PREVIEW | CONFERENCES
AUSTRIA - 14TH
TUNNEL DAY & 73RD
GEOMECHANICS COLLOQUIUM
Over 9-11 October, the Austrian Society for Geomechanics (OGG) will hold the 14th Tunnel Day & 73rd Geomechanics Colloquium, in Salzburg. The Tunnel Day takes place on 9 Oct, the first of the three days, and the remainder of the period is for the Colloquium, mostly, and a half-day of optional site visits. A packed programme is lined up for the Tunnel Day with presentations across four themes: major projects; contracts; digital; and, regulations.
Under the major projects theme a key focus will have three presentations on Brenner Base Tunnel, the cross-border rail tunnel link being built by Austria and Italy in the Alps. Other projects to be presented include A10 Tauern highway where the Ofenauer and Hiefler tunnels are being renovated; the Semmering Base Tunnel; and, Fehmarn immersed tube tunnel, which will link Denmark and Germany.
The contracts theme will have a number of papers on Alliance
contract experience in different transport projects, and also comparison between Austria and Germany. Brenner project comes up again under the digitisation theme, which also is to have a presentation on formworks and possibilities around automation. The fourth theme, on regulatory frameworks, will have presentations on reuse of spoil and dealing with quartz dust during conventional tunnelling, respectively. The following day begins the Colloquium, lasting 1.5 days -
before the site visits. Themes are diverse in the Colloquium, notes OGG President, Robert Galler - they range from rock slope stability to geothermal energy, climate-related natural hazards, and the assessment and repair of infrastructure. On the latter, presentations are to be heard on strategic handling of old rail tunnels, and the challenges and new approaches in asset safety management of rail tunnels. The Tauern Tunnel refurbishment is to be a project example. There is also to be a presentation of standardisation and maintenance strategies for infrastructure. The conference languages at the Colloquium are German and English, and simultaneous translation facility will be provided. After the Colloquium, the afternoon is for site visit options with journeys to projects about an hour’s bus drive from Salzburg. Offered this year are visits, of a few hours, to either Ebensee pumped storage hydro project or the rehabilitation tunnels (Ofenauer, Hiefler) on A10 Tauern highway, respectively.
See:
www.oegg.at
ISRM - ROCK MECHANICS CONFERENCES
ISRM’s International Symposium 2024 and the 13th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium will be held in New Delhi, 22-27 September. The theme of the Symposium is ‘Advances in rock mechanics - infrastructure development,’ and in that context holding the event in India is very apt with so much construction - and planning - for road, rail and hydropower. Keynote lectures are to be given by Dr Nick Barton, prof Omer
Aydan, and Prof Krishna Panthi. The ISRM Franklin Lecture is to be delivered by Dr Vikram Vishal. Themes for the Symposium are:
● Advancement in Site Investigations and Characterization of Rocks & Rock Masses;
● Application of Advance Geophysical Investigation Techniques; ● Constitutive Modelling of Rocks and Soils; ● Rock Excavation Techniques - Drilling, Blasting; ● Mechanical Cutting, Rock and Dump Slope Stability and Foundation Analysis;
● Rock Supports, Instrumentations & Ground Improvement; ● Design Methods and Analysis – Analytical and Numerical Modelling;
● Preservation and Restoration of Ancient Monuments; ● Deep Underground Mining Methods & Instrumentation; ● Underground Space Development for Storages etc;
● Innovations and Applications of IOT in Rock Engineering; ● Structural Health Monitoring and Rehabilitation; ● Advancement in Laboratory Testing Techniques; ● Geo-hazards and Risk Management; ● Green Technologies for Zero Waste Generation and Sustainable Development; and,
● Case Studies
In addition, there will be short courses and workshops run over two days (22-23 September), covering: ● Advances in numerical analysis in rock engineering (full day); ● Smart mining and rock engineering (full day); ● Rock grouting (full day); ● Integrating rock mass classification techniques and tunnelling technology (half day);
● Rockfall protection and landslide stabilisation, with IoT (full day);
● Rock mechanics in tunnelling techniques (full day); and, ● Numerical analysis with FLAC2D/FLAC3D (full day).
The Symposium main presentation will run over 24-26 September., the visits on 27 September.
For more detail, see:
https://arms2024.org
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