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Monday, May 12, 2014

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:10 Opening  
09:10 - 10:50 From Fracturing to Friction - Sergio Vinciguerra  
09:10 - 09:50 › The nature and properties of fracture damage surrounding faults - Dan Faulkner, University of Liverpool, UK  
09:50 - 10:10 › Krauklis wave initiation in fluid-filled fractures by a passing body wave: Finite-element modeling and application to earthquake-induced mudvolcanic tremor - Marcel Frehner, Geological Institute - ETH Zurich, Switzerland  
10:10 - 10:30 › Changes of pore fluid thermodynamic conditions and compressibility in active fault core: implications for acoustic waves velocities and fault stability - Vincent Maury, IFPSchool/University of Montpellier - Daniel Broseta, Université de Pau Laboratoire fluides complexes et réservoirs, France  
10:30 - 10:50 › Radon emanation from mechanical and thermal fracturing in granites: Direct evidence of transient signals under tri-axial stress - Frédéric Girault, Laboratoire de Géologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France  
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break  
11:20 - 12:30 From Fracturing to Friction - Sergio Vinciguerra  
11:20 - 11:40 › Cataclastic bands and fracture propagation in porous sandstone - Anita Torabi, Uni CIPR, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway  
11:40 - 12:00 › Implications of fracture-toughness anisotropy for crack-growth geometry in the Mancos shale. - Mike Chandler, University College London - London's Global University, UK  
12:00 - 12:20 › Experimental and Microstructural Investigations into the Spectrum of Slip Behaviors of Carbonate-bearing Faults - Telemaco Tesei, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Italy  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and free time  
14:30 - 15:50 From Fracturing to Friction - Dan Faulkner  
14:30 - 14:50 › True triaxial testing reveals the effect of s2 on all aspects of failure in rocks from granite to sandstone - Bezalel Haimson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Geological Engr. program, USA  
14:50 - 15:10 › Premonitory activity, Stress drop, Rupture velocity and Energy budget during stick-slip experiment in Westerly granite - François Passelègue, Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS, Paris, France  
15:10 - 15:30 › Failure and friction in volcanic rocks - Jackie Kendrick, Department of Earth Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, UK  
15:30 - 15:50 › The evolution of fault surface topography in direct shear experiments - Amir Sagy, Geological Survey of Israel  
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break  
16:20 - 18:00 Thermal and Geothermal Processes - Dan Faulkner  
16:20 - 17:00 › Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical modeling of the geothermal reservoir of Soultz-sous-Forêts, Alsace - Jean Schmitbull, Université de Strasbourg, France  
17:00 - 17:20 › Advanced THM Testing of Rocks Related to Canadian Used Nuclear Fuel Management - Toivo Wanne, Saanio & Riekkola Oy - Finland  
17:20 - 17:40 › Effective Pressure Dependence of Fracture Permeability - Harald Milsch, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany  
18:30 - 20:00 Poster session with aperitif  
20:00 - 21:30 Dinner  

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Time Event  
08:30 - 10:30 Long-term Geological Storage (Nuclear Waste, CO2, Flowback, ...) - Yves Guéguen  
08:30 - 09:10 › THM behaviour of argillaceous rocks for nuclear waste containment. Observations and modelling - Antonio Gens, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain  
09:10 - 09:30 › THM behavior of a full scale disposal cell demonstrator in 500 m deep clay formation - Jacques Morel and Gilles Armand, Andra, France  
09:30 - 09:50 › Acoustic properties of microporous carbonate reservoirs: implication of micrite particle size and morphology. Example of the Late Jurassic limestones of the Paris Basin (France) - JB Regnet, Laboratoire Géosciences et Environnement, Cergy, France  
09:50 - 10:10 › Brittle vs ductile creep in porous limestone - Phil Meredith, University College of London, UK  
10:10 - 10:30 › Mechanical behavior of the induced fracture network around a drift - Gilles Armand, ANDRA, Laboratoire de Recherche Souterrain de Meuse Haute Marne, France  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30 Long-term Geological Storage (Nuclear Waste, CO2, Flowback, ...) - Yves Guéguen  
11:00 - 11:20 › Mechanical and petrophysical study of fractured shale materials - Audrey Bonnelye, Laboratoire Géosciences et Environnement Cergy, France  
11:20 - 11:40 › Characterization of CO2 reservoir/seal rock in Switzerland - Stefano Fabbri, ETH Zurich- Rock Deformation Lab - Claudio Madonna, ETH Zurich- Rock Deformation Lab, Switzerland  
11:40 - 12:00 › Experimental observations of Crack Propagation in Glass under Creep Condition - Céline Mallet, Laboratoire de Géologie - ENS, Paris, France  
12:00 - 12:20 › Characterization of the mechanisms of deformation at the small scale in a clay rock by in-situ X-ray micro tomography - Pierre Bésuelle, Laboratoire 3SR and Grenoble University  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and free time  
14:30 - 16:10 Fluid Injection Processes (Fracking, CO2 Sequestration, ...) - Patrick Selvadurai  
14:30 - 14:50 › Modelling hydraulic fracturing in shale – from the lab to the reservoir scale - Giovanni Grasselli, University of Toronto - Civil Engineering, Canada  
14:50 - 15:10 › Hydro-mechanical properties of chemically altered limestones using 2D and 3D Full-Field multi-scale investigations - Louis Zinsmeister and Alexandre Dimanov, LMS Ecole polytechnique, Massy-Palaiseau, France  
15:10 - 15:30 › Effects of fluid injection on a poorly consolidated sandstone – Part I: mechanical weakening - Christian David, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France  
15:30 - 15:50 › Effects of fluid injection on a poorly consolidated sandstone – Part II: acoustic monitoring - Jeremie Dautriat, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Australia  
15:50 - 16:10 › Geomechanical aspects of tensile stimulation treatment in a EGS Geothermal reservoir - Luca Urpi, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany  
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break  
16:40 - 18:20 Fluid Injection Processes (Fracking, CO2 Sequestration, ...) - Christian David  
16:40 - 17:20 › Quantitative microseismic signatures of fluid-injection processes - Cornelius Langenbruch, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany  
17:20 - 17:40 › Swelling of coals due to CO2/CH4 adsorption: experimental and modeling investigations - David Grégoire, Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs, Anglet, France  
17:40 - 18:00 › Hydraulic fracturing experiments in large low-permeability rock samples under confining pressure - Philipp Siebert, Geotechnical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany  
18:00 - 18:20 › Experimental evidence for calcite dissolution and subsequent precipitation in a carbonate rock in presence of supercritical CO2 - Lucas Pimienta, CSIRO, Earth Sciences & Resource Engineering, Laboratoire de Géologie, ENS Paris, France  
20:00 - 21:30 Dinner  

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Time Event  
08:45 - 10:30 Fluid Extraction Processes (Petroleum Engineering, Gas/Shale, ...) - Teng-fong Wong  
08:45 - 09:25 › Energy Budgets in the extraction of pore fluids from geomaterials - Gary Couples, Heriot-Watt University, UK  
09:25 - 09:45 › Quantitative estimation of the effect of clay distribution on the elastic properties of shales - Philippe Cosenza, Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers - HydrASA, France  
09:45 - 10:05 › A more robust experimental determination of Thomsen's anisotropy parameters – The δ parameter - Joel Sarout, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Autralia  
10:05 - 10:25 › Seismic attenuation at low frequencies in partially saturated rocks: what we have learnt, and new prospective - Nicola Tisato, University of Toronto - Civil Engineering, Canada, ETH Zurich- Rock Deformation Lab, Switzerland  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30 Fluid Injection Processes (Fracking, CO2 Sequestration, ...) - Teng-fong Wong  
11:00 - 11:20 › ‘Dry-out' phenomena on initial experimental study of microscale supercritical CO2 displacement - Ying Wang, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, China  
11:20 - 11:40 › Poro-elastic damage modeling applied to wellbore hydraulic stimulation - Eyal Shalev, Geological Survey of Israel  
11:40 - 12:00 › Proppant-Induced Opening of Hydraulically Created Fractures - Patrick Selvadurai, McGill University, Montréal, Canada  
12:00 - 12:20 › Stress field variations obtained from focal mechanisms of induced seismicity at The Geysers geothermal field: Geomechanical implications - Patricia Martínez-Garzón, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and free time  
14:30 - 16:10 Laboratory Rock Mechanics: Imaging Processes and Processing Images - Patrick Baud  
14:30 - 14:50 › Physical and mechanical factors affecting stress induced electric potential field in rock - Marcus Dobbs, British Geological Survey, UK  
14:50 - 15:10 › Combined rock mechanics, rock physics and CT image quantification of physical processes - Øistein Johnsen, Norwegian Geotechnical institute, Norway  
15:10 - 15:30 › Experimental and field constraints on the mechanism of formation of natural joints (dilatancy banding vs mode I fracturing) - Jean-Pierre Petit, Géosciences Montpellier, France  
15:30 - 15:50 › Microstructures induced by dynamic damaging and fracture healing by fluid circulation into a porous limestone: an experimental approach - Mai Linh Doan, ISTerre and Grenoble University, France  
15:50 - 16:10 › Development and application of time-lapse ultrasonic tomography for laboratory characterisation of localised deformation in hard soils/soft rocks - Erika Tudisco, Division of solid mechanics, Lund University, Sweden  
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break  
16:40 - 18:40 Laboratory Rock Mechanics: Imaging Processes and Processing Images - Patrick Baud  
16:40 - 17:20 › Insights into transport properties and failure modes from CT imaging of porous rock - Teng-fong Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong  
17:20 - 17:40 › Characterization of the early strain localization in a sandstone rock - Patrizia Lanatà, Laboratoire 3SR and Grenoble University, France  
17:40 - 18:00 › Impact of microstructural and mineralogical heterogeneities on deformation and dessication cracking of the Tournemire clay-rock by coupling DIC and SEM methods - Anne-Laure Fauchille, Institut IC2MP, Poitiers, France  
18:00 - 18:20 › Stick-slip behaviour of saturated sandstone specimens with different saw-cut failure planes - Elli-Maria Charalampidou, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany  
18:20 - 18:40 › Fracture and healing – an efficient geological process - Yan Lavallée, University of Liverpool, UK  
18:40 - 20:00 Poster session with aperitif  
20:30 - 22:00 Banquet  

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Time Event  
08:45 - 10:30 Numerical Modeling through the Scales - Antonio Gens  
08:45 - 09:25 › Numerical modelling of shear banding around openings in clayey rocks. Application to URL dedicated to nuclear waste disposals - Robert Charlier, Université de Liège, Belgium  
09:25 - 09:45 › 3-D finite-difference modelling of hydrostatic tests of porous rocks - Alexandre Chemenda, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, IRD, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France  
09:45 - 10:05 › Double scale numerical FEM-DEM analysis of cohesive-frictional materials - Jacques Desrues, Laboratoire 3SR and Grenoble University, France  
10:05 - 10:25 › Percolation pore network study on permeability and formation factor of shaly sands - Min Li, South West Petroleum University, China  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30 Laboratory Rock Mechanics: Imaging Processes and Processing Images - Gary Couples  
11:00 - 11:20 › Micromechanics and AE source mechanism in stick-slip friction tests - Grzegorz Kwiatek, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany  
11:20 - 11:40 › Neutron imaging of deformation and fluid flow in sandstones - Stephen Hall, European Spallation Source AB, Division of solid mechanics, Lund University, Sweden  
11:40 - 12:00 › Experimental evidence of elastic weakening from moisture adsorption on quartz- and calcite-rich sedimentary rocks. - Lucas Pimienta, Laboratoire de Géologie, ENS Paris, France  
12:00 - 12:20 › Time-dependent compaction in porous sandstone - Patrick Baud, Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg, France  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and free time  
14:30 - 15:50 From Fracturing to Friction - Gary Couples  
14:30 - 14:50 › Mechanical properties of lava dome products: from endogenous dome building to effusion at Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala - Adrian Hornby, Department of Earth Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, UK  
14:50 - 15:10 › Predicting the failure of two phase viscoelastic suspensions - Jérémie Vasseur, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany  
15:10 - 15:30 › The lock-up angle for brittle activation of a phyllosilicate-rich mylonitic fabric: implications for rock strength and failure modes - Francesca Bolognesi, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bicocca University of Milan, Italy  
15:30 - 15:50 › Tensile fracturing and dyking in volcano-tectonic settings, a laboratory approach. - Richard Bakker, Rock Deformation Laboratory, D-ERDW - ETH Zürich, Switzerland  
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break  
16:20 - 18:20 Numerical Modeling through the Scales - Jacques Desrues  
16:20 - 17:00 › Rock slope stability in open pit mining: insights from DEM modeling - Frédéric Donzé, Laboratoire 3SR and Grenoble University, France  
17:00 - 17:20 › P-wave attenuation in fractured rocks and the effects of the fracture contact areas - J. Germán Rubino, University of Lausanne, Switzerland  
17:20 - 17:40 › Creep and relaxation tests employed to compute seismic P-wave attenuation and phase velocity in fractured media - Marco Milani, University of Lausanne, Switzerland  
17:40 - 18:00 › Constraints on constitutive models of pressure solution creep from numerical simulations and published experimental data - Yves Bernabé, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA  
18:00 - 18:20 › Numerical modeling of rock fracturing: from laboratory to continental scale - Jerome Duriez, Laboratoire 3SR and Grenoble University, France  
18:20 - 18:30 Closure  
20:00 - 21:00 Dinner  
  
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