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June 26–29, 2011
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Stability Study For the Footwall At Rana Gruber, Norway
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Use of Photogrammetry to Evaluate Slope Design Conformance - A Case Study From a Large Open Pit
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Predicting Formation Fracture Gradient In Oil And Gas Wells: A Neural Network Approach
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Laser Perforation For Hydraulic Fracturing In Oil And Gas Wells
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A Neural Network-Based Sensitivity Analysis of Reservoir-Related Parameters During Laser Perforation In Downhole Conditions In Limestone
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Multi Stage Excavation On the Basis of Convergence-Confinement Method (Taloon Tunnel Tehran-Shomal Freeway of Iran)
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Geomechanical Study of the Multistage Fracturing Process For Horizontal Wells
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The Effect of Pore Size On Tensile And Compressive Strengths of Rock: A Bonded Particle Simulation
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Model - Based Uncertainty Assessment of Wellbore Stability Analyses And Downhole Pressure Estimations
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Assessment And Mitigation of Drilling Risks Using ROP Model Coupled With Monte - Carlo Simulation
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A Study of Stress Rotation In Formations: Occurrences, Mechanisms, And Numerical Simulation
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Risk And Uncertainties In Determining Fracture Gradient And Closure Pressure
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Stress-dependent Permeability of Carbonate Rock And Its Implication to CO2 Sequestration
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Overburden Strata Movement And Stress Change Induced By Longwall Mining
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Review of Rock Abrasion Testing
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Use of Numerical Tools to Evaluate Site Specific Issues Using a Mine Scale Model
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Effects of Joints of Maxwell Viscoelastic Behavior On Wave Propagation
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Predicting Hard Rock TBM Performance Using a Multiple Regression Analysis of RMR Classification System
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Capillary Phenomena In Partially-Saturated Rocks: Theory of Effective Stress
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Design of Rock Caverns In High-Stress Rock Mass
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A Coupled DFE-Newtonian Cellular Automata Cave Initiation, Propagation And Induced Seismicity
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Fully Coupled, 3d, Discontinuum, Field Scale, Fluid Flow Simulation of an Oil And Gas Field Using Mine Simulation Tools
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Laboratory Testing of Swelling Gouge From Weakness Zone - Principle And Recent Update
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The Effect of Weathering And Age On Shear Strength of Questa Mine Rock Piles, New Mexico, USA
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Strength Vs. Stresses In Rock Mass
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Evaluation of PFC2D Grain-Based Model For Simulation of Confinement-Dependent Rock Strength Degradation And Failure Processes
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Physics-Geoscience-Engineering Interactions In Deep Underground Laboratories
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Geometrical Modeling of Rock Breakage Craters to Improve the Performance of a ROP Simulator
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Relationship Between Stress And Elastic Strain For Porous And Fractured Rock: Theory And Validation
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Injection Rate Effects On Waterflooding Mechanisms And Injectivity In Cohesionless Sand
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2D Rock-Fall Simulations Taking Into Account Rock Fragmentation
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Gas Entry Through Water-saturated Argillite: Experimental And Numerical Approaches
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Modified Stability Graph Method With a New Rock Stress Factor
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Identifying The Weathering Profiles Of Ultramafic Rocks Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT)
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Reconstruction of Reservoir Deformations From Ground Surface Tilt Measurements: Effects of Monitoring Strategies
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Design Concept For Perimeter Control Blasting In Drifting Operations
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Numerical Analysis of Casing Failure Under Non-Uniform Loading In Subsalt Wells In Paradox Basin
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Case Studies On 3-Dimentional Numerical Prediction of Critical Pressure Drawdown For Wells In Weak Formations
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Rock Mechanics Design Issues For Underground Research Laboratories Constructed At Depth
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Numerical Study of Fracture Initiation, Propagation, Sealing to Enhance Wellbore Fracture Gradient
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Influence of Direction of Principal Elastic Axis to Principal Tensile Stress Under Diametrical Compression
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Intelligent Prediction of Uniaxial Compressive Strength For Sandstone
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Evaluation of P-y Curves Attendant to Lateral Resistance of Micropiles In Franciscan Assemblage Sandstone And Shale; North Anchorage Housing, Golden Gate Bridge, California
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Investigation, Analysis And Monitoring of Road Upheaval Due to the Long-term Movement of Adjacent Rock Slope
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Experimental And Mechanistic Modeling of Fracture Sealing Resistance With Respect to Fluid And Fracture Properties
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Overview of Geomechanical Properties of Bakken Formation In Williston Basin, North Dakota
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Salt Repository Geomechanics Research Agenda
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Hydraulic Fracture Initiation From a Wellbore In Transversely Isotropic Rock
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Alternating Loading-rate Test And Its Application In Estimating Long-term Behavior of Rock
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Modification of Contact Constraints In High-Order Three-Dimensional Discontinuous Deformation Analysis
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The Effect of Rock Mechanical Investigations In Shifting a Concrete Dam Axis In Design Stage
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Micromechanical Modeling of Carbonate Geomechanical Properties Evolution During Acid Gas Injection
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A New Way of Considering Insert Wear In the Drilling Rate Model For Roller Cone Bits
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Modeling Groove Cutting In Rocks Using Finite Elements
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Considerations For Discrete Modeling of Rock Cutting
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Disc Cutter Wear Phenomenology And Their Implications On Disc Cutter Consumption For TBM
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A Coupled Flow-Geomechanics Model For Fluid And Heat Flow For Enhanced Geothermal Reservoirs
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Onset of Deformation Bands In an Ellipsoidal Reservoir
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Discrete Element Modeling of Sphere Indentation In Rocks
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Electromagnetic Disturbances Associated With Earthquakes And Microearthquakes In Water Saturated Porous Media: Theory And Numerical Simulations
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Toppling-induced Cracking In the Lining of PG&E's Belden Tunnel
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Allowable Pillar to Diameter Ratio For Strategic Petroleum Reserve Caverns
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Effects of Temperature On Two Dimensional Hydraulic Fracturing In Impermeable Rocks
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Rana Gruber Rock Mechanics Challenges Connection With the Establishment of a New Main Level And the Transition to New Mining Method
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Failure Process Analysis of a Wedge In a Drift At the Kiirunavaara Mine
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Role of Adhesive Bond On Shear Mechanism of Bonded Concrete-Rock Joints Under Direct Shear Test
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Modelling Surface Displacements Associated With CO2 Re-injection At Krechba
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Coupled DEM-CFD Modeling of Fluid Injection Into Granular Media
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A Survey of the Production Time-Scale Compaction Behavior of Unconsolidated Sands
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Support Design of an Underground Pb-Zn Mine In Turkey
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Use of a Neural Network to Build a 3D Rock Property Model For a Geomechanical Model to Optimize Multi-stage Fracture Design In Chicontepec Basin, Mexico
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Slope Stability Investigation of a Boron Mine In Kirka, Turkey
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Slope Stability Analysis of Underground Water Induced Failure For Kestelek Open Pit Boron Mine In Turkey
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A Micromechanical Model For Subcritical Damage Propagation In Callovo-Oxfordien Argillites
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Impact of In-Situ Stress Change On Fracture Conductivity In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: Bakken Case Study
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A New Experimental And Analytical Study of Fully Grouted Rockbolts
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Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical-Chemical Analyses of a Repository In Clay/Shale For High-Level Waste
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Simulating Complex Fracture Systems In Geothermal Reservoirs Using an Explicitly Coupled Hydro-Geomechanical Model
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A Comparison of Methods For Determining Mi, the Hoek-Brown Parameter For Intact Rock Material
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Effect of Anisotropic Confining Stresses On Hydraulically-induced Fracture Propagation From Perforated Cased-hole In Unconsolidated Sands
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A New Numerical Model to Study Isolated Rock Blocks Around Underground Excavations Taking Into Account In-situ Stresses
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Assessing Geological Vein Size And Intensity Using Discrete Fracture Network Modelling At the El Teniente Mine, Chile.
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Experimental Study On Shear Fracture of Concrete Material Under Hydromechanic Coupling
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Saturation Effects On Disc Cutting of Sandstone
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A Two-scale Model For Simulating the Hydromechanical Behavior of Faults During CO2 Geological Storage Operation
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An Integrated Geostatistical-geomechanical Approach For the Characterization of a Bimrock
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Calibration Of Rock Strength And Yielding By Using Hollow Cylinder Experimental Data
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A Practical Geostructural Approach For the Evaluation of Tunnel Water Inflow By Means of FEM Seepage Analysis
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Development of an Automated Laboratory Core Specimen Photography System
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Quantifying Internal Macroporosity Using CT Scanning
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Wear Analysis And Optimization On Impregnated Diamond Bits In Vibration Assisted Rotary Drilling (VARD)
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Sill Pillar Mining In the Main Orebody At Vale's Coleman Mine
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A New Practical Method For Modeling Hydraulic Fracture Propagation In 3-D Space
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Hydro-mechanical Response of Cracked Single-jointed Slope Subjected to Constant Infiltration
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Geomechanical Modeling of Stresses And Pore Pressures In Mudstones Adjacent to Salt Bodies
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Revisiting Borehole Stresses In Anisotropic Elastic Media: Comparison of Analytical Versus Numerical Solutions
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An Approach to Stope Scale Numerical Modelling of Early Age Cemented Paste Backfill
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Historic Mine Designs And Operational Practices Used In Deep Mines For Controlling Coal Bumps
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Shear Behavior of the Montney Shale Under Double-shear Test
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Investigation of Bimodularity In the Montney Shale Using the Brazilian Test
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An Experimental Study For Investigating the Stress Dependence of Permeability In Sandstones And Carbonates
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Assessing Validity of Landslide Preventive Structure By DDA Simulations
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Numerical Manifold Method With Fixed Mesh
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The Implication of High Block Heights On Cave Flow And Recoveries
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Geometry And Loading Effects On Pure Mode II Fracture Toughness of Rock Materials
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The Application of NMM-DDA to the Stability Analysis For the Prasat Suor Prat Tower, Angkor Thom, Cambodia
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Location of Methane Accumulation Sites In a Coal Seam By Seismic Method
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Assessment of Support Performance Under Dynamic Loads At Vale Creighton Mine
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Evaluation of Performance of Support Systems At Vale's Coleman And North Mine
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Large-scale Two-dimensional Laboratory Load Tests of Rock-socketed Piles In Synthetic Rock-masses
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Multi-parameter Responses of Oya Tuff During Experiments On Its Time-dependent Characteristics
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Analysis And Monitoring Study On Splitting Failure On the Side Wall of Underground Caverns In Brittle Rock Mass
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Designing Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) In Tunneling Projects Using Neural Networks
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Numerical Analyses of the Effects of Rock Mass Property Variability On Open Stope Stability
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Determination of Optimal Face Pressure In EPB Shield- Driven Tunneling In Soft Ground - A Case Study of Mashhad Metro Line 2
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Experimental And Numerical Studies of Erosion Processes Downstream of Spillways In Large Dams.
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The Method of Rock Massive Stress State Estimation By Deformational Characteristics of Near-the Borehole Zone Which Contains the Hydraulic Fracture
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Thermal Impact On Shale Deformation/Failure Behaviors --- Laboratory Studies
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Numerical Modeling of Quasi-Static Rock Testing
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Subsidence Prediction By Coupled Modeling of Geomechanics And Reservoir Simulation For Methane Hydrate Reservoirs
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Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Water And Cement Percentage On Shear Strength In Mixing Roller Compacted Concrete
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Numerical Simulations of Scale Effects Under Varying Loading Conditions For Naturally Fractured Rock Masses And Implications For Rock For Rock Mass Strength Characterization And the Design of Overhanging Rock Slopes
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Stochastic Analysis of Carbon Sequestration In Geologic Formation
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Abutment Stability Analyses And Design Solutions For Tekeze Dam, Ethiopia
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Temperature And Pressure Dependence of Mechanical And Elastic Properties of Oil Shale As Revealed By Ultrasonics and Micro X-Ray CT
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Using Fracture Interfaces Waves to Characterize Fractures And Fracture Intersections
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Experimental Investigation of the Interaction Among Closely Spaced Hydraulic Fractures
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Using Advanced Acoustic Data to Determine Stress State Around Wellbore
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Software For RQD And Rock Mass Evaluation
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Numerical Back-Analysis of Structurally Controlled Cave Initiation And Propagation At the Henderson Mine
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Minimum Horizontal Stress In the Bakken Formation
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Numerical Analysis of Caving Mechanism Using a Hybrid FEM/DEM Approach: Experience Gained And Lessons Learned
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Evaluation of Rock Slope Stability For Yujian River Dam Site China By Block Theory Analyses
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Investigating the Mechanics of Pillar Loading Through the Analysis of Insitu Stress Measurements
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Estimation of Rock Discontinuity Mean Trace Length And Density From an Outcrop In Wenchuan, China
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Effect of Fracture Distribution On Permeability of Fractured Rock Masses
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Depth Limit of Velocity-Effective Stress Relationships For Pore Pressure Prediction, Implications For Wellbore Stability Analysis
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Numerical Modeling of Granular Debris Flow Using a Mixed Continuum- Discontinuum Approach
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Hydraulic Fracture Growth From a Non-Circular Wellbore
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Systematic Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Increasing Confinement On Shear Faulting
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The Effect of Fracture Orientation And Coupled Stress-fluid Flow On Permeability And Productivity Index of Naturally Fractured Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
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Characteristics And Ages of Rock Fractures Filled With Carbonates In the Vicinity of Uplifted Corals
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Nonlinear Elastic Wave Propagation In Castlegate Sandstone
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Initiation And Propagation of Tensile Wing Cracks And Horsetail Cracks From a Pre-existing Flaw Under Compression
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Quantify Uncertainty In Scanline Estimates of Volumetric Fraction of Anisotropic Birmocks
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Interpretation of Triaxial Testing Data For Estimation of the Hoek-Brown Strength Parameter Mi
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Hydraulic Cut-off And Gas Recovery Potential of Sandstones From Tight Gas Reservoirs: a Laboratory Investigation
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Discrete Element Modeling of Drilling-Induced Core Damage And Its Influence On Laboratory Properties of Lac De Bonnet Granite
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Prediction of Rock Properties In the GOM
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Effect of Elevated Temperature And Pressure On Axial And Torsional Forces In Rock Drilling
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Shear Slip And Permeability Change Caused By Injection/Extraction In a Fractured Reservoir
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Mesh Optimization For Finite Element Models of Wellbore Stress Analysis
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Numerical Simulation of Solids Production Using Standard And Cosserat Continua
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Import Of Strength Degradation Process In Sand Production Prediction And Management
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Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing In Naturally Fractured Formations
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A Shaly Look At Brittleness
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
3-D Discontinuity Orientations Using Combined Optical Imaging And LiDAR Techniques
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Effect of Saturation On Shear Wave Anisotropy In a Transversely Isotropic Medium
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Rock And Rock Mass Characterization For Deep Mining Using Sonic Data
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Adaptive Time Stepping With Automatic Control For Modeling Nonlinear H2M Coupled Processes In Porous Media
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Scale Effect of Granitic Materials
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Assessing the Short-term And Long-term Integrity of Top Seals In Feasibility Studies of Geological CO2 storage
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Fracture Aperture For Wellbore Strengthening Applications
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Dynamic Single PDC Cutter Rock Drilling Modeling And Simulations Focusing On Rate of Penetration Using Distinct Element Method
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Experimental Evaluation of Hydraulic Fracture Impairment In Shale Reservoirs
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Correlations Among Textural, Mechanical, Physical Properties Based On Petrographical Classification of Some Natural Stones
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A New Analytical Solution For Wellbore Creep In Soft Sediments And Salt
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Modeling And Prediction of Formation Compressibility And Compactive Pore Collapse In Siliciclastic Reservoir Rocks
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A New Method For Measuring In Situ Strain In Intact Rock Masses: Fiber Optically Instrumented Rock Strain And Temperature Strips (FROSTS)
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Validation of Fiber-Optic Strain-Sensing Cable For Deep Underground Installation
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Transition From Elastic to Non-elastic Behavior
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Effect of Operational Parameters On Hydraulic Fracture Propagation In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs - Getting Control of the Fracture Optimization Process
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Mechanical And Acoustic Properties of Glauconitic Greensand
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Predicting the Long-term Evolution of Fracture Transport Properties In CO2 Sequestration Systems
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Displacement-based Seismic Discontinuous Deformation Analysis
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
In-situ Monitoring of Cemented Paste Backfill
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Assessment And Implementation of Rock Slope Support Measures Beneath the Golden Gate Bridge
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Process-Zone Length From Image Analysis
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Fully Coupled Thermoporoelastic Model For Drilling In Chemically Active Formations
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Coordinated Geophysical Measurements In Quiet Underground Settings
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Assessment of the Geomechanical Effects In a Real Reservoir
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Numerical Study of SAGD: Geomechanical-Flow Coupling For Athabasca Oil Sands Reservoirs
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Visco-plastic Properties of Shale Gas Reservoir Rocks
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Slide-hold-slide Experiments On Sedimentary Rock Under Drained Triaxial Stress Conditions
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Undrained Plane Strain Compression of Shale
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Shale Stickiness And Drill Bit Balling: Theory And Case Histories of Problems And Solutions In Louisiana And Gulf of Mexico
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Difficulties In Laboratory Characterization of Weak Sandstone
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Virtual Outcrop Modeling For 3D Characterization of Engineering Rock Masses
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Study On the Optimum Support of Large Underground Caverns Using Elasto-plastic Damage FEM During Excavations
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Assessment of Impact of Nearby Excavations On the Deformability And Stress Conditions Around a Proposed Powerhouse By Field And Numerical Modeling
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
DOT Study Of Lidar Geotechnical Applications In Eight States
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Evaluation Of Rock Faces With Hyperspectral Imaging
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Open Stope Stability Analysis of VRM Stope In the Vicinity of Creighton Fault By Numerical And Empirical Methods
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Effects of Gas Adsorption On Swelling, Visco-plastic Creep And Permeability of Sub-bituminous Coal
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Modeling Simultaneous Growth of Multi-branch Hydraulic Fractures
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Effect of Tunnel Shape And Support System On Stability of a Tunnel In a Deep Coal Mine In China
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Seismicity And Hydromechanical Behavior of a Fractured Reservoir Under a High-pressure Fluid Injection: Mesoscale Experiment From the HPPP-ANRCO2 Project (France).
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Understanding Hydraulic Fracture Geometry And Interactions In Pre-Conditioning Through DFN And Numerical Modeling
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Preliminary Geomechanical Analysis of CO2 Injection At Snøhvit, Norway
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Modeling Unstable Rock Failure During a Uniaxial Compressive Strength Test
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Proxy Modeling Approach to Optimization Horizontal Well Placement
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Unified Model For Continuous Pore Pressure Prediction In Shale
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Observations of Fault Damage Zones At Reservoir Depths
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
From Seismic to ROP And $/m For Exploration Wells.
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Application of InSAR For Hydrocarbon Exploitation, Landslide Risk Assessment, Infrastructure Design, Construction And Monitoring.
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Complex Inclusion Geometry Pairs In Brittle Material
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Numerical Modelling of Tunnel Based On a Non-Contact Geological Survey Method
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Influence of Stress Wave Amplitude On Rock Fracturing Process And Failure Pattern In the Brazilian Tensile Tests
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Interpretation of Microseismic Effects of Petroleum Production Through Observed Response to Coal Mine Blasts
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Case Study For Pore Pressure Prediction In an Abnormally Sub-Pressured Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Investigating the Effect of Fatigue On Fracturing Resistance of Rocks Subjected to Cyclic Loading
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Stability of Shallow Caverns In Blocky Rock Masses
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Numerical Analysis of the Presplitting Controlled Blasting Method
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Numerical Analysis of the Effect of a Fault On Blast-induced Wave Propagation
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Safety Factor of a Rock Block
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Adsorption, Swelling And Viscous Creep of Synthetic Clay Samples
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Impact of CO2 Geological Sequestration On the Nucleation of Seismic Fault Ruptures
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Stability Monitoring of Underground Powerhouse Cavern Using Microseismics
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Explicit Discontinuity Modeling of Deep Mine Stope Face And Pillar Foundation Failure
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Poroelastic Analysis of Gas Production From Shale
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A 3D Analysis of Enhanced Geothermal Reservoir: Shear Slip And Micro-Seismicity
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Effect of Positioning And Thickness of Soft Clay Layer On 3D-Building Resting On Piled Raft
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Preliminary Design of the 4850-Level Excavations At DUSEL Part 1 - Geological Engineering Evaluation of Rock Mass Conditions
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Conceptual-level Geotechnical Evaluation of Rock Mass Conditions For the 7400 Level Campus At DUSEL
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Correlations Between Equotip And Model C-2 Shore Hardness Testers For Selected Natural Building Stones
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Determination of Optimum Working Condition And Development of Cuttability Abacus For a Limestone And Real Marble Sample In Diamond Wire Cutting
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Climatic Effects On Key-block Motion: Evidence From the Rock Slopes of Masada World Heritage Site
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Performance Assessment of Surface Treatment With Water Jet In Terms of Roughness
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Study On the Rotation Error In the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis Using Finite Deformation Theory
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
An Enriched-FEM Model For Fully Grouted Coupled And Decoupled Rock Bolts
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Failure Behavior of Geomaterial Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Measurement of Air Tightness Parameter of Lined Rock Caverns For Underground Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Thermal Rock Physics of Heavy-Oil Saturated Sands
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Initial Single Cutter Test of the NETL Ultra Deep Drilling Simulator
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Time-dependent Compaction In Caving Rock
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Testing And Evaluation Techniques For Drilling Fluids-Shale Interaction And Shale Stability
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Dynamic Characteristics of Prestressed Anchor Sheet Pile Wall From Large Shaking Table Test
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Improved Understanding of the Effects From Drill String RPM In Shale Through Dedicated Hollow Cylinder Laboratory Tests
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Modeling Fracture Propagation In Unconsolidated Sands
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Characteristic Criterion to Distinguish Continuity of Rock Masses Applicable to Foundations
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Natural Fractures In Unconventional Reservoir Rocks: Identification, Characterization, And Its Impact to Engineering Design
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Simulation of Rock Fracturing Using Particle Flow Modeling: Phase I - Model Development And Calibration
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Applicability of the Vesic-Speck Floor Bearing Capacity Model to Size Pillars In the Illinois Basic Coal Mines
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Three-dimensional Numerical Analysis of Thermal Fracturing In Rock
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Permeability Enhancement In Shale Gas Reservoirs After Stimulation By Hydraulic Fracturing
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Three-Dimensional Thermo-Poro-Mechanical Modeling of Well Stimulation And Induced Microseismicity
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Fault Reactivation Due to Fluid Production And Injection In Compacting Reservoirs
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
The Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method Applied to the Study of Rock Fracturing Behavior In 3D
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Poroelastic Rock Failure Analysis Around Multiple Hydraulic Fractures Using a BEM/FEM Model
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Influence of Inherent Field Stress Uncertainty On Mining Induced Seismic Response - Case Study
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Photogrammetric And LiDAR 3-D Rock Slope Discontinuity Mapping And Interpretation Surveys to Improve Baseline Information For Supporting Design And Construction of Capital Improvement Projects At Hydroelectric Facilities
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Evaluation of Rock-fluid Interactions In an Outcrop Chalk: Experimental Study With MgCl2 Solution
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Developing a Rock Mass Tilt And Seismic Observatory At DUSEL
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Investigation of the Effects of Vibration Frequency On Rotary Drilling Penetration Rate Using Diamond Drag Bit
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Forward Modelling For Subsurface Measurements In Open-cut Coal Mine Using a Drill Bit Source
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of Fractures With a Finite Difference - Displacement Discontinuity Method
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Permeability Evolution In Mechanically- And Chemically-Perturbed Media Using a Granular Mechanics Model of EGS Reservoirs
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Relationship Between Permeability, Acoustic, Mechanical And Strength Anisotropies In Unconventional Reservoirs And Seal Shales
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Predictive Model For Uniaxial Compressive Strength of Carbonate Rocks From Schmidt Hardness
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Application of RMR System For Assessment of Tunneling Conditions And a Comparison With Actually Encountered Rock Classes From NW Himalayas, India
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Base Friction Modeling of Toppling Failures In Jointed Rock Slopes
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Insight Into the Brittle Failure Behavior of Clay Shales In Unconfined And Confined Compression
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Coupled Nonisothermal, Multiphase Fluid Flow And Geomechanical Analysis of Underground Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) In Lined Rock Caverns
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Hydromechanical Testing Facility For Tight Reservoirs
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Stresses Around a Production Well In Gas Hydrate-Bearing Formation
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Permeability Evolution In Fractured Anthracite: the Roles of Crack Geometry And Water-content
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Characterization of a Weak Rock For a Subway Tunnel Project In San Francisco
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Surface Spalling Experiments With Damage Observations
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Development of Models For Geomechanical Characterization Using Data Mining Techniques Applied to a Database Gathered In Underground Structures
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
A Study of Rock Shape And Slope Irregularity On Rock Fall Impact Distance
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Evolution And Control of Excavation Damaged Zone of Large Tunnels At Overburden of 1900-2525m
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Extended Finite Element Modeling of Sedimentary Basin Evolution With Large Sliding Along Faults
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Multiscale Hydromechanical Coupling For Finite-element Simulations of Fractured Reservoirs
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
Propagation of a System of Cracks Under Thermal Stress
Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, June 2011.