Dr Robert Cuss
Facility Leader – Physical Properties
Location: Keworth
Tel: 0115 936 3486
E-mail Dr Robert Cuss
Biography
- 2010–current: Facility Leader – Physical Properties
- 2001–current: Geophysics & Marine Geology
- 1999–2001: Regional Geophysics Group
- 1999: PhD University of Manchester, Rock Mechanics
- 1995: BSc (Hons) University of Liverpool, Geophysics (Geology)
Research interests
- Rock and soil mechanics
- Transport properties of fractures, interfaces and intact rocks
- Rock stress
- Radioactive Waste Disposal
- CO2 sequestration
Skills
- Experimental rock mechanics testing
- Gas and water transport
- Data processing
- Airborne geophysics
Current projects and collaboration
Published outputs
Key Papers
CUSS, R.J., MILODOWSKI, A., & HARRINGTON, J.F. (In Press) Fracture transmissivity as a function of normal and shear stress: first results in Opalinus clay. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.
CUSS, R.J., HARRINGTON, J.F., NOY, D.J., WIKMAN, A., & SELLIN, P. (In Press) Large scale gas injection test (Lasgit): Results from two gas injection tests. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.
CUSS, R.J., HARRINGTON, J.F., & NOY, D.J. (2010) Large scale gas injection test (Lasgit) performed at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory. Summary report 2008. Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) Technical Report TR-10-38, SKB, Stockholm, Sweden. Pp.109.
BIRCHALL, D.J., HARRINGTON, J.F., NOY, D.J & CUSS, R.J. (2007) Laboratory study examining permeability evolution along an isotropic unloading stress path. British Geological Survey, Nottingham, Technical Report. CR/07/016.
HARRINGTON, J.F., BIRCHALL, D.J., NOY, D.J. & CUSS, R.J. (2007) Consolidation and mass transport properties of the Nordland Shale. British Geological Survey Commissioned Report. CR/07/210.
HORSEMAN, S.T., HARRINGTON, J.F., BIRCHALL, D.J., NOY, D.J. & CUSS, R.J. (2005) Consolidation and rebound properties of Opalinus clay: A long-term, fully-drained test. British Geological Survey Commissioned Report. CR/05/128. 60 pp.
