Geomechanical modeling of stresses adjacent to salt bodies: Part 2 - Poroelastoplasticity and coupled overpressures

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-85

  Nikolinakou, Maria A ^a   Luo, Gang ^a   Hudec, Michael R ^a   Flemings, Peter B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMECHANICS; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENTS;

GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; GEOMECHANICAL MODEL; OVER-PRESSURES; PRESSURE FIELD; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; PRINCIPAL STRESS; STRESS PERTURBATIONS; UNDRAINED ANALYSIS;

LOADING;

COULOMB CRITERION; DEFORMATION; DISSIPATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; GEOMECHANICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MUDSTONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERPRESSURE; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENT YIELD; SPHERE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 84857322937     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/04111110143     Document Type: Article

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