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Rock Sampling

  • 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.

 

MTS 815. Triaxial
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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Universidade da Coruña
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  University of A Coruña
Campus de Elviña s/n. 15071 A Coruña (Spain)
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