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2024

Sang, Guijie and Lunn, Rebecca J. and El Mountassir, Grainne and Minto, James M. and McLachlan, Erica and Bradley, David and Henderson, Kenneth (2024) Improving non-uniform gravelly sand using microbially induced carbonate precipitation : an outdoor cubic-meter scale trial by engineering contractors. Engineering Geology. 107791. ISSN 0013-7952

Hu, Qinxin and Yang, Shangtong and Xi, Xun and Shipton, Zoe K. and Minto, James and Hu, Xiaofei (2024) In-situ X-ray micro-CT quantitative analysis and modelling the damage evolution in granite rock. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 133. 104589. ISSN 0167-8442

2023

Sang, Guijie and Lunn, Rebecca J. and El Mountassir, Grainne and Minto, James M. (2023) Meter-scale MICP improvement of medium graded very gravelly sands : lab measurement, transport modelling, mechanical and microstructural analysis. Engineering Geology, 324. 107275. ISSN 0013-7952

Sang, Guijie and Lunn, Rebecca J. and El Mountassir, Grainne and Minto, James M. (2023) Transport and fate of ureolytic Sporosarcina pasteurii in saturated sand columns: experiments and modelling. Transport in Porous Media, 149 (2). pp. 599-624. ISSN 0169-3913

Turner, Ronald and Castro, Gloria M. and Minto, James and El Mountassir, Grainne and Lunn, Rebecca J. (2023) Treatment of fractured concrete via microbially induced carbonate precipitation : from micro-scale characteristics to macro-scale behaviour. Construction and Building Materials, 384. 131467. ISSN 0950-0618

Nunn, Benjamin and Lord, Richard and Minto, James and Davidson, Christine and Manzoor, Neelam (2023) Contaminated or just dusty? Understanding the nature of contaminants found in biomass grown on historic mine sites to inform pre-treatment options. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 2023-04-23 - 2023-04-28.

2022

Sang, Guijie and Lunn, Rebecca and Minto, James M. and El Mountassir, Grainne (2022) Microbially induced calcite precipitation for sealing anhydrite fractures with gouges. In: 56th US Rock mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, 2022-06-26 - 2022-06-29, New Mexico/Online.

Salifu, Emmanuel and El Mountassir, Graínne and Minto, James and Tarantino, Alessandro (2022) Hydraulic behaviour of fungal treated sand. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 30. 100258. ISSN 2352-3808

Lunn, Rebecca J and Turner, Ronald J and Minto, James M and Salifu, E. and El Mountassir, Grainne (2022) Biomineral sealing of cracks in degraded concrete structures. In: Waste Management Conference 2022, 2022-03-06 - 2022-03-10.

2021

Turner, Ronnie J and Minto, James M and El Mountassir, Grainne and Lunn, Rebecca J; Maddalena, R. and Wright-Syed, M., eds. (2021) Calcite biomineralisation for the repair of damaged concrete. In: Proceedings of the Resilient Materials 4 Life 2020 (RM4L2020) International Conference. Cardiff University, GBR, pp. 58-62. ISBN 9781399908320

Lunn, Rebecca J. and Minto, James M. and El Mountassir, Grainne and Anderson, Mary; Maddalena, R. and Wright-Syed, M., eds. (2021) Large-scale soil improvement tests using microbially induced carbonate precipitation. In: Proceedings of the Resilient Materials 4 Life 2020 (RM4L2020) International Conference. Cardiff University, GBR, pp. 148-152. ISBN 9781399908320

Minto, James M. and Lunn, Rebecca J. and El Mountassir, Grainne and Anderson, Mary M.; Maddalena, R. and Wright-Syed, M., eds. (2021) Micro-scale processes in microbially induced carbonate precipitation. In: Proceedings of the Resilient Materials 4 Life 2020 (RM4L2020) International Conference. Cardiff University, Cardiff, pp. 220-224. ISBN 9781399908320

Anderson, Mary and Lunn, Rebecca J and Minto, James and El Mountassir, Grainne; Maddalena, R. and Wright-Syed, M., eds. (2021) Microbial induced calcite precipitation as a viable ground improvement technique. In: Proceedings of the Resilient Materials 4 Life 2020 (RM4L2020) International Conference. Cardiff University, Cardiff, pp. 136-141. ISBN 9781399908320

Suzuki, Anna and Miyazawa, Miyuki and Minto, James M. and Tsuji, Takeshi and Obayashi, Ippei and Hiraoka, Yasuaki and Ito, Takatoshi (2021) Flow estimation solely from image data through persistent homology analysis. Scientific Reports, 11 (1). 17948. ISSN 2045-2322

Willems, Cees J. L. and Cheng, Chaojie and Watson, Sean M. and Minto, James and Williams, Aislinn and Walls, David and Milsch, Harald and Burnside, Neil M. and Westaway, Rob (2021) Permeability and mineralogy of the Újfalu formation, Hungary, from production tests and experimental rock characterization : implications for geothermal heat projects. Energies, 14 (14). 4332. ISSN 1996-1073

Romano, Carla R. and Garing, Charlotte and Minto, James M. and Benson, Sally M. and Shipton, Zoe K. and Lunn, Rebecca J. (2021) Extreme capillary heterogeneities and in situ fluid compartmentalization due to clusters of deformation bands in sandstones. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 106. 103280. ISSN 1750-5836

2020

Romano, Carla R. and Zahasky, Christopher and Garing, Charlotte and Minto, James M. and Benson, Sally M. and Shipton, Zoe K. and Lunn, Rebecca J. (2020) Subcore scale fluid flow behavior in a sandstone with cataclastic deformation bands. Water Resources Research, 56 (4). e2019WR026715. ISSN 1944-7973

Shafaei, Davood and Yang, Shangtong and Berlouis, Leonard and Minto, James (2020) Multiscale pore structure analysis of nano titanium dioxide cement mortar composite. Materials Today Communications, 22. 100779. ISSN 2353-4928

2019

Romano, Carla and Minto, James M. and Shipton, Zoe K. and Lunn, Rebecca J. (2019) Automated high accuracy, rapid beam hardening correction in X-Ray Computed Tomography of multi-mineral, heterogeneous core samples. Computers & Geosciences, 131. pp. 144-157. ISSN 0098-3004

Minto, James M. and Lunn, Rebecca J. and El Mountassir, Gráinne (2019) Development of a reactive transport model for field-scale simulation of microbially induced carbonate precipitation. Water Resources Research, 55 (8). pp. 7229-7245. ISSN 0043-1397

Minto, James M. and El Mountassir, Grainne and Lunn, Rebecca J.; Tarantino, Alessandro and Ibraim, Erdin, eds. (2019) Micro-continuum modelling of injection strategies for microbially induced carbonate precipitation. In: E3S Web of Conferences. EDP Sciences, GBR. ISBN 978-2-7598-9064-4

2018

Tobler, Dominique J. and Minto, James M. and El Mountassir, Gráinne and Lunn, Rebecca J. and Phoenix, Vernon R. (2018) Microscale analysis of fractured rock sealed with microbially induced CaCO3 precipitation : influence on hydraulic and mechanical performance. Water Resources Research, 54 (10). pp. 8295-8308. ISSN 1944-7973

Suzuki, Anna and Minto, James M. and Watanabe, Noriaki and Li, Kewen and Horne, Roland N. (2018) Contributions of 3D printed fracture networks to development of flow and transport models. Transport in Porous Media. ISSN 0169-3913

El Mountassir, G. and Minto, J. M. and van Paassen, L. A. and Salifu, E. and Lunn, R. J.; Gadd, Geoffrey and Sariaslani, Sima, eds. (2018) Applications of microbial processes in geotechnical engineering. In: Advances in Applied Microbiology. Advances in Applied Microbiology, 104 (1st). Elsevier. ISBN 9780128151822

Minto, James M. and Tan, Qian and Lunn, Rebecca J. and El Mountassir, Gráinne and Guo, Hongxian and Cheng, Xiaohui (2018) 'Microbial mortar'- restoration of degraded marble structures with microbially induced carbonate precipitation. Construction and Building Materials, 180. pp. 44-54. ISSN 0950-0618

Shashank, B.S. and Minto, James M. and Singh, Devendra Narain and El Mountassir, Grainne and Knapp, Charles W. (2018) Guidance for investigating calcite precipitation by urea hydrolysis for geomaterials. Journal of Testing and Evaluation, 46 (4). ISSN 1945-7553

2017

Minto, James M. and Hingerl, Ferdinand F. and Benson, Sally M. and Lunn, Rebecca J. (2017) X-ray CT and multiphase flow characterization of a 'bio-grouted' sandstone core : the effect of dissolution on seal longevity. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 64. pp. 152-162. ISSN 1750-5836

2016

Minto, James M. and MacLachlan, Erica and El Mountassir, Grainne and Lunn, Rebecca J. (2016) Rock fracture grouting with microbially induced carbonate precipitation. Water Resources Research, 52 (11). pp. 8827-8844. ISSN 0043-1397