Sandstone compaction, grain packing and critical state theory

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-67

  Pettersen, Øystein ^a  

^a Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Compaction; Failure model; Reservoir simulation; Rock mechanics; Sandstone

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; ROCK MECHANICS; SANDSTONE;

COMPACTION; CRITICAL STATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; LOADING; PERMEABILITY; ROCK MECHANICS; SANDSTONE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33847371298     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079305-677     Document Type: Article

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