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A multi-phasic approach for estimating the Biot coefficient for Grimsel granite
Patrick Selvadurai
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 0C3, Canada
Paul A. Selvadurai
Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Morteza Nejati
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
The paper presents an alternative technique for estimating the Biot coefficient, which governs the partitioning of stresses between a porous skeleton and the saturating pore fluid of a fluid-saturated rock.
The paper presents an alternative technique for estimating the Biot coefficient, which governs...
