Applied Rock and Fracture Mechanics for Unconventional Reservoirs

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Introduction of key rock and fracture mechanics concepts for unconventional reservoirs and discussion of the layered nature of mudstones and its effect on their mechanical behavior and response to hydraulic fracturing treatments; presentation of problem in field techniques, laboratory measurements and engineering analyses for solving rock and fracture mechanics, and discussion of how these are used together to construct predictive models and solve practical problems of rock failure and hydraulic fracture propagation; demonstrations of rock testing and hydraulic fracture experiments. Prerequisite: MATH 152 , PHYS 206 , or graduate classification.