Figure 1From: Mechanical origin of b-value changes during stimulation of deep geothermal reservoirs Setup of the elastic fiber bundle model. On the left, a sketch of the fiber bundle. The upper half-space deflects in response to the forces applied by the fibers (red), while the infinitely rigid lower half-space is displaced downward of a distance D. To the right, a schematic top view of the entire fiber bundle where each red circle represents a fiber at the center of a mesh of size a×a.Back to article page