Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics, 2nd Edition

Appendix D: Some Relevant Formulas

In this appendix we give a few formulas which may be useful, but which are not essential for the main text.

D.1. Elasticity

D.1.1. Stress invariants

Invariants of stress deviation (remember J 1 = s 1 + s 2 + s 3 = 0)























D.1.2. Strain in spherical coordinates







D.1.3. Isotropic linear elastic stiffness tensor


D.1.4. Isotropic linear poro-thermo-elastic stress strain law

Solved for stresses










Solved for strains




Various forms on compact notation






D.1.5. The force balance equation

The basic force balance equation is


Assuming homogeneous, isotropic poro-thermo-elasticity, and neglecting body forces, the equation may be written in terms of the displacements as


On coordinate independent form this is


or, alternatively


D.2. Elastic Wave Propagation in Rocks

D.2.1. Correction for non-laminar flow

The function F( ?) introduced in Section 5.3.1 is defined as


where


ber and bei are so-called Kelvin functions, defined by


where J 0 is the zeroth order Bessel function of the first kind.

D.2.2. Reflection, transmission and conversion coefficients at non-normal incidence

The coefficients for reflection, transmission and conversion for an incoming P-wave are given as solutions of the equation (Aki and Richards, 1980; see also Berkhout, 1987):


where




The incoming P-wave is entering through medium 1. The amplitude of the reflected P-wave is r pp, the amplitude of the transmitted P-wave is t pp, the amplitude of the reflected & converted wave is r sp, and the amplitude of the transmitted & converted wave is t

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