AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 19 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW220009
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Prediction of Fractures and Cracks to Improve the Drilling Operations

Saade Abdalkareem Jasim1* Khaldoon T. Falih2 Ahmed Kateb Jumaah Al- Nssairi3 Ola Kamal A. Alkadir4 Yasser Fakri Mustafa5 Yang Li6
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1 Medical Laboratory Techniques Department, Al-maarif University College, Al-anbar-Ramadi, Iraq
2 New Era and Development in Civil Engineering Research Group, Scientific Research Center, Al-Ayen University, Thi-Qar, Iraq
3 Al-Manara College For Medical Sciences, Iraq
4 Al-Nisour University College, Baghdad
5 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Mosul, Mosul – 41001, Iraq
6 School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
AJWEP 2022, 19(1), 59–65; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW220009
Submitted: 6 March 2021 | Revised: 26 April 2021 | Accepted: 26 April 2021 | Published: 19 January 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

The term fracture is defined in different ways in geology; some definitions have a defining aspect, while  other definitions have dealt with this issue in more detail. There may be differences in appearance and strength  that distinguish them from each other, generally in the drawings of an illustrator diagram. According to electrical  logs such as formation micro-imager (FMI), fractures are seen in three vertical fractures, polygonal fractures and  mechanical fractures. In this paper, different types and methods of diagnosis of each fracture were evaluated.  Moreover, by showing examples of these fractures, especially mechanical fractures in the FMI tool’s images,  we become practically acquainted with these construction features. According to the findings of this study, large  open cracks cause considerable variations in dense, shear, and columnar values, and large vertical cracks are due  to significant differences in shear tension.

Keywords
Fracture
FMI
cracks
shear tension
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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