Presentations – Rock Mechanics at Illinois

Since the inauguration of the lab in December 2016, the following presentations were given by the group members at conferences and seminars:

Hydrogen storage: Overcoming the intermittency of renewable energy by Roman Makhnenko at Internal Cycle of Seminars at IMEDEA, 23 April 2026

Role of fractures in crystalline basement in injection induced seismicity (poster) by Nikita Bondarenko at AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17 December 2021
Hydromechanical coupling and time-dependent deformation during long-term fluid injection by Nikita Bondarenko at Biot-Bazant conference, Evanston, IL, 1-3 June 2021
Challenges of storing large amount of CO₂ in Illinois Basin by Nikita Bondarenko at UIUC, Energy-Water-Environment-Sustainability seminar, Urbana, IL, 12 April 2021
Non-linear poromechanics and fluid flow in tight rock (poster) by Kiseok Kim at AGU Fall Meeting, 14 December 2020
Effect of CO2 injection on the hydromechanical behavior of porous rock by Kiseok Kim at ISRM Specialized Conference – CouFrac2020, Seoul, Korea, 11 November 2020
Influence of boundary conditions on localization in fluid-saturated rock (poster) by Roman Makhnenko at AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12 December 2019
Poromechanical and flow properties of fractured crystalline rock (poster) by Roman Makhnenko at AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9 December 2019
On coupling between mechanical and flow properties of tight rock by Kiseok Kim at UIUC, Geotechnical Engineering seminar, Urbana, IL, 22 November 2019
Poroviscoelastic behavior of sedimentary rock by Roman Makhnenko at Northwestern University, SPREE seminar, Evanston, IL, 17 April 2019
Shales as barriers for deep geological storage by Roman Makhnenko at UIUC, Geotechnical Engineering seminar, Urbana, IL, 19 October 2018
Characterization of rock fracturing for enhanced geothermal systems by Roman Makhnenko at Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 11 October 2018
Characterization of hydro-mechanical processes in subsurface rock by Roman Makhnenko at Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, 8 October 2018
Ultrasonic monitoring of near surface hydraulic fractures by Gabriel Mishaan at UIUC, Geotechnical Engineering seminar, Urbana, IL, 5 October 2018
Remarks on process zone and size effect in rock by Ali Tarokh at EMI 2018 Conference, Cambridge, MA, 1 June 2018
Thermo-poro-visco-elasticity of shale-like materials by Roman Makhnenko at EMI 2018 Conference, Cambridge, MA, 30 May 2018
Climate change mitigation: can geologic carbon storage help? by Roman Makhnenko at UIUC, Energy-Water-Environment-Sustainability seminar, Urbana, IL, 5 March 2018
Thermo-hydro-mechanical effect of CO₂ injection on rock integrity (poster) by Kiseok Kim at Center for Geologic Storage of CO₂ (GSCO2) Annual meeting, Champaign, IL, 14 February 2018
Geomechanical response CO₂ treated Berea sandstone (poster) by Ali Tarokh at Center for Geologic Storage of CO₂ (GSCO2) Annual meeting, Champaign, IL, 14 February 2018
Fracturing of the basement rock (poster) by Gabriel Mishaan at Center for Geologic Storage of CO₂ (GSCO2) Annual meeting, Champaign, IL, 14 February 2018
Geomechanical characterization of CO₂ injection-induced processes by Roman Makhnenko at Center for Geologic Storage of CO₂ (GSCO2) Annual meeting, Champaign, IL, 14 February 2018
Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in long-term sedimentary rock response by Roman Makhnenko at AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans, LA, 12 December 2017
Laboratory measurement of the unjacketed moduli of porous rock (poster) by Ali Tarokh at AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans, LA, 12 December 2017
Poromechanical aspects of geo-energy applications by Roman Makhnenko at UIUC, Geotechnical Engineering seminar, Urbana, IL, 20 October 2017
Process zone and size effect in rock fracture by Ali Tarokh at UIUC, Geotechnical Engineering seminar, Urbana, IL, 22 September 2017
Poroviscoelastic response of common sedimentary rock by Roman Makhnenko at University of Wisconsin, Engineering geology seminar, Madison, WI, 15 August 2017
Hydromechanical aspects of deep CO₂ storage by Roman Makhnenko at EFRC-HUB-CMS PI Meeting, Washington, D.C., 25 July 2017
Poromechanical aspects of reservoir rock-CO₂ interaction (poster) by Ali Tarokh at EFRC-HUB-CMS PI Meeting, Washington, D.C., 25 July 2017
On the unjacketed moduli of sedimentary rock by Roman Makhnenko at 6^th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Paris, France, 12 July 2017
Poroviscoelasticity of common sedimentary rock (poster) by Roman Makhnenko at 6^th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Paris, France, 10 July 2017
Poroviscoelastic behavior of common sedimentary rock by Roman Makhnenko at GeoProc – 6th Int. Conf. on Coupled THMC Processes in Geosystems, Paris, France, 5 July 2017
Clay-rich rocks as barriers for geologic CO₂ storage by Roman Makhnenko at the 51^st U.S. Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, CA 26 June 2017
Geomechanical risks associated with deep CO₂ storage by Roman Makhnenko at Purdue Geotechnical Society Workshop, West Lafayette, IN, 21 April 2017
Factors affecting rock integrity in deep geological CO₂ storage by Roman Makhnenko at Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Conference, Chicago, IL, 13 April 2017
Poroelastic behavior of sedimentary rock (poster) by Ali Tarokh at the Center for Geologic Storage of CO₂ (GSCO2) Annual meeting, Champaign, IL, 29 March 2017
Improving geomechanical characterization of rock-CO₂ interaction by Roman Makhnenko at the Center for Geologic Storage of CO₂ (GSCO2) Annual meeting, Champaign, IL, 29 March 2017
Geomechanical testing for geo-energy applications by Roman Makhnenko at Illinois State Geological Survey Seminar, Urbana, IL, 27 March 2017
Intermediate stress and failure of sedimentary rock by Roman Makhnenko at AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 16 December 2016

Invited Presentations:

1) University of Texas at Austin, CSEE Petroleum Engineering Seminar, November 2025

Shales as caprock in underground storage

2) Texas A&M University, CEAE Geotechnical and Geomechanics Seminar, March 2025

Fluid leakage through shales in underground storage

3) Northwestern University, SPREE Seminar, Evanston, IL, May 2024

Multiscale rock characterization for geologic carbon storage projects

4) Warren Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Minnesota, March 2024

Shales as barriers in underground storage

5) Bay Area Geophysical Society Seminar, December 2023

Integration of lab- and field-scale rock mechanics measurements for geologic carbon storage

6) University of California at San Diego Civil Engineering Seminar, May 2023

Coupled processes in subsurface shales

7) Georgia Tech School of Civil Engineering Seminar, March 2023

Barrier materials for fluid flow in geo-energy projects

8) University of Utah Civil Engineering Seminar, November 2022

Shales as barrier materials in geo-energy projects

9) I-MMÁS-México Energy Symposium, April 2022

Enhanced geothermal systems

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