Chapter 1  Introduction
  1.1  Overview of Rock Mechanics
  1.2  History of Rock Mechanics
  1.3  Research Methods of Rock Mechanics
  1.4  Research Objects and Characteristics of Rock Mechanics in Petroleum Engineering
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Chapter 2  Mechanical Properties and Deformation Characteristics of Rocks
  2.1  Mechanical Properties of Rocks
  2.2  Rock Uniaxial Compression Test
  2.3  Rock Triaxial Compression Test
  2.4  Tensile Fracture Test of Rock
  2.5  Rock Creep and Its Mechanism
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Chapter 3  Theory of Rock Strength
  3.1  Mohr-Coulomb Criterion
  3.2  Drucker Prager Criterion
  3.3  Griffith Criterion
  3.4  Murrel Extension of Griffith Criterion
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Chapter 4  Fluid Pressure and Flow in Rock
  4.1  Porosity and Permeability of Rock
  4.2  Fluid Flow in Pores
  4.3  Commonly Used Petrophysical Models
  4.4  One-dimensional Consolidation
  4.5  Effective Stress in Rocks
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Chapter 5  Oil Field In-situ Stress and Stress State of Surrounding Rock of Borehole Wall
  5.1  Pore Pressure
  5.2  In-situ Stress Analysis of Oilfield
  5.3  Stress Distribution of Vertical Wellbore
  5.4  Stress Distribution of Confining Rock in Horizontal Well and High Angle Deviated Well
  5.5  Method to Confirm Oilfield In-situ Stress
  5.6  Prediction Model of Oilfield In-situ Stress
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Chapter 6  Wellbore Collapse and Diameter Reduction
  6.1  Wellbore Collapse
  6.2  Under Gauge of Borehole in Plastic Formations
  6.3  Wellbore Deformation in Viscoelastic Formation
  6.4  Critical Collapse Time of Water-sensitive Shale Formation
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Chapter 7  Borehole Collapse
  7.1  Mechanical Mechanism of Vertical Borehole Wall Fracture
  7.2  Engineering Prediction Model of Fracture Pressure
  7.3  Shaft Wall Fracture in Highly Deviated Well
  7.4  Drilling Fluid Density Window in Highly Deviated Wells
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Chapter 8  Hydraulic Fracturing
  8.1  Overview of Hydraulic Fracturing
  8.2  Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing
  8.3  Small-scale Fracturing
  8.4  Hydraulic Fracturing Physical Simulation
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Chapter 9  Sand Production from Oil and Gas Wells
  9.1  Overview of Sand Production in Oil and Gas Wells
  9.2  Models of Sand Arch
  9.3  Common Prediction Methods of Sand Production Engineering
  9.4  Sand Control Methods and Their Selection
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Chapter 10  Application of Acoustic Logging and Seismic Data to Rock Mechanics
  10.1  P-wave and S-wave in Elastic Media
  10.2  Determination of Rock Elastic and Strength Parameters by Acoustic Logging
  10.3  Three Pressures Determination Using Acoustic Logs
  10.4  Engineering Prediction Theory of Seismic Data
  Questions
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