Toughness-dominated near-surface hydraulic fracture experiments

Gulf Rocks 2004 - 6th North America Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Bunger, Andrew P ^a   Jeffrey, Robert G ^a   Detournay, Emmanuel ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; ENVIRONMENTAL WASTES; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FRACTURE EXPERIMENTS; INTERNAL FLUID PRESSURE; MECHANISTIC MODELING; TOUGHNESS-DOMINATED HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84959240225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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