Maurice B. Dusseault

TL;DR: In this paper, a phenomenological approach extending linear elastic constitutive equations to nonlinear materials is presented and applied to stress analysis around circular openings, using stress-dependent Lame parameters instead of fixed values.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of well shut-down on rock stability has been quantified by a fully coupled geomechanics model accounting for the changes of fluid pressure, while the water hammer equations provide a boundary condition for the bottom-hole pressure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used self-weight consolidation tests with specimens 10 m high and 1 m in diameter to determine whether or not the slurry material properties measured in large-strain slurry consolidation cells and in 2m-high consolidation tests (when used in the finitestrain consolidation mathematical model) can predict the consolidation behavior of deep deposits of waste slurry such as those deposited in the field.

TL;DR: The Athabasca Oil Sands are largely within the McMurray Formation, which is a transgressive blanket quartz sand of Lower Cretaceous age as mentioned in this paper, and the major agents affecting slope morphology are the lithology, the aspect and the basal stratigraphy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the service life of reinforced concrete (RC) and found that steel reinforcement defects or deterioration may lead to a crack in the reinforced concrete and lead to the failure of the reinforcement.