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Engineering Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield


Time Location Session Chair Paper Authors
Tue 9:00 - 10:30 Sayles 105 Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger), Pedro Reis (MIT) REALITIES AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES FACING THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY Francois Auzerais (Schlumberger)
Rapid microscale chemo-mechanical characterization of microstructural diversity in oil/gas shales Nicola Ferralis (MIT)
Chemistry of interfaces between inorganic minerals and porous carbons: Implications for the mechanical properties of gas shale Gyorgy Hantal (MIT), Laurent Brochard (MIT/ENPC), Roland Pellenq (CNRS/MIT), Franz-Joseph Ulm (MIT), Benoit Coasne (CNRS-MIT)
Tue 10:45 - 12:15 Sayles 105 Buc Slay (Weatherford), Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger) Stochastic Approaches for Nonlinear Drill String Dynamic Analyses POl SPANOS (RICE UNIV>), David Rowatt (Schluemberger), Kesh Keshavan (Schluberger), Eleazar Marquez (Rice University)
Review of Research at Tulsa University Drilling Research Projects (TUDRP) Stefan Miska (University of Tulsa), Mengjiao Yu (University of Tulsa)
Deployable Structures and Compliant Mechanisms: Enabling Down hole Zonal Isolation Julio Guerrero (Draper Lab)
In Situ Visualization of Swell Packer Failure Benjamin Druecke (MIT), Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger), Elizabeth Dussan V. (), Agathe Robisson (Schlumberger), Anette Hosoi (MIT)
Tue 2:40 - 4:00 Sayles 105 Dimitry Chuprakov (Schlumberger), Francois Auzerais (Schlumberger) Extended Reach of Coiled Tubing Nathan Wicks (Schlumberger), Jahir Pabon (Schlumberger)
Buckling of a thin rod under cylindrical constraint Jay Miller (MIT), Tianxiang Su (Harvard), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), Pedro Reis (MIT)
Analytic Solutions for Post-Buckling of Pipe Constrained by a Wellbore Robert Mitchell (Halliburton)
Wed 9:00 - 10:30 CIT 227 Agathe Robisson (Schlumberger), Nicola Ferralis (MIT) Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing using the XFEM Safdar Abbas (Schlumberger), Elizaveta Gordeliy (University of British Columbia), Brice Lecampion (Schlumberger), Anthony Peirce (University of British Columbia)
Modeling the Interaction and Growth of Multiple Non-planar Hydraulic Fractures Stephen Castonguay (University of Texas at Austin), Mark Mear (Department ASE/EM, University of Texas at Austin), Rick Dean (ConocoPhillips), Joseph Schmidt (ConocoPhillips)
Capillary fracturing in granular media Ruben Juanes (MIT), Michael Szulczewski (MIT), Mathias Trojer (MIT), Ran Holtzman (Hebrew University)
Improved criterion of hydraulic fracture propagation across natural discontinuities sensitive to fluid pumping Dimitry Chuprakov (Schlumberger), Olga Melchaeva (GazPromNeft), Romain Prioul (Schlumberger)
Wed 10:45 - 12:15 CIT 227 Stefan Miska (University of Tulsa), Alex Arzoumanidis (Psylotech) Experiments and simulation on hydrogen assisted fracture of Nickel-base superalloys Akbar Bagri (MIT), John Hanson (MIT), Jonathan Lind (CMU), Robert Suter (CMU), Peter Kenesei (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Demkowicz (), Silvija Gradecak ()
Stability and Reactivity of Iron Sulfide Passive Films in Sour Environments Bilge Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Tec)
Deformation and Fracture of Polymers used in Oil & Gas Seal Systems Buc Slay (Weatherford)
Reduced Time Simulation of Rubber in Oilfield Environments Alex Arzoumanidis (Psylotech)