Topics

• Rock properties, testing methods and site characterization
• Rock mechanics for infrastructures
• Mining rock mechanics and rock engineering
• Design methods and analysis
• Rock mechanics for heritage
• Geophysics in rock mechanics
• Numerical modelling and backanalysis
• Monitoring and backanalysis
• Underground excavation and support
• Risk and hazard
• Applicability of EUROCODE-7 in rock engineering
• Geomechanics for the oil and gas industry
• Ores, building and industrial rocks
• Application of artificial intelligence to problems of rock mechanics
• Remote sensing in rock mechanics
• Geothermal technology
• Rock Mechanics education and training