RESEARCH

Research Interests include:

· Application of ground based laser scanning and digital photogrammetry in rock engineering.

· Step-path failure mechanisms in surface and underground rock engineering.

· Numerical modelling of complex landslide mechanisms using 2D/3D continuum and discontinuum codes.

· Numerical modelling using a combined finite-discrete element method with fracture propagation. SFU ELFEN RESEARCH PAGE

· Block caving and related subsidence mechanisms.

· Large open pits and undergound mine interaction.

· The use of Discrete Fracture Networks in geomechanical models.

· Developments in terrain analysis and forestry geoscience.

· Integration of terrain analysis and G.I.S. into slope stability models.

· Root reinforcement-groundwater interaction in forest slopes.

· Risk assessment and decision Analysis application to resource industries.

· Investigation of rock and soil failure mechanism using integrated experimental-field-modelling approaches.

· Acoustic emission as an indicator of brittle fracture and rock damage.

· Time dependent deformation in saltrocks

· Mining and petroleum geomechanics.