Micromechanical characterisation of overburden shales in the Horn River Basin through nanoindentation
Micromechanical characterisation of overburden shales in the Horn River Basin through nanoindentation
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通过纳米压痕技术表征霍恩河流域上覆页岩的微观力学特征
DOI:
10.1088/1755-1315/1124/1/012087
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发表时间:
2023
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Charlton T
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Charlton T
The paper presents a micromechanical characterisation of Fort Simpson shale, which overlies unconventional gas-producing lithologies in the Horn River Basin, NW Canada. The Fort Simpson formation is clay-rich and microseismic data recorded during hydraulic fracturing events in the underlying reservoir has shown the formation acts as a barrier to fracture development, with a notably anisotropic seismic response. Samples were prepared from core fragments and the composition and texture of the shale was characterised using X-ray diffraction, mercury injection porosimetry and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Nanoindentation testing was used to obtain the mechanical response of the shale microstructure, at grain-scale. The indentation was conducted on a grid pattern and samples were oriented both parallel and perpendicular to the bedding plane to assess the inherent mechanical anisotropy. Chemical analysis of the grids was also undertaken through SEM/EDS (energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) and the coupled chemo-mechanical data was used to characterise the material phases of the shale through a statistical clustering procedure. The results show that Fort Simpson shale broadly consists of a soft clay phase, with strongly anisotropic elastic stiffness, and stiffer but effectively isotropic grains of quartz and feldspar. A simple upscaling scheme was also applied to link the grain-scale elastic stiffness to the field-scale microseismic data.
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2014
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作者:
Changpeng Yu;S. Shapiro
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S. Shapiro
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3.3
作者:
C. Sayers;L. D. Boer;S. Dasgupta;B. Goodway
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B. Goodway