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MONDAY 17 OCTOBER

Session 1: Rocks at Depth
Chair: Yves Gueguen, Rune M Holt

KEYNOTE: Sau-Wai Wong* (Shell International E&P, USA), Peter Schutjens: 20 Years of Geomechanics Technology - Integrating Laboratory Development, Numerical Modelling and Field Observation
Elli-Maria Charalampidou* (GFZ, GERMANY), Stephen A. Hall, Sergei Stanchits, Gioachino Viggiani, Helen Lewis: Shear Enhanced Compaction Band Identification at the laboratory scale
Bo-Hyun Kim* (Mirarco, CANADA) Peter Kaiser: Numerical investigation on confinement dependent rock mass strength at depth
Pamela Tempone* (BP Exploration Operating Company, UNITED KINGDOM), Erling Fjær: Overburden shear wave splitting due to a compacting reservoir above a rigid basement
Rob van Eijs* (Shell-NAM, THE NETHERLANDS), Antony Mossop, Dirk Doornhof :  Fracture pressure estimation in Dutch depleted gas reservoirs

Poster Session 1

Tran Thi-Thu-Hang* (Ales School of Mines, FRANCE), Stephanie Mahe, Frederic Dubois, Marc Vinches, A Chauvet: Methodology for tunnel excavation modeling in a fractured rock mass using a discrete element approach: application to the Saint-Béat tunnel - France
Santanu Sinha* (NTNU, Norway), Alex Hansen: Two-phase flow in porous media: Multifractality in flow distribution
Elin Skurtveit* (NGI and CIPR, NORWAY), Reza Alikarami, Anita Torabi: Deformation pattern and mechanical properties of Navajo Sandstone and their impact on CO2storage
Fedora Quattrocchi, Sergio Vinciguerra* (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia,ITALY), Claudio Chiarabba, Mauro Buttinelli,  Barbara Cantucci: The remaining gaps for a "safe" geological storage of CO2: The CO2GAPS vision challenges of "learning by doing"
C.S. Vishnu* (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, INDIA), Manish Mamtani, Arindam Basu:  Application of Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility and Microcrack Quantification by Fractal Methods in Rock Mechanics
Suzanne Hangx* (Shell Global Solutions International, NETHERLANDS), Arjan van der Linden, Andreas Bauer,  Fons Marcelis: Mechanical weakening of sandstone by carbonate cement dissolution - CO2injection into the Captain Sandstone, Goldeneye
Alexandra Rolland* (EOST Strasbourg, FRANCE), Renaud Toussaint, Patrick Baud, Jean Schmittbuhl, Nathalie Conil: A model to estimate paleostresses from stylolite morphologies and its application on stylolites from the Bure Underground Research Laboratory
Guido Musso* (Politecnico di Torino, ITALY), Renato Maria Cosentini, Gabriele Della Vecchia, Sebastiano Foti,  Cesare Comina: Use of ultrasonic data to generate pseudo logs for the verification of rock integrity
Ahmad Zarei* (The University of Tehran, IRAN), Hamed Nekooee: Effect of Blasting on Stability of an Open Pit Mine Bench
Jørn Stenebråten* (SINTEF Petroleum Research, NORWAY), Rune M Holt : Laboratory simulations of geomechanical effects of relevance for monitoring of CO2injection into the subsurface
Claudio Rabe* (Baker Hughes, USA), Jose Cherrez : Application of Thermal Rock Physics on Heavy Oil Project 

Session 2: Near Surface Rock & Soil
Chair: Sergio Vinciguerra, Pierre Cerasi

KEYNOTE: Eiliv Skomedal* (Statoil, NORWAY), Kenneth Duffaut: Shallow water flow investigation with multicomponent seismic
Thomas Benz, Anteneh Biru Tsegaye (NTNU, NORWAY)*, Omid Pourhosseini: A thermodynamically motivated approach to dilatancy in rocks and rock masses
Vikas Thakur (Statens vegvesen, NORWAY)*, Cino Viggiani, Steinar Nordal: Formation and Propagation of Localized Deformation in marine clays under plane strain condition
Alexander Rozhko* (M-I Swaco, a Schlumberger Company, NORWAY): Capillary pressure and apparent rock strength during drainage and imbibition

Session CO2: Subsurface CO2Storage
Chair: Sergio Vinciguerra, Pierre Cerasi

Sietse de Vries* (Shell Global Solutions International, NETHERLANDS), Joel Ita, Ashok Shinde,  Rob van Eijs, Mark Davison: Geomechanical aspects of the injection of CO2in an underground depleted gas reservoir
Bjarne Almqvist* (ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND), Lukas Aschwanden, Karl Ramseyer, Alba Zappone, Philip Benson: Physical and chemical properties of the Upper Muschelkalk aquifer in Northern Switzerland
Suzanne Hangx* (Shell Global Solutions International, NETHERLANDS), Christopher Spiers, Alwin ten Hove, Anne Pluymakers: Effects of composition and texture on strength of anhydrite caprock and implications of lateral variations for long-term CO2storage

TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER

Session 3: Computational Rock Physics
Chair: André Vervoort, Alexandre Lavrov

KEYNOTE: Karen Mair* (University of Oslo - Dept Geosciences, NORWAY), Steffen Abe: Breaking up: Modelling fragmentation processing in faults
Carlo Vinci* (Ruhr-University Bochum, GERMANY), Jörg Renner, Holger Steeb: Hydraulic fracturing: Towards a numerical modeling approach
Antony Mossop* (Shell / NAM, NETHERLANDS): An explanation for generalized failure criteria
Amélie Neuville* (Dpt of Physics, University of Oslo, NORWAY), Eirik G. Flekkøy, Renaud Toussaint, Jean Schmittbuhl: Hydrothermal exchanges in rough fractures using Lattice-Boltzmann methods
Cathrine Ringstad* (Numerical Rocks, NORWAY), Pål-Eric Øren, Thomas Ramstad: Pore-scale modelling of macroscopic rock properties
Liming Li* (SINTEF Petroleum Research, NORWAY), Idar Larsen, Rune M. Holt: Grain scale modelling of rock mechanical and petrophysical  behaviour

Poster Session 2

Günther Kampfer* (Weatherford Petroleum Consultants, NORWAY), Yves M. Leroy: Fracture spacing limited by delamination in unconfined layers, based on experiments and  FE-calculations
Günther Kampfer* (Weatherford Petroleum Consultants, NORWAY), Yves M. Leroy: Competition between fault-propagation folding and thrusting based on the maximum strength theorem
Günther Kampfer* (Weatherford Petroleum Consultants, NORWAY), Florian K. Lehner: A new experimental device for studying the development of joints in layered rocks
Martin Stanek* (Institute of Geophysics, ASCR, CZECH REPUBLIC), Yves Géraud, Stanislav Ulrich, Ondrej Lexa: Petrophysical Properties of Granite Intended for Radioactive Waste Stockin
Anzar Syed* (Schlumberger, UNITED KINGDOM), Carys Thomas, Mereke Akshayeva: Evaluation of critically stressed fractures in North Sea Basement reservoir
Sebastien Haffen* (University of Strasbourg CNRS IPGS, FRANCE), Yves Geraud, Marc Diraison, Chrystel Dezayes: Determination of fluid flow levels in a sandstone geothermal reservoir from thermal conductivity and temperature logs
Lucas Pimienta* (CSIRO, AUSTRALIA), Joel Sarout, Lionel Esteban, Claudio Delle Piane: Prediction of rock thermal conductivity from mineral composition, elastic wave velocities and microstructure
Philipp Siebert, Nikolai Weber, Rainer Schött, Martin Feinendegen, Karen Willbrand* (Geotechnical Engineering, RWTH Aachen, GERMANY): Development of a design tool for HDR fracture systems
Siegfried Maiolino* (CETE de Lyon (min. Ecology), FRANCE): Computational elastoplasticity of rocks: new theoretical and numerical framework
Sigmund Hope* (NTNU, NORWAY), André Auto Moreira, José Soares Andrade Jr., Alex Hansen: Reservoir Mapping by Global Correlation Analysis 
Vahidoddin Fattahpour (The University of Tehran, IRAN), Mahdi Moosavi, Mahdi Mehranpour: A numerical investigation for sand production based on strain hardening and softening models
Fatemeh Sadat Rassouli, Mohammad Hadi Mehranpour, Mehdi Moosavi (Tehran University, IRAN): A comparison between compression and impression creep techniques using finite element method
Adeline Pons* (Laboratoire de Géologie - CNRS/école normale supérieure, FRANCE), Yves M. Leroy: Predicting fluid over-pressures for the stability of accretionary wedges
Nicholas Thompson* (Statoil, NORWAY), Peter Zweigel: Analysis of slip perturbation development in scenarios of intersecting faults through distinct element analysis
Agust Gudmundsson* (Royal Holloway University of London, UNITED KINGDOM), Ingrid F. Lotveit, Trine H Simmenes, Magnhild Sydnes, Adelina Geyer: Using field, analytical, and numerical results for realistic fault-zone models

Session 4: Fractures, Faults and Localized Damage
Chair: Eiliv Skomedal, Alex Hansen

KEYNOTE: Gioacchino Viggiani* (Laboratoire 3SR, FRANCE), Pierre Bésuelle, Stephen Hall: Insights on localized deformation in rock using 2D and 3D digital image correlation
Alan Baird* (University of Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM), Doug Angus, Michael Kendall: Frequency dependent seismic anisotropy due to fracture related fluid flow versus scattering
André Vervoort* (KU Leuven, BELGIUM), Bjørn Debecker: Fracture behaviour of slate: combined analysis of experiments and simulations
Anita Torabi* (Uni CIPR, Uni Research, NORWAY): Deformation of porous sandstone and its effect on fluid flow
Olivier Lengliné* (IPGS-CNRS, FRANCE), Johann Valentin, Jean Schmittbuhl, Michel Bouchon: Acoustic monitoring of a rupture nucleation
Erika Tudisco* (Laboratoire 3S-R, FRANCE), Stephen A. Hall, Philippe Roux, Giulia M.B. Viggiani: Full-field characterization of localized deformation and damage in soft granular rock 

Session 5: Laboratory Experiments – Influenced by Temperature
Chair: Sau-Wai Wong, Erling Fjær

KEYNOTE: Sergio Vinciguerra* (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, ITALY), Silvio Mollo, Michael J. Heap, Philip Benson: Changes of geophysical signatures and thermo-mechanical properties of volcanic rocks: What can we learn from active volcanoes?
Jackie E. Kendrick* (Ludwig Maximilian University, GERMANY),Yan Lavallee, Kai-Uwe Hess, Asher Flaws, Michael J. Heap: Deformation mechanisms in crystalline magma
Yan Lavallee* (LMU-Munich, GERMANY), Thomas Mitchell, Michael Heap, Jackie Kendrick, Ben Kennedy: Magma failure and frictional processes in volcanic settings
Xiaoqiong Wang* (Laboratory of geology ENS, FRANCE), Alexandre Schubnel, Yves Gueguen, Jerome Fortin, Hongkui G:  Fracture in Thermally Cracked Granite: Physical and Mechanical Properties Evolutions
Alireza Hassanzadegan* (GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences, GERMANY), Guido Blöcher, Harald Milsch, Günter Zimmermann: The Effect of Temperature on Poroelastic Parameters and Transport Properties of Flechtinger Sandstone
Andreas Bauer* (Shell Global Solutions International, NETHERLANDS), Christian Lehr, Frans Korndorffer, Arjan van der Linden:  Temperature dependence of acoustic velocities in gas-saturated sandstones

WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER

Session 6:  Improved Understanding from Novel Laboratory Techniques
Chair: Cino Viggiani, Anthony Siggins

KEYNOTE: Maxim Lebedev* (Curtin University, AUSTRALIA), Andrej Bóna, Roman Pevzner, Boris Gurevich: 3 component laboratory experiments by laser interferometry: Anisotropy estimations using polarization of quasi P-waves and S-waves
Guido Blöcher* (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, GERMANY), Thomas Reinsch, Harald Milsch, Alireza Hassanzadegan, Günter Zimmermann: The application of fibre optic sensors in laboratory experiments
Idar Larsen* (SINTEF Petroleum Research, NORWAY), Jørn F. Stenebråten, Audun Bakk: Stress dependent dynamic anisotropy in shales
Erik Hallberg* (Statoil, NORWAY), Olav-Magnar Nes, Eyvind F. Sønstebø, Rune M.Holt: Using a Punching Technique on Small Samples for Evaluation of Temperature Dependent Shale Strength
Nicola Tisato* (ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND), Madonna Claudio, Erik H. Saenger: Measurements and mechanisms investigation of seismic wave attenuation at low frequencies
Maxim Lebedev* (Curtin University, AUSTRALIA), Vassili Mikhaltsevitch, Boris Gurevich: An experimental study of wave dispersion and attenuation in water saturated sandstone at seismic and teleseismic frequencies

Poster Session 3

Louis Zinsmeister Jérémie Dautriat* (IFPEN, FRANCE), Michel Bornert, Nicolas Gland, Alexandre Dimanov: Effects of chemical alteration on mechanical and flow properties of a limestone, a multi-scale approach
Min Li* (MIT, USA), Yves Bernabe, Wenlian Xiao: Non-linear effective pressure law for permeability: Experimental methods and applications
André Vervoort* (KULeuven, BELGIUM), Abbass Tavallali: Evaluation of Brazilian tensile strength and fracture pattern in schistose sandstone
Christian David* (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE), Laurent Louis, Petr Spacek,   Teng-fong Wong Jéróme Fortin: Elastic Anisotropy of Core Samples from the Taiwan Chelungpu Fault Drilling Project (TCDP): Direct 3-D Measurements and Weak Anisotropy Approximations
Sergio Vinciguerra* (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, ITALY), Pierdomenico Del Gaudio, Alessandro Iarocci, Christian David, Piergiorgio Scarlato: Physical properties of Campi Flegrei tuff from variable depths
Philip Benson* (ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND), Michael Heap, Yan Lavallee, Asher Flaws, Kai Hess: Laboratory simulations of tensile (hydro) fracture via cyclical fluid pressurisation
Silvia Loaiza* (Laboratoire de Geologie Ecole Normale Supérieure, FRANCE), Jeróme Fortin, Alexandre Schubnel, Sergio Vinciguerra, Yves Guéguen: Mechanical behavior and localized failure modes in a porous basalt from the Azores
Claudio Madonna, Nicola Tisato* (ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND), Erik H. Saenger: Low frequency measurements of seismic wave attenuation
Jéróme Wassermann, Yves Le Gonidec, Christophe Nussbaum, Christophe Barnes, Christian David* (University of Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE): Damage mechanisms during gallery excavation in Opalinus clay formation at the Mont Terri Underground Rock Laboratory
Celine Mallet* (Laboratoire de Geologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, FRANCE), Jerome Fortin, Yves Gueguen: Behaviour of intact and damaged glass under triaxial compression
Mohammad Hossain Bhuiyan* (NTNU, NORWAY), Rune M Holt: Techniques for laboratory measurement of the anisotropic parameter

Session 7: Rock Mechanical Characterization
Chair: Manika Prasad, Olav-Magnar Nes

KEYNOTE: Christian David* (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE), Lisa Casteleyn, Philippe Robion, Pierre-Yves Collin, Beatriz Menendez: A study of the petrophysical, microstructural and geomechanical properties of oolithic limestones from the Paris basin
Yves Gueguen* (Ecole Normale Superieure, FRANCE), Audrey Ougier-Simonin, Jerome Fortin: Permeability of cracked rocks and glass
Alexandre Dimanov* (Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, FRANCE), Mathieu Bourcier, Eva Héripré, Michel Bornert, Wolfgang Ludwig: Mechanisms of plastic deformation of synthetic halite polycrystals: Experimental and computational approaches
Nguyen Van Hung* (IFP Energies nouvelles, FRANCE), Jean Guélard, Nicolas Gland, Jérémie Dautriat, Christian David: Compaction, permeability evolution and stress path effects in unconsolidated sands
C Rabe* (Baker Hughes USA), J O Cherrez:  Dynamic and Static Rock Mechanical Properties of Heavy Oil Sandstones
Alexandra Rolland* (EOST Strasbourg, FRANCE), Patrick Baud, Michael Heap, Marion Nicolé, Thomas Ferrand: Deformation and failure in limestone surrounding the ANDRA Underground Research Laboratory at Bur
Nikolai Bagdassarov* (University Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY): Constraints on magnetotelluric inversion from laboratory measurements of xenolith electrical impedance
Øistein Johnsen* (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, NORWAY), Fabrice Cuisiat: Effects of loading rate and saturating fluid on chalk mechanical behavior
Erling Fjær* (Pontifical Catholic University, BRAZIL), Anna M. Stroisz: Stress sensitivity of non-elastic processes in a weak sandstone 
Srutarshi Pradhan (SINTEF, NORWAY):  Hydraulic fracturing in reservoir rocks: experiment & simulation
Elli-Maria Charalampidou* (GFZ, GERMANY), Sergei Stanchits, Thomas Goebel, Georg Dresen: Monitoring induced micro-seismicity from fluid injection experiments.

THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER

Poster Session 4

Rolf Bruijn, Bjarne Almqvist* (ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND), Phil Benson: High temperature and pressure re-compaction of Rochester Shale: Texture and magnetic fabric development
Priscilla Paniagua* (NTNU, NORWAY), Annika Bihs, Steinar Nordal: Interpretation of cone penetration test in clay by finite element simulations
Pavel Golikov* (NTNU, NORWAY), Per Avseth, Alexey Stovas, Ran Bachrach: Rock physics templates for interpretation of turbidite reservoirs
Nicola Tisato* (ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND), Stefano Marelli: Seismic wave velocities of compacted bentonite: an experimental study
Aminul Islam* (NTNU, NORWAY), Pål Skalle: An experimental investigation of shale characterization using drained and undrained test mechanisms

Session 8:  Shales & Clay
Chair: David Dewhurst, Russ Ewy

KEYNOTE: Manika Prasad* (Colorado School of Mines, USA), Patricia Castillo, Piya Dechongit, Saeed Zargari: Reinventing Source Rocks as Reservoirs: Rock physics and Petrophysics of Organics, CarbOnates, cLays, Sands and SHales (O-CLASSH)
Maya Kobchenko* (Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo, NORWAY), Hamed Panahi, Francois Renard, Olivier Galland, Dag Kristian Dysthe: Experimental studying of shale fracturing caused by internal gas generation
Ida Fabricius* (DTU, DENMARK): High kinematic viscosity of air may cause dry clay to be stiffer than water saturated clay
Guido Musso*(Politecnico di Torino, ITALY), Enrique Romero, Gabriele Della Vecchia: Double structure effects on the chemo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of a compacted active clay
Diansen Yang* (Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, FRANCE), Michel Bornert, Serge Chanchole: Experimental investigation of the hydric and delayed behavior of unsaturated argillaceous rocks by means of multiscale full-field measurement techniques
Dave Dewhurst* (CSIRO, AUSTRALIA), Claudio Delle Piane, Ben Clennell, Claudio Madonna, Erik Saenger: Impact of Saturation on Shale Strength and Stiffness
Aminul Islam* (NTNU, NORWAY), Pål Skalle: Poisson's ratio values for Shale
Olav-Magnar Nes* (SINTEF, NORWAY), Ole Kristian Søreide, Jørn Stenebråten : Experimental and numerical investigation of the effect of shale anisotropy on borehole stability
Joel Sarout* (CSIRO Earth Science & Resource Engineering, AUSTRALIA), Lionel Esteban, Claudio Delle Piane, Bruce Maney, Dave Dewhurst: Elastic, mechanical, petrophysical and micro-structural anisotropy of shales under in situ conditions
Claudio Delle Piane (CSIRO, AUSTRALIA), Bjarne S.G. Almqvist*, Mark Raven, David Dewhurst: Shale anisotropy: linking mineral fabric and elastic properties
Mohsen Kalani* (Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, NORWAY),Nazmul Haque Mondol, Jens Jahren, Jan Inge Faleide: Petropysical properties of clay dominated stratigraphic units in the Egersund and Norwegian-Danish Basins
Anders Samstad Gylland* (NTNU, NORWAY), Hans Petter Jostad, Steinar Nordal: Strain localization in the presence of excess pore water pressure under quasi static conditions
Andreas Bauer* (Shell Global Solutions International, NETHERLANDS), Arjan van der Linden, Frans Korndorffer: Thermal Rock Physics of Shales: Laboratory Experiments under undrained conditions
Anthony Siggins* (CSIRO Earth Science & Resource Eng., AUSTRALIA), Rune M Holt, David Dewhurst: The visco-elastic response of two shales at ultrasonic frequencies
Rune M Holt* (NTNU & SINTEF, NORWAY), Morten I Kolstø, Erling Fjær: Physical Mechanisms controlling Effective Stresses for Wave Velocities in Clays and Shales

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