... consuming. For input, the method requires bulk modulus, compressive strength and other mechanical properties that characterize an elastic material, preferably predicted using a log-based mechanical property algorithm in order to generate a foot-by-foot profile of pore volume compressibility. A continuous...

.... In creating this angled branch from the main branch the stress concentration at the juncture depends greatly on the state of the far field stresses and their relative magnitudes and the mechanical properties of the rock. This work shows the calculation of the resulting state of stress at an open-hole juncture...