San Francisco 2015
ARMA Symposium Archives
Symposium program
Program of the 49th US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium
Keynote lectures
MTS Opening Lecture by James Rice: Thermo-poro-mechanics of strain localization in rapidly sheared granular rock and implications for earthquake source physics
Kate Hadley Baker: Some thoughts on rock mechanics in the oil and gas industry
Christopher Mark: The science of empirical design in mining rock mechanics
Stephen Glaser: Friction mechanics, onset of sliding, and laboratory earthquakes
Workshops
Digital Rock Physics Derived Rock Mechanics Properties
John Schaffer, Mike Myers, Lori Hathon: Agenda
Mike Myers, Lori Hathon: Production and geologic time-scale compaction in rigid grain-rich and ductile grain-rich sands
Mike Marsh, Shawn Zhang: Introduction to digital rock physics and predictive rock properties
Sven Linden, Tom Cvjekovic, Erik Glatt, Jens-Oliver Schwarz, Andreas Wiegmann: Digital rock physics: Digital in-situ conditions
Laurent Louis, Gregory Boitnott, Pradeep Bhattad, Mark Knackste: Towards image-based compaction forecasting: Comparison between laboratory experiments and X-ray CT images
Hrishikesh Bale, Matthew Andrew, Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, Andy Steinbach: On the prospects for nanometer-scale in situ geomechanics of shale with laboratory X-ray microscopy and comparison with DRP
Gregory Boitnott, Laurent Louis: Mechanical properties imaging using petrophysical core scanning