Direct Strain Mapping of a Cement Sheath; A New Tool for Understanding and Preventing Cement Failure in Thermal Wells
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The design and application of a new cement integrity validation test apparatus for improving thermal cement integrity will be presented. This novel approach allows direct strain mapping of to-scale cement sheath as it deforms under different wellbore stress scenarios. Not only does this novel technique provide insight into elastic cement deformation but also helps elucidate how cracks form and propagate as the cement sheath deforms. Strain mapping is achieved through Digital Image Correlation (DIC) utilizing dual high speed and resolution camera systems. Reliably capturing crack initiation in the frame of view of the stereo camera system proved to be a significant challenge. After multiple design iterations, the best results were achieved with creating a predefined defect site in the cement sheath. Detailed crack initiation and propagation strain maps were created for thermal cements with and without fiber additives. This testing demonstrated how fibers are able to blunt crack propagation and dissipate energy through a fiber pull out mechanism leading to a more ductile failure. Early results are promising and are consistent with previous tests showing an increase in ultimate failure strength in tensile samples with fiber additives.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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