The study of rock fractures is essential in evaluating stability of underground structures, understanding earthquakes, and assessing storage and transport of oil and gas in rock formations. Geophysical monitoring techniques, particularly compressional and shear wave propagation, can probe the internal structure of rock and fractures remotely and nondestructively and can provide insight into fra...

This paper presents the Indiana Ontology for modeling the knowledge about Mount Bego’s rock art and its exploitation in the IndianaMAS project. Although many projects use ontologies for semantic processing of cultural heritage digital objects, we are not aware of such ontologies in the rock art domain. Also, the Indiana Ontology is fully and seamlessly integrated with the IndianaMAS framework c...

Calculation of elastic wave velocity using digital rock models is a powerful method to understand physical properties rocks. However, one difficulty the approach construct proper model due uncertainty by segmentation process X-ray CT image. Recently, segmentation-less has been proposed avoid uncertainty, and shown be useful in application Berea sandstone. In this study, we assessed through Shir...

A technique to digitally document and thereby permanently preserve prehistoric rock art has been developed. Laser scanning and texture mapping from digital images were used. Methods involving texture mapping require the exact relationships between the image and geometrical sensors. For geological structures, such as caves, the distinctive features required for registering the texture with the g...

The multiscale rock physics of unconventional reservoirs have drawn increasing attention in recent years, which involves several essential issues, including measuring method, transport property, model, characteristic scale, and their application. These issues vastly affect science engineering regarding the exploration development reservoirs. To encourage communication on advances research reser...

ABSTRACT In this paper, the methods of digital rock physics are applied to determine pressure‐dependent effective thermal conductivity in samples. Simulations performed with an in‐house three‐dimensional finite volume code. first step, four numerical models derived from a given tomographic scan Berea sandstone. Consequently, simulations at ambient conditions and validated experimental data. sec...

The purpose of this study is to measure the size distribution of blasted rock using the digital image processing software “SplitDesktop system” in order to evaluate the efficiency of blasting operation. Site of study is a limestone quarry producing limestone for cement manufacturing. Fragmentation is the ultimate measure of efficiency of any production blasting operations. The degree of fragmen...

The term ‘Rock Art’ is loosely used in this article to refer prehistoric carvings and paintings. Rock art research has changed profoundly the last two decades. Partly, due introduction of more ‘scientific’ methodologies such as digital recording, overcome subjective nature analogue documentation methods. Digital recording offers not only ‘pretty pictures’ but immediate quantifiable datas...

The sand intervals of the Lower Goru Formation of the Cretaceous age, widely distributed in the Middle and Lower Indus Basin of Pakistan, are proven reservoirs. However, in the Sawan gas field of the Middle Indus Basin, these sandstone intervals are very deep and extremely heterogeneous in character, which makes it difficult to discriminate lithologies and fluid saturation. Based on petrophysic...