HAL Id: hal-03325081 https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03325081 Submitted on 12 Aug 2022 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Copyright Origin of Strong Nonlinear Dependence of Fracture (Joint) Spacing on Bed Thickness in Layered Rocks: Mechanical Analysis and Modeling Alexandre Chemenda, J. Lamarche, Christophe Matonti, L. Bazalgette, P. Richard To cite this version: Alexandre Chemenda, J. Lamarche, Christophe Matonti, L. Bazalgette, P. Richard. Origin of Strong Nonlinear Dependence of Fracture (Joint) Spacing on Bed Thickness in Layered Rocks: Me- chanical Analysis and Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 2021, 126 (3), 10.1029/2020JB020656. hal-03325081