Abstract submission is now open.

Be a part of the program and submit your abstract online.

The abstract submission deadline is November 5, 2008.

The technical program will feature the following themes:

• The role of the geological models
• Rock mass characterization and site investigation for the mitigation of unexpected ground conditions during underground engineering projects
• Long-term behaviour of underground openings
• Deep underground nuclear waste repositories
• Numerical modeling of continuum-discontinuum behaviour of geomaterials
• Excavation at high stress
• Deep mining
• Block caving
• High slopes: Deep open pits and natural slope instabilities
• Use of virtual reality in rock engineering
• Innovation in ground support and instrumentation
• Time dependent behaviour of rock masses
• Role of rock mechanics in forensic engineering
• Risk approach to rock engineering design
• Ground freezing
• Rock engineering in presence of high pressure and/or high flow water conditions
• Role of uncertainties in rock engineering design
• Geophysics in rock engineering
• Squeezing and swelling conditions in tunneling
• Reservoir geomechanics
• Deep drilling and salt formations
• Rock physics models for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery