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EUROCK 2017 report
Date: June 19 –24, 2017 (including workshops and technical visits)
Venue: Auditorium GONG & Clarion Congress Hotel, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Organizer: NG of the ISRM of the Czech Republic & Institute of Geonics of
the Czech Academy of Sciences
Number of registered participants: 245
Number of attended participants: 229
Venue of the Symposium – Auditorium Gong, Lower Area of Vitkovice
Workshop before the symposium:
Workshop on Simulation of Fractured Rock Masses organized by ITASCA from Germany was held
before the symposium. Main goal of the workshop was the introduction and practical examples of
numerical simulation methods for fractured rock and workshop was designed for engineers from mines
and underground constructions and scientists from academic institutions. Workshop was very successful
with attendance of 40 participants from 15 countries. Five lectures were given by Mr. Christian Missal
form Germany, Prof. Heinz Konietzky, from Germany, Mr. Le Goc Romain from France and Prof.
Stefano Utili from the UK.
Participants of the Workshop on Simulation of Fractured Rock Masses
Symposium
Symposium started by Welcome reception on Monday evening on the 19th
of June 2017 as an informal
meeting of EUROCK 2017 participants. This famous and very respecting event came back to the Czech
Republic after 12 years, when the first EUROCK symposium was held in Brno city in 2005. Organizers
selected a special venue for EUROCK 2017 as a combination of a classical congress hotel and a technical
heritage site – GONG Auditorium in the Lower Area of Vítkovice where which used to be a huge fuel
tank and was reconstructed as a congress hall. The main motto of the symposium was Human activity in
rock masses.
Distinguished experts, who have been involved in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering for
many years, were invited as keynote speakers. These experts were professor Heinz Konietzky from
Germany, Prof. Frederic Pellet from France, Dr. Jiří Ptáček from the Czech Republic, Prof. Walter
Wittke from Germany and Prof. Arno Zang from Germany.
Many famous foreign colleagues from the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering from
International Advisory Committee and International Scientific Committee supported EUROCK 2017
symposium by their personal attendance. These experts were Prof. Charlie Li, ISRM Vice President for
Europe from Norway, Prof. Norikazu Shimizu, ISRM Vice President at Large from Japan, Prof. Manchao
He, ISRM Vice President at Large from China, Prof. Naj Aziz from Australia, Prof. Hani Mitri from
Canada, Dr. Jan Nemcik from Australia, Prof. Yuzo Obara from Japan, Dr. Rajendra Singh from India,
Prof. Wulf Schubert from Austria and Prof. Resat Ulusay from Turkey. Two candidates for next ISRM
President support symposium by personal attendance, Prof. Resat Ulusay from Turkey and Prof. Jian
Zhao from Australia.
June 20, 2017: Opening ceremony, morning keynote lecture by Prof. Walter Wittke who talked about
Design based on the Anisotropic Jointed Rock Model (AJRM) - Illustrated on the basis of the Large-
Scale Infrastructure Project Stuttgart -Ulm with more than 50 km of tunnels; morning parallel sessions in
4 sections - Laboratory and in-situ rock testing, Rock mass properties, New materials and technologies in
geomechanics and geotechnics, dynamic phenomena in rock mass; afternoon keynote lectures by Prof.
Pellet who talked about Rock Mechanics meeting the challenge of geo-energies and by Dr. Ptáček who
talked about Rockbursts in hardcoal mining in the Czech Part of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (during
his lecture he introduced his book about Rockbursts in Ostrava Karvina coalfiled which was published at
the occasion of the symposium); afternoon parallel sessions - Laboratory and in-situ rock testing, Rock
mass properties, Mine design and ground control, Underground storage and waste disposal.
June 21, 2017: Morning parallel sessions in 4 sections - Laboratory and in-situ rock testing, Rock mass
properties, Mine design and ground control, Hydraulic fracturing, Design methodology in mining and
underground constructions, Geothermal energy & Mine design and ground control, Dynamic phenomena
in rock mass; morning keynote lectures by Prof. Konietzky who talked about Simulation of Hydraulic
Fracturing and by Prof. Zang who talked about Fatigue Hydraulic Fracturing; poster session (poster
session was held as a special session with a special time without any simultaneous program), afternoon
parallel sessions - Laboratory and in-situ rock testing, Rock mass properties, Mine design and ground
control, Underground storage and waste disposal, symposium banquette.
June 22, 2017: Morning parallel sessions in 4 sections - Laboratory and in-situ rock testing, Design
methodology in mining and underground constructions, Mine design and ground control, Dynamic
phenomena in rock mass; morning keynote lecture selected from accepted papers by Dr. Al Heib who
talked about Pillar Burst Assessment Based on Large-Scale Numerical Modeling; closing ceremony.
The famous ISRM colleagues at welcome party (from left to right: Prof. Stephansson, Prof. Zhao and Prof. Li)
Prof. Wittke during his keynote lecture
Dr. Maleki´s presentation in parallel session
Participants during discussion in poster session
More phots are available on the following website:
https://www.zonerama.com/UGNAV/Album/3344441
Proceedings
Organizers accepted 257 abstracts which were sent on time. 175 full papers were sent on time for peer
review. Peer review of each full paper was done by two independent reviewers. 153 full papers were
accepted after corrections according to the reviewers´ recommendations.
All accepted papers were published in Procedia Engineering Journal form Elsevier Publishers, Volume
191, Pages 1-1218 (2017). All papers are available for downloading from sciencedirect.com webpage free
of charge:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18777058/191
Procedia Engineering Journal, Volume 191 has been indexed in Scopus database. Procedia Engineering
Journal, Volume 191 will be indexed in Web of Science database during a few months.
Electronic Proceedings (Procedia Engineering Journal, Volume 191) on CD will be sent to ISRM after
delivering form Elsevier.
Technical trips:
The first technical trip was organized to a hardcoal underground colliery operated by OKD mining
company in Karvina region which is the only producer of hard coal in the Czech Republic and all of its
coal is mined in the southern part of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. One group visited the longwall
mining in difficult mining, geological and geomechanical conditions with a high level of rock burst risk.
The second group experienced the Room and pillar method which is tested in the deepest conditions
around the World here.
Participants of the underground hard coal mine visit (left - longwall visit, right - room & pillar panel visit)
The second technical trip was organized to the Construction of Underground Rock Lab in Dolni Rozinka,
South Moravia. The unique Bukov PVP underground research facility is situated on level 12 of the Rozna
underground mine (600m below the Earth’s surface). The laboratory allows experts to perform
experiments aimed at investigating the characteristics and behaviour of the geological environment at a
depth of a half kilometre beneath the Earth’s surface (the storage chambers of the future deep geological
repository will be constructed at the same depth) - the behaviour of groundwater, stress changes in the
rock mass, seismic activity (i.e. the evaluation of the effects of vibrations caused e.g. by blasting), rock
fracture developments, the transport characteristics of rock, the occurrence and dissemination of
microorganisms, etc.
Participants of underground rock lab visit
More photos are available on the following website:
https://www.zonerama.com/jsmu/Album/3262374?secret=2Q6xg0wd2NK3m11fl3DMG3TH3
Financial statement
The table below shows the fees collected according to the participants´ registration (amounts without
VAT because VAT had to be payed to the government). Collected fees represent 37 participants with
regular fees, 67 participants ISRM members and 81 participants up to 35. 44 participants were invited
guests free of charge and organizers. Total amount 2 874,64 Euro (5 % of collected fees) will be payed to
the ISRM according to issued invoice by the ISRM to BOSorg agency which administrates the
symposium budget.
Compiled by:
Assoc. Prof. Petr Konicek PhD
President of the Czech National Group of the ISRM