Recent developments

ISRM Congress 2019

• 798 abstracts were accepted and 15 were rejected.
• The list of all accepted abstracts will be available soon at the Congress webpage.
• The site is open for the full paper submission and will close on March 18th.
• Taylor and Francis will be the Publisher for ISRM2019 and all refereed and finalised pa-pers must be with the Publisher by the end of June.
• Registration is open as well as reservation for accommodation at the official hotel. In-structions are available at the Congress webpage.
• The announcement for Rockbowl and call for team registration have been published at the Congress webpage. Some contacts have been made and the work is coming along very well.
• Sponsorship has been granted by Geobrugg.

Two new suggested methods have been approved and will be made available on the ISRM website:

• Determining Deformation and Failure Characteristics of Rocks Subjected to True Tri-axial Compression.
• ISRM SM for In-situ AE Monitoring of the Fracturing Process in Rock Masses.

Two new ISRM Online Lectures are available for viewing or downloading on the ISRM website (www.isrm.net):

• 24th Online lecture: Professor Claudio Olalla: Computing Foundations with Hoek and Brown Failure Criteria
• 25th Online lecture: Prof. Derek Martin: Stress-induced fracturing (Spalling) around underground excavations: Laboratory and In-situ Observations (as of 21 March 2019).

ISRM Conferences

The following ISRM Conferences are scheduled: