Acoustic evidence of mechanical damage surrounding stressed boreholes

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 16-22

  Winkler, Kenneth W ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; YIELD STRESS;

STRESS INDUCED MECHANICAL DAMAGE;

BOREHOLES;

ACOUSTIC WAVEFORM; ACOUSTICS; BOREHOLE; DAMAGE MECHANICS; MECHANICAL DAMAGE; ROCK MECHANICS; STRESS;

EID: 0030886424     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444116     Document Type: Article

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