Rock Mechanics

 

 

Shear failure of compressed sand.  The whiter grains are crushed and compacted
Simulated shear failure of friable sandstone.  A 2D model

Only 7% of  all inter-grain bonds are broken when the rock simulated above fractures

 

Depositional model
Rock mechanics
Robust description of pore space
Rock/fluid wettability
Direct percolation on images
Absolute perm prediction
Relative perm prediction
Capillary pressure prediction
ALS: Micro tomography
Focused Ion Beam
ALS: X-Ray backscattering
Petrophysics
Publications
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