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Publications

Below, you will find a list of publications relating to research activities conducted in the BedrettoLab. As data will be acquired and publications written they will progressively be published below. The data sets which are made publicly available will also be published here.

Journal Contributions

Conference Contributions

Theses

Working Papers/Reports

Research Data

Other Publications

Journal Contributions

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Hydraulic stimulation and fluid circulation experiments in underground laboratories: Stepping up the scale towards engineered geothermal systems

Gischig, Valentin S.; Giardini, Domenico; Amann, Florian; Hertrich, Marian; Krietsch, Hannes; Loew, Simon; Maurer, Hansruedi; Villiger, Linus; Wiemer, Stefan; Bethmann, Falko; Brixel, Bernard; Doetsch, Joseph; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Driesner, Thomas; Dutler, Nathan; Evans, Keith F.; Jalali, Mohammadreza; Jordan, David; Kittilä, Anniina; Ma, Xiaodong; Meier, Peter; Nejati, Morteza; Obermann, Anne; Plenkers, Katrin; Saar, Martin O.; Shakas, Alexis; Valley, Benoît

Geology along the Bedretto tunnel: kinematic and geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Gotthard Massif (Central Alps)

Rast, Markus; Galli, Andrea; Ruh, Jonas B.; Guillong, Marcel; Madonna, Claudio

Size effect in true mode II fracturing of rocks: Theory and experiment

Bahrami, Bahador; Ghouli, Saeid; Nejati, Morteza; Ayatollahi, Majid Reza; Driesner, Thomas

True Mode III Fracturing of Rocks: An Axially Double-Edge Notched Brazilian Disk Test

Bahrami, Bahador; Nejati, Morteza; Ayatollahi, Majid Reza; Driesner, Thomas

Multi-disciplinary characterizations of the BedrettoLab – a new underground geoscience research facility

Ma, Xiaodong; Hertrich, Marian; Amann, Florian; Bröker, Kai; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Gischig, Valentin; Hochreutener, Rebecca; Kaestli, Philipp; Krietsch, Hannes; Marti, Michele; Naegeli, Barbara; Nejati, Morteza; Obermann, Anne; Plenkers, Katrin; Rinaldi, Antonio P.; Shakas, Alexis; Villiger, Linus; Wenning, Quinn; Zappone, Alba Simona; Bethmann, Falko

Estimating the Least Principal Stress in a Granitic Rock Mass: Systematic Mini-Frac Tests and Elaborated Pressure Transient Analysis

Bröker, Kai; Ma, Xiaodong

Permeability enhancement from a hydraulic stimulation imaged with Ground Penetrating Radar

Shakas, Alexis; Maurer, Hansruedi; Giertzuch, Peter-Lasse; Hertrich, Marian; Giardini, Domenico; Serbeto, Francisco; Meier, Peter

Conference Contributions

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High-Resolution Seismo-hydromechnic Monitoring in Mesoscale Multi-stage Stimulation Experiment

Plenkers, Katrin; Krietsch, Hannes; Gischig, Valentin; Selvadurai, Paul Antony; Shakas, Alexis; Villiger, Linus; Hertrich, Marian; Giardini, Domenico; Maurer, Hansruedi

Field-Scale Characterization of Permeability-Stress Relationship in Bedretto Underground Laboratory in Switzerland

Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Ma, Xiaodong; Hertrich, Marian; Loew, Simon

The response of a fractured crystalline reservoir to natural pressure buildup: Experiment results from the Bedretto Lab

Shakas, Alexis; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Hertrich, Marian; Wenning, Quinn; Maurer, Hansruedi; Brixel, Bernard; Zappone, Alba Simona; Rinaldi, Antonio Pio; Obermann, Anne; Ma, Xiaodong; Kaestli, Philipp; Linwood, Paul; Hochreutener, Rebecca; Wiemer, Stefan; Giardini, Domenico

Bedretto Deep Underground Laboratory for Geoenergies - a new Interdisciplinary Research Facility

Hertrich, Marian; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Krietsch, Hannes; Ma, Xiaodong; Nejati, Morteza; Plenkers, Katrin; Shakas, Alexis; Driesner, Thomas; Loew, Simon; Maurer, Hansruedi; Meier, Peter; Saar, Martin O.; Wiemer, Stefan; Giardini, Domenico

GPR imaging of fractures in the Bedretto Lab

Shakas, Alexis; Giertzuch, Peter-Lasse

Hydraulic Characterization of the Bedretto Underground Laboratory

Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Dutler, Nathan; Brixel, Bernard; Hertrich, Marian; Loew, Simon

Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geoenergies: Ongoing Activities and Future Opportunities

Plenkers, Katrin; Hertrich, Marian; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Krietsch, Hannes; Ma, Xiaodong; Nejati, Morteza; Obermann, Anne; Reinicke, Andreas; Shakas, Alexis; Giardini, Domenico

In situ stress characterization in the Bedretto Underground Laboratory: implications for induced slip of pre-existing fractures/faults

Ma, Xiaodong; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Hertrich, Marian; Gischig, Valentin; Jordan, David

Design of the seismic monitoring network for the stimulation experiments in the Bedretto Deep Underground Rock Laboratory

Hertrich, Marian; Villiger, Linus; Doetsch, Joseph; Obermann, Anne; Ma, Xiaodong; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima

Inducing shear slip in an underground laboratory: Workﬂow to constrain the full stress tensor demonstrated by application to the Bedretto Underground Laboratory

Ankush, Singh; Ma, Xiaodong; Zoback, Mark D.

Preliminary in situ stress and fractures characterization in the Bedretto Underground Laboratory, Swiss Alps: implications on hydraulic stimulation

Ma, Xiaodong; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Hertrich, Marian; Gischig, Valentin; Klee, Gerd da Fontoura, Sérgio A.B.; Rocca, Ricardo J.; Pavón Mendoza, José

Constraining a geological model of a shear zone by combining geophysical borehole logging and GPR

Shakas, Alexis; Hertrich, Marian; Maurer, Hansruedi; Krietsch, Hannes

Theses

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Geology, Geochronology and Rock Magnetics Along Bedretto Tunnel (Gotthard Massif, Central Alps) and Numerical Modelling of Quartz-Biotite Aggregates

Rast, Markus

Hydraulic Backbone of CB1 to CB3 Boreholes in the Bedretto Underground Lab

Münger, Andri

Deep Alpine Fluids: Origin, pathways and dynamic remobilisation in response to hydraulic stimulations at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geoenergies (BULGG)

Arnet, Moira

In situ stress profiling along Bedretto boreholes via integrated geomechanical approaches

Stadler, Deborah

Geological model selection for the Bedretto lab using gravity and magnetic observations

Houtsma, Fenna

Inferring in situ stress variations from post-drilling borehole diametrical deformation

Chong, Jinqiu

Geological characterisation of an underground research facility in the Bedretto tunnel

Meier, Matthias

3D geological model of a shear zone conditioned on geophysical data and geological observations

Hediger, Roman

Integrated geomechanics study of in situ stress and fracture system in the Bedretto Underground Lab: insights from a tripod of boreholes

Rousopoulou, Vasiliki

Heat Dilution Testing in Deep Underground Excavations

Meier, Matthias

Geological Characterization of the Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geoenergies

Jordan, David

In-situ stress and rock mass characterization via mini-frac tests at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory

Bröker, Kai

Borehole Indicators of In Situ Stress Field Heterogeneity at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory

van Limborgh, Rutger

Applying Machine Learning to Detect and Enhance Fractures from GPR-reflection data

Pormes, Hendrik

Working Papers/Reports

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Induced seismic hazard and risk analysis of hydraulic stimulation experiments at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies (BULGG)

Gischig, Valentin; Bethmann, Falko; Hertrich, Marian; Wiemer, Stefan; Mignan, Arnaud; Broccardo, Marco; Villiger, Linus; Obermann, Anne; Diehl, Tobias

Estimating the least principal stress in a granitic rock mass: systematic mini-frac tests and elaborated pressure transient analysis

Bröker, Kai; Ma, Xiaodong

Other Publications

Blog article by Dr Nicolas Barbosa (French, English)

Call for a master thesis

Open calls for Master Theses:

"Understanding seismic source properties of Magnitude -2 to -6 earthquakes in the Bedretto underground laboratory trough full wavefield modeling"

"Source physics of fluid-induced earthquakes"

Documents

Presentation of Prof. D. Giardini at the public information event on 18 September 2018 (PDF, 7.5 MB)

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SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2019 (Talks, Posters)

Publications of the Grimsel ISC project