The city of Wellington has a high population concentration and lies within a geologically active landscape at the southern end of the North Island, New Zealand. Wellington has a high seismic risk due to its close proximity to several major fault systems, with the active Wellington Fault located in the north-western central city. Varying soil depth and properties in combination with the close proximity of active faults mean that in a large earthquake rupture event, ground shaking amplification is expected to occur in Thorndon, Te Aro and around the waterfront. This thesis focuses on the area bounded by Thorndon Overbridge in the north, Wellington Hospital in the south, Kelburn in the west, and Oriental Bay in the east. It includes many of the major buildings and infrastructural elements located within the central Wellington commercial area. The main objectives were to create an electronic database which allows for convenient access to all available data within the study area, to create a 3D geological model based upon this data, and to define areas of different seismic subsoil class and depth to rock within the study area at a scale that is useful for preliminary geotechnical analysis (1:5,000. Borelogs from 1025 holes with accompanying geological and geotechnical data obtained from GNS Science and Tonkin & Taylor were compiled into a database, together with the results from SPAC microtremor testing at 12 sites undertaken specifically for this study. This thesis discusses relevant background work and defines the local Wellington geology. A 3D geological model of the central Wellington commercial area, along with ten ArcGIS maps including surficial, depth to bedrock, site period, Vs30, ground shaking amplification hazard and site class (NZS 1170.5:2004) maps were created. These outputs show that a significant ground shaking amplification risk is posed on the city, with the waterfront, Te Aro and Thorndon areas most at risk.

Selon la méthode utilisée pour construire un modèle structural en trois dimensions et selon l'application à laquelle il est destiné, son maillage, en d'autres termes sa représentation informatique, doit être adapté afin de respecter des critères de type, de nombre et de qualité de ses éléments. Les méthodes de maillage développées dans d'autres domaines que la géomodélisation ne permettent pas de modifier le modèle d'entrée. Ceci est souhaitable en géomodélisation afin de mieux contrôler le nombre d'éléments du maillage et leur qualité. L'objectif de cette thèse est de développer des méthodes de maillage permettant de remplir ces objectifs afin de gérer la complexité géométrique des modèles structuraux définis par frontières. Premièrement, une analyse des sources de complexité géométrique dans ces modèles est proposée. Les mesures développées constituent une première étape dans la définition d'outils permettant la comparaison objective de différents modèles et aident à caractériser précisément les zones plus compliquées à mailler dans un modèle. Ensuite, des méthodes originales de remaillage surfacique et de maillage volumique fondées sur l'utilisation des diagrammes de Voronoï sont proposées. Les fondements de ces deux méthodes sont identiques : (1) une optimisation de type Voronoï barycentrique est utilisée pour globalement obtenir un nombre contrôlé d’éléments de bonne qualité et (2) des considérations combinatoires permettant de construire localement le maillage final, éventuellement en modifiant le modèle initial. La méthode de remaillage surfacique est automatique et permet de simplifier un modèle à une résolution donnée. L'originalité de la méthode de maillage volumique est que les éléments générés sont de types différents. Des prismes et pyramides sont utilisés pour remplir les zones très fines du modèle, tandis que le reste du modèle est rempli avec des tétraèdres / Depending on the specific method used to build a 3D structural model, and on the exact purpose of this model, its mesh must be adapted so that it enforces criteria on element types, maximum number of elements, and mesh quality. Meshing methods developed for applications others than geomodeling forbid any modification of the input model, that may be desirable in geomodeling to better control the number of elements in the final mesh and their quality. The objective of this thesis is to develop meshing methods that fulfill this requirement to better manage the geometrical complexity of B-Rep geological structural models. An analysis of the sources of geometrical complexity in those models is first proposed. The introduced measures are a first step toward the definition of tools allowing objective comparisons of structural models and permit to characterize the model zones that are more complicated to mesh. We then introduce two original meshing methods based on Voronoi diagrams: the first for surface remeshing, the second for hybrid gridding. The key ideas of these methods are identical: (1) the use of a centroidal Voronoi optimization to have a globally controlled number of elements of good quality, and (2) combinatorial considerations to locally build the final mesh while sometimes modifying the initial model. The surface remeshing method is automatic and permits to simplify a model at a given resolution. The gridding method generates a hybrid volumetric mesh. Prisms and pyramids fill the very thin layers of the model while the remaining regions are filled with tetrahedra

Minestis software allows geological domain modeling and resource estimation through an efficient and simplified geostatistics-based workflow. It has been designed for all those, geologists, mining engineers or auditors, for whom quick production of quality models is at the heart of their concerns.

Minestis software allows geological domain modeling and resource estimation through an efficient and simplified geostatistics-based workflow. It has been designed for all those, geologists, mining engineers or auditors, for whom quick production of quality models is at the heart of their concerns.