Impact of injection rate ramp-up on nucleation and arrest of dynamic fault slip
Ciardo, Federico; Rinaldi, Antonio Pio
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.
Size effect in true mode II fracturing of rocks: Theory and experiment
Bahrami, Bahador; Ghouli, Saeid; 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 Erich Norbert; 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
True Mode III Fracturing of Rocks: An Axially Double-Edge Notched Brazilian Disk Test
Bahrami, Bahador; Nejati, Morteza; Ayatollahi, Majid Reza; Driesner, Thomas
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
Estimating the Least Principal Stress in a Granitic Rock Mass: Systematic Mini-Frac Tests and Elaborated Pressure Transient Analysis
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Ma, Xiaodong
Laboratory simulation of fault reactivation by fluid injection and implications for induced seismicity at the BedrettoLab, Swiss Alps
Volpe, Giuseppe; Pozzi, Giacomo; Collettini, Cristiano; Spagnuolo, Elena; Achtziger-Zupančič, Peter; Zappone, Alba Simona; Aldega, Luca; Meier, M.A.; Giardini, Domenico; Cocco, Massimo
Subduction earthquake cycles controlled by episodic fluid pressure cycling
Dal Zilio, Luca; Gerya, Taras
Harnessing the potential of digital twins in seismology
Dal Zilio, Luca; Giardini, Domenico; Carbonell, Ramon; Wiemer, Stefan
Fault Zone Spatial Stress Variations in a Granitic Rock Mass: Revealed by Breakouts Within an Array of Boreholes
Zhang, Shihuai; Ma, Xiaodong; Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; van Limborgh, Rutger; Wenning, Quinn; Hertrich, Marian; Giardini, Domenico
Constraining the stress field and its variability at the BedrettoLab: Elaborated hydraulic fracture trace analysis
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Ma, Xiaodong; Zhang, Shihuai; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Hertrich, Marian; Klee, Gerd; Greenwood, Andrew; Caspari, Eva; Giardini, Domenico
Incorporating Full Elastodynamic Effects and Dipping Fault Geometries in Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS)
Erickson, Brittany A.; Jiang, Junle; Lambert, Valère; Barbot, Sylvain D.; Abdelmeguid, Mohamed; Almquist, Martin; Ampuero, Jean-Paul; Ando, Ryosuke; Cattania, Camilla; Chen, Alexandre; Dal Zilio, Luca; Deng, Shuai; Dunham, Eric M.; Elbanna, Ahmed E.; Gabriel, Alice-Agnes; Harvey, Tobias W.; Huang, Yihe; Kaneko, Yoshihiro; Kozdon, Jeremy E.; Lapusta, Nadia; et al.
Modelling and inferring fracture curvature from borehole GPR data: A case study from the Bedretto Laboratory, Switzerland
Escallón Botero, Daniel; Shakas, Alexis; Maurer, Hansruedi
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
Selection and characterization of the target fault for fluid-induced activation and earthquake rupture experiments
Achtziger-Zupančič, Peter; Ceccato, Alberto; Zappone, Alba Simona; Pozzi, Giacomo; Shakas, Alexis; Amann, Florian; Behr, Whitney Maria; Escallón Botero, Daniel; Giardini, Domenico; Hertrich, Marian; Jalali, Mohammadreza; Ma, Xiaodong; Meier, Men-Andrin; Osten, Julian; Wiemer, Stefan; Cocco, Massimo
Multiscale Seismic Monitoring in the Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies (BULGG)
Mesimeri, Maria; Scarabello, Luca; Zimmermann, Eric; Haag, Thomas; Zylis, Emil; Villiger, Linus; Kästli, Philipp; Meier, Men-Andrin; Rinaldi, Antonio Pio; Obermann, Anne; Hertrich, Marian; Clinton, John Francis; Giardini, Domenico; Wiemer, Stefan
Hydromechanical characterization of a fractured crystalline rock volume during multi-stage hydraulic stimulations at the BedrettoLab
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Ma, Xiaodong; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Rosskopf, Martina; Obermann, Anne; Rinaldi, Antonio Pio; Hertrich, Marian; Serbeto, Francisco; Maurer, Hansruedi; Wiemer, Stefan; Giardini, Domenico
Structural Evolution, Exhumation Rates, and Rheology of the European Crust During Alpine Collision: Constraints From the Rotondo Granite—Gotthard Nappe
Ceccato, Alberto; Behr, Whitney M.; Zappone, Alba Simona; Tavazzani, Lorenzo; Giuliani, Andrea
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
Field-Scale Characterization of Permeability-Stress Relationship in Bedretto Underground Laboratory in Switzerland
Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Ma, Xiaodong; Hertrich, Marian; Loew, Simon
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
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 Erich Norbert; 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
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
Hydro-Geomechanical Observations During Multistage Hydraulic Stimulation at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory, Switzerland
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Ma, Xiaodong; Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Hertrich, Marian; Maurer, Hansruedi; Giardini, Domenico; Rinaldi, Antonio Pio; Clasen Repollés, Victor; Obermann, Anne; Wiemer, Stefan
Hydraulic Characterization of the Bedretto Underground Laboratory
Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Nima; Dutler, Nathan; Brixel, Bernard; Hertrich, Marian; Loew, Simon
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.
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
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
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
Constraining a geological model of a shear zone by combining geophysical borehole logging and GPR
Shakas, Alexis; Hertrich, Marian; Maurer, Hansruedi; Krietsch, Hannes
In situ stress profiling along Bedretto boreholes via integrated geomechanical approaches
Stadler, Deborah
Investigating anisotropic seismic velocities of the Rotondo granite in intact and fractured sections by crosshole seismic surveys
Epiney, Claire
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
From stress field heterogeneity to hydraulic stimulation mechanisms: Insights from a hectometer-scale fractured rock mass
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert
Semantic image segmentation and automated structure picking from acoustic televiewer images
Perritaz, Paloma
Borehole Indicators of In Situ Stress Field Heterogeneity at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory
van Limborgh, Rutger
Geological characterisation of an underground research facility in the Bedretto tunnel
Meier, Matthias
In-situ stress and rock mass characterization via mini-frac tests at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert
Estimating the least principal stress in a granitic rock mass: systematic mini-frac tests and elaborated pressure transient analysis
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Ma, Xiaodong
Validation of Technologies for reservoir engineering (VALTER)
Giardini, Domenico; Wiemer, Stefan; Maurer, Hansruedi; Hertrich, Marian; Meier, Peter; Alcolea, Andrés; Castilla, Raymi; Hochreutener, Rebecca
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
Hydro-mechanical earthquake cycles in a poro-visco-elasto-plastic fluid-bearing fault structure
Dal Zilio, Luca; Hegyi, Betti; Behr, Whitney; Gerya, Taras
On petrophysical and geomechanical properties of Bedretto Granite
David, Christian; Nejati, Morteza; Geremia, Davide
Borehole Trajectories for VALTER volume, Bedretto Lab
Shakas, Alexis; Wenning, Quinn; Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Escallón Botero, Daniel; Behnen, Kathrin; Hertrich, Marian
Geological model selection for the Bedretto lab using gravity and magnetic observations
Houtsma, Fenna
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 Erich Norbert; Klee, Gerd; Ma, Xiaodong
Data set of televiewer logging and fractures at the Bedretto Lab (SB boreholes)
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Caspari, Eva; Greenwood, Andrew
Pressure - flow rate (P-Q) analysis of VALTER phase 1 stimulations at the Bedretto Lab
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert
Borehole logging data (acoustic and optical televiewer) from boreholes in the Bedretto Lab
Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Wenning, Quinn; Hertrich, Marian; Ma, Xiaodong
Seismic Catalogs for the 2022-2023 Hydraulic Stimulation Experiments at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory
Rosskopf, Martina; Durand, Virginie; Obermann, Anne
Structure picks from boreholes in the Bedretto Lab
Wenning, Quinn; Castilla, Raymi; Bröker, Kai Erich Norbert; Zappone, Alba Simona; Ma, Xiaodong; Hertrich, Marian; Shakas, Alexis
Activity & Science Report
The Activity Report presents a comprehensive overview of the diverse range of activities carried out by our team, including students, researchers, technicians, and administrative staff members.
The Science Report features all posters presented at conferences and meetings during the same period.
Download all the Activity Report and Science Report issues here:
Documents
Presentation of Prof. D. Giardini at the public information event on 18 September 2018 (PDF, 7.5 MB)