MONFRON SITE LAB

MONFRON is the acronym of “Monitoraggio Fronte di cava” which translates as “Front of Quarry Monitoring system”. This is a large project, which was presented to the Tuscany Region in 2017. The project was funded in January 2018 and sees Lunitek as the lead company, together Actors of the Project:

 

Santucci Group, the quarry owner

ApiAn the rock climbing organization

Lunitek srl the high-tech Company Proposer (Lead Company)

Politecnico di Torino Research Unit (Prof. Amedeo Manuello) Scientific Referent

EptaConsult SCRL (Geol. Marco Zanicchi Technical Referent)

 

The project idea is to prevent the sudden and unexpected rockslide falling on quarry workers. Prevention cannot be carried out using traditional instruments for geophysicist (accelerometers, velocimeters, GNSS or laser scanners) because, by the time these types of systems trigger an alert, in most cases, it is already too late, and the rockslide cannot be stopped.

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The Monfron site LAB is the base camp for the experimentats and the data anlysis performed on the site

the analysis include:

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Acoustic Emission monitoring 

Thermocouples

Accelerometers

atmosferic sensors

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The on site analysis were correlated with the compression tests of specimens extracted directly by the quarry and tested in the Polito Lab.

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