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

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

Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Networks for Mesoscale Underground Experiments: Advances in the Bedretto Reservoir Project

Plenkers, Katrin; Reinicke, Andreas; Obermann, Anne; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Krietsch, Hannes; Fechner, Thomas; Hertrich, Marian; Kontar, Karam; Maurer, Hansruedi; Philipp, Joachim; Rinderknecht, Beat; Volksdorf, Manuel; Giardini, Domenico; Wiemer, Stefan

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

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

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

Stress variations around a fault zone in a granitic rock mass: insights from breakout observations within an array of boreholes

Zhang, Shihuai; Ma, Xiaodong; Bröker, Kai; van Limborgh, Rutger; Wenning, Quinn; Hertrich, Marian; Giardini, Domenico

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Investigating anisotropic seismic velocities of the Rotondo granite in intact and fractured sections by crosshole seismic surveys

Epiney, Claire

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

Borehole Trajectories for VALTER volume, Bedretto Lab

Shakas, Alexis; Wenning, Quinn; Bröker, Kai; Escallón Botero, Daniel; Behnen, Kathrin; Hertrich, Marian

Data collection for the Bedretto Reservoir Project (BRP)

BedrettoLab Team

Multi-scale and multi-borehole mapping of breakouts in a granitic rock mass

van Limborgh, Rutger; Zhang, Shihuai; Ma, Xiaodong

Data set of mini-frac tests at the Bedretto Lab (SB boreholes)

Bröker, Kai; Klee, Gerd; Ma, Xiaodong

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

Houtsma, Fenna

Structure picks from boreholes in the Bedretto Lab

Wenning, Quinn; Castilla, Raymi; Bröker, Kai; Zappone, Alba Simona; Ma, Xiaodong; Hertrich, Marian; Shakas, Alexis

Post-processed GPR data for CB boreholes

Shakas, Alexis

Borehole Logging Data from Characterization Boreholes in Bedretto Underground Lab for Geoenergies

Shakas, Alexis

Other Publications

Blog article by Dr Nicolas Barbosa (French, English)

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SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2019 (Talks, Posters)

Publications of the Grimsel ISC project