- Outcrop sampling and plug sub-coring; Cutting and trimming; Verification of dimensional compliance; Sample cleaning (Soxhlet); Photography and documentation; Etc.
- Rock drill
- Core plug recovery
- Sample trimming
- Sample cutting
- Dimensional checking
General Properties
- Density (bulk, solid); Porosity; Mineralogy (XRD, TDA-TG); Petrography (optical microscopy; (SEM); Chemical composition (XRF, m-XRF); Ion exchange capacity; Specific surface (BET); X-ray tomography; Thermal conductivity; Etc.
- Water analyses: ICP-MS, CI, spectrometry, stable isotopes, Etc.
- X- ray microfluorescence
- X- ray diffraction
- X- ray micro CT
- X- ray CT
- Scanning electron microscopy
Tests and Techniques
- Geomechanical tests: UCS; Triaxial with or without pore pressure and stress paths; Tensile tests; Shear tests with joints; Fracture toughness (pCT, SCB…); Etc.
- Petrophysical tests: VP and VS; Acoustic emission; Etc.
- Gas or liquid permeability: Steady flow, pulse decay, oscillating method; Etc.
- Ensayos Special tests: True-triaxial; Hydraulic fracturing; Mono- or biphasic core flooding; Sanding; Breakthrough pressure; Tracer injection tests; Formation damage; High-T and P testing; Etc.
- Pollution studies; Hydrochemistry and reactive transport modeling.
- Triaxial test
- AE monitoring during fracture toughness testing
- AE location
- High T shear testing
- Split bar thermal conductivity
- Wave velocity testing
- Elastic moduli measurement
- True triaxial testing
- True triaxial frame
- Coupled processes
Mechanical Properties
- Confined and unconfined strength; Tensile strength; Failure envelope; Shear strength and friction angle of joints; KIC; Static and dynamic elastic moduli; Etc.
- Unconfined compressive strength
- Static elastic moduli determination
- Dynamic elastic moduli determination
- Rock strength assessment
- Triaxial strength
- Direct tensile strength
- Indirect tensile strength
- Mode I fracture toughness
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