The 4th International Underground Research Laboratory (URL) Workshop

Sunday 10 May 2015, 08:00 → 18:00 Canada/Atlantic

Palais de Congres

The 4th URL Workshop has four sessions, with available abstracts and presentation files hyperlinked and given below in parenthesis in this agenda. The morning sessions focus on rock engineering and physics in Asia, Europe, and North America deep physics labs. The North American and Europe Lectures will follow Asian Lectures. The afternoon sessions focus on radioactive waste and on energy/environmental experiments in URLs and other underground settings. We will reverse the order and have European and North American Lectures first, followed by Asian Lectures.

1 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Peter Smeallie

Slides I-0_Introduction_presentation.pdf

2 Rock Mechanics Associated with Deep and Large Excavations in China • Monitoring and Observations of Rock-bursts in JinPing Tunnels • Ongoing Studies of Rock Mechanics Laboratory in CJPL-II

Speaker: Xia-Ting Feng

Session I. Asia’s Deep Physics and Rock Mechanics Laboratories & World’s Long Baseline Experiments

3 New Site for Physics China Jinping Underground Laboratory

Speaker: Jianmin Li

Slides I-2_Jianmin_Li_CJPL-II_presentation.pdf

4 Very Large Underground Detectors for Neutrino Physics and Nucleaon Decay Searches: Recent Discovery of Electron Neutrino Appearance from a Muon Neutrino Beam in T2K and Future Outlook for Discovery of CP Violation in the Lepton Sector

Speaker: Chang Kee Jung

Slides I-3_Chang_Kee_Jung_CPV_T2K_DUNE_presentation.pdf

summary I-3_Chang_Kee_Jung_CPV_T2K_DUNE_abstract.pdf

5 Planned SURF Detector Hall for DUNE

Speaker: Bill Roggenthen

Slides I-4_Bill_Roggenthen_SURF_presentation.pdf

6 Constructability and Value Engineering “Top Ten” Best Practices for Underground Laboratory Construction

Speaker: Chris Laughton

Slides I-5_Chris_Laughton_Top_Ten_List_presentation.pdf

summary I-5_Chris_Laughton_Top_Ten_List_abstract.pdf

09:55 Coffee

Session II. European and North American Physics Laboratories and Experiments

7 Undeground Laboratory of Modane and the other three Underground Labs in Europe

Speaker: Fabrice Piquemal

Slides II-1_Fabrice_Piquemal_4_EU_DULs_presentation.pdf

8 Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) Activities • Progress in Multi-Disciplinary Studies in European Underground Labs

Speaker: Ino Agrafioti

Slides II-5_Ino_Agrafioti_APPEC_presentation.pdf

9 Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory (SNOLab)

Speaker: Ian Lawson

Slides II-6_Nigel_Smith_Ian_Lawson_SNOLab_presentation.pdf

11:50 Coffee

Session III: Contributions of Rock Mechanics to Radioactive Waste Disposal Evaluations

10 URLs to Support Geo-Engineering Projects

Speaker: John Hudson

Slides III-1_John_Hudson_URL_Benefit_presentation.pdf

11 ONKALO - Underground Rock Characterization Facility for In-Situ Testing

Speaker: Erik Johansson

Slides III-2_Erik_Johansson_ONKALO_presentation.pdf

summary III-2_Erik_Johansson_ONKALO_abstract.pdf

12 The PARCLAY experiment at URL HADES in Mol, Belgium

Speaker: Xiang Ling Li

Slides III-3_Xiang_Ling_Li__Praclay_abstract.pdf III-3_Xiang_Ling_Li_Praclay_presentation.pdf

13 Geoscientific exploration of a candidate waste disposal site in rock salt

Speaker: Sandra Fahland

Slides ISRM-URL-2015_Fa-Vo-Heu_publishable-version.pdf

summary III-4_Sandra_Fahland_salt_abstract.pdf

14 Current Status of KURT and Its Experimental Research Programme

Speaker: Seokwon Jeon

Slides III-5_Seokwon_Jeon_KURT_presentation.pdf

15 Area-Specific URL for Geological Disposal in China

Speakers: Ju Wang, Liang Chen

Slides III-6_Ju_Wang_and_Liang_Chen_Area-specific_URL_in_China_presentation.pdf III-7_Ju_Wang_Workshop_on_waste_disposal-2015_presentation.pdf

14:50 Coffee

16 Networked Mine Observatories – Benefits and Challenges

Speaker: Peter Kaiser

Slides IV-1_Peter_Kaiser_CEMI_presentation.pdf

Session IV: Networks and URL Inter-Disciplinary Underground Science and Technology Experiments

17 Roles of URLs in Probing Controls on Induced Seismicity and Related Permeability Evolution

Speaker: Derek Elsworth

Slides IV-2_Derek_Elsworth_induced_seismicity_and_perm_change_presentation.pdf

18 Hydro-Mechanical Experiments in Fault Zones in Shales and Carbonated Rocks

Speaker: Yves Guglielmi

Slides IV-3_Yves_Guglielmi_Fault_presentation.pdf

19 LSBB Underground Research Laboratory

Speaker: Stephane Gaffet

Slides IV-4_Stephane_Gaffet_LSBB_presentation.pdf

20 Comprehensive Monitoring of Rock behaviors in China CJPL-II Laboratory

Speaker: Shaojun Li

Open Discussion

Workshop Findings and Inputs to 2015-2019 ISRM URL Activities, including the preparation for a potential ISRM book on URL case histories and planned developments.