Alain Thoraval

560 total citations
24 papers, 417 citations indexed

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Alain Thoraval is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Thoraval has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 417 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 10 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alain Thoraval's work include Rock Mechanics and Modeling (16 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (9 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (8 papers). Alain Thoraval is often cited by papers focused on Rock Mechanics and Modeling (16 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (9 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (8 papers). Alain Thoraval collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Japan. Alain Thoraval's co-authors include Frédéric Cappa, Yves Guglielmi, Chin‐Fu Tsang, Véronique Merrien‐Soukatchoff, Jonny Rutqvist, Mountaka Souley, M. Boulon, J. Rutqvist, Marc Lescanne and D. Bonijoly and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences and Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.

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Alain Thoraval

23 papers receiving 398 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Thoraval France	11	208	183	177	103	97	24	417
Alexander Bond United Kingdom	15	279 1.3×	259 1.4×	136 0.8×	243 2.4×	72 0.7×	38	596
Dae‐Sung Cheon South Korea	11	380 1.8×	111 0.6×	217 1.2×	136 1.3×	75 0.8×	41	560
Yuxiang Cheng China	13	144 0.7×	116 0.6×	198 1.1×	85 0.8×	67 0.7×	34	422
Mehdi Ghoreychi France	8	268 1.3×	74 0.4×	83 0.5×	149 1.4×	66 0.7×	23	390
Luca Urpi Switzerland	10	230 1.1×	168 0.9×	187 1.1×	63 0.6×	253 2.6×	17	515
Joong-Ho Synn South Korea	8	137 0.7×	65 0.4×	119 0.7×	81 0.8×	60 0.6×	28	374
C.C. Graham United Kingdom	10	241 1.2×	236 1.3×	154 0.9×	215 2.1×	117 1.2×	25	525
Silvio B. Giger Switzerland	12	265 1.3×	88 0.5×	96 0.5×	121 1.2×	223 2.3×	40	478
M. Soldal Norway	10	320 1.5×	226 1.2×	208 1.2×	64 0.6×	146 1.5×	25	536

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Cappa, Frédéric, Yves Guglielmi, Stéphane Gaffet, et al.. (2026). In situ characterization of a single fracture hydromechanical behavior from hydraulic pulse tests coupled to simultaneous pressure – normal displacement measurements. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 69–76.

Gombert, Philippe, et al.. (2018). Geomechanical response of an abandoned chalk mine to multi-annual water table fluctuations. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 78(5). 3353–3369. 4 indexed citations

Thoraval, Alain, et al.. (2015). A generic model for predicting long-term behavior of storage salt caverns after their abandonment as an aid to risk assessment. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 77. 44–59. 17 indexed citations

Min, Ki‐Bok & Alain Thoraval. (2012). Comparison of Two- and Three-dimensional Approaches for the Numerical Determination of Equivalent Mechanical Properties of Fractured Rock Masses. Tunnel and Underground Space. 22(2). 93–105. 4 indexed citations

Souley, Mountaka & Alain Thoraval. (2011). Nonlinear mechanical and poromechanical analyses : comparison with analytical solutions. 3 indexed citations

Bonijoly, D., et al.. (2009). A site selection methodology for CO2 underground storage in deep saline aquifers: case of the Paris Basin. Energy Procedia. 1(1). 2929–2936. 60 indexed citations

Lopez, Philippe, et al.. (2008). Advances in constitutive modeling of jointed rock hydromechanical interactions at laboratory scale. Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica. 30. 223–233. 1 indexed citations

Cappa, Frédéric, Yves Guglielmi, J. Rutqvist, Chin‐Fu Tsang, & Alain Thoraval. (2008). Estimation of fracture flow parameters through numerical analysis of hydromechanical pressure pulses. Water Resources Research. 44(11). 37 indexed citations

Guglielmi, Yves, Frédéric Cappa, J. Virieux, et al.. (2008). A new in-situ approach for hydromechanical characterization of mesoscale fractures: the High-Pulse Poroelasticity Protocol (HPPP). 1 indexed citations

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Guglielmi, Yves, Frédéric Cappa, Jonny Rutqvist, Chin‐Fu Tsang, & Alain Thoraval. (2007). Mesoscale characterization of coupled hydromechanical behavior of a fractured-porous slope in response to free water-surface movement. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 45(6). 862–878. 23 indexed citations

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Souley, Mountaka, et al.. (2007). Laboratory Measurements of Hydraulic Exchanges And Associated Hydromechanical Couplings Between Fracture And Rock Mass In the Case of a Sandstone. 1. 327–330. 1 indexed citations

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Guglielmi, Yves, Frédéric Cappa, Jonny Rutqvist, Chin‐Fu Tsang, & Alain Thoraval. (2006). Field and numerical investigations of free-water surface oscillation effects on rock slope hydromechanical behaviour - Consequences for rock slope stability analyses. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 174–182. 1 indexed citations

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Cappa, Frédéric, Yves Guglielmi, Jonny Rutqvist, Chin‐Fu Tsang, & Alain Thoraval. (2006). Hydromechanical modelling of pulse tests that measure fluid pressure and fracture normal displacement at the Coaraze Laboratory site, France. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 43(7). 1062–1082. 68 indexed citations

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Cappa, Frédéric, et al.. (2005). Hydromechanical interactions in a fractured carbonate reservoir inferred from hydraulic and mechanical measurements. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 42(2). 287–306. 70 indexed citations

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Cappa, Frédéric, Yves Guglielmi, Véronique Merrien‐Soukatchoff, Imad Kadiri, & Alain Thoraval. (2003). Part II - Evaluation Of Coupled Hydromechanical Analysis Of A Fractured Rock Mass By The Multi-scale Comparison Between Experimental And Numerical Modeling Datas From The Coaraze Natural Site.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 1 indexed citations

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Ferrero, Anna María, et al.. (2001). DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC NUMERICAL MODELLING OF FRACTURED ROCK MASSES OF UNDERGROUND EXPLOITATIONS. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 1 indexed citations

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Thoraval, Alain, et al.. (1999). Development of an integrated computer aided design and planning methodology for underground marble quarries. 3 indexed citations

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Souley, Mountaka, F. Homand, & Alain Thoraval. (1997). The effect of joint constitutive laws on the modelling of an underground excavation and comparison with in situ measurements. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 34(1). 97–115. 22 indexed citations

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Thoraval, Alain, et al.. (1995). Thermal convection of fluid in fractured media. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts. 32(5). 481–490. 24 indexed citations

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Millard, A., et al.. (1995). Discrete and continuum approaches to simulate the thermo-hydro-mechanical couplings in a large, fractured rock mass. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts. 32(5). 409–434. 15 indexed citations

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