Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 18/July/2024
9:00am
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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?

Philippe Vaskou

10:00am
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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

Mampho Maoyi, Rory Bush, J Louis Van Rooy, Matthys Dippenaar



Numerical study of scale effect on non-linear behavior of fluid flow through rough fractures

Masoud Torkan, Mateusz Janiszewski, Lauri Uotinen, Alireza Baghbanan, Mikael Rinne



Comparative Study on Discontinuity Sets Analysis Using 3D Point Clouds from TLS and Airborne 3D Laser Scanner

Adrián Riquelme, Carles Raïmat, Jona Trujillo, Miguel Cano, Roberto Tomás, José Luis Pastor



Tunnel face videogrammetry for low-cost digitization and discontinuity set orientation measurements

Mateusz Janiszewski, Masoud Torkan, Lauri Uotinen, Hamza Javed, Mikael Rinne

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

Miloš Marjanović, Marko Pejić, Uroš Đurić, Biljana Abolmasov, Ksenija Micić



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)

Alessandro Fraccica, Saverio Romeo, Danilo D'Angiò, Matteo Maggi, Vittorio Chiessi, Gennaro Maria Monti, Olimpia Spiniello, Flavio De Santis



Comparative multi-analytical study to forecast marble and limestone structural degradation in building facades – A preliminary characterization

Vera Pires, Fabio Sitzia, Carla Lisci, José Mirão, Luis Lopes



Influence of freeze-thaw action on the physico-mechanical degradation of a porous limestone

Álvaro Rabat, María Elvira Garrido, Carlos Hidalgo-Signes, Víctor Martínez-Ibáñez

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

Jose Estaire Gepp, Javier González-Gallego, Gunilla Franzen



Towards Reliability-Based Design of rockfall hybrid barriers and attenuators: a focus on the resistances

Maria Teresa Carriero, Maria Rita Migliazza, Anna Maria Ferrero, Federico Vagnon, Matteo Nadalini, Luca Gobbin



The observational method under Eurocode 7: a novel probabilistic traffic light scheme

Cagcan Cal, John P. Harrison



Methodologies for testing and validation of influence region concept for geotechnical investigation points, sampling zones and its application on RQD (Rock Quality Designation)

Naval Singh

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

Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Santiago Ledesma-Mateo, Jordi Delgado-Martín



A new visco-elastoplastic model for modeling the creep behavior of soft rocks

Abolfazl Tarifard, Ákos Török, Péter Görög



Study on the pore structure and fractal features of coal from Raniganj coalfield, India using gas adsorption and FE-SEM analysis

Madhurima Mazumder, Ashutosh Tripathy



Geometric effect of geological boundary on the stress state of rock mass in a deep sedimentary basin

Atsushi Sainoki, Yuki Kamachi, Kensuke Uchida, Adam Schwartzkopff

11:00am
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11:30am
Coffee break
Location: Main hall Aulario II
11:30am
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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

Daiguang Fu, Liming Zhou



Analysis of an old rock avalanche using different remote sensing methods

Željko Arbanas, Josip Peranić, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas



Monitoring of preparatory factors driving toward rock-block failures: insights from Acuto Field Lab experiments (Italy)

Gian Marco Marmoni, Matteo Fiorucci, Guglielmo Grechi, Yawar Hussain, Yanan Qian, Salvatore Martino



Atalaya TSF monitoring: data correlation, modelling, and best practices

Susana Rodriguez, Francesco Giliberto, Matteo Bianchetti, Jorge Fernandez, Pilar Sanchez



Rockfall early warning system for enhancing traffic safety

Matteo Castiglioni, Tullio Caraffa, Claudio Ottavi, Silvia Autuori, Carlo Pullano, Antonio Lippolis, Ciro Mallardo, Antonio Santo, Luigi Massaro, Ermanno Marino, Alessandro Brunetti

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

Jerry Wienard, Richard Masethe, Carol Mgiba



Assessment of stability graph method through numerical modelling of structurally controlled failure of open stopes

Yang Zou, Wenjun Luo, Ping Zhang, Daniel Sandström, Ivan Avramov



Experimental study of In-situ shear parameters of an overburden dump

Janardhana Prasanth Gunupuram, Rakesh Kumar



Numerical modelling of laboratory experiments to validate a limit equilibrium model in a boundary element code

Ruan Pieter Els, Daniel Francois Malan



Investigation of Forchheimer’s nonlinear coefficient for flow in a single rock fracture during shearing

Xu Zhu, Andrew Shaper, Joung Oh, Guangyao Si, Chengguo Zhang



Experimental investigation of cracking processes around a circular opening in hard rock using DIC and AE techniques

Shahrbanou Sayadi, Jordi Delgado-Martín, Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Morteza Javadi, Alireza Baghbanan

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

Julio Garzón-Roca, Martín Rodríguez-Peces, Francisco Javier Torrijo, Francesca Trizio



Prediction of anisotropic closure evolution in tunnels - Evaluation of a symbolic regression approach

Lina-María Guayacán-Carrillo, Jean Sulem



Predicting Geological Strength Index of Jointed Rock Mass using Image-Based Data and Artificial Neural Network

Satyam Choudhury, Suryajyoti Nanda, Niharika Singh, Shantanu Patel



Real-time stress field reconstruction in tunnel structures deploying an AI-FEM-based structural health monitoring framework considering uncertain parameters

Nicola Gottardi, Ba Trung Cao, Steffen Freitag, Günther Meschke



Development of Support Pattern Determination System for NATM Tunnel by Machine Learning

Karnallisa Desmy Halim, Yeboon Yun, Akinobu Nishio, Harushige Kusumi, Yasuyuki Miyajima



Digital Rock Mapping: Experimenting Discontinuity Extraction from Traces by 3D Hough Transform with a “Hinge” Kernel on Point Clouds

Regine Tsui, Philip Wu

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

Cecilia Laskowski, Mauro Muñiz, Diego Manzanal, Sandra Orlandi, José Allard



DEM modeling of Influence of preexisting salt diapirs on the kinematics and dynamics of shortening deformation

Zhina Liu, Yujiao Xie



Mechanical and Petrophysical Variations Induced by Supercritical CO2 interaction in the Castillo and Pozo D-129 Formations, San Jorge Gulf Basin, Argentina

Maximiliano Cortés, Diego Manzanal, José Allard, Pablo Vidal, Sandra Orlandi



Geomechanical Response of Faulted Depleted Gas Reservoirs to Carbon Utilization and Storage

Eric Saffou, Musa Manzi, Raymond Durrheim



Experimental study on the mechanisms of strain rate dependency in naturally fractured coals

Linan Su, Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Hamid Roshan

1:00pm
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2:30pm
Lunch time
Location: Main hall Aulario II
2:30pm
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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

Muralha José

3:30pm
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4:30pm
Awards & clossing ceremony
Location: Main auditorium - Salón de actos - Aulario II