Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/C/S/2000/00566
Experimental investigation of pervasive mesofracture of low porosity rocks.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor E Rutter, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
- Grant held at:
- The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
- Science Area:
- None
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- None
- Science Topics:
- None
- Abstract:
- All previous experimental studies of rock fracture produced damage at the grain scale, because that is the principal source of heterogeneity. In nature, failure in low porosity rocks is often through the formation of long, intersecting transgranular cracks, affecting large rock volumes. The failure is highly dilatant, and the voids created can host oil, gas and water storage or hydrothermal mineralization. It may provide a mechanism for terminating fault propagation. Despite evident economic significance, and the possibility that by understanding its origin It might he engineered, this failure mode has been ignored scientifically. It is proposed to investigate experimentally the origin of such fracturing, using combinations of polyaxial loading and high pore fluid pressures.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/C/S/2000/00566
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- ROPA Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- ROPA
This grant award has a total value of £46,800
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Equipment |
|---|
| £46,800 |
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