, EAGE Publications

    Dr Mike Chandler

  17. Re–binning Pre–stack Seismic Data for Fluid Contact Determination – AVO Screening and Visualisation

    Article • January 2010, EAGE Publications

    Dr Mike Chandler