ROCK MECHANICS GROUP

School of Civil and Resource Engineering
UWA

 

 

·    PERSONNEL

o      Prof. A.V. Dyskin (Head)

o      Prof B. Tarasov

o      Dr. A.N. Galybin (Senior Research Fellow)

o      Dr. E. Pasternak (APD Fellow)

o      Mr. H.C. Khor (PhD student)

o      Mr. S Pant (PhD student)

o      Mr. B. Thakkar (PhD student)

o      Mr. A. Mostamandy (Masters student)

o      Mr. N. Juricev (Masters student)

 

 

·    RESEARCH

o      Rock Fracture Mechanics

§       Crack growth in compression in 3D

§       Skin rockburst

§       Scale effect in fracture toughness

§       Cracks with rough faces

§       Pre-split blasting

§       Thermal fracturing

1.     Explosive Spallation

2.     Non- Explosive Spallation

§       Cracks on Europa

o      In situ Stress Reconstruction

§       In situ stress measurements at large scale

§       Crustal stress reconstruction

o      Flexural toppling

o      Materials and Structures with Interlocking

o      Defect interaction and pattern formation in deformation and fracture

o      Generalised Continua

 

·     UNIQUE HIGH STIFFNESS DYNAMIC AND STATIC LOADING MACHINE

·     PHD AND MASTERS PROJECTS

·     FINAL YEAR PROJECTS

 

Fracture In Uniaxial Compression. Demo

 

Computational Mechanics

 

Australian Fracture Group