The effect of stress path on the sonic response of Pierre Shale

Proceedings of the 41st U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium - ARMA's Golden Rocks 2006 - 50 Years of Rock Mechanics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yassir, N ^a   Lehr, B C ^a   Van Der Linden, A J ^a   Korndorffer, F ^a   Dudley, J W ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVIATORIC STRESS; EFFECTIVE STRESS; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH STRESS; K-PATHS; MEAN STRESS; P-WAVE VELOCITY; RADIAL STRAINS; RADIAL STRESS; SHALE ANISOTROPY; STRESS EVOLUTION; STRESS PATHS; TRIAXIAL TEST; ULTRASONIC P-WAVE VELOCITY; UNDRAINED; VELOCITY CHANGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; CEMENTS; CLAY MINERALS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SHALE; SOIL MECHANICS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STRAIN;

STRESSES;

EID: 69149087454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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