BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2018 Cornelius Pings Lecture DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charles Fairhurst, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota Talk Title: Earth Resources Engineering - An Emerging Field Series: Pings Keynote Lecture Series Abstract: The term Earth Resource Engineering was Introduced by the US National Academy of Engineering in 2006 to encompass the traditional extractive discIplines of Petroleum, Mining and Geological Engineering plus newer applications - such as long-term isolation of high-level nuclear waste. This\n recognized the unique ability of the rock subsurface to isolate the biosphere from toxic contaminants for millennia. A considerable number of additional uses. both shallow and deep. have since been introduced and/or proposed. These will be described briefly. The lecture will focus on some of the specific challenges in mechanics arising in rock engineering. Evolving over several billion years. the\n structural make-up of the subsurface is far more complex than materials encountered in most other branches of engineering. This dictates a different engineering methodology. Thus. although continuum mechanics plays a valuable role in rock engineering, discontinuities, anisotropy, and heterogeneity -Iarge and small scale- must be recognized and considered.\n A few examples, including efforts to increase advance rates in tunneling "by a factor of ten". will be provided to illustrate the challenges, and the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration. Introduction of Earth Resource Engineering programs at leading research universities would stimulate such collaboration and advances.\n \n MEET & GREET RECEPTION\n HED 1st Floor Lobby\n 10AM\n \n Host: Professor and Chair Richard Roberts DTSTART:20180404T110000 LOCATION:SAL 101 URL;VALUE=URI: DTEND:20180404T120000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR