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Posters
Friday numerical modelling workshop
| Keynotes | 8:40 | ISRM / Loew / CSF and Hotel Monte Verità staff | Welcome and introduction to Monte Verità | |
| 9:00 | Meredith | Time-dependent weakening and failure in the crust: subcritical crack growth and brittle creep | ||
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| 9:40 | Eppes | Can long term rock erosion rates be predicted through fracture mechanics? | ||
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| 10:20 | COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS | |||
| 10:40 | Loew | Progressive Failure of Brittle Rock Slopes: Field Observations, Modeling Results and Unknowns. | ||
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| 11:20 | Diederichs | Progressive brittle damage processes and failure in rock | ||
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| 12:00 | LUNCH | |||
| Field Investigations | 13:40 | Merrien-Soukatchoff | Consequences of daily and annual thermal cycles on fracture propagation and rock slopes stability | |
| 14:00 | Collins | Progressive thermally induced fracture of an exfoliation dome: Twain Harte, California, USA | ||
| 14:20 | Leith | Development of a new thermally-induced fracture in a 12,000 year old bedrock surface | ||
| 14:40 | McSaveney | The joy of breaking rocks | ||
| 15:00 | McColl | Development of an ice-buttressed slope failure: Mueller Rockslide, New Zealand | ||
| 15:20 | COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS | |||
| 15:40 | Rosser | Insights into progressive rockfall failure from 4D scanning | ||
| 16:00 | Ziegler | Fractographic analyses of extensional fractures on Alpine valley slopes reveal slow, incremental fracture growth and principal palaeostress directions | ||
| 16:20 | Glueer | Paraglacial History and Structure of the Moosfluh Landslide | ||
| 16:40 | Abellan | Real-time forecasting of rock slope kinematics as response to precipitation. Application to Veslemannen (SW Norway) | ||
| 17:00 | Hermanns | When does progressive rock-slope failure start and how does it develop in time? An analysis from Norway: a landscape dominated by steep alpine relief excavated by multiple glacial cycles |
| Field Investigations | 8:40 | Nater | Uma Oya MPDP: Lessons learned from excavations under high stress conditions | |
| 9:00 | Zangerl | Progressive failure processes in rock slides: from fractured rocks to the formation of shear zones | ||
| 9:20 | Oppikofer | Different stages of progressive failure in unstable rock slopes in Møre & Romsdal County, western Norway | ||
| 9:40 | Nussbaum | Estimation of the stress tensor across a stimulated fault zone in the Opalinus Clay, Mont Terri rock laboratory | ||
| 10:00 | POSTER PICO SESSION FOLLOWED BY COFFEE BREAK | |||
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| Lab Investigations | 10:40 | Brain | The effects of stress path and strain rate on the confined compressive strength and failure mode of brittle rocks | |
| 11:00 | Konietzky | Lifetime of rocks – from subcritical to critical crack growth and dynamic triggered failure | ||
| 11:20 | Paraskevopoulou | Investigating the long-term behavior of brittle rocks: Visco-elastic creep parameters and time-to-failure. | ||
| 11:40 | Perras | Influence of sample geometry on constant-strain relaxation tests | ||
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |||
| 13:40 | Siren | Subcritical crack growth in complex stress field at the nuclear waste disposal site in Olkiluoto, Western Finland | ||
| 14:00 | Voigtlaender | Time to failure – progression of joints by subcritical crack growth and stress corrosion cracking in Quartzite | ||
| 14:20 | Davies | The fate of elastic strain energy in brittle fracture. | ||
| Theory and conceptual modelling | 14:40 | Leith | Progressive rock slope instability resulting from fluvial and glacial erosion | |
| 15:00 | Hallet | Ice-related progressive crack growth in rocks | ||
| 15:20 | COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS | |||
| 15:40 | Puzrin | Earthquakes can trigger delayed snow avalanches in milder slopes | ||
| 16:00 | Marc | Subsurface rock damage and healing after earthquakes: what do we learn from geomorphological and geophysical data? | ||
| 16:20 | Zerkal | The conceptual modeling of the style of rock massif destruction and of its influence on rockslides and rock avalanches formation | ||
| 16:40 | Corthésy | Transient curve analysis for stress measurements involving progressive rock failure | ||
| 17:00 | Ziegler | Excursion information |
| 9:00 – 17:30 | Excursions. Click here for further information. | |||
| State-of-the-art numerical modelling | 8:40 | Agliardi | Damage-based time-dependent simulation of the progressive failure of large alpine rock slopes | |
| 9:00 | Kalenchuck | The Contribution of Time-Dependent Rib Deterioration to Pillar Bursting Seismicity at Westwood Mine | ||
| 9:20 | Castellanza | On the progressive failure of gypsum pillars: FEM vs. FEM/DEM approach | ||
| 9:40 | Suikkanen | Evolution of rock damage zone over different time periods for a horizontal variant of KBS-3 repository design | ||
| 10:00 | Dattola | Experimental and numerical simulations via a shear banding model for Mont de La Saxe rockslide | ||
| 10:20 | COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS | |||
| 10:40 | Grämiger | Beyond debuttressing: Thermo-hydro-mechanical rock slope damage during glacial cycles | ||
| 11:00 | Eberhardt | Progressive failure, rock mass fatigue and early warning applied to deep-seated rock slope failures | ||
| 11:20 | Dansereau | A Maxwell-Elasto-Brittle rheology for the small and large deformations of geomaterials | ||
| 11:40 | Damjanac | Long-term strength of crystalline rocks | ||
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |||
| 13:40 | Loew / Leith | Closing remarks and CSF Award for best young scientist presentation |
| Working group | 14:00 | Leith / Perras | Working group organization (optional) | Optional visit to botanic gardens on Brissago Island | |
| 14:20 | Leith / Perras / Meredith | Round table: Monitoring and modelling progressive failure | |||
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| 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS | ||||
| 15:20 | Leith / Perras / Eppes | Round table: Progressive failure in a changing climate | |||
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| 16:00 | Leith / Perras / Diederichs | Round table: Safer infrastructure | |||
| 16:20 |
| PICO session and poster tour Tue 10:00 – 10:40
Viewing all week |
Gschwind | Evolution and progressive failure of the Preonzo rock slope instability complex (TI, Switzerland) | ||
| D’Angio | Preliminary results of vibration modes induced by forced dynamic shaking in a quarry rock wall | |||
| Haselden | Wongawilli Colliery Portal and Drift Recovery | |||
| Manconi | Spatial and temporal evolution of rock fall activity on a failing slope | |||
| Plasken | Interaction of permafrost-affected bedrock and high alpine infrastructure: a distinct element model parameter study | |||
| Steiner | Rock failure, swelling, sulfate transport and gypsum precipitation in the invert of two road tunnels | |||
| Stockinger | GEOMECHANICAL Characterization of deep geothermal Aquifers by field-, laboratory- and modelling methods | |||
| Arshadnejad | Process of the first cracks generating between two neighboring holes under incremental static loading in brittle rocks | |||
| Castellanza | On the progressive failure of gypsum pillars: FEM vs. FEM/DEM approach | |||
| Potten | DEEP geothermal energy: a geomechanical view | |||