Mean fracture trace length and density estimators using circular windows

Vail Rocks 1999 - 37th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 785-792

  Mauldon, M ^a   Rohrbaugh, M B ^b   Dunne, W M ^b   Lawdermilk, W ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

CIRCULAR WINDOWS; DENSITY ESTIMATOR; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; FRACTURED ROCK; OIL RECOVERIES; ROCK ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; TRACE DENSITY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0005189228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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