Deformation of Athabasca oil sand at low effective stresses under varying boundary conditions

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 985-990

  Samieh, Ahmed M ^a   Wong, Ron C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

End conditions; Magnetic resonance imaging; Oil sand; Slenderness ratio; Stress strain; Triaxial test

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPRESSION TESTING; ELASTIC MODULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

DILATION RATE; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTING;

OIL SANDS;

DEFORMATION; OIL SAND; STRESS/STRAIN;

EID: 0031391573     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t97-048     Document Type: Article

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