Grain bonding and its effect on borehole breakout formation and final shape

DC Rocks 2001 - 38th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 53-58

  Klaetsch, A R ^a   Haimson, B C ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTING (SHAFTS); IRON OXIDES; POROSITY; ROCK MECHANICS; SANDSTONE;

BEREA SANDSTONE; BOREHOLE BREAKOUTS; CEMENTING MATERIAL; GRAIN DIAMETER; HIGH POROSITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PRINCIPAL STRESS; ST. PETER SANDSTONES;

BOREHOLES;

EID: 0041354552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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