Investigation into the impacts of rock/cutter interface geometry on drilling response of PDC cutters

This thesis investigates the effects of geometry on the cutting action of circular sharp PDC cutters. Results of extensive laboratory rock cutting experiments indicate that the force acting a cutter while tracing a groove is affected by the geometry or shape of the groove and in particular: (a) the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doshvarpassand, Siavash
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56427