Geomechanical modeling of stresses adjacent to salt bodies: Part 1 - Uncoupled models

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-64

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; GEOMECHANICS; SPHERES; STRESS RELAXATION; STRESSES;

BODY PARTS; CONSTITUTIVE LAW; DEVIATORIC STRESS; EFFECTIVE STRESS; ELASTIC MEDIUM; ELASTOPLASTICS; FLUID PRESSURES; GEOMECHANICAL MODEL; TOTAL STRESS; UNCOUPLED MODELS;

PORE PRESSURE;

EFFECTIVE STRESS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FLUID PRESSURE; FRICTION; GEOMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE PRESSURE; SALT DOME; STRESS ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 84857348777     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/04111110144     Document Type: Article

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