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Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka (Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan; International Virtual Muography Institute (VMI), Global; International Muography Research Organization, The University of Tokyo, Japan))04/06/2026, 08:30Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
Since ancient times, solar energy has been recognized as a source of energy for growing crops, but in recent years, the technology for harnessing solar energy to generate electricity has also developed. The total amount of cosmic muon energy available on Earth is much smaller than the total amount of solar energy available on Earth; however, if energy is gauged at the unit of one particle, the...
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J. Marteau (MUODIM SAS, Lyon, France; Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, France)04/06/2026, 08:50Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
The most common description found in the literature is that muography is an innovative method of imaging structures, comparable in principle to clinical X-ray radiography. But it is in fact a complete technology and research field in its own right, the development of which has accelerated significantly over the last three decades. And this acceleration covers all relevant aspects in such an...
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Gergo Hamar (HUN-REN Wigner RCP)04/06/2026, 09:10Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
Muography is an excellent imaging method targeting geological objects from volcanoes to underground treasures. Growing industrial interest and application cases faced us novel challenges, solutions enhanced the muograph portfolio and later scientific applicability.
The presentation will focus on novel hardware validation and case studies in active industrial environments.Mining...
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Bence Rábóczki (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Phyiscs)04/06/2026, 09:30Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
The Esztramos Hill, located in the northeast of Hungary, is a small hill that is a member of the Aggtelek Karst, and is mostly made up of dolomite and limestone. On the boundary of these two rock formations a deposite of iron ore formed that reached up to the current surface. From the early 19th up until the late 20th century this ore deposit was subject to mining operations on several levels...
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Alistair Boyce (Muodim)04/06/2026, 09:45Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
Europe hosts thousands of decommissioned mines situated below inhabited zones with significant real estate prices. These inhabited sites, with histories of gallery collapse, are unsuitable for traditional active geophysical monitoring methods. A passive observation method with metre-scale precision is therefore required to support stakeholders' risk mitigation strategies. Muon absorption...
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Gábor Nyitrai (UNINA, UCLouvain)04/06/2026, 10:20Detector DevelopmentsTalk
In a recent work, feasibility with the MURAY detector were studied for subsurface density imaging and structural characterization, in a salt mine for potential green hydrogen storage. The referenced study reports the design, deployment, expected results, and first data of the 1 m2 muon-tracking system in a challenging environment. The results confirm that such detectors can provide reliable...
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Hamid Basiri (UCLouvain)04/06/2026, 10:35Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a critical technology for reducing global CO$_2$ emissions, and ensuring safe storage requires robust monitoring methods. While seismic techniques are widely used for subsurface investigations and excel at imaging reservoir lithology, they have limitations in directly quantifying density variations. Muography, a technique utilizing cosmic-ray muons, offers...
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Yinghe Wang (TDLI@Shanghai Jiao Tong University)04/06/2026, 10:50Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
Cosmic-ray muography has emerged as a powerful non-invasive technique for probing the internal structure and overburden conditions of large-scale infrastructures in complex urban environments. In this work, we report recent progress on studies of two representative underground tunnel systems in Shanghai, China.
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First, a portable dual-layer muon flux detector based on plastic scintillators was... -
Xinyu Cai (Lanzhou University)04/06/2026, 11:05Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
Urban shield tunneling faces severe challenges from deep-seated hidden geological hazards. Constrained by limited penetration depth and complex urban electromagnetic interference, traditional geophysical methods struggle to achieve dynamic monitoring of deep hazards during excavation. This paper proposes a 3D dynamic absorbtion -based muography technology tailored for shield tunneling...
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Baopeng Su (Lanzhou University)04/06/2026, 11:20Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
To address the challenge of internal structural monitoring and anomaly detection in large hydraulic structures such as earth-rock dams, this study investigates a non-destructive detection approach based on cosmic-ray muons. A field experiment was conducted at the auxiliary dam of the Mangshan Reservoir in Hunan Province, China, using a muon detection system based on plastic scintillator...
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Dr Nobuko Kitagawa (Nagoya University)04/06/2026, 11:35Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
We have previously revealed the internal structures of nuclear reactors and pyramids using cosmic-ray muon imaging with nuclear emulsions. In this study, we aim to apply this technique to levees and to establish a new method for levee safety assessment by visualizing the internal material distribution. In this presentation, we report the current status of the analysis of observational data...
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Suzanne Eisenhofer (Technische Universität Dresden, Chair of Imaging Techniques in Energy and Process Engineering, Germany)04/06/2026, 11:50Civil Engineering and Industrial ApplicationsTalk
Keywords: Monte-Carlo simulation, image reconstruction, transport and storage casks
Abstract
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Muon imaging is a highly promising and rapidly evolving technique for non-invasive monitoring or investigation of various structures across a wide range of applications. This is particularly advantageous for objects that cannot be examined using traditional methods such as X-ray radiography or...
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