A True Triaxial Stress Cell to Simulate Deep Downhole Drilling Conditions

Conventional rock mechanics experiments using triaxial cells trying to simulate the true downhole stress field by applying equal horizontal stresses, fundamentally fail to treat real field borehole conditions as three independent stresses. In the real world, the horizontal stress field at shallow de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rasouli, Vamegh, Evans, Brian
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association 2010
Online Access:http://www.spenewsaustralasia.org/article.aspx?id=1370&p=1
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39243