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Subject Areas
This symposium encompasses all aspects of rock mechanics, rock engineering, and geomechanics. We invite scientific and engineering papers addressing geology and geophysics, civil engineering, mining, petroleum, and underground construction applications.
We especially aim to focus on fundamentals that are of common interest to all disciplines. Examples of such fundamentals are:
Lab and in situ testing, characterization, upscaling
Fractured rock, discontinuities, rock masses
In situ stress measurement, prediction, and modeling
Weak rocks, shales, granular materials
Numerical/analytic/constitutive modeling of rock processes
Salt and creeping materials
Rock excavation and breakage, dynamic loading
High- and low-temperature geomechanics
Rock physics and geophysics
Stability/support of underground openings (all sizes)
Slope and open pit stability, foundations, dams
Fracture mechanics and fracture propagation
Coupled processes, flow and transport
Remote sensing, monitoring, seismicity
Compaction, yielding, pore collapse, plasticity
Waste disposal, seal integrity, underground storage
Uncertainty/stochastics/probability
New Applications for Risk Assessment in Rock Mechanics
Field Trips and Tours
Technical tours and field trips are being planned to the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) in central California, the Geysers, dam sites in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and Devils Slide. Sightseeing tours will include various city landmarks and a dinner cruise on the San Francisco Bay. Details will be made available as they are known.
Short Courses and Workshops
Short courses and workshops will be held immediately prior to the symposium and will be listed as they are confirmed. Preliminary plans call for a workshop on the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, a program of the National Science Foundation.
Rock Mechanics Job Fair
Companies interested in interviewing candidates at the conference can participate in the job fair held on-site at the conference. Companies and job candidates should visit www.armasymposium.org for information.
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