As one of the specialized sessions in the 11th Congress of the ISRM, the Specialized Session on the Application of Geophysics in Rock Engineering was held on 12th July 2007 at CCL in Lisbon. In this specialized session, progress report of the commission, five excellent papers and the ISRM Suggested Methods for land and borehole geophysics in rock engineering with some examples of field applications were presented, and followed by discussions. The contents of the specialized session are shown below.
Contents of the Specialized Session S04
Application of Geophysics to Rock Engineering
(Duration 3 hours and 30 minutes)
1) "Progress report of the Commission on the Application of Geophysics to Rock Engineering": by Koichi Sassa (Geosystem Research Institute, Japan)
2) "Fractures as Time-Dependent Structures: Characterizing Alterations & Changing Length Scales": by Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte (Purdue University, USA)
3) "Imaging dynamic rock fracture with acoustic emission and x-ray tomography": by R. Paul Young and Ben D. Thompson (University of Toronto, Canada)
4) "Observation of fracture processes in creeping rock masses by seismic monitoring": by Stefan Mertl and Ewald P. Brueckl (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
5) "Geophysical Monitoring for CO2 Sequestration": by Toshifumi Matsuoka and K. Onishi (Kyoto University, Japan)
6) "Extracting geotechnical information from seismic reflection surveys – examples from Australian coal mines": by Peter J. Hatherly (University of Sydney, Australia), Binzhong Zhou (CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Australia), Milovan Urosevic (Curtin University, Australia), and Troy Peters (VelSeis Processing, Australia)
7) "Suggested methods for Land and Borehole Geophysics in Rock Engineering": by Toru Takahashi, Toshiaki Takeuchi (Fukada Geological Institute, Japan), and Koichi Sassa (Geosystem Research Institute, Japan)
8) "Discussion"
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