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Physical characterization of the subsurface
26 November 2020
| The objective of the course is to train participants within the subject of physical characterization of the subsurface for mining and mineral exploration. The focus is to learn about in-situ stress measurements and analyses. Participants will receive training in traditional stress measurement methods within mining (hydraulic injection stress measurement and overcoring methods), but also non-traditional methods that become interesting as the depth of mining increases (stress-induced wellbore failure methods). Participants will also learn about other methods on how to constrain the physical properties of the subsurface in laboratory and through borehole logging. The final part of the course regards how point-wise measurements that are obtained from various methods can be made to sample the continuum volume of interest and be up-scaled to the rock-engineering problem. Measurement uncertainty is also addressed within this context, as well as discussion on further use of acquired data within numerical analyses.
The course runs from 30 November to 11 December, and the deadline to apply is 26 November. |
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| Target Participants | PhD students affiliated with EIT RawMaterials organizations are prioritised but applications are welcomed from other academic institutions and industry. |