RockDefTUD
@rockdeftud.bsky.social
We are the Rock Mechanics lab at TU Delft. We will post about the rocks we break and the resulting science. By Anne Pluymakers and Auke Barnhoorn
Excited to be back at PSI with the crew from Njord to shoot with neutrons and X-rays at rocks to investigate flow and precipitation in basalts
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Excited to be back at PSI with the crew from Njord to shoot with neutrons and X-rays at rocks to investigate flow and precipitation in basalts
Anne Pluymakers got a #Vidi grant from Dutch #NWO to investigate why different fluids make limestone break in a different way, and to see if we improve our acoustic and electromagnetic monitoring for #geothermal energy and #ccs... And so our team grows (a bit) 😁🤓 www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
Five CEG researchers receive Vidi grant
No less than five researchers from our faculty will receive a Vidi grant this year. The Dutch Research Council NWO awards the grants to successful scientists to give them a helping hand in further dev...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Anne Pluymakers got a #Vidi grant from Dutch #NWO to investigate why different fluids make limestone break in a different way, and to see if we improve our acoustic and electromagnetic monitoring for #geothermal energy and #ccs... And so our team grows (a bit) 😁🤓 www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/citg...
*Krak!* In case you think salt always flows.....in Jops PhD project it is all about breaking salt. And it does so quite nicely, if you push it enough!
October 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
*Krak!* In case you think salt always flows.....in Jops PhD project it is all about breaking salt. And it does so quite nicely, if you push it enough!
Shihao is on a roll! Last week he presented in Beijing, today in Cyprus... And in between he submitted the final draft of his PhD thesis to the Graduate School! 😎🤓😁😁😁
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Shihao is on a roll! Last week he presented in Beijing, today in Cyprus... And in between he submitted the final draft of his PhD thesis to the Graduate School! 😎🤓😁😁😁
PhD candidate Jop is crushing it! Trying out how mechanically homogeneous and repeatable the homemade salt rocks are 😁
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
PhD candidate Jop is crushing it! Trying out how mechanically homogeneous and repeatable the homemade salt rocks are 😁
Sometimes you mechano-chemically torture rocks and not much happens... But still good to know! Check out our new publication to see that 6 months exposure to H2 did not change the mechanics of these sandstones... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hydrogen solution exposure at a seasonal timescale does not affect the geomechanical properties of clay-rich sandstones
Scientific Reports - Hydrogen solution exposure at a seasonal timescale does not affect the geomechanical properties of clay-rich sandstones
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October 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Sometimes you mechano-chemically torture rocks and not much happens... But still good to know! Check out our new publication to see that 6 months exposure to H2 did not change the mechanics of these sandstones... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our new publication, by Debanjan Chandra, Lujain Alghannam and Auke Barnhoorn, on how sonic velocity can be incorporated into a traffic light system in subsurface storage systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Applicability of ultrasonic measurements to monitor and forecast stress change in subsurface storage applications
The global expansion of subsurface CO₂ and hydrogen storage, alongside geothermal energy development, offers promising pathways for gigaton-scale CO₂ …
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October 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Check out our new publication, by Debanjan Chandra, Lujain Alghannam and Auke Barnhoorn, on how sonic velocity can be incorporated into a traffic light system in subsurface storage systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Check out our new publication, by Debanjan Chandra, Lujain Alghannam and Auke Barnhoorn, on how sonic velocity can be incorporated into a traffic light system in subsurface storage systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Applicability of ultrasonic measurements to monitor and forecast stress change in subsurface storage applications
The global expansion of subsurface CO₂ and hydrogen storage, alongside geothermal energy development, offers promising pathways for gigaton-scale CO₂ …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Check out our new publication, by Debanjan Chandra, Lujain Alghannam and Auke Barnhoorn, on how sonic velocity can be incorporated into a traffic light system in subsurface storage systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Check out this new publication on how fluid density changes the ultrasonic response to stress changes, by Debanjan Chandra and Auke Barnhoorn www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ultrasonic response of a brine-saturated reservoir rock during coupled stress and fluid perturbation during liquid-CO2 injection
CO2 injection into porous sandstone reservoirs offers a promising pathway to curb anthropogenic carbon emissions, but poses risks of leakage and induc…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Check out this new publication on how fluid density changes the ultrasonic response to stress changes, by Debanjan Chandra and Auke Barnhoorn www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Publications can be stuck in peer review for ever... And then all of a sudden there are three from the lab!
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Publications can be stuck in peer review for ever... And then all of a sudden there are three from the lab!
Disco-salt! This is a very salty day, meeting with PhD Jop on his salt project but also sitting in a national salt meeting talking about what's happening in salt. This salt block is standing in our lab post-lab-torture 😁 happy Friday all!
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Disco-salt! This is a very salty day, meeting with PhD Jop on his salt project but also sitting in a national salt meeting talking about what's happening in salt. This salt block is standing in our lab post-lab-torture 😁 happy Friday all!
For those at the European #geothermal congress: go see @entelakane.bsky.social , in session 6F: Rock mechanics and petrophysics, Gartensaal 1A
October 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
For those at the European #geothermal congress: go see @entelakane.bsky.social , in session 6F: Rock mechanics and petrophysics, Gartensaal 1A
3 months of failed attempts but finally some progress on pressing our own salt samples from NaCl powder #teamSalt not yet perfect but at least it doesn't crumble...
September 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
3 months of failed attempts but finally some progress on pressing our own salt samples from NaCl powder #teamSalt not yet perfect but at least it doesn't crumble...
Our former postdoc Kai Li started his new job at KIT Karlsruhe already in January, but nonetheless he has been diligently working on publishing his postdoc "Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for #CCS" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for CCS - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for CCS
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September 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Our former postdoc Kai Li started his new job at KIT Karlsruhe already in January, but nonetheless he has been diligently working on publishing his postdoc "Effects of confined thermal cycling on sealants with different thermomechanical properties for #CCS" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's basalt time! Working on a few samples for Njord Oslo, who invited Anne to join their trip to PSI in November to shoot neutrons at rocks again
September 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It's basalt time! Working on a few samples for Njord Oslo, who invited Anne to join their trip to PSI in November to shoot neutrons at rocks again
Team Salt on the move! Brazilian disc testing with camera plus acoustics on healed samples fractured last spring 🤓😁
September 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Team Salt on the move! Brazilian disc testing with camera plus acoustics on healed samples fractured last spring 🤓😁
Tonight our team caught the last rays of the summer sun in the pretty area of Meijendel, near the beach 🥰
September 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tonight our team caught the last rays of the summer sun in the pretty area of Meijendel, near the beach 🥰
Former PD Debanjan Chandra is visiting from Norway to run experiments with an #EPOS-NL grant and he is explaining his new experiments whilst monitoring his stuff. Multi-tasking at its finest!
July 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Former PD Debanjan Chandra is visiting from Norway to run experiments with an #EPOS-NL grant and he is explaining his new experiments whilst monitoring his stuff. Multi-tasking at its finest!
A first attempt at cold pressing our own salt samples, which will be baked afterwards for Jops PhD project. If anyone has any tips, we gladly take them!
July 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A first attempt at cold pressing our own salt samples, which will be baked afterwards for Jops PhD project. If anyone has any tips, we gladly take them!
Want to come break rocks with us? Or scan some of your pretty samples? Apply for #EPOS funding! epos-nl.nl/facilities/
Facilities – EPOS-NL
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July 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Want to come break rocks with us? Or scan some of your pretty samples? Apply for #EPOS funding! epos-nl.nl/facilities/
Even more proud as a supervisor: he won the best presentation prize ❤️🤓💪💪💪
July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Even more proud as a supervisor: he won the best presentation prize ❤️🤓💪💪💪
Proud of our postdoc Milad Naderloo, presenting his work on sandstone-H2 interaction at the #hydrogenstorage summer school!
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Proud of our postdoc Milad Naderloo, presenting his work on sandstone-H2 interaction at the #hydrogenstorage summer school!
@entelakane.bsky.social branching out from geothermal energy to H2 storage ❤️🤓
Presenting my work on geomechanics of Rock fluid interaction at DTU Offshore - Danish Offshore Technology Centre for the 4th International Summer School 2025 on Underground Hydrogen Storage. @rockdeftud.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
@entelakane.bsky.social branching out from geothermal energy to H2 storage ❤️🤓
The last batch of experiments for @entelakane.bsky.social will take place in Utrecht at TNO, thanks to #EPOSNL funding 🤓
June 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The last batch of experiments for @entelakane.bsky.social will take place in Utrecht at TNO, thanks to #EPOSNL funding 🤓
Question to those rock crushing people out there: how long do you keep your post-experimental samples after a project finished? Here we are contemplating 2-5 years post-publication.... Though the thought of tossing those beauties away pains us :( we are seriously struggling for space!
June 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Question to those rock crushing people out there: how long do you keep your post-experimental samples after a project finished? Here we are contemplating 2-5 years post-publication.... Though the thought of tossing those beauties away pains us :( we are seriously struggling for space!