AIM
Advanced industrial microseismic monitoring
| Coordinatore | GEOFYZIKALNI USTAV AV CR, V.V.I.
Organization address
address: BOCNI II 1401 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Czech Republic [CZ] |
| Totale costo | 867˙197 € |
| EC contributo | 867˙197 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008 |
| Funding Scheme | MC-IAPP |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-10-01 - 2013-09-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
GEOFYZIKALNI USTAV AV CR, V.V.I.
Organization address
address: BOCNI II 1401 contact info |
CZ (PRAHA 4) | coordinator | 351˙164.00 |
| 2 |
PROGSEIS
Organization address
address: Hlboka 5969 6 contact info |
SK (Trnava) | participant | 217˙959.00 |
| 3 |
NORSAR Innovation AS
Organization address
address: Instituttveien 25 contact info |
NO (0231 SKEDSMO) | participant | 198˙934.00 |
| 4 |
ISS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Organization address
address: ELECTRON STREET 23 contact info |
ZA ("DIE BOORD, STELLENBOSCH") | participant | 35˙625.00 |
| 5 |
Nome Ente NON disponibile
Organization address
address: V HOLESOVICKACH 94/41 contact info |
CZ (PRAHA 8) | participant | 27˙600.00 |
| 6 |
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE
Organization address
address: Ovocny trh 5 contact info |
CZ (PRAHA 1) | participant | 21˙615.00 |
| 7 |
GEOFYZIKALNY USTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADEMIE VIED
Organization address
address: Dubravska Cesta 9 contact info |
SK (Bratislava) | participant | 14˙300.00 |
| 8 |
ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY GROUP CANADA INC.
Organization address
address: HYPERION COURT 1 contact info |
CA (KINGSTON) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The aim of the project is to stimulate and advance research in microseismic monitoring in areas of prominent social and industrial significance. The project will foster the cooperation between academic researchers in theoretical and observational earthquake seismology and private research teams monitoring a natural or induced microseismic activity for industrial purposes. The involved academics have a reputation in moment tensor inversions, interpretations of non-double-couple focal mechanisms, seismic anisotropy, ray tracing, seismic tomography and seismic hazard assessment. The industrial partners are SMEs with high-tech equipments, long-lasting experience in monitoring microseismicity and with adequate research capacities. They can offer datasets with a potential for further fundamental research. The results of the project will contribute to seismic hazard assessment of the Bohunice nuclear power plant in Slovakia, stability of rock slopes in Norway, deep-level gold mines in South Africa and open-pit mines in Canada. The project promotes synergy between four academic institutions in two EU Member States (Czech Republic, Slovakia) with industrial partners from the EU Member State (Slovakia), the AC country (Norway), the ICPC country (South Africa) and from the OTC country (Canada). In order to establish the firm and beneficial I-A partnership, the project proposes to spend 122 research-months of secondments at partner institutions (realized by 11 researchers from Academia and by 9 researchers from Industry) and 36 research-months of recruitments (2 recruits). The project will be supervised by two top experts in microseismic monitoring Prof. F. Cornet from IPG Strasbourg and Prof. G.R. Foulger from the University of Durham, who have experience with large-scale EU and non-EU projects on natural or induced microseismicity.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Microseismic monitoring is used for measuring and studying natural and induced seismicity in areas of prime social interest. The EU project developed new techniques, successfully applied to a nuclear site in Slovakia and to mines in Finland, South Africa and Australia.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
The monitoring of microseismic activity refers to the passive detection of vibrations caused in rocks as a result of human activities, including mining and rock fracturing. The technique calculates locations and magnitudes of rock failures, maps spatio-temporal evolution of rock fracturing and contributes to the assessment of seismic hazard.
Funded by the EU, the project 'Advanced industrial microseismic monitoring' (AIM) was intended to stimulate research in the field and to foster inter-agency cooperation via secondments. The project included six European partners and one each from Canada and South Africa, running over four years to September 2013.
The research team developed new methods for calculating parameters of rock fracturing. In particular, the novel method models tensile micro-earthquakes, when fractures are open or closed during rupture.
Since complex seismic analysis needs high-quality observations, the group installed a seismic mini-array at Dobra Voda, Slovakia to monitor seismic activity near a nuclear power plant. The mini-array enhanced the sensitivity of an existing seismic network maintained by a project partner, yielding a finer resolution. Given the success of the first mini-array, the project added a further three seismic stations in the area.
The developed methods were applied by the team members to several other seismically active areas to monitor earthquake swarms in the geothermal area in West Bohemia in the Czech Republic, to assess an unstable rock slope in Norway, and to study mining tremors in Australia, Finland and South Africa. The measurements yielded better understanding of natural tectonic processes and of the stress release caused by mining.
Project results were presented at several international conferences and workshops, and yielded 14 peer-reviewed scientific papers in total. Three postdoctoral fellows benefitted from the project's secondment programme.
The AIM project helped create teams of researchers now capable of a higher level of work in the field of microseismicity. The field, and European research overall, also benefits from the newly forged cooperative links between academic institutions and industrial partners.