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Experimental Investigation of Rock Drillability for Three Rock Types Under Varying Wellbore Pressure Conditions

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This work was financially supported by the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. Z016013), and the Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51504208 and 51774248). The sixth author acknowledges the support of the Open Fund (PLN201703) of the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation (Southwest Petroleum University).

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    Shuai Mao, Xiangchao Shi, Yingfeng Meng, Ping Chen, Xiao Zhuo & Louis Ngai Yuen Wong

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Xiangchao Shi

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China

    Louis Ngai Yuen Wong

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Mao, S., Shi, X., Meng, Y. et al. Experimental Investigation of Rock Drillability for Three Rock Types Under Varying Wellbore Pressure Conditions. Rock Mech Rock Eng 51, 2439–2445 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-018-1472-7

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