arzuaga@MIT.EDU

Ignacio Arzuaga García

PhD Student

MSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 2018
BSc, Civil Engineering, University of Buenos Aires, 2013

Biographical Overview

Ignacio is a PhD student in Prof. Herbert Einstein's lab in Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he completed his Master's in 2018. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) with a BS in Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering track). His research interests include fracture mechanics, specifically applied to hydraulic fracturing, and numerical modeling.

2021

I. Arzuaga, Einstein, H. H. , and Germaine, J. , “Direct Shear Tests on Opalinus Clayshale for Natural Fracture Characterization”, 55th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. American Rock Mechanics Association, Houston, TX, 2021.

I. Arzuaga, Einstein, H. H. , and Germaine, J. , “Direct Shear Tests on Opalinus Clayshale for Natural Fracture Characterization”, in ARMA U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, 2021.

M. Abdulla, Sousa, R. L. , Arzuaga, I. , AlDajani, O. , da Silva, B. Goncalves, and Einstein, H. H. , “FracProp: Stochastic Fracture Propagation Model”, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 2513 - 2531, 2021.

2020

I. Arzuaga and Einstein, H. , “Experimental study of fluid penetration and opening geometry during hydraulic fracturing”, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, vol. 230, no. 33, 2020.

2018

I. Arzuaga, “Hydraulic fracturing: Effect of flaw shape and of seepage of injection fluid into matrix”. 2018.