The 7th International Workshop on the Application of Geophysics to Rock Engineering was held on 8th July 2007 as a pre-congress workshop of the 11th Congress of ISRM in Lisbon Portugal.
The hardcopy proceedings of 98 pages and CD-R proceedings including color illustrations were published. Any one who would like to buy the proceedings, please make contact with Commission President, Professor Koichi Sassa.
The program of the workshop is shown below.
"The 7th International Workshop on the Application of Geophysics to Rock Engineering"
July 8th 2007 at LNEC Congress Center (101, Av. do Brasil), Lisbon, Portugal
Programme
9:30-9:35 Opening Remarks：Koichi Sassa (Geosystem Research Institute, Japan)
Morning Session 1： Working Group Report and Near Surface Seismic
Session Chairperson: Koichi Sassa (Japan)
9:35-10:00 ISRM Suggested methods for land and borehole geophysics in rock engineering：by Toru Takahashi (Working Group Coordinator, Fukada Geological Institute, Japan)
10:00-10:25 Near-surface seismic profile in the northern part of Beijing city：by Xu Chang, Yike Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), and Yanghua Wang (Imperial College London, UK)
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break
Morning Session 2： Basic Studies on the Application of Geophysics to Rock Engineering
Session Chairperson: Bodo Lehmann (Germany)
10:45-11:10 Reactive Flow in a Fracture: Scale Effects in the Interpretation of Seismic Measurements：by Angel Acosta-Colon, David D. Nolte and Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte (Purdue University, USA)
11:10-11:35 Issues for the inversion of seismic reflection data for geotechnical properties：by Binzhong Zhou (CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Australia), Peter Hatherly (University of Sydney, Australia), Milovan Urosevic (Curtin University, Australia), and Troy Peters (VelSeis Processing, Australia)
11:35-12:00 Application of Seismic Interferometry to Cross-Well Seismology：
by Toshifumi Matsuoka and Kazuya Shiraishi (Kyoto University, Japan)
12:00-12:25 Crosswell Imaging by 2-D oriented migration：by Yike Liu, Xu Chang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), and Hongchuan Sun (University of Utah, USA)
12:25-13:45 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1：Application of Geophysics to Tunneling
Session Chairperson: Peter Hatherly (Australia)
13:45-14:10 Exploration of the tunnel alignment using geophysical methods to increase the safety for planning and respectively minimizing the risk：by Bodo Lehmann, Dirk Orlowsky and Rudiger Misiek (Deutsche Montan Technolgie, Germany)
14:10-14:35 The geostatistical prediction technique of geological conditions ahead of the TBM driven tunnel face：by Kenji Aoki, Yoshitada Mito and Chuan Sheng Chang (Kyoto University, Japan)
14:35-15:00 ISIS - Integrated Seismic Imaging System for geological Prediction ahead of Hard Rock Tunnels：by Rudiger Giese, Stefan Lueth, Kay Krueger, Sylvio Mielitz, Peter Otto and Gunter Borm (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany)
15:00-15:25 OnSITE: Development of an On-line Seismic Imaging System for Tunnel Excavation：by Gunter Borm, Rudiger Giese, tefan. Lueth, Tomas Bohlen, Serge Shapiro, Stwfan Buske, Ulrich Polom, Edwin Fecker, Klaus-Wolfgang Becker, Norbert Pralle and Thomas Dickmann (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany)
15:25-15:45 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2：Application of Geophysics to Construction of Subsurface Storage
Session Chairperson: Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte (USA)
15:45-16:10 Seismic prediction of hard rock fault zones and confirmation by tunnel observations：by Calin Cosma and Nicoleta Enescu (Vibrometric Oy, Finland), Kimmo Kemppainen (Posiva Oy, Finland), Turo Ahokas and Eero Heikkinen (Poyry Oy, Finland)
16:10-16:35 Current status of high-level radioactive waste disposal program and growing expectations for geophysical technology in Japan：by Hiroyuki Tsuchi and Junichi Goto (Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, Japan)
16:35-17:00 Cross-hole seismic survey for spent fuel interim storage facility：by Yasushi Okajima, Jiro Tsuchiyama (Recyclable-Fuel Storage Company, Japan), and Toshifumi Matsuoka (Kyoto University, Japan), and Dai Nobuoka，Hiroyuki Azuma and Takeshi Iwamoto (OYO Corporation, Japan)
17:00-17:25 Study on creating hydraulic tomography for crystalline rock using frequency dependent elastic wave velocity：by Patric Bruines, Kenichi Ando (Obayashi Corporation, Japan), Kimitaka Yoshimura, Susumu Sakashita (Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center, Japan), Hirofumi Okumura (JPOWER, Japan), and Yuzo Ohnishi, Satoshi Nishiyama (Kyoto University, Japan)
17:25-17:30 Closing Remarks：Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte (Purdue University, USA)