January 6, 2025:
Spring semester starts officially when Dr. Roshankhah will teach Geotechnical Engineering Theory and Laboratory courses, and Shivesh and Ayat will take two graduate courses, Fracture & Fatigue in Mechanical Engineering and Signal Processing & Inverse Problems in Civil & Environmental Engineering departments. Several conference and journal papers and research proposals must be submitted this semester too! Happy Spring Semester everyone!
December 20, 2024:
Shivesh Shandilaya, receives acceptance for his three abstracts submitted to the 59th US Rock Mechanics & Geomechanics Symposium. His computational work entitled "Hydro-Mechanical Interactions between the Permeable Matrix and Natural Fracture Network in CO2 Geological Storage" will present the results of our numerical simulations for the Uinta Basin CarbonSAFE projects. His laboratory work entitled "Evaluation of Fracture Interactions in the Laboratory Using Acoustic Emission Measurements and Digital Image Correlation Techniques" will present the results of our laboratory studies, which he is conducting in collaboration with Alec, our lab's URA, continuing in the spring semester of 2025. His third paper entitled "How Are Nanoindentation-based Hardness/Modulus and Bulk Tensile Strength of Olivine-Rich Rocks Related?" will present our laboratory studies in collaboration with a research team at the Texas A&M University. Best of luck with the full papers, Shivesh!
December 13, 2024:
Dr. Roshankhah is accepted to join the EMI Experimental Analysis & Instrumentation Committee. This will expand Dr. Roshankhah's technical network and collaborations.
November 30, 2024:
Shivesh Shandilaya, GeoSERL PhD student, submits his first journal paper entitled "Mechanisms and Consequences of Failure in Jointed Rock Slopes: Impact of the Strength Reduction Scheme and Continuous Joint Dip Angle" to the Journal of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. Best of luck, Shivesh!
October 31, 2024:
Dr. Roshankhah joins the organizing committee for the 8th Biot Conference (October 7-10, 2025 in Salt Lake City) as the developer of the "Poromechanics of Geological Systems: CCS, Hydrogen, Geothermal" session with five sessions addressing geomechanical challenges in geological storage of CO2, H2, and nuclear waste.
October 15, 2024:
Ayat's first conference abstract is accepted at the 50th Stanford Geothermal Workshop (February 10-12, 2025 in Stanford University) entitled "DEM-Based Analysis of Proppant Performance Under Geothermal Conditions: Impact of the Particle Size and Shape on Crush Resistance and Permeability of the Proppant Pack."
August 19, 2024:
GeoSERL welcomes undergraduate research assistant Sung Hyun (Alec) Kim! Looking forward to working with you, Alec!
Fall 2024 semester starts officially, when Dr. Roshankhah will be teaching a graduate course, Advanced Foundation Engineering.
GeoSERL wishes all the best in the fall 2024 semester!
August 13, 2024:
GeoSERL has a journal publication entitled "Mapping Distribution of Fractures and Minerals in Rock Samples Using Res-VGG-UNet and Threshold Segmentation Methods" in the Journal of Computers and Geotechnics, volume 175. Congratulations, Changdi!
August 12, 2024:
GeoSERL welcomes PhD student Ayat Alasadi! Looking forward to working with you, Ayat!
August 7, 2024:
Alec's research proposal to the University of Utah's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program is selected for funding! Sung Hyun (Alec) Kim is one of the top undergrad students in Dr. Roshankhah's Geotechnical Engineering course. In summer 2024, Alec started reading papers and drafting a short research proposal under Dr. Roshankhah's supervision. UROP will pay Alec to work in GeoSERL on a fracture evaluation technique called digital image correlation.
July 10, 2024:
Dr. Roshankhah joins the technical committee for the 59th US Rock Mechanics & Geomechanics Symposium as the co-leader of the Sequestration and Storage Track with five sessions addressing geomechanical challenges in geological storage of CO2, H2, and nuclear waste.
June 24, 2024:
Shivesh Shandilaya, GeoSERL PhD student, presented his second conference article entitled "Hydraulic, Chemical, and Mechanical Response of Sandstone Rocks for CO2 Storage Systems" at the 58th US Rock Mechanics & Geomechanics Symposium. Also, Dr. Roshankhah presented Shivesh's third conference article entitled "Failure Mechanisms in Jointed Rock Slopes Concerning the
Dip Angle of Continuous Joints."
May 7, 2024:
Shivesh Shandilaya, GeoSERL PhD student, presented his first conference article entitled "Hydraulic, Chemical, and Mechanical Response of Sandstone Rocks for CO2 Storage Systems" at the 2024 OTC (Offshore Technology Conference) in Houston, TX. Great job, Shivesh!
April 15, 2024:
Dr. Roshankhah and her collaborators at the University of Oklahoma, Louisiana State University, and HotRock Energy Research are awarded by the US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Office and Geothermal Technologies Office. Read more about it here (https://www.civil.utah.edu/2024/11/04/doe-grant-to-advance-research-on-geothermal-systems/).
February 22, 2024:
Dr. Roshankhah is selected as a 2024 Emerging Leader by the Offshore Technology Conference. The award includes Complimentary 4-day registration to OTC 2024, a Celebration ceremony and reception, and the awardee's name listed in the OTC’s permanent Awards display case in NRG Center. Emerging leaders will engage in numerous technical and leadership activities and participate in selecting the Emerging Leaders Class of 2025.
February 12-14, 2024:
Dr. Roshankhah attends the 2024 Stanford Geothermal Workshop. Roshankhah: “This was a wonderful opportunity to share my work with potential collaborators and get to know about the work of many great researchers from around the world.”
December 20, 2023:
Dr. Roshankhah submits an article draft to the Journal of Computers and Geotechnics entitled "Mapping Distribution of Fractures and Minerals in Rock Samples Using Res-VGG-UNet and Threshold Segmentation Methods." The first and second authors are PhD students from the Mining Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering departments. Best of luck!
December 11-18, 2023:
Dr. Roshankhah attends the 2023 AGU Fall Meeting. She delivered an oral presentation entitled “Geophysical, Hydraulic, and Mechanical Response of Geological Energy Storage Reservoirs” and a poster presentation entitled “Progressive Failure of Jointed Rock Masses: Poromechanical Processes Associated with Structural and Material Characteristics.”
Roshankhah: “Wide. Open. Science. We scientists and engineers must take this pledge every day for our work. We have the utmost responsibility to maintain the highest standards of ethical and transparent scientific pursuit.”
November 14, 2023:
Dr. Roshankhah’s team has been selected by the Department of Energy to develop high temperature resistant proppants to enhance reservoir conductivity and characterization in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma, Louisiana State University, and Hotrock Energy Research Organization. Roshankhah: “We are thrilled and honored for the trust placed on us and looking forward to meaningfully contribute to this impactful project that will be implemented at the Utah Forge site in 2025-2026.”
August 19, 2023:
Dr. Roshankhah will be teaching a new graduate course called "Jointed Rock Mechanics and Stability." Roshankhah: “The multi-scale and multi-physics behavior of jointed rock masses intrigues me because it is relevant to the performance of civil infrastructure (e.g., slopes, tunnels and foundations) and energy and environmental geo-systems (e.g., geothermal energy, CO2 geo-storage, and H2 production).”
July 30-Aug. 4, 2023:
Dr. Roshankhah attends the ASCE Exceed Teaching Workshop at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Roshankhah: “This was one of the most intense and influential training workshops that I have ever attended in my academic career. I recommend it to all teacher scholars in civil and environmental engineering.”