Easter Egg decorating and hunting are without a doubt the most popular Easter tradition. Although it’s not 100% clear where it all began, a popular theory about the origin of Easter eggs, according to Carole Levin, professor of history and director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska, eggs were … Read more
This article was originally posted on the Altair website under their Digital Debunking series. Would Jurassic World’s Indominus Rex be powerful enough to crush one of the movie’s gyrospheres with its claws? In collaboration with Altair, we used our Irazu simulation software to find out (we figured it’d be easier than resurrecting a real-life specimen… and … Read more
Geomechanica’s guest blog series are written by rock engineering and geomechanics experts. In the second post of these series, we’re showcasing the work of Dr. Murad Abuaisha on “Hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity by FDEM.” Murad Abuaisha is an assistant professor at the School of Mines (École des Mines – Paris). He has been conducting research on … Read more
Understanding and predicting the the rock mass mechanical response to temperature variations is relevant for a number of geo-engineering applications, including: underground disposal of nuclear waste, geothermal energy extraction, underground LNG storage, geological sequestration of CO2, and coal bed gas extraction. We are pleased to announce that we have been working on the introduction of … Read more
We are excited to announce that we have implemented a mechanically-based model of the rock-reinforcement interaction process. The methodology represents an adaptation of the reinforcement elements first developed for FDEM analysis of reinforced concrete (Zivaljic et al. 2013) and modified to make them suitable for modelling rock masses. From a numerical viewpoint, the reinforcement model … Read more