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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-1003
... ensures compliance with regulatory standards but also enhances economic feasibility by increasing the minable coal resources. The findings highlight the critical role of comprehensive geotechnical design in allowing mining operations to coexist safely with essential power infrastructure. This research...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-1189
... Underground Data Universe (OSDU) for data governance in a private cloud infrastructure. To test the viability from data to application, rock mechanics parameters were derived from the direct standardization of both single well and seismic data. An exclusive application programming interface (API...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-1221
... ABSTRACT: Climate change significantly threatens the integrity of civil infrastructure assets like bridges, railways, and roadways. We've seen an 83% increase in climate-related disasters, rising from 3,656 events between 1980 and 1999 to 6,681 in the past two decades. This surge places...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-0156
..., particularly where excavations can destabilize slopes and create risks for people and infrastructure (Hungr et al., 2014; Corominas et al., 2017; Gili et al., 2022). Therefore, accurately predicting the areas where rockfalls are likely to occur is crucial for reliable hazard assessment. This requires...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-0504
... ABSTRACT: Wyoming possesses a substantial infrastructure of existing oil and gas wells. This study investigates the potential of repurposing abandoned and inactive oil and gas wells for geothermal energy production. While Wyoming's subsurface geology does not offer significant geothermal...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-0607
... ABSTRACT: Rockburst risk can often be reduced by selecting appropriate mining or excavation methods, sequences, strategically placing developments, and other infrastructure. However, owing to the uncertainties in rock mass properties and boundary conditions, rock engineering design...
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Paper presented at the 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25–28, 2023
Paper Number: ARMA-2023-0400
... extraction areas (inter-panel pillars), the control of regional convergence and the associated limit of mining-induced seismicity and abutment stresses (stabilizing pillars) and the protection of critical infrastructure, such as shaft systems (protection pillars). This paper addresses massive hard-rock...
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Paper presented at the 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25–28, 2023
Paper Number: ARMA-2023-0636
... ABSTRACT Underground infrastructures can be adversely affected by earthquake-induced rock engineering vibration causing damage problems. These impacts are even more significantly affected for large underground caverns due to the large span and complex structures. Currently, time-history...
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Paper presented at the 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25–28, 2023
Paper Number: ARMA-2023-0885
... ABSTRACT During seismic events, infrastructure in mountainous terrain is often vulnerable to rockfall impacts. This paper presents a probabilistic approach to evaluating the potential of rockfall impacts on an existing hydropower infrastructure under the design ground motions condition...
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Paper presented at the 56th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 26–29, 2022
Paper Number: ARMA-2022-0065
... in rock specimens under freeze-thaw cyclic treatments. This study provides new insights into the rock degradation process under changing climate and could contribute to the future design and assessment of climate-resilient infrastructure. 1. INTRODUCTION Rock is a typical porous material that allows...
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Paper presented at the 55th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 18–25, 2021
Paper Number: ARMA-2021-2120
... ABSTRACT: Earthquakes are unpredictable natural phenomena that pose a threat to life, infrastructure and the environment. Related studies have revealed that some of the earthquakes are mining induced as confirmed by research done in deep gold mines in South Africa. The 2017 Botswana Geoscience...
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Paper presented at the 51st U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25–28, 2017
Paper Number: ARMA-2017-1011
... building. Following a series of near misses and actual impacts from rock fall onto the roof and sidewall of the building, Tetra Tech were commissioned to assess and remediate the rock fall hazard. To mitigate the hazard in such a spatially constrained site, with critical infrastructure both at the base...
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Paper presented at the 50th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 26–29, 2016
Paper Number: ARMA-2016-411
... shielding from cosmic radiation along with a lesser number of geological, geomechanical, and biological experiments. Although it is still indeterminate, a design life of 30 years is not unreasonable for this type of facility. Given the age of much of the underground infrastructure and the expected long...
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Paper presented at the 46th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 24–27, 2012
Paper Number: ARMA-2012-466
... and operating history that ultimately resulted in the failure of the slope. reservoir geomechanics infrastructure Reservoir Characterization metals & mining strength slope instability failure surface mapping rock mass instability forensic evaluation persistence knowledge management...
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Paper presented at the 45th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, June 26–29, 2011
Paper Number: ARMA-11-589
... ABSTRACT For the past nine years, Afghanistan has been recovering from three decades of war and conflict. There is a shortage of trained engineers, skilled labor, and capital for construction is scarce. Transportation infrastructure is not completely developed and threatened by rock slides...
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Paper presented at the 44th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium and 5th U.S.-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium, June 27–30, 2010
Paper Number: ARMA-10-238
... subsurface infrastructure is very important to the design engineer. Conventional in-situ stress measurement techniques include hydraulic fracturing method and over-coring method [2, 10]. Recent development is the integrated stress determination method (ISDM), in which several techniques are utilized [1]. Due...

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