Short Courses
Short Course 1
Title: Reliability Engineering for Tunnel Construction
Instructors: Mark Diederichs and Connor Langford, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Venue: The Westin San Francisco Market Street
Date: Saturday, 22 June; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $190
This workshop will provide a critical review of sources of uncertainty in geotechnical projects as well as a series of simple reliability based tools to help deal with uncertainty in design. A case study will be presented to show the usefulness of these tools. Finally, a panel discussion will be held to discuss how risk sharing can better be incorporated into design contracts.
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Short Course 2
Title: Geomechanical Considerations for Unconventional Hydrocarbon Developments: Evaluating the Role of Natural Fractures and Microseismicity
Instructors: Neal Nagel and Will Pettitt, Itasca Consulting Group, Inc.
Venue: The Westin San Francisco Market Street
Date: Saturday, 22 June; 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Cost: $190
The short course will cover the geomechanical considerations for unconventional developments with a focus on formation characterization and completion optimization. It is well-known that geomechanics plays a critical role in the understanding and development of many unconventional reservoirs – chiefly this is due to the complicated and variable impact of natural fractures. Within the short course, we will introduce unconventional developments and their characteristics. Following this, the nature and geomechanical behavior of natural fractures will be reviewed. With this foundation, the role of microseismic monitoring – as it portrays rock failure – will be presented. The course will then conclude with an extensive review (based upon basic principles and numerical simulations) of common geomechanical issues (i.e., brittleness, complexity, stimulated rock volume - SRV).
Short Course 3
Short Course 4
Title: Numerical Modeling of Cave Mining
Instructors: Matt Pierce and Tryana Garza-Cruz (Itasca Minneapolis), Bre-Anne Sainsbury (Itasca Australia) and Houmao Liu (Itasca Denver)
Venue: The Westin San Francisco Market Street
Date: Sunday, 23 June; 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $190
This session will focus on some of the key geomechanical challenges associated with cave mining, including prediction and monitoring of cave growth, subsidence, groundwater flow, fragmentation, infrastructure stability, and draw and recovery. The short course will review recent experience and new techniques associated with the development, calibration, application and validation of explicit numerical modeling approaches to analysis of problems associated with each key challenge.