Pedro Cacciari
B.Ing. (EM-UFOP), M.Sc. (USP), Ph.D. (USP)
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering
Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Rock mechanics
- Discrete fracture networks
- Discontinuous rock mass modeling (mining and civil)
- Stability of underground excavations
- Rock slope stability
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 1403 Rock mechanics
- 1002 Geotechnical engineering (including engineering geology)
- 2955 Numerical analysis
Publications
Recent publications
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Conference paper
Rakotondrafara, H., Galdino de Magalhaes, G., & Cacciari, P. (2025, August). Analyse de stabilité du pied d'un talus de mine en utilisant un massif rocheux synthétique : une étude de cas [Paper]. 23rd Canadian Rock mechanics symposium (Rockeng 2025), Montréal, Québec (7 pages).
Bellini Machado, L., Cacciari, P., Galdino de Magalhaes, G., & Massao Futai, M. (2025). Assessment of rock mass permeability and infiltration potential in tunnels using LIDAR-based mapping and DFN modeling. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 166, 106980 (21 pages).
Zafrilla, L., Cacciari, P., & Li, L. (2025, August). Methodology for Constructing Synthetic Rock Mass Samples for Numerical Validation in Coupled Hydromechanical Water Flow Models [Paper]. 23rd Canadian Rock mechanics symposium (Rockeng 2025), Montréal, Québec (8 pages).
Cacciari, P., Figueiredo, L. T., Gontijo, A., & Ribas, G. (2024, April). Analyzing the strength of fractured and anisotropic rock masses : a comparative study of synthetic models and empirical approaches [Presentation]. In Slope Stability 2024, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (12 pages).
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Biography
2010 - 2012 | Eng. at Campbell Scientific Inc.
2012 - 2019 | Researcher at University of São Paulo (Brazil)
2019 - 2022 | Specialist in rock mechanics at Vale (Brazil)
2022 – | Assistant professor (Polytechnique Montréal)
Teaching
GML6002 - Mécanique des Roches II
GLQ3415 - Géomécanique
Education
- B.Eng. in geological engineering (Université Fédérale de Ouro Preto)
- M.Sc. in geotechnical engineering - rock mechanics (University of São Paulo)
- Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering - rock mechanics (University of São Paulo)
Supervision at Polytechnique
IN PROGRESS
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Ph.D. (1)
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Gabriel , Galdino. Stability of stope hanging wall in discontinuous rock masses: influence of backfilling on stability conditions.
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