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Douglas R. Schmitt is a researcher affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their academic work spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The researcher has contributed extensively to the study of seismic phenomena, rock mechanics, and subsurface processes. Major topics of Schmitt's research include Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering, earthquake and tectonic studies, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Rock Mechanics and Modeling, and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions.

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, where they have multiple papers, as well as the Journal of Applied Geophysics and International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. Other venues include Chemical Geology and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Douglas R. Schmitt often collaborates with several researchers, including Wenjing Wang, Rachel E. Abercrombie, Yves Bernabé, Mark J. Dekkers, and Isabelle Manighetti, all of whom have co-authored multiple publications with Schmitt.

The following is a list of recent papers authored or co-authored by Schmitt:

  • A program to forward model the failure pattern around the wellbore in elastic and strength anisotropic rock formations, 2022, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • States of In Situ Stress in the Duvernay East Shale Basin and Willesden Green of Alberta, Canada: Variable In Situ Stress States Effect Fault Stability, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Heterogeneity Versus Anisotropy and the State of Stress in Stable Cratons: Observations From a Deep Borehole in Northeastern Alberta, Canada, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Interaction between CO2-rich acidic water, hydrated Portland cement and sedimentary rocks: Column experiments and reactive transport modeling, 2021, Chemical Geology
  • Ocean resurge-induced impact melt dynamics on the peak-ring of the Chicxulub impact structure, Mexico, 2021, International Journal of Earth Sciences

Best Publications

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

    T. Naish;T. Naish;R. Powell;R. Levy;R. Levy;G. Wilson

  • Simulated annealing inversion of multimode Rayleigh wave dispersion curves for geological structure

    K. S. Beaty;D. R. Schmitt;M. Sacchi

  • The formation of peak rings in large impact craters

    Joanna V. Morgan;Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy Bralower;Elise Chenot

  • Crustal stress determination from boreholes and rock cores: Fundamental principles

    Douglas R. Schmitt;Claire A. Currie;Lei Zhang

  • Poroelastic effects in the determination of the maximum horizontal principal stress in hydraulic fracturing tests—A proposed breakdown equation employing a modified effective stress relation for tensile failure

    D.R. Schmitt;M.D. Zoback

  • First-break timing: Arrival onset times by direct correlation

    Joseph B. Molyneux;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • Repeatability of multimode Rayleigh‐wave dispersion studies

    Kristen S. Beaty;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • Physical properties and seismic imaging of massive sulfides

    Matthew H. Salisbury;Bernd Milkereit;Graham Ascough;Robin Adair

  • Amplitude and AVO responses of a single thin bed

    Yinbin Liu;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault

    Rupert Sutherland;Rupert Sutherland;John Townend;Virginia Toy;Phaedra Upton

  • Seismic attributes for monitoring of a shallow heated heavy oil reservoir; a case study

    Douglas R. Schmitt

  • A revised crustal stress orientation database for Canada

    Karsten Reiter;Oliver Heidbach;Douglas Schmitt;Kristine Haug

  • Diminished pore pressure in low‐porosity crystalline rock under tensional failure: Apparent strengthening by dilatancy

    Douglas R. Schmitt;Mark D. Zoback

  • Drilling-induced core fractures and in situ stress

    Yongyi Li;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • A comparative study of the anisotropic dynamic and static elastic moduli of unconventional reservoir shales: Implication for geomechanical investigations

    Jaime Meléndez-Martínez;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • Infiltration effects in the tensile rupture of thin walled cylinders of glass and granite: Implications for the hydraulic fracturing breakdown equation

    D.R. Schmitt;M.D. Zoback

  • Measurement of total porosity for gas shales by gas injection porosimetry (GIP) method

    Jianmeng Sun;Xu Dong;Xu Dong;Jinjie Wang;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • Compressional-wave velocities in attenuating media: A laboratory physical model study

    Joseph B. Molyneux;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • Intrinsic elasticity of a textured transversely isotropic muscovite aggregate: Comparisons to the seismic anisotropy of schists and shales

    Pavlo Y. Cholach;Pavlo Y. Cholach;Douglas R. Schmitt

  • Static and dynamic pressure sensitivity anisotropy of a calcareous shale

    Oliver N. Ong;Douglas R. Schmitt;Randolph S. Kofman;Kristine Haug

  • Determination of the complete elastic stiffnesses from ultrasonic phase velocity measurements

    Marko Mah;Douglas R. Schmitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Milkereit
Bernd Milkereit University of Toronto
Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson Australian National University
Thomas J. Ahrens
Thomas J. Ahrens California Institute of Technology
Martha K. Savage
Martha K. Savage Victoria University of Wellington
Jacek Majorowicz
Jacek Majorowicz University of Alberta
Gail L. Christeson
Gail L. Christeson The University of Texas at Austin
John W. Shervais
John W. Shervais Utah State University
John Townend
John Townend Victoria University of Wellington
Catalina Gebhardt
Catalina Gebhardt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ilmo T. Kukkonen
Ilmo T. Kukkonen University of Helsinki

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