Hydraulic Fracturing in Particulate Materials
For more than five decades, hydraulic fracturing has been widely used to enhance oil and gas production. Hydraulic fracturing in solid materials (e.g., rock) has been studied extensively. The main goal of this thesis is a comprehensive study of the physical mechanisms of hydraulic fracturing in cohe...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2005
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/4957 |