EUROCK 2024
European Rock Mechanics Symposium
New Challenges in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
July 15-19, 2024 | Alicante, Spain
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Thursday, 18/July/2024 | ||||
9:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote - Philippe Vaskou. Embedding structural geology in all rock engineering projects: wishful thinking or future reality? Location: Main auditorium - Salón de actos - Aulario II Embedding structural geology within all rock engineering projects: wishful thinking or future reality? |
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10:00am - 11:00am |
Regular session 18_1.1 Location: A2/D01 Chair: Željko Arbanas co-Chair: Adrián Riquelme Using rock engineering interaction matrix to assess flow behaviour through discontinuities in the unsaturated zone Numerical study of scale effect on non-linear behavior of fluid flow through rough fractures Comparative Study on Discontinuity Sets Analysis Using 3D Point Clouds from TLS and Airborne 3D Laser Scanner Tunnel face videogrammetry for low-cost digitization and discontinuity set orientation measurements |
Regular session 18_1.2 Location: A2/D02 Chair: Muriel Gasc-Barbier co-Chair: David Benavente Simulating instabilities of rare rock landforms in Devils Town, Serbia Manual and semi-automatic approaches for rock mass discontinuities recognition and kinematic analyses: a case study on the rock wall of the Vallepietra shrine (Central Italy) Comparative multi-analytical study to forecast marble and limestone structural degradation in building facades – A preliminary characterization Influence of freeze-thaw action on the physico-mechanical degradation of a porous limestone |
Regular session 18_1.3 Location: A2/D03 Chair: John P. Harrison co-Chair: Migliazza Maria Verification of a rock slope stability using partial factors according to the future Eurocode 7: 202x Towards Reliability-Based Design of rockfall hybrid barriers and attenuators: a focus on the resistances The observational method under Eurocode 7: a novel probabilistic traffic light scheme Methodologies for testing and validation of influence region concept for geotechnical investigation points, sampling zones and its application on RQD (Rock Quality Designation) |
Regular session 18_1.4 Location: A2/D04 Chair: Henki Ødegaard co-Chair: Dae-Sung Cheon Assessment of Intrinsic Permeability and Hydrogen Breakthrough Pressure in Reconstituted Late Miocene Marls A new visco-elastoplastic model for modeling the creep behavior of soft rocks Study on the pore structure and fractal features of coal from Raniganj coalfield, India using gas adsorption and FE-SEM analysis Geometric effect of geological boundary on the stress state of rock mass in a deep sedimentary basin |
11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee break Location: Main hall Aulario II |
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11:30am - 1:00pm |
Regular session 18_2.1 Location: A2/D01 Chair: Umili Gessica co-Chair: Adrián Riquelme Advanced Geological Predictions in Tunnels: A Novel Approach using Surface-Wave Dispersion and Model-Substitution for Weak Layer Characterization Analysis of an old rock avalanche using different remote sensing methods Monitoring of preparatory factors driving toward rock-block failures: insights from Acuto Field Lab experiments (Italy) Atalaya TSF monitoring: data correlation, modelling, and best practices Rockfall early warning system for enhancing traffic safety |
Regular session 18_2.2 Location: A2/D02 Chair: Michael Alber co-Chair: Hani S Mitri High Horizontal Stress at Depth Incorporating Reverse Faults in Yarona Shaft Gold Mine, South Africa Assessment of stability graph method through numerical modelling of structurally controlled failure of open stopes Experimental study of In-situ shear parameters of an overburden dump Numerical modelling of laboratory experiments to validate a limit equilibrium model in a boundary element code Investigation of Forchheimer’s nonlinear coefficient for flow in a single rock fracture during shearing Experimental investigation of cracking processes around a circular opening in hard rock using DIC and AE techniques |
Regular session 18_2.3 Location: A2/D03 Chair: Milos Marjanovic co-Chair: Piotr Malkowski Use of Artificial Neural Networks to improve characterization of Hoek-Brown parameters in Upper Cretaceous Flysch materials Prediction of anisotropic closure evolution in tunnels - Evaluation of a symbolic regression approach Predicting Geological Strength Index of Jointed Rock Mass using Image-Based Data and Artificial Neural Network Real-time stress field reconstruction in tunnel structures deploying an AI-FEM-based structural health monitoring framework considering uncertain parameters Development of Support Pattern Determination System for NATM Tunnel by Machine Learning Digital Rock Mapping: Experimenting Discontinuity Extraction from Traces by 3D Hough Transform with a “Hinge” Kernel on Point Clouds |
Regular session 18_2.4 Location: A2/D04 Chair: Philippe Vaskou co-Chair: Celis Eduardo Poro-Mechanical Evolution of Depleted Oil and Gas Reservoir Sandstone under an scCO2 Atmosphere DEM modeling of Influence of preexisting salt diapirs on the kinematics and dynamics of shortening deformation Mechanical and Petrophysical Variations Induced by Supercritical CO2 interaction in the Castillo and Pozo D-129 Formations, San Jorge Gulf Basin, Argentina Geomechanical Response of Faulted Depleted Gas Reservoirs to Carbon Utilization and Storage Experimental study on the mechanisms of strain rate dependency in naturally fractured coals |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch time Location: Main hall Aulario II |
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2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Keynote - José Muralha. Shear strength of rock discontinuities: from field investigations to design parameters Location: Main auditorium - Salón de actos - Aulario II Shear strength of rock discontinuities: from field investigations to design parameters |
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3:30pm - 4:30pm |
Awards & clossing ceremony Location: Main auditorium - Salón de actos - Aulario II |