The Rock Mechanics & Explosives Research Center (RMERC), founded in 1964, provides research leadership in a broad range of scientific and engineering fields with emphasis on activities centered on or related to the mineral resource lease. 

The Center serves the mining and petroleum industries, the nuclear industry, geological science and engineering and the related wider industrial manufacturing community. 

A particular emphasis is to foster innovative and responsive research in rock physics and all fields of science and engineering that deal with rock, including energy production, mining, geology, geophysics, nuclear and related fields.

 Our current research is focused on three areas: 

 

Upcoming Events

Friday Gathering

3:30 - 4:30 p.m., 106 Rock Mechanics Facility

Nov. 9:  "A Remote Sensing and Field Investigation of the El Kasr 'Desert Eye' in the Western Desert of Egypt," presented by Trevor C. Ellis

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Technical Services

Waterjet Cutting

Rock Saw & Core Drill coming soon