In-situ fracture stiffness determination

31st U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, USRMS 1990

Volumn , Issue , 1990, Pages 405-411

  Hesler, G J ^a   Zheng, Z ^b   Myer, L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; ROCK MECHANICS; STIFFNESS;

FRACTURE ZONE; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SEISMIC MEASUREMENTS; SWITZERLAND; TEST SITE;

CRACKS;

EID: 84896737252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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