Jim Richardson

Jim studied shallow hydraulic fractures created in Piedmont soils. He created four fractures and mapped them in detail. One of the fractures Jim studied is shown below. Jim's work was supported by the National Science Foundation
(EAR 9876124). Jim now works for FRx Inc.

Overview of Excavations
Mapping pictures
Mapping onto transparency

Data from hydraulic fracture described in Jim's thesis.

Map of a hydraulic fracture from Jim's Thesis

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