Compressive strength of rocks
Mechanical failure in rocks generally means either fracturing or permanent deformation as a result of compression. While many methods for calculating failure relationships exist, an initial measure of the compressive strength of reservoir rocks is still needed for use in those calculations. General rock failure criterion can be reduced to a few parameters dependent on lithology (m) and the uniaxial compressive strength (C0). Lithology is commonly derived during log analysis, som may be estimated (Table 1)[1]. What is needed still is an initial measure of rock strength provided byC0.
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