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Stress/Property Measurements for Geotechnics |
CATEGORY 6 GLOBAL PROJECT RECORDS AND REFERENCES | ||
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-Records of Contribution from Three Decades of Fieldwork- |
6-1GLOBAL PROJECT RECORD | ||||
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List of Major Projects Utilizing Serata Stress Technology (SST) | ||||
Country/Organization | Project | |||
AUSTRALIA | ||||
Kembla Coal and Coke Woolongong, N.S. Wales |
Underground coal mine design and development | |||
CANADA | ||||
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (PCS) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Design and development of four deep potash mines at Allan, Cory, Lanigan and Rocanville. | |||
Sifto Canada, Inc. Goderich, Ontario |
Mine design & instrumentation for rehabilitation of old failing operation. | |||
SOQUEM, Les Mines Seleine Madeline Island, Quebec |
by eliminating surface subsidence.Multiple-level salt mine design and development | |||
Dow Chemical Canada Edmonton, Alberta |
cavern field operation.Solution mining design and analysis of large | |||
International Minerals & Chemical Esterhazy, Saskatchewan |
Potash mine design and development overcoming rapid ground failure by stress control. | |||
Potacan Mine, Ltd. Tracy, New Brunswick |
Stabilizing failing ground by introducing Stress Control method. | |||
ENGLAND | ||||
Rio Tinto Zinc Corp. London |
Potash exploration & mining feasibility analysis of the deep potash deposit under North Sea. | |||
Cleveland Potash, Ltd. Boulby, Yorkshire |
Development and design optimization of potash mining under the Yorkshire National Park. | |||
INDIA | ||||
Central Mining Research Institute Darnbad |
Introducing Serata Stress Technology to the mining industry of India through the Institute. | |||
JAPAN | ||||
Japan Railroad Construction Bureau Hokkaido |
Ground measurement and analysis for Seikan Undersea Tunnel excavation. | |||
Chubu Power Company Hamaoka, Shizuoka |
Stress and property measurement and safety analysis for nuclear power plant foundation. | |||
Shikoku Power Company Ikata, Ehime |
Stress measurement and analysis of foundation for nuclear power plant. | |||
Ministry of Science & Technology, Japanese government |
Automatic stress/property measurement for earthquake prediction. |
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Ministry of Land & Transportation, Tsukuba Research Center Japanese government |
Stress measurement in tunnel ground for digital optimization of earthwork. |
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Ministry of Economy & Industry, New Energy Development Bureau Japanese government |
Development of deepwell remote measurement system for Serata Probe. |
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NETHERLANDS | ||||
Royal Dutch shell Oil Co. Rotterdam |
3-D material testing development for solution mining. |
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Akzo Zout Chemie Hemgello |
Underground cavern design for petrochemical waste storage. |
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UNITED STATES | ||||
Dow Chemical Company Freeport, Texas |
and underground storage of gas, oil and chemicals.Cavern design and analysis for solution mining | |||
Bechtel Corporation Carlsbad, NM |
Nuclear waste disposal (WIPP) Design and safety analysis, accurately predicted the ground failure. | |||
U.S. Department of Energy (ONWI/Battelle) Richmond, WA |
Nuclear waste storage design and construction analysis. |
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Electric Power Research Institute EPRI) McIntosh, Alabama |
Design and construction of the world first compressed air energy storage cavern in the world. | |||
Peabody Coal Company St. Louis, MO |
Digital optimization design and field adaptation for coal mining. |
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Jim Walter Resources Somerset. CO |
Digital optimization of deep coal mining. |
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Genwal Coal Company Huntington, Utah |
Design optimization of multiple-level coal mining. |
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Solution Mining Research Institute Encinitas, LA |
Digital optimization analysis and design of solution caverns and safe operation. | |||
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port New Orleans, LA |
Design of solution cavern field for large scale oil storage. |
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Shell Oil Company Houston, Texas |
Solution cavern design and analysis in offshore oil storage. |
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Trans Continental Gas Pipeline Co. St. Louis, MO |
Gas storage cavern analysis and design and safety assurance. |
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6-2.PUBLICATION LIST ON SERATA STRESS TECHNOLOGY | ||||
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1. | Double-Fracture Method | |||
"Double-Fracture Method of In Situ Stress Measurement in Brittle Rocks" | ||||
Author: | Shosei Serata | |||
Source: | Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering, Vol.25, 1992, PP 89 ? 108 | |||
Significance: | Detail explanation on invention of the method | |||
2. | Serata Probe Testing for Japanese Government Program | |||
"Investigation on a New Dry Single-Fracture Method of In-Situ Stress Measurement" | ||||
Authors: | T. Ishida, Y. Mizuta, and Y. Nakayama | |||
Source: | Rock Stress Symposium, Kumamoto 2003 | |||
Significance: | Laboratory validation of Serata Probe in the Japanese government program | |||
3. | Remote Operating System of Serata Probe for Japanese Government Program | |||
"Development and Application of Load Test Equipment for 1,000 m Deep Borehole" | ||||
Authors: | N. Tsuda, T. Yoshimura, and T. Hatano | |||
Source: | 9th Congress of EAEG 2002, 9, http://www.civil.ntua.gr/IAEG | |||
Significance: | Field validation of the remote operating system down to 1,000 m depth | |||
4. | Serata Stress Technology (SST) Software (I) | |||
"Formulation of Constitutive Equation for Salt" | ||||
Authors: | Shosei Serata, Kittitep Fuenkajorn | |||
Source: | 7th Symposium on Salt, Vol. 1 483 ? 488 (1993), Elsevier Science | |||
Publishers, B.V., Amsterdam | ||||
Significance: | Basic concept of FEM modeling of structures in complex ground. | |||
5. | Serata Stress Technology (SST) Software (II) | |||
"Numerical Simulation of Strain-Softening and Dilation of Rock Salt" | ||||
Authors: | Kittitep Fuenkajorn and Shosei Serata | |||
Source: | International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science, | |||
Supplemental Issue of 34th US Symposium on Rock Mechanics, | ||||
University of Wisconsin, 1993 | ||||
Significance: | Computer modeling of ground failure by aging. | |||
6. | Mine Application Example | |||
"Long-Term Evaluation of Stress Control Method of Underground Mining at Sifto Salt Mine" | ||||
Authors: | Donald Dickie & Shosei Serata | |||
Source: | Journal of Mining Engineering, January 1993 | |||
Significance: | Demonstrating how to convert a failing mine to supreme producer | |||
7. | Coal Mine Application | |||
"Stress Control Method applied to Stabilization of Underground Coal Mine Openings" | ||||
Authors: | Serata, S., Carr, F. and Marin, E | |||
Source: | Proc. 25th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Northwestern University, | |||
1984, pp 583~590 | ||||
Significance: | Successful application of stress control method to deep coal mining | |||
8. | Application to hard Rock Mining | |||
"In-Situ Stress Measurements in Stratified Hard rock Formation" | ||||
Authors: | Shrinivasan, K. and Serata, S. | |||
Source: | 26th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Rapid City, South Dakota, 1985 Pp 1227~1234 | |||
Significance: | Demonstrating stress control in hard rock mining | |||
9. | Application to Long-Wall Mining of Coal | |||
"Recent Advancement of Stress control Method" | ||||
Authors: | Serata, S., Fuenkajorn, K. | |||
Source: | Proceeding of International Conference on Long-Wall, Pittsburgh, PA. 1991, pp 265~283 | |||
Significance: | Application of stress control to long-wall mining. | |||
10. | Numerical Analysis based on Stress Measurement | |||
"Numerical Solution of Strain softening and Dilation of Rock Salt" | ||||
Authors: | Fuenkajorn, K., and Serata, S. | |||
Source: | International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science, | |||
Supplemental Issue of 34th Symposium on Rock Mechanics, University of Wisconsin, 1993 | ||||
Significance: | Numerical optimization of salt mining by stress control. | |||
11. | In-Situ Stress Measurement | |||
"Development of In-Situ Stress State Measurement Method using Single-Fracture Method" | ||||
Authors: | Uno, H., Katayama, I., Shingu, K., Serata, S. and Aoki, K. | |||
Source: | Proceedings of the Japan Symposium on Rock Mechanics, 10, 1998 pp 659~664 | |||
Significance: | Invention of force balance principle for stress measurement. |
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