Study of physical-mechanical rock properties for rock disintegration purposes
New method of drilling narrow vertical boreholes by controlled hydrogen combustion assumes that rocks melt and around thermally strained rock form radial fractures under high temperatures and pressures at interaction of the rock and the flame. To verify the range of formed radial fractures in different rock types, it is needed to know in detail rock and mineral properties before and after melting process of the rock. Petrographical, mineralogical, chemical and physical properties of rock samples were studied to have thorough knowledge of rock attributes. Results of this complex rock analysis represent the basis for physical and mathematical modeling of viscous properties of melt of selected rocks and for modeling of radial fractures in the rocks during narrow vertical borehole drilling process.
