Publications

As an R&D performing company ASC has collaborated over the years with clients and fellow researchers in the publication of journal and conference papers on the application and fundamentals of acoustic, seismic and geophysical monitoring and imaging. Below is a list of selected publications. Contact us for a full list or to request any of the publications.

• Feng, X.T., Young, R.P., Reyes-Montes, J.M., Aydan, O., Ishida, T., Liu, J.P. & Liu, H.J. (2019). ISRM Suggested Method for In Situ Acoustic Emission monitoring of the Fracturing Process in Rock Masses. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. May 2019, Volume 52, Issue 5, pp 1395-1414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-019-01774-z
• Huang, J.W., Flynn, J.W., Haycox, J.R., Reyes-Montes, J.M., Mustonen, S., Young, R. P. & Maxwell, S.C. (2016) Ultrasonic Tomography of the Excavation Damage Zone at the Onkalo, Nuclear Waste Repository Facility, Finland. ISRM International Symposium on In-Situ Rock Stress, 10-12 May 2016, Tampere, Finland.
• Reyes-Montes, J.M., Sainsbury, B.L., Andrews, J.R. & Young, R.P. (2016) Application of cave-scale rock degradation models in the imaging of the seismogenic zone. CIM Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2016
• Goodfellow, S.D., Flynn, J.W., Reyes-Montes, J.M., Nasseri, M.H.B. & Young, R.P. (2014) Acquisition of Complete Acoustic Emission Amplitude Records during Rock Fracture Experiments. Journal of Acoustic Emission, 32
• Reyes-Montes, J.M., Pettitt, W.S., Haycox, J.R., Lopez-Pedrosa, M. & Young, R.P. (2015) Microseismic, Acoustic Emission and Ultrasonic monitoring in radioactive waste disposal and feasibility studies. Proceedings 77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition. Madrid, Spain 1-4 June 2015.
• Moretti, H.C., Reyes-Montes, J.M., Haycox, J.R. & Young, R.P. (2013) Temporal analysis of fracturing using acoustic emissions at the Aspö Pillar Stability experiment. Rock Mechanics for Resources, Energy and Environment- Proceedings of EUROCK 2013 - The 2013 ISRM International Symposium. Wroclaw, Poland, 23-26 Sept 2013, pp 627-631.
• Pettitt, W.S., Damjanac, B., Hazzard, J.F., Han, Y., Sanchez-Nagel, M., Nagel, N., Reyes-Montes, J.M. & Young, R.P. (2012) Engineering Hydraulic Treatment of Existing Fracture Networks. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 8-10 October 2012, San Antonio, Texas, USA. DOI 10.2118/160019-MS
• Turichshev, A., Hadjigeorgiu, J., Brzovic, A., Reyes-Montes, J.M. & Nasseri, M.H.B. (2012) Behaviour of Veined Rock under Triaxial Compression. Proceedings 6th Int. Conference and Exhibition on Mass Mining, Massmin 2012. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, June 10-14 2012.
• Zhao, X.P., Reyes-Montes, J.M., Andrews, J.R. & Young, R.P. (2011) Optimised EGS Reservoir Stimulation using Microseismic and Numerical Models. in Proceedings, GRC Annual Meeting (San Diego, USA).
• Young, R.P., Zhao, X.P., Reyes-Montes, J.M. & Wills, W. (2011) Optimising Monitoring Sensitivity and Prediction Modelling for Microseismic Technologies in Underground Carbon Storage, in Proceedings, ISRM Congress (Beijing, China).
• Timms, N.E., Healy, D., Reyes-Montes, J.M., Collins, D.S., Prior, D.J. & Young, R.P. (2010) Effects of Crystallographic Anisotropy on Fracture Development and Acoustic Emission in Quartz. J. Geophys. Res., 115, B07202, doi:10.1029/2009JB006765.
• Reyes-Montes, J.M., Pettitt, W.S., Haycox, J.R., Andrews, J.R. & Young, R.P. (2009) Characterisation of Rock Mass Crack Damage Using Ultrasonic Surveys. In Proceedings, EURADWASTE ’08 — Community Policy & Research and Training Activities (Luxembourg, October 2008), European Commission,EUR24040, 2009, http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/euratom-fission/euradwaste2008_en.html.
• Jones, G.A., Nippress, S., Rietbrock, A. & Reyes-Montes, J.M. (2008) Accurate Location of Synthetic Acoustic Emissions and Location Sensitivity to Relocation Methods, Velocity Perturbations, and Seismic Anisotropy. PAGEOPH, 165(2), 235-254.
• Reyes-Montes, J.M., Rietbrock, A., Collins, D.S. & Young, R.P. (2005) Relative Location of Excavation Induced Microseismicity at the Underground Research Laboratory (AECL, Canada) Using Surveyed Reference Events. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L05308, doi:10.1029/2004GL021733 (March 2005).