Four Arm Caliper Tool (FAC)

DOI

The Four Arm Caliper Tool (FAC) Version 2 is a Python-based application that enables loading, visualizing, and analyzing oriented four-arm caliper logs. The first version of FAC was developed by Niederhuber (2025) in Matlab. This version is a modification and an extension of the previous Version with new import and export format as well as an improved tab/window handling. Also some miner bugs have been fixed. The software provides an interactive graphical environment built with PySide6 and Matplotlib, allowing users to explore borehole geometry, identify breakout intervals, and determine stress orientations following established geomechanical analysis principles. Supported input formats include .las, .dat, .csv, and .txt files.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.35097/atd5faew7zzp9hz7
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://gitlab.kit.edu/thomas.niederhuber/four-arm-caliper-tool-fac
Metadata Access https://www.radar-service.eu/oai/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite&identifier=10.35097/atd5faew7zzp9hz7
Provenance
Creator Niederhuber, Thomas ORCID logo
Publisher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Contributor RADAR
Publication Year 2026
Rights Open Access; MIT License; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Software to evaluate borehole breakouts in four arm caliper log data; Software
Format application/x-tar
Size 2,0 MB
Discipline Other