Dec 08, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog
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PETE 641 - Advanced Geomechanics

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Grading Option: A,B,C,D,F
Analysis of stress and strain, Rock failure in compression and tension, measurement of rock deformation, Laboratory testing of rock mechanical properties, Poro-elasticity and thermo-elasticity, Stresses around wellbore and wellbore stability, Inelastic behavior, Wave propagation to determine geomechanical properties, State of stress in the Earth, Hydraulic fracturing, rock-fluid interaction, subsidence



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