Rock failure relationships
Understanding rock failure relationships is important because under reservoir pressure and stress conditions, production can induce rock failure, sometime with catastrophic effects. By applying strength criteria, withinreservoir simulators we can predict when problems might occur. Stress strain relationships in rocks examined the elastic behavior of rocks, which was largely reversible. Here we deal with permanent deformation. By rock failure, we mean the formation of faults and fracture planes, crushing, and relative motion of individual mineral grains and cements.
June, 2015
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