arma 2015 program

253 Pages·2015·4.26 MB·English

49
th US

Rock Mechanics
/
Geomechanics
SYMPOSIUM
28 June–1 July, 2015
San Francisco
Sponsored
by the American
Rock Mechanics
Association
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR ....................................... 2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................. 3
SPONSORS ............................................................................. 5
EXHIBITORS ......................................................................... 6
GENERAL INFORMATION ............................................... 11
TECHNICAL TOURS ........................................................... 13
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES ......................................................... 14
MONDAY TECHNICAL PROGRAM ................................. 16
TUESDAY TECHNICAL PROGRAM ................................. 20
WEDNESDAY TECHNICAL PROGRAM ......................... 24
ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................ 28
ABSTRACTS .......................................................................... 30
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WELCOME TO
SAN FRANCISCO 2015
It is my pleasure to welcome you to San Francisco for the 49th US Rock
Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. Our multidisciplinary, international
annual meeting is the focal event for the rock mechanics and geomechanics
communities. Here you will meet a diverse group of professionals and students
from around the world, specializing in civil, mining, petroleum, geological and
geophysical fields.
Special thanks go out to the members of the technical committee, Alvin Chan,
Russ Detwiler, Greg Hasenfus and Haiying Huang. Their efforts allowed us to
build our strongest technical program yet with a record 359 papers that cover
everything within the realm of rock mechanics, rock engineering and
geomechanics. You will see presentations addressing challenges in subsurface
energy spanning petroleum, geothermal and carbon storage and utilization. As
always, our civil- and mining-related sessions continue to be a strong focus for this
meeting, thanks to this committee’s hard work.
Thanks also to Marisela Sanchez-Nagel for leading the awards committee and
Ghazal Izadi for arranging the technical tours. Thanks to Bill Dershowitz,
treasurer, and Wayne Gibson for handling exhibits. I am especially grateful to
Peter Smeallie, executive director of ARMA, for his seasoned assistance keeping
our preparations on track.
San Francisco has become a home, of sorts, for our symposium in recent years.
Many of you will have already visited this fine city for this meeting or other
engagements. Whether this is your first time here or not, I strongly encourage you
to take time to enjoy the city and its surroundings.
Thank-you for joining us in San Francisco and I wish you a pleasant and
productive stay,
Joe Morris
Chair of the 49th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium
Computational Geosciences Group Leader
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ORGANIZING SESSION CHAIRS/ Laura Blanco Martin
COMMITTEE DEVELOPERS Kim McCarter
Brijes Mishra
Joseph Morris Zach Agioutantis Samrat Mohanty
Chair Sherif Akl Dan Moos
Lawrence Livermore Florian Amann Neal Nagel
National Laboratory Chloé Arson Seiji Nakagawa
Brian Bonner David Newman
Alvin Chan Andrew Bunger Maria-Aikaterini Nikolinakou
Giuseppe Buscarnera
Technical Committee: Bogdan Orlic
Rick Chalaturnyk
Petroleum Adrienne Phillips
Charles Collins
Shell Mileva Radonjic
Brian Crawford
Arunkumar Rai
Nick Davatzes
Bill Dershowitz Maurice Dusseault Anil Ray
Treasurer Peter Eichhubl Fatemeh Rassouli
Golder Associates Jean Elkhoury Andy Rathbun
Essie Esterhuizen Azadeh Riahi
Russell Detwiler anna maria Ferrero Esteban Rougier
Technical Committee: Erling Fjaer Jonny Rutqvist
Interdisciplinary Russell Frith Reza Safari
University of California, Irvine Murali Gadde Marisela Sanchez-Nagel
Julia Gale Xinpu Shen
Wayne Gibson Ivan Gil Genghua Shi
Exhibits and Sponsors Steve Glaser Keh-Jian Shou
Gibson Group Management Giovanni Grasselli Hiroki Sone
Paul Hagin Ole Kristian Søreide
Gang Han
Greg Hasenfus Sam Spearing
Yanhui Han
Technical Committee: Mining Sergey Stanchits
Frank Hansen
CONSOL Energy John Harrison Daniel Su
Fidelis Suorineni
Yossef Hatzor
Haiying Huang Chris Hawkes Pete Swanson
Technical Committee: Civil John Henning Andy Tallin
Georgia Institute of Technology Fredy Henriquez Josh Taron
Sander Hol Karin Van Thiene-Visser
Ghazal Izadi Janelle Homburg Nicholas Thompson
Technical Tours Zara Hosseini Dean Thornton
Baker Hughes Ghazal Izadi Hari Viswanathan
Jarek Jakubec Stuart Walsh
Marisela Sanchez-Nagel Scott Johnson Dale Walters
Paper/Poster Awards Madhur Johri Joseph Wang
OilField Geomechanics Raj Kallu Erik Westman
John Kemeny Jeff Wyatt
Eunhye Kim
Peter Smeallie Xiongyao Xie
Ted Klemetti
Executive Director David Yale
Olga Kresse
American Rock Mechanics Joseph Labuz Qiang Yang
Association Mike Levy Karim Zaki
Gang Li Liangyang Zhang
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Hong Li Qi Zhang
Jeen-Shang Lin Wu Zhang
James R. Rice, MTS Lecturer Qing Lin Zixin Zhang
Harvard University Yaoru Liu Hehua Zhu
Yi Luo Tawanda Zvarivadza
Kate Hadley Baker Guowei Ma
BP (ret) and ExxonMobil (ret) Kevin Ma
Xiaodong Ma
Christopher Mark Sandeep Mahajan
U.S. Mine Safety and Health Hamid Maleki
Administration George Marketos
Steven D. Glaser
University of California, Berkeley
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Paper/Poster Technical Tour Leaders Symposium Staff
Awards Committee
Ghazal Izadi, Chair Peter Smeallie
Marisela Sanchez-Nagel, Chair Russ Ewy Executive Director, ARMA
Haiying Huang Julio Garcia
John McLennan Richard Goodman Katy Greco
Michael Murphy Dale Marcum Registrar
Ed Medley
Poster Sessions Andy Rathbun Hill Montague, Sr.
Coordinators John Wallace Symposium Communications
Mark Walters
Teri Nichols Jim Roberts
Marisela Sanchez-Nagel Registrar Staff
ARMA Board
Career Corner/ of Directors
Rock Jeopardy
Organized by the
Future Leaders Antonio Bobet, President
Purdue University
Sherif Akl
Ivan Gil John McLennan, Vice President
Yanhui Han University of Utah
Michael Murphy
Maria-Katerina Nikolinakou William Dershowitz, Treasurer
Chi Hyun Park Golder Associates, Inc.
Josh Taron
Dale Walters Kate Hadley Baker, Secretary
Houston, Texas
Workshop/Short
Course Organizers Mark D. Zoback, Immediate
Past President
Stanford University
Alvin Chan
Clément de Alcala
John Curran
Giovanni Grasselli
Rocscience
Paul Hagin
Gang Han
Herbert H. Einstein
Lori Hathon
Massachusetts Institute
Haiying Huang
of Technology
Mark Knackstedt
Gang Li
Derek Elsworth
Andrea Lisjak
Penn State University
Omid Mahabadi
Samrat Mohanty
Gabriel S. Esterhuizen
Mike Myers
National Institute for Occupational
Neal Nagel
Safety and Health
John Shafer
Bryan Tatone
Michael Hardy
Agapito Associates, Inc.
Mary MacLaughlin
Montana Tech
Laura Pyrak-Nolte
Purdue University
Erik Westman
Virginia Tech
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SPONSORS
The 49th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium is pleased to acknowledge the following
corporate sponsors. In addition, Itasca IMaGE is sponsoring the Career Corner; David Yale from
ExxonMobil is sponsoring the Student Rock Jeopardy Contest. To all our sponsors, our sincere thanks.
Agapito Associates Inc., Sponsor of the 30 June
Symposium Awards Banquet
Golder Associates, Inc., Sponsor of three
Coffee Breaks
Itasca International Inc., Sponsor of the
Symposium Delegate Bag
MTS Systems Corp., Sponsor of the 28 June
MTS Lecture and Reception
Rocscience, Donated Registration Lanyards
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EXHIBITORS
ESG Solutions
www.esgsolutions.com
Engineering Seismology Group, (ESG)
monitors and locates seismicity in mines
helping engineers to understand how
rockmass is responding to mining activities.
This information enables engineers to
effectively plan mine operations, decrease
costs, assess hazards, and reduce risk.
GCTS Testing Systems
www.gcts.com
GCTS provides a full line of computer
servo-controlled testing systems for rocks,
soils, pavements, and construction materials.
Advanced systems for Triaxial, Direct Shear,
Point Load, Indirect Tension, Hydraulic
Fracture, Poly-Axial, Hollow Cylinder,
Ultrasonic, and other specialized equipment
including high-pressure/high temperature
triaxial cells. For more information about our
testing equipment, please visit our
web site at www.gcts.com
Golder Associates, Inc.
www.golder.com
Golder is a global, employee-owned
organization providing independent
consulting, design, and construction services
in our specialist areas of earth, environment,
and energy.
Itasca
www.itascacg.com
Itasca is a global, employee-owned,
engineering consulting and software firm
working primarily with the geomechanics,
hydrogeological and microseismics
communities. We solve problems in many
industries including mining, civil engineering,
oil & gas, manufacturing, and power
generation.
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EXHIBITORS
continued
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
www.llnl.gov
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has
a mission of strengthening the United States’
security by developing and applying world-
class science, technology, and engineering.
This includes advancing our nation's security
by innovating science and technology
solutions to improve national energy security
and surety while reducing environmental
impact. We have major research programs in
unconventional oil and gas, renewable and
sustainable energy, advanced vehicle
technologies, materials for energy, energy
security, energy systems analysis and
nuclear energy.
MALA GeoScience USA, Inc.
www.malags.com
MALA GeoScience USA, Inc. is the North
American representative for Reutech Mining’s
Movement and Surveying Radar (MSR)
systems. The MSR systems provide highly
accurate, real-time, all weather surveying and
slope movement measurements in open pit
mines using state-of-the-art radar and
surveying technology. All measurements are
fully geo-referenced to an accuracy that allows
integration of the data with the Digital
Terrain Mapping tools of the mine.
MTS Systems Corp.
www.mts.com
MTS is a leading supplier of rock mechanic
test systems. Offering extensive expertise in
supporting today's most critical geological
material evaluation application like ultrasonic
velocity, fracture toughness, polyaxial testing
and many more. MTS delivers a full range of
high-performance hardware, software, and
accessories required to meet challenging
rock testing requirements.
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EXHIBITORS
continued
Maptek
www.maptek.com
Maptek is a leading provider of innovative
software, hardware and services for the global
mining industry. Maptek products are in use
at more than 1700 sites in over 65 countries,
supported by professional and technical
services in a worldwide network of 13 offices.
Maptek products include Vulcan™, I-Site™,
BlastLogic™, PerfectDig and Eureka™.
Motion Metrics International Corp.
www.motionmetrics.com
Motion Metrics International Corp.
specializes in providing advanced monitoring
solutions designed to improve the safety,
efficiency, and productivity of mining
operations all over the world. Their
revolutionary 3D-imaging tablet,
PortaMetrics™, provides the rock
fragmentation analysis of a scene without
the need for any reference scaling objects.
PLAXIS Americas
www.plaxis.com
The finite element PLAXIS software is used
for geotechnical analysis of deformation and
stability of soil and rock, with tools for
dynamic and flow analysis. The user-friendly
and versatile PLAXIS software can be used
for tunnels, excavation, foundations,
embankments, and slopes, and has constitutive
models available for rock mechanics.
Rocscience Inc.
www.rocscience.com
Rocscience has been creating easy to use,
reliable geotechnical software since 1996. We
specialize in 2D and 3D analysis and design
programs for civil engineering and mining
applications. Our high quality programs allow
engineers to quickly and accurately analyze
surface and underground structures in rock
and soil, thereby improving safety and
reducing the cost of design projects.
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EXHIBITORS
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Sandia National Laboratories
www.sandia.gov
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's
premier science and engineering lab for
national security and technology innovation.
The Sandia Geomechanics Department
addresses cross-cutting issues in the
geosciences and geoengineering related to
rock mass characterization, rock mechanics,
development of numerical codes and
numerical simulations, validation of material
models and design procedures, and in situ
measurements and monitoring. The
Geomechanics Department emphasizes:
characterization of natural fracture systems;
identification and modeling of rock
deformation and failure processes; laboratory
determinations of thermomechanical and
transport properties of competent rock and
natural fractures, including studies of coupled
effects; extrapolation of nano-scale laboratory
measurements to field conditions; in situ
stress measurements and evaluation of in situ
conditions; and laboratory experimental
studies.
Simpleware Inc.
www.simpleware.com
Simpleware develops world-class software
solutions for image processing and model
generation in Materials Science. The software
can be used to easily visualise, quantify,
segment, process and mesh image data for e.g.
composites research, oil & gas exploration and
NDE, as well as calculating effective material
properties from scanned samples using
homogenisation techniques.
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