Experimental Investigation of Near-Borehole Crack Plugging with Bentonite

Rachel Asit Upadhyay1, Mohammad Nurul Islam1,2 and Andrew Bunger3, (1)University of Pittsburgh, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, (3)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States