Stress–Strain Modeling and Brittleness Variations of Low-Clay Shales with CO2/CO2-Water Imbibition

A better understanding of the stress–strain behaviors of shale samples after shale-CO2 or shale-water–CO2 interactions is of great importance to CO2 enhanced shale gas exploitation and CO2 sequestrating in shale reservoirs. In this study, a constitutive model that combines with the modified Duncan–Chang model and Weibull distribution-based model is applied to investigate the stress–strain characteristics of low-clay shale samples treated by...