Fracturing of porous rock induced by fluid injection

Tectonophysics

Volumn 503, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 129-145

  Stanchits, Sergei ^a   Mayr, Sibylle ^b   Shapiro, Serge ^b   Dresen, Georg ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Fluid injection; Fracture; Rock

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DIRECTION; BRITTLE FAILURES; CONFINING PRESSURES; CYLINDRICAL SPECIMENS; DISTILLED WATER; DRY CONDITION; FLUID INJECTION; FLUID INJECTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; PEAK STRESS; PERMEABILITY ANISOTROPY; PORE COLLAPSE; POROUS ROCKS; POROUS SANDSTONE; SOURCE TYPES; WATER FRONT;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLUIDS; FRACTURE; PORE PRESSURE; SANDSTONE; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

WATER INJECTION;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; ANISOTROPY; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CONFINING PRESSURE; FLUID INJECTION; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; SANDSTONE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 79954744013     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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