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Director of 3GDeep Prof. Ranjith PG, BSc(Hons), PhD, FTSE, FIMMM, FINAE, FASCE, FGS, FIEAust Professor of Geomechanics, Director of Deep Earth Energy Research Lab, Monash University, Clayton Campus, VIC 3800 Australia. Contact details: E-mail: ranjith.pg@monash.edu; Tel.: +61 399 054 982 My Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602607278 |
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Latest Projects
Graduated Students of Prof. Ranjith PG
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Dr. Jun Zhou |
| Project Title: Geological CO2 storage, Subsurface fluids flow. | |
| Graduated Year: 2023 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Shashika Madhusanka Gajanayake |
| Project Title: Methane gas hydrates and gas replacement, Molecular dynamic simulations, Mechanical behaviour of hydrate-bearing sediments. | |
| Graduated Year: 2023 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Balinee Balachandran |
| Project Title: Introducing a green cement for construction applications. | |
| Graduated Year: 2023 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Udeshini Manatunga |
| Project Title: Adoption of Soundless Cracking Demolition Agent(SCDA) for rock fragmentation in deep geological rock formations. | |
| Graduated Year: 2023 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. David Lall |
| Project Title: Natural gas hydrates, Fluid flow in porous media. | |
| Graduated Year: 2023 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Manoj Samarakoon |
| Project Title: Development of a new generation cement: Insights into the deep wells | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Lie Kong |
| Project Title: Mechanism of rock damage evolution in enhanced geothermal systems | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Dinesha Jayasekara |
| Project Title: CO2 geosequestration and long-term stability of caprock | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. K.M. Adheesha Shashibhanu Bandara |
| Project Title: Investigation of proppant crushing and embedment mechanisms in reservoir rocks | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. B.L. Avanthi Isaka |
| Project Title: Utilization of supercritical carbon dioxide as the working fluid in enhanced geothermal systems | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Anup Kumar Shahii |
| Project Title: Study of Gas Hydrate using Effective Medium Theory and Rock Physics Modelling, Subsurface Geophysical Imaging | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Zhaoyang Ma |
| Project Title: Geothermal Energy Exploration, Waterless Fracturing Technology. | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Guanglei Zhang |
| Project Title: Micro-scale response of coal with respect to CO2 sequestration in deep coal seams. | |
| Graduated Year: 2020 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Dinesh Panneerselvam |
| Project Title: Flow and Pollutant Transport through Fractured Porous Media | |
| Graduated Year: 2021 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Xiaogang Zhang |
| Project Title: Mechanism of carbon dioxide sequestration in deep coal seams | |
| Graduated Year: 2020 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Radhika De Silva |
| Project Title: Rock fracture stimulation using a slow energy releasing fracturing compound for permeability enhanced in-situ leaching | |
| Graduated Year: 2019 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Mohammed Faizal |
| Project Title: Axial and radial thermal responses of field-scale energy piles | |
| Graduated Year: 2019 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Md Rouf |
| Project Title: Unsaturated behaviour and gas transport through geosynthetic clay liners (GCL) and geomembrane (GMB)/GCL composite liners | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Bankim Mahanta |
| Project Title: Investigation and assessment of physicomorphological and thermomechanical responses of few sedimentary rocks | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Decheng Zhang |
| Project Title: Mechanical and flow properties of unconventional reservoir rocks and the influences of water on them | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Yunlong Tang |
| Project Title: Influence of Proppant Behaviour on Hydraulic Fracturing Conductivity in Deep Reservoirs | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Chengpeng Zhang |
| Project Title: Development of New Methodologies for Fracturing of Shale Using Non-viscous Fluid | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Pabasara Kumari |
| Project Title: Stimulation of heat extraction from the hot dry rocks - Geothermal Energy | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Ayal Wanniarachchi |
| Project Title: A New Stimulation Methodology for Extraction of Natural Gas from Deep and Tight Geological Formations | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Nikhil Sirdesai |
| Project Title: Numerical and experimental study of rocks under very high temperature conditions: underground coal gasification | |
| Graduated Year: 2018 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Yanlong Zheng |
| Project Title: Fracturing of hard rocks by microwave treatment and potential applications in mechanized tunnelling | |
| Graduated Year: 2017 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Dilanth de Silva |
| Project Title: Geosequestration of Carbon Dioxide in Deep Saline Aquifers: Hydro-Chemical Considerations | |
| Graduated Year: 2017 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Ashani Ranathunga |
| Project Title: Investigation of long term safe storage of carbon dioxide in deep coal seams with enhanced methane recovery | |
| Graduated Year: 2017 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Ms. Xue Le |
| Project Title: Strength and minearlogical developments in magnesia-GGBS stabilised biochar-sequestered acid sulphate soils | |
| Graduated Year: 2017 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: MSc by Research |
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Dr. Tharaka Rathnaweera |
| Project Title: Geological sequestration of carbon dioxide in deep saline aquifers: coupled flow-mechanical considerations | |
| Graduated Year: 2016 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Shishi Shao |
| Project Title: Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour of rock relevant to the geothermal industry | |
| Graduated Year: 2015 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Ka Yu |
| Project Title: Numerical and experimental investigations into thermal aspects of geothermal energy piles | |
| Graduated Year: 2015 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Banambar Singh |
| Project Title: An experimental study of creation of optimal fracture networks for heat extraction from engineered geothermal reservoirs | |
| Graduated Year: 2015 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Nadeesha Lakmali Ukwattage |
| Project Title: Study of the accelerated carbonation of coal fly ash for carbon dioxide sequestration and soil amendment | |
| Graduated Year: 2015 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. William Darlington |
| Project Title: The effect of scale and defect planes on the failure process and strength of rock with applications in open pit mining | |
| Graduated Year: 2014 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Md. Shahidul Islam |
| Project Title: Strength and mineralogical behaviour of lime-GGBS-treated acid sulphate soils | |
| Graduated Year: 2014 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Mohamed Nasvi Mohamed Careem |
| Project Title: Geopolymer as well cement for geological sequestration of carbon dioxide | |
| Graduated Year: 2014 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Benjamin Shannon |
| Project Title: Fracture propagation of cohesive soils under tensile loading and desiccation | |
| Graduated Year: 2014 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Piyal Wasantha Liyanage |
| Project Title: On the coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour of jointed rock masses: an application to mine slope stability | |
| Graduated Year: 2014 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Kunal Kumar Singh |
| Project Title: Investigations of permeability of fractured, steep and deep rock slopes with high groundwater pressures | |
| Graduated Year: 2014 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Bishwajit Chowdhury |
| Project Title: Mechanical behaviour of lime-slag treated Coode Island Silt | |
| Graduated Year: 2013 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Verma Dhananjai |
| Project Title: Investigation of influence of scale effects of strength and failure modes of deep open cut slopes | |
| Graduated Year: 2013 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Vikram Vishal |
| Project Title: An investigation on carbon dioxide sequestration in Indian coal seams | |
| Graduated Year: 2013 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Mr. David Barry-Macaulay |
| Project Title: An investigation on the thermal and thermo-mechanical behaviour of soils | |
| Graduated Year: 2013 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: MSc by Research |
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Dr. Samintha Perera |
| Project Title: Investigation of the effect of carbon dioxide sequestration on the hydro-mechanical properties of coal | |
| Graduated Year: 2012 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Richa Shukla Potdar |
| Project Title: Study of reservoir rock and caprock integrity in geo-sequestration of carbon dioxide | |
| Graduated Year: 2012 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Wai Chong |
| Project Title: Lateral load capacity of single piles socketed into Melbourne mudstone | |
| Graduated Year: 2011 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Deepika Singh |
| Project Title: A study of CO2 sequestration in basalt formation | |
| Graduated Year: 2011 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Navinda Kishan de Silva |
| Project Title: An investigation of mechanical properties and permeability of coal with respect to CO2 | |
| Graduated Year: 2011 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: MSc by Research |
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A/Prof. Mohan Yellishetty |
| Project Title: Achieving environmental stewardship in iron and steel sector through application of life cycle assessment | |
| Graduated Year: 2010 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Balamurali Raju |
| Project Title: Geo-sequestration of cardon dioxide in coal seams | |
| Graduated Year: 2010 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Mr. Binu Stanley |
| Project Title: Engineering and microstructural behaviour of lime-slag treated pyrite bearing coode island silt | |
| Graduated Year: 2010 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: MSc by Research |
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Dr. Wooi Leong Tan |
| Project Title: Physico-Chemical Interaction of CO2-Water-Rock under Extreme Geo-Thermal-Mechanical Conditions | |
| Graduated Year: 2009 | |
| Supervision Role: Joint Principle Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Mr. Derek Chun Chuen Chan |
| Project Title: Performance of Water and Gas Pipes Buried in Reactive Soil | |
| Graduated Year: 2008 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: MSc by Research |
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Dr. Dileeka Jasinge |
| Project Title: A Study of Geomechanical Properties of Coal with Application to Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery and CO2 Sequestration | |
| Graduated Year: 2007 | |
| Supervision Role: Main Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
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Dr. Matthew John Wightwick |
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| Graduated Year: 2006 | |
| Supervision Role: Associate Supervisor | |
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Completed degree: PhD by Research |
Visiting Researchers
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Professor Sheng-Qi Yang |
| Endeavour Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 3 990 54982 | |
| Office: Room 115, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Experiment and simulation on fracture evolution behavior of rock containing all kinds of flaws; Deformation and damage mechanics of deep rocks; Rock creep (time-dependent) experimental and model mechanics; Deep underground rock mass engineering and reinforced technique |
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Professor Derek Elsworth |
| Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering | |
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| Affiliation: Penn State University, USA | |
| Research Interests: Rock mechanics, Groundwater hydrology, Mathematical modelling, Poromechanics, Coupled processes, Contaminant hydrology, Mining engineering, Petroleum engineering, Fracture hydrology |
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Professor Tao Xu |
| Endeavour Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: | |
| Office: Northeastern University, China | |
| Research Interests: Rock mechanics, Rock seepage mechanics, Coal mining induced gas outbursts, Stability of underground workings, Strata movement, subsidence, slope stability, Slope stability, Acoustic emission and micro-seismicity monitoring, Computer applications in mining/geotechnical engineering, Hydraulic fracturing and associated hydro-mechanical coupling |
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Professor Herbert Huppert |
| Professor of Theoretical Geophysics | |
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| Affiliation: Cambridge University, UK | |
| Research Interests: Carbon dioxide sequestration, Flow of granular media, Constrained lava flows, Exchange flows, Fluid mechanics of solidification |
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Dr. Qinglei Yu |
| Associated Professor (Geomechanics, Mining Engineering) | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +86 24 83671626 | |
| Office: Northeastern University, P.R. China | |
| Research Interests: Image-based numerical modelling of geomaterials, joint rock characterization and modelling, microseismic monitoring |
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Professor Sevket Durucan |
| Professor of Mining and Environmental Engineering | |
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| Affiliation: Imperial College, UK | |
| Research Interests: UCG gasifier design, CO2 storage performance assessment, CBM-ECBM performance assessment, Underground environment control in coal mines |
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Professor Hui-Hai Liu |
| Head, Department of Hydrogeology, Earth Sciences Division, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: 510-486-6452 | |
| Office: Hydrogeology Department, Earth Sciences Division | |
| Research Interests: Fluid flow in porous media, Flow and transport in unsaturated fractured rock, Coupled hydrological and mechanical processes in the subsurface |
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Professor Robert Zimmerman |
| Professor of Rock mechanics | |
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| Affiliation: Imperial College, UK | |
| Research Interests: Hydromechanical behaviour of fractured and porous rocks, Petrophysics, Fluid flow in porous media, Rock failure and fracture |
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Professor Chandrasekharam |
| Professor, Department of Earth Sciences | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +91-22-2576 7263 | |
| Office: Department of earth sciences, IIT Bombay | |
| Research Interests: Groundwater resources assessment/ evaluation, Saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers, Arsenic and fluoride pollution in groundwater, Chemical evolution of geothermal springs, Geothermal energy resources evaluation (for power generation and direct use), Low temperature rock-water interaction experiments, Flow stratigraphy based on field, Geochemical and paleomagnetic studies, Regional correlation of flows using trace element and isotopic signatures, petrogenesis and evolution |
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Professor James R. Rice |
| Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics | |
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| Affiliation: Harvard University, USA | |
| Research Interests: Earthquake source processes, Fault and crack dynamics, Lithospheric stressing and seismicity, Hydrologic and surficial processes, Pore fluid interaction with earth materials, Landslides, Episodic glacial motions |
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Professor Hong Li |
| Visiting Scholar at University of Alberta | |
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| Office: University of Alberta, Dalian University of Technology | |
| Research Interests: Numerical Analysis, Reservoir Engineering, Rock Mechanics, Petroleum Engineering |
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Professor Giovanni Barla |
| Professor of of Rock Mechanics | |
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| Affiliation: Editor-in-Chief, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Journal | |
| Research Interests: Rock mass characterisation, Numerical modelling and back analysis, Performance monitoring, Slope stability, Rock-structure interaction for underground workings and tunnels, Surface and underground mining |
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Professor H.S. Thilakasiri |
| Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +94-11-2650567-8(Ext.2121) | |
| Office: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. | |
| Research Interests: Image-based numerical modelling of geomaterials, joint rock characterization and modelling, microseismic monitoring |
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Professor S.R. De S. Chandrakeerthy |
| Senior Professor , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +94-11-2650567-8(Ext.2108) | |
| Office: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. | |
| Research Interests: Structural Engineering |
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Professor Manoj Khandelwal |
| Endeavour Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +91 92144 67635 | |
| Office: Department of Mining Engineering, College of Technology and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur - 313 001, INDIA |
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| Research Interests: Rock Mechanics and Rock Science; Rock Blasting, Slope Stability, Ground Control, Environmental Technology, Soft Computing, etc. |
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Dr. Lei He |
| Endeavour Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 3 990 59339 | |
| Office: Room 151, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Support for large underground opening, for long-term stability, to against explosion and earthquake; Development and application of three-dimensional numerical manifold method (3D-NMM) to rock engineering. |
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Associate Professor Kai Zhang |
| Endeavour Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 434020528 | |
| Office: Room 115, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Experiments in rock mechanics, especially on the creep character. Damage and plastic model for rock, and numerical simulation. Roadway support design in Coal Mines. |
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Dr. Shikuo Chen |
| Endeavour Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 405790168 | |
| Office: Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Rock Fractal Characterization, CBM extraction, Unsaturated Seepage in Fractured Rock Mass, Rock Instability and Controlling in Mining and geological disaster, Crack Damage Evolution and the Expansion of Numerical Implementation with Comsol. |
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Associate Professor Chenhui Wei |
| Endeavour Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 404240668 | |
| Office: Room 116, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Numerical modeling of rock damage under coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical conditions; Coal gas migration and coal-gas interaction. |
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Associate Professor Diyuan Li |
| Endeavour Cheung Kong Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 4 2025 7018 | |
| Office: Room 115, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Experimental rock mechanics under various loading conditions, particularly for hard and brittle rocks; Rock dynamics and fracture propagation under dynamic loads; Slabbing/spalling and rockburst mechanism of rocks in deep mining or tunneling engineering; Cement backfilling and paste backfilling technology in mining engineering. |
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Associate Professor Wendong Yanga |
| Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+61 3 20675598 | |
| Office: China University of Petroleum (East China) | |
| Research Interests: The creep behavior of rock and rock masses, The mechanical properties of jointed rock masses, Hydraulic fracturing. |
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Associate Professor Yong Liu |
| Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+86 18839179880 | |
| Office: | |
| Research Interests: water jet, abrasive gas jet, Sc-CO2 jet and ice-particle gas jet and their application on rock/coal breakage and surface treatment, CBM extraction, CBM well drilling, hydraulic fracture in coal seam, rock impact dynamics, abrasive wear. |
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Professor Dong-Yin Li |
| Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+61 413 193 255 /+86 13939170537 | |
| Office: | |
| Research Interests: Coal mine design and system optimization, Roadway support, Coal mine gas control and drainage, Coal mine resources scientized mining, Mining technology. |
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Professor Tingting Wang |
| Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+61 0437315427 +86 13644595427 | |
| Office: Northeast Petroleum University | |
| Research Interests: Brittle characteristics and acoustic emission signals during rupture process of rock mass; Chaotic characteristics of fracture network; Advanced algorithm for Acoustic Emission source localization and feature extraction of fracture network |
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Professor Wanchun Zhao |
| Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+61 0437143215 / +86 13644595426 | |
| Office: Northeast Petroleum University | |
| Research Interests: Rock mechanics and Fracturing improvement on unconventional oil and gas reservoir. Hydraulic fracturing and SRV. Engineering mechanics on Drilling and completing. |
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Professor Zhendong Cui |
| Associate Professor | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+61 0452491891/+86 13488763485 | |
| Office: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinsese Academy of Sciences | |
| Research Interests: Reservoir Geomechanics; Rock Fracture Mechanics |
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Dr. Liwei Song |
| Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+61 0422815311 / +86 18345995535 | |
| Office: Northeast Petroleum University | |
| Research Interests: Numerical simulation of seismic wavefield in transversely isotropic media, Reverse-time migration. |
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Prof. Zhenyu Zhang |
| Endeavour Research Fellow/Professor of Rock Mechanics and Mining Engineering | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: : | |
| Office: Chongqing University, China | |
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Research Interests: Rock Mechanics, Fluid flow through porous and jointed rocks, Pressure in mining activities and ground control, Deep resource exploitation and geohazard prevention |
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Dr. Huiru Sun |
| Research Fellow | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+61 426097583 | |
| Office: Room 112, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
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Research Interests: Interaction mechanism between gas hydrate phase transition and multiphase flow; Key mechanism and technology of CO2 storage and CO2-EOR |
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Dr. Yanliang Li |
| Lecturer at Jilin University | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: :+8618844548728 | |
| Office: College of Construction Engineering, Jilin University, China | |
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Research Interests: Rock damage and fragmentation properties under deep in-situ pressures; Rock fracture behavior under dynamic and static loads; Visualization and quantitative statistics of cracks in rock materials; Mechanisms of rock breaking and coring in deep scientific drilling |
Key Researchers
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Professor Ranjith Pathegama Gamage |
| Director of 3GDeep, and Head of Geomechanics Group | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 3 990 54982 | |
| Office: Room 140, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Shale Gas: Stimulation methodologies for enhancement of recoveries, Research into Geosequestration of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), including geomechanical behaviour due to the stored supercritical CO2, Formation and swelling behaviour of rock media, Migration of CO2 due to change in insitu stresses., Activation of faults due to the injection of high fluid pressures, Deep Geothermal works, Slope Stability of large deep, open cut mines, Stability of wellbore analysis, Underground longwall mining, Enhanced coal bed methane recovery, ECBM, Hydro-fracturing and other simulation methods for depleted and tight reservoirs, Two-phase and multiphase flow in fractured rock media, Coupled Hydro-mechanical behaviour of fractured and porous rocks, Gas outbursts and groundwater inundation in mines, Rock physics under high pressure conditions, Contaminant transport through rock, Storage of chemical/nuclear waste in underground caverns, Characterization of weathered rocks, Tunneling in soft and hard ground |
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Professor Jian Zhao |
| Geomechanics, Mining & Resource Engineering | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Phone: +61 3 990 56879 | |
| Office: Room 146, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Rock Mechanics, Rock Dynamics, Underground Construction, Geophysics, Mining engineering, Geothermal energy |
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Professor Xavier Choi |
| Professor in Petroleum and Mining Geomechanics | |
| Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
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| Office: Room 112, Building 33, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Rock support and reinforcement, mine stability, rock fracture and damage mechanics, coal and gas outbursts, subsidence induced by underground mining and reservoir depletion, reservoir simulation, unconventional energy, CO2 sequestration, wellbore stability, sand production, fractured reservoirs, and the numerical modelling of multi-scale and multi-physics problems in civil, mining and petroleum geomechanics, and materials engineering. |
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Professor Malek Bouazza |
| Geomechanics Engineering | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54956 | |
| Office: Room 138, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Energy Geotechnology (Borehole heat exchangers, geothermal geostructures, CO2 sequestration)., Gas advective and diffusive flow in saturated and unsaturated porous media, Landfill design, Unsaturated behaviour of geomaterials., Thermo-hydro-mechanical/chemical behaviour of porous media., Contaminant transport through soils and geosynthetics., Geosynthetics in landfills, Geosynthetics in mining applications (heap leach pads, tailing dams, etc.)., Earth reinforced structures, Ground Improvement (Shallow and deep soil mixing, dynamic compaction, stone columns,rigid inclusions)., Biological applications to Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental engineering., Geotechnical properties of soft soils. |
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Dr. Samintha Perera |
| Lecturer in Geomechanics | |
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| Phone: +61 3 903 58649 | |
| Office: Room B 29, Engineering Block B, Grattan Street, Parkville, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia | |
| Research Interests: Geosequestration of carbon dioxide in coal beds, saline aquifers and depleted oil reservoirs, Enhanced coal bed methane recovery (ECBM) and oil recover processes, Permeability of rock mass with respect to oil and gas recovery, Modeling of multiphase flow through rocks. |
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Dr. Asadul Haque |
| Senior Lecturer, Director of Teaching (Geomechanics Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54974 | |
| Office: Room 141, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Soil improvement using additives, Biochar sequestration in treated soils, XrayCT imaging of geomaterials, Railway track geotechnology, Laterally loaded piles in jointed rocks, Cyclic filtration behaviour of soils, Shear behaviour of jointed rocks, CO2 sequestration |
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Dr. Mohan Yellishetty |
| Senior Lecturer (Mining & Resource Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 27143 | |
| Office: Room 147, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Mohan Yellishetty’s current and future research interests are focused around the development and implementation of industrial ecological principles to mining and mining communities. He has a very strong interest in the area of environmental impacts and management due to mining in particular. He has been involved with many aspects of geotechnical & environmental engineering with a particular specialty in acid rock drainage and other environmental aspects of mining industry, besides the current research interests in industrial ecology applications to mining industry. |
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Dr. Ha Bui |
| Lecturer (Geomechanics Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 52599 | |
| Office: Room 132, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Computational mechanics, geomaterials constitutive modelling, large deformation and failure of geomaterials, soil cracking modelling, fracture and damage of geomaterials, slope stability and landslide, multiphase flow in porous media, soil-structure interactions, mesh-free approaches for computational geomechanics, granular flows, lunar soil mechanics, free-surface fluid flows, two-phase flow modeling. |
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Dr. Will Gates |
| Senior Research Officer | |
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| Phone: +61 3 9905 8902 | |
| Office: Room 116, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: X-ray imaging of materials, including concretes, Geo-mechanical and geo-technical aspects of swelling materials, Improving durability of concretes, Standards testing development/modification, Modification of clay minerals for applications in reactive barrier technologies. |
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Dr. Rao Singh |
| Research Fellow | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54981 | |
| Office: Room 154, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Physical and numerical modelling of geotechnical problems involving heat, moisture and gas transfer, geothermal energy pile foundation, unsaturated clays and geosynthetic clay liner (GCL), nuclear waste repository, suction measurement techniques, thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behavior of soils and geosynthetics, modification of bentonite to improve its retention capacity, gas/liquid permeability characteristic of cement bentonite used in cut-off walls and borehole walls, coal seam gas (CSG), wind farm collector system. |
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Dr. Qianbing Zhang |
| Lecturer (Mining & Resource Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54385 | |
| Office: Room 149, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Mechanical behavior of rock at high strain rate using split Hopkinson pressure bar; Mechanical behavior of rock at high pressure using plate impact facility; High speed digital image correlation method; Field monitoring, numerical simulations and geomechanical model tests of underground caverns; Scientific drilling and modeling of earthquake; Induced seismicity in deep earth energy and resources extraction. |
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Dr. Tharaka Rathnaweera |
| Research Fellow | |
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| Phone: +61 3 9905 5549 | |
| Office: Room G22, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 Geosequestration, Mechanical behaviour of reservoir rock (sandstone), Stress-strain behaviour of rocks and constitutive modelling. |
Message from the Director of 3GDeep, Prof Ranjith PG
Monash University’s Geo-mechanics for Geo-energy and Geo-resources Deep Research Group (3GDeep) consists of ten leading researchers and well over 35 PhD students. 3GDeep’s primary aim is to facilitate collaborative research – both fundamental and applied - assessing feasibility and resolving technical problems in harnessing new and more sustainable forms of deep-earth mineral and energy resources.
We seek to evolve sustainable and economically responsible approaches to important practical problems, such as the following.
(a) Mitigating climate change: mainly through geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) and by using CO2 in industrial processes and products to keep it out of the atmosphere.
(b) Moving toward environmentally safe technologies for extracting unconventional minerals, oil/gas, and geothermal energy.
(c) Using wastes to produce green value-added products.
(d) Future of Fuel “H2” - New energy-efficient methods of conversion of natural gas to H2
UN Sustainable Development Goals 7, 9, and 13 are guiding principles at the heart of all our projects at 3GDeep.
Our main objective is to develop and understand resource recovery in this domain, with the longer-term goal of promoting technological innovation for environmental protection and safe practical recovery of resources from deep earth. This is being achieved in four main research areas: (1) a Climate Action Plan, (2) unconventional oil/gas and renewable geothermal energy and Hydrogen, (3) new mining methodologies and (4) waste to wealth.
Through a series of projects funded by both Australian Research Council (ARC, industry and international agencies, we are developing suitable methodologies, innovative science, and sophisticated testing devices for micro- and macro-scale studies of reservoir rocks.
Climate change is an immense challenge for the global community. UN Goal 13 states that we must: “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.” Our vision is to find ways to achieve large-scale CO2 reduction by storing it in deep geological formations, as well as to create wealth from waste such as using CO2 emitted from power plants. We are doing extensive research on the utilisation of CO2 in a number of areas including as stimulation fluid (breaking rocks) for reservoir rocks. Our team researches technologies for releasing the untapped huge reserves of geothermal (clean) energy at an affordable price for our global society – taking seriously UN Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. How do we make an energy-efficient conversion of methane to hydrogen - is another research we have recently taken up.
The mining industry seeks innovations in the science and technology of breaking rocks to extract minerals – to reduce energy consumption through operational efficiencies, and to minimise environmental impacts. Our group researches and develops new techniques for rock fragmentation: primarily at mine sites, but also for later comminution (crushing and grinding) of extracted materials. We envisage a paradigm shift in the truest sense of the word: the future of mining will not require us to dig big holes in the ground, haul heavy rock to crushing plants, and grind it to a fine powder. This means we can dramatically reduce energy consumption in processing. Given Australia’s pre-eminence in this domain and its excessive expenditure on energy, the national benefit alone will be significant (saving billions of dollars every year), even before considering the global impact. Techniques developed in recent decades have failed to improve the situation; but our team has developed a new methodology for sustainable and economical mining, what we call “Slow Releasing Energy Material Agent (SREMA)”.
Our research laboratory (Deep Earth Energy Lab) has state-of-the-art testing facilities. The lab is the first of its kind in Australia and Worldwide and serves as a national focal point for this specialisation. Its suite of equipment (valued at AUD$18 million) features macroscale high-pressure testing chambers, and is unique in Australia and perhaps the world. Through Deep Earth Energy Lab, Monash has drawn international attention as a powerhouse for large-scale testing applied to deep-earth explorations. These advanced facilities enable unprecedented research on coal-seam gas, shale gas, oil, and deep geothermal recovery under complex and extreme geological conditions.
I welcome scientists, industry partners, and investors to our group from around the world to collaborate on sustainable research in recovering minerals and energy. Together we can deliver much-needed science and technologies to achieve urgent UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Prof Ranjith PG
Founding Director of 3GDeep Research Group
Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
PhD Students
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Mr.Yuqi Song |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 420 833 109 | |
| Office: Room 126, Building 69, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Experimental study and discrete element numerical simulation of sand production. |
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Ms. Janethri Parana Liyanage |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: 0420208906 | |
| Office: Room 213, Building 70, Clayton campus | |
| Research Interests: Hydration and uniform energy distribution of SREMA in effective mining purposes. |
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Mr. Bo Zhang |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +8613372675940 | |
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| Research Interests: Foam flow in pores and fractures, Foam based hydrofracking, Material point method, Finite element method |
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Ms. Guorui Yang |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 402 286 857 | |
| Office: Room 201, Building 70, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Introducing green cement for subsurface applications under high-temperature high-pressure conditions. |
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Mr. Treshan Nimasha Perera |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 455320272 | |
| Office: Room 117, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Investigation of new rock breaking technology for future mining |
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Ms. R.D.G. Fiona Harshini |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 401906780 | |
| Office: Room 117, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Understanding of fracture stimulation for geothermal energy recoveries, Renewable energy |
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Mr. Chatura Dodangoda |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 455909512 | |
| Office: Room 127, Building 37, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Hydrogen storage in geological formations. |
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Mr. Gajanan Karunakaran |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 456830728 | |
| Office: Room 127, Building 37, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Efficient technique for CH4-CO2 exchange in natural gas hydrates. |
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Ms. Gayani Piyumika Perera |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 459088674 | |
| Office: Room 113, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Development of a sustainable waste- based cement for ultra high strength applications. |
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Ms. Isuri Aloka Rathnayaka |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: + 61 456 265 199 | |
| Office: Room 113, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS). |
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Mr. Tharindu Theekshana Kannangara |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 455634109 | |
| Office: Room 114, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Slow Release Energy Material Agent (SREMA) for sustainable mineral recoveries. |
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Ms. F.S.A. Ansar |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: - | |
| Office: Room 114, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 utilization and mineralization in mine tailing to produce value-added products |
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Ms. Yutong Gui |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 0403 905 881 | |
| Office: Room 101, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Development of High Energy SREMA (Slow releasing Energy material agent) for future energy transition minerals extractions. |
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Mr. Guoyan Li |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 0466988212 | |
| Office: Room 1.07, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Geochemical and geomechanical studies in carbon sequestration. |
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Mr. Chamith Beddage |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 448266874 | |
| Office: Room 107, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: AI-Powered Breakthroughs: Energy through Advanced Rock Fracturing for Geothermal Heat Recovery |
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Ms. Salmi Sikurajapathi |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 417486168 | |
| Office: Room 107, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 as a Resource: Innovations in Storage and Utilization |
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Mr. Nadun Bimsara |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 484 957 500 | |
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| Research Interests: Advancing Geothermal Energy: Developing Next-Generation Systems for Sustainable and Clean Power Generation. . |
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Ms. Sasandi Chandeepa Muhandiram |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 499483080 | |
| Office: Room 217, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Eco-friendly hydrogen production techniques through ultramafic rock serpentinization in geothermal settings. |
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Ms. Zhen Peng |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 0405611790 | |
| Office: Room 101, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Hydrogen storage. |
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Mr. Hailong Song |
| Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 0478291085 | |
| Office: Room 314, Building 94, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Exploring CO2 sequestration in coal seams, linking carbon storage with coal mine safety and energy applications.. |
Visiting PhD Students
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Mr. Yi Li |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 451016855 | |
| Office: Room 111A, Building 31, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Geosequestration of carbon dioxide in deep saline aquifers, core flooding experiments. |
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Mr. Zongqing Zhou |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 50538 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Mechanical mechanism, numerical simulation and risk assessment of water inrush in rock tunnels |
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Mr. Peng Liu |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 450233012 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Hydraulic fracture propagation pattern in heterogeneous formation, preferential flow in porous media |
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Mr. Qiao Lyu |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +86 15172476669 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Jet flow, rock mechanics, shale gas exploitation |
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Mr. Pingsheng Wang |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 452591109 | |
| Office: Room 111, Building 31, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Strata-structure interaction, Frozen ground mechanics |
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Mr. Nan Jiang |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 426280622 | |
| Office: Room 111, Building 31, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Rock fracture, Rock mechanics |
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Mr. Milind Patil |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 414295892 | |
| Office: Room 111a, Building 31, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Tunneling and underground structures in soft soil, Numerical modeling, Earthquake geotechnical engineering, Computational geomechanics. |
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Mr. Jianjian Zhao |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 415061786 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Engineering rock mechanics, fracture propagation of rock under dynamic load. |
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Mr. Yi Xue |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 410892965 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Engineering rock mechanics, Coupled analysis of flow, stress and damage in rock failure. |
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Mr. Zhentao Li |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 426290909 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Pore-fracture system characterization; gas adsorption-diffusion in coals; gas flow. |
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Mr. Beining Zhang |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +86 15135157205 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 sequestration in coal beds, enhanced coalbed methane recovery. |
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Mr. Jiang Xu |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 4 3124 4986 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 anchorage foundation, seepage of deep excavation, monitoring of deep excavation. |
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Mr. Chengkai Fan |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 422 274 832 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 geological storage, fiber optic monitoring technology applied to fluid percolation and rock deformation. |
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Mr. Zhenlong Song |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 0481 736 023 | |
| Office: Room 106, building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 Rock mechanics, Rock seepage. |
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Mr. Miao Chen |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: 86-18852146979 | |
| Office: State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics & Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology | |
| Research Interests: CO2 Deep underground engineering and reinforcement technique, Experiment and DEM simulation of fracture evolution of rock containing flaws. |
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Mr. Xin Li |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 4 698 55628 | |
| Office: Room 106, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 Geological model of reservoir development and dynamic variation law of geofluid system. |
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Mr. Zhenyu Han |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 4 687 02607 | |
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| Research Interests: Rock dynamics; DIC application in rock mechanics; Hydraulic fracturing. |
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Mr. Zhuo Zheng |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 424690330 | |
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| Research Interests: Grouting theory; Flowing regularity of particle suspensions; Hydraulic fracturing |
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Ms. Duan Yongting |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 413356620 | |
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| Research Interests: Rock failure mechanism; meso-damage evolution; CT images characterize |
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Mr. Yi Ding |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +8613408084373 | |
| Office: Southwest Petroleum University | |
| Research Interests: Wellbore stability; Rock mechanics; Hydraulic fracturing |
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Mr. Jizhao Xu |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 421099949; +86 15996935210 | |
| Office: School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology | |
| Research Interests: CO2 enhanced CBM recovery; crack characterization; fluid flow in porous media |
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Mr. Pengfei Yin |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: 61-0481187328, 86-15262012936 | |
| Office:
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| Research Interests: Deep underground engineering, rock mechanics |
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Mr. Yang Hao |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61431063493/ +8618636136908 | |
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| Research Interests: Rock mechanics, mining engineering, roadway supporting, geothermal energy |
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Mr. Zhennan Zhu |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +8615927476381 | |
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| Research Interests: Rock mechanics, Exploitation of deep geothermal energy |
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Mr. Jizhao Xu |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 421099949; +86 15996935210 | |
| Office: School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology | |
| Research Interests: CO2 enhanced CBM recovery; crack characterization; fluid flow in porous media |
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Ms. Beixiu Huang |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 474138764 | |
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| Research Interests: Multiscale layering structures, Rock mechanics, Reservoir heterogeneity and anisotropy. |
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Mr. Zhanming Shi |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 432961241 | |
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| Research Interests: Fracture damage behavior of hot dry rocks; Fatigue properties of rocks; Discrete element numerical simulation. |
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Mr. Yongjun Chen |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 478439378 | |
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| Research Interests: Deep and high temperature rock mechanics. |
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Ms. Lingling He |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Research Interests: Evaluation of underground space, Engineering geology. |
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Mr. Guojun Zhao |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone:+61 0466790967 | |
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| Research Interests: Multi-phase flow in porous media; Hydrate seal; Marine hydrate exploitation; CO2 geological storage. |
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Ms. Xiaoli Su |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone:0466124582 | |
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| Research Interests: Geotechnical Engineering, microwave-assisted rock breaking and multi-field coupling simulation. |
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Ms. Mi Wang |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone:0466108245 | |
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| Research Interests: Dynamic mechanical behavior and failure mechanism of rocks. |
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Ms. Yameng He |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: 0414666102 | |
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| Research Interests: Mechanisms damage of wellbore cement in CO2 geological storage, permeability and resistivity properties of rocks and rock-like materials under coupled multiphysics fields. |
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Mr. Junjie Zhao |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 478245361 | |
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| Research Interests: Mechanism of rock damage and crack propagation; Finite element numerical simulation; Artificial intelligence technology. |
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Ms. Yu Zhao |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 466129648 | |
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| Research Interests: CO2 Enhanced coalbed methane (CO2-ECBM), Boundary element method program development, Inverse problem. |
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Mr. Yunfeng Xu |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +61 04667908828 | |
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| Research Interests: CCUS; Reservoir numerical simulation; Data-driven models and artificial intelligence algorithm. |
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Mr. Ziyuan Cong |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Research Interests: Rock Mechanics; Hydraulic Fracturing; Numerical simulation. |
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Mr. Zheng Yang |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Research Interests: Rock engineering; Computational mechanics; Multiscale and multiphysics modeling; Rock breakage; Induced seismicity |
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Mr. Menglong Peng |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Research Interests: Constitutive models of rocks and the analysis and control of tunnel excavation disturbances |
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Mr. Shubham Kumar |
| Visiting Postgraduate Student | |
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| Phone: +91 9382806364 +61 433920386 | |
| Office: 314/15, 3rd Floor, Woodside Building, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS), Carbon Mineralization, Enhanced Coal bed Methane (ECBM), and Shale Gas recovery. |
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