MR23A:
Deformation, Constitutive Response, and Failure of Sedimentary Rocks I Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia Park, NM, United States and Kathleen A Issen, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia Park, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Kathleen A Issen, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia Park, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Dissolution and compaction instabilities in geomaterials
Jean Sulem, Ioannis Stefanou and Jean de Sauvage, University Paris-Est, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Laboratoire Navier, Marne-la-Vallee, France
 
Porosity and Mineralogy Control on the Thermal Properties of Sediments in Off-Shimokita Deep-Water Coal Bed Basin
Wataru Tanikawa1, Osamu Tadai2, Sumito Morita3, Weiren Lin1, Yasuhiro Yamada4, Yoshinori Sanada5, Kyaw Moe6, Yusuke Kubo1 and Fumio Inagaki1, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Marine Works Japan Ltd., Nankoku, Japan, (3)Geological Survey of Jpn, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (4)Kyoto Univ, Kyoto, Japan, (5)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (6)CDEX, Yokohama, Japan
 
Simulation of Anisotropic Rock Damage for Geologic Fracturing
Seth Busetti1, Hao Xu2 and Chloe F Arson2, (1)ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus - GT, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Hydro-mechanical behavior of fractured sedimentary rock under stress axis rotation by crack tensor and permeability tensor
Takato Takemura, Nihon University, Department of Geosystem Sciences, Humanities and Sciences, Tokyo, Japan and Manabu Takahashi, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
 
Mechanical Behavior of Low Porosity Carbonate Rock: From Brittle Creep to Ductile Creep.
Aurelien Nicolas, Jérôme Fortin and Yves Gueguen, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Paris, France
 
Stress Evolution in Sediments Around a Rising Salt Diapir
Maria A Nikolinakou, Peter B Flemings and Michael R Hudec, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Permeability and microstructural changes due to weathering of pyroclastic rocks in Cappadocia, central Turkey
Minoru Sato1, Manabu Takahashi2, Ryo Anma1 and Kazuyuki Shiomi1, (1)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
 
Variations in shear strength properties of clay-rich sediments over the effective stress range of 0.1 to 100 MPa
Brendan Casey1, John T Germaine2, Peter B Flemings3 and Brian P Fahy2, (1)Exponent, Inc. Natick, Natick, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Gas Shale Ultrasonic Velocity Evolution Induced By Spontaneous Imbibition Under Uniaxial Stress
Daobing Wang, Hongkui Ge, Xiaoqiong Wang, Jianbo Wang and Fanbao Meng, China University of Petroleum, Unconventional Natural Gas Research Institute, Beijing, China
 
3-D Numerical Simulation of Hydrostatic Tests of Porous Rocks Using Adapted Constitutive Model
Alexandre I Chemenda and Mas Daniel, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
 
Plasticity-Based Interpretation of Compaction Banding in a High-Porosity Carbonate Rock
Giuseppe Buscarnera, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, Arghya Das, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India and Reed Laverack, GEI Consultants, Inc. Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
 
A coupled thermo-poro-mechanical finite element analysis of fractured porous rocks using a cohesive interface element
Richard A Regueiro and Wei Wang, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
A Transversely Isotropic Thermo-mechanical Framework for Oil Shale
Shabnam J Semnani1, Joshua A White2 and Ronaldo I Borja1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Nanoscale Experimental Characterization and 3D Mechanistic Modeling of Shale with Quantified Heterogeneity
Kane C Bennett and Ronaldo I Borja, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
A New Method for Determining the Non-Linear Effective Pressure
Wenlian Xiao1, Ling Li1, Yves Bernabe2, Jinzhou Zhao1 and Min Li1, (1)SWPU Southwest Petroleum University, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu, China, (2)M I T, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Modeling the (Sub)surface Deformation Field Evolution Due to Production from a Hydrocarbon Reservoir Overlain by Rocksalt
George Marketos, Rob M A Govers and Christopher James Spiers, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Implementation of Bounding Surface Model into ABAQUS and Its Application to Wellbore Stability Analysis
Shengli Chen1, Ghaithan Al-Muntasheri1 and Younane N. Abousleiman2, (1)Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
 
Indirect Estimations of Frictional Coefficients of Fractures in Sandstones for Analysis of Injection Induced Microseismicity
Yeonguk Jo, Chungnam National University, Department of Astronomy, Space Science and Geology, Daejeon, South Korea, Chandong Chang, Chungnam National University, Department of Geology, Daejeon, South Korea and Hee Jae Koh, KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea
 
Cross-bedding Related Anisotropy and its Role in the Orientation of Joints in an Aeolian Sandstone
Shang Deng1, Antonino Cilona1, Cesar Mapeli2, Andrei Panfilau2, Atilla Aydin1 and Manika Prasad2, (1)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Petroleum Engineering Department, Golden, CO, United States
 
Microstructural observations of reconsolidated granular salt to 250°C
Melissa Marie Mills1, Frank Hansen1, Stephen J Bauer1 and John Stormont2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Civil Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
An Experimental Investigation into Failure and Localization Phenomena in the Extension to Shear Fracture Transition in Rock
Robert Charles Choens II1, Frederick M Chester2, Stephen J Bauer3 and Gregory M Flint3, (1)Texas A&M University, HOUSTON, TX, United States, (2)Texas A & M University, Geology & Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Geomechanical variability within the D-E Member of the lower Tuscaloosa Formation supporting the SECARB Phase III CO2 Injection Program
Alex J Rinehart1,2, Thomas A Dewers2, Scott Broome2 and Pania Newell2, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Development of a Thermodynamically Consistent Constitutive Framework for Castlegate Sandstone
Melissa Carole Richards1, Mathew D Ingraham2 and Kathleen A Issen1, (1)Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia Park, NM, United States
 
Development of constitutive parameters from true triaxial tests performed on Castlegate Sandstone
Kathleen A Issen1, Mathew D Ingraham2 and Thomas A Dewers2, (1)Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Effects of Coupled Structural and Diagenetic Processes on Deformation Localization and Fluid Flow Properties in Sandstone Reservoirs of the Southwestern United States
Sara J Elliott, Peter Eichhubl and Christopher James Landry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Geomechaical Behavior of Shale Rocks Under High Pressure and Temperature
Rafael Villamor Lora and Ehsan Ghazanfari, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
 
Water weakening in porous carbonate rocks: equilibrium and disequilibrium pore fluid effects
Harrison P Lisabeth and Wenlu Zhu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Microstructural changes of sandstone specimens during CO2 injection
Ji-Hwan Park, Jin Son, MyeongChan Oh and Hyeong-Dong Park, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Subcritical growth of natural hydraulic fractures
Dmitry Garagash, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada