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Monash GeoExtremes (MGE) Lab is a leading research discipline at Monash to build a holistic resilience-based management system in subsurface earth resources and infrastructures, which features objectives in a three-tier hierarchy: ‘Risk Identification and Assessments’, ‘Development, Efficiency and Mitigation’ and ‘Service Lifecycle Management’.

Rock dynamics

MGE Lab focuses on the development and application of experimental techniques and multiphysics computational tools to understand the progressive failure of materials and structures under extreme conditions. These studies have significant applications in the safe, cost-effective and efficient extraction of underground resources and prevention of natural hazards (e.g., earthquake, landslides and rock bursts) and human-made disasters (e.g., terrorist attacks and induced earthquakes).

GeoM4BIM

MGE Lab also focuses on the application of underground Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Machine Learning (ML) methodologies to Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) and underground construction.