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Davide Elmo
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Research
Latest papers
Identifying water quality drivers using the objective combined weight water quality index, hydrogeochemical analysis and self-organizing maps: a case study in northwestern China.
Environmental geochemistry and health · 2026
Reassessing Janssen's equation for cave stress estimation in block cave mining.
Mining technology (Abingdon, Eng.) · 2025 · senior author
Parameters and surrounding rock control of gob-side driving under double key stratum after roof cutting.
Scientific reports · 2024
Latest funding
- $150,000
Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Stress Measurement and Mitigation of High Stress Hazards at Depth
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $390,350
Synthetic Rock Mass (SRM) modelling Incorporating Realistic 3D Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) for Advanced Rock Engineering
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $44,240
A connectivity approach to stochastically simulate physical distancing and to make more accurate predictions of its effectiveness to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak_x000d_
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Identifying water quality drivers using the objective combined weight water quality index, hydrogeochemical analysis and self-organizing maps: a case study in northwestern China.
Lyu Y, Zhang Y, Wu X, Elmo D, Yang M
Reassessing Janssen's equation for cave stress estimation in block cave mining.
Li Y, Elmo D
Parameters and surrounding rock control of gob-side driving under double key stratum after roof cutting.
Xu L, Ma Y, Elmo D, Ding S, Zhu H, Liu H, Li W, Chen W
Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Stress Measurement and Mitigation of High Stress Hazards at Depth
Principal investigators: Eberhardt, Erik
Synthetic Rock Mass (SRM) modelling Incorporating Realistic 3D Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) for Advanced Rock Engineering
Principal investigators: Cai, Ming M
Keywords: blasting; deep mining; discontinuities; discrete fracture networks; excavation stability; geostatistical model; numerical simulation; slope stability; statistical model; synthetic rock mass
A connectivity approach to stochastically simulate physical distancing and to make more accurate predictions of its effectiveness to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak_x000d_
Principal investigators: Elmo, Davide
Rock mass redefined: integrating discrete fracture network models and rock mass classification systems
Principal investigators: Elmo, Davide
Keywords: Discontinuty Data Collection; Discrete Fracture Netowrk Models; Mining; Numerical Modelling; Rock Mass Behaviour; Rock Mass Classification Systems
Ultrasonic and Acoustic Emission Imaging of Brittle Fracturing Processes to Investigate the Progressive Failure of Rock
Principal investigators: Eberhardt, Erik
A hyperspectral imaging system for the engineering geological characterization of rock masses
Principal investigators: Stead, Douglas
Mine-to-mill integration for block cave mines
Principal investigators: Elmo, Davide
A long range laser scanning facility for resource geotechnics and natural hazard investigations
Principal investigators: Stead, Douglas
Characterisation of secondary fragmentation processes using a combination of laboratory experiments and numerical analysis
Principal investigators: Elmo, Davide
A Discrete Fracture Network approach to rock mass characterization and assessment of rock fragmentation for cave mining.
Principal investigators: Elmo, Davide
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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