Parallel Sessions (PM1) Day 1 2 Hours
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (CDT), UTC -5
Various talks held in parallel.
Session 1.2 Special Session Celebrating 70th Birthday of Prof. Rudnicki, Part 2
Chair Steve WaiChing Sun
299 Relation between blood pressure and pulse wave velocity for human arteries – Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University
313 Are configurational forces real forces – Roberto Ballarini, University of Houston
425 Simulation of compaction localization in porous rock at laboratory and field scale – Giuseppe Buscarnera, Northwestern University
314 Special session honoring the 70th birthday of John Rudnicki: Micro-CT-based porosity analysis of biomass particles – Qiushi Chen, Clemson University
295 Special session honoring the 70th birthday of John Rudnicki: Plasticity theories as evolving level sets – WaiChing Sun, Columbia University
426 Microscale modeling of the mechanical behavior of black shale – Gianluca Cusatis, Northwestern University
Session 2.2 Creep Experiments and Modeling
Chair Matthieu Vandamme
198 Microprism compression investigation of short-term creep behavior of cement paste at the microscale – Yidong Gan, Delft University of Technology
187 Negative unjacketed pore modulus in limestones: Modeling experimental observations – Wenhui Tan, Hohai University
343 Influence of chemical bonds on the viscoelastic properties of alkali-activated slag and fly ash pastes – Albina Kostiuchenko, Delft University of Technology
263 Comparative study of properties of accelerated aged concrete and normally aged concrete – Sannidhya Ghosh, University of Colorado Boulder
173 Creep and shrinkage behavior of disintegrated and non-disintegrated cement mortar – Rihards Gailitis, Riga Technical University
244 Contact creep of carbon nanoreinforced cementitious composite – Raul Marrero Rosa, Northwestern University
Session 3.2 Hydraulic Fracturing and Fracture Propagation
Chair Jia-Liang Le
169 Estimation of fracture surface energy from hydraulic fracture tests on mortar and rocks at geothermal reservoir temperatures – Omar Rdz-Villarreal, L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
171 Role of fluid diffusivity on the hydraulic fracturing of granite and gypsum – Catarina Baptista-Pereira, New Jersey Institute of Technology
193 Experimental and numerical study of the time dependent behavior of fracture propagation in salt rock – Andreu Escanellas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
280 A novel numerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing with special reference to leak-off flow – Ahmad Jafari, Univerity of New South Wales
335 A novel coupled mechanical, fluid-thermal approach to modelling of hydraulic fracturing in rocks – Marek Krzaczek, Gdansk University of Technology
319 Computational modeling of instrumented indentation testing with application to creep in shale – Yingxiao Liu, Stanford University
Session 4.2 Fracture and Damage, Part 2
Chair Jan Elias
412 The double porosity model of single-phase flow in a fractured porous medium taking into account scattered fracture of matrix blocks – Oleg Izvekov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
330 Monitoring damage occurrence, post-peak crack propagation and apparent permeability in concrete using the Brazilian tension test – Angel Padilla, University of New Mexico
267 Unsaturated nanoporomechanics based on NRB (Nguyen-Rahimi-Bazant) isotherms – Hoang Nguyen, Northwestern University
312 The influence of the unequal stress-strain state on filtration and rheological characteristics of reservoir rocks when modeling the well drawdown – Valerii Khimulia, Russian Academy of Sciences
211 Numerical and experimental study: Investigation of the unclogging process within propped fractures using dynamic stimulation – Youssef Fawaz, L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
Session 5.2 Nano to Multi-Scale Modeling
Chair Mohammad Javad Qomi
411 Capillary effects in granular materials: a multi-scale modeling strategy – Marie Miot, INRAE – RECOVER
289 A multiscale theory explaining the initial shrinkage of microporous materials upon adsorption – Yida Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder
237 Upscaling transport properties in porous materials from pore size distributions – Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
338 Water freezing in graphitic slit-pore – Martin Prez-Rodrguez, L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
398 Single sided NMR to characterize the interaction of yield stress liquids with porous media – Dennis Woertge, Technical University Ilmenau
291 Estimation of constituent properties of heterogeneous materials with an artificial neural network based method – Jing Xue, University of Lille
Session 6.2 Experimental Methods
Chair Giovanni Di Luzio
403 Chemistry-dependent structure and mechanics in N-A-S-H gel systems – Jennifer Mills, University of Delaware
228 Mechanics of indentation on highly porous solids – Tejas Murthy, Indian Institute of Science
256 Coordination polymers based on 1,2,4-Triazole – Shiraz Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Vienna
279 Study on creep in irradiated concrete based on combined elemental analysis techniques and Fast-Fourier transform-based simulations –Yujie Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
283 Development of micro-scale universal testing approach for the calibration and validation of micromechanical model – Hongzhi Zhang, Shanodong University
407 Probing the micro-mechanical response of materials using high-energy X-rays at the synchrotron – Sriramya Nair, Cornell University
Session 7.2 Soil Mechanics and Pore Fluid Flow
Chair James Hambleton
172 Numerical implementation of Biot’s equations on graphical processing units – Yury Alkhimenkov, University of Lausanne
185 Oscillatory flow in elastic tubes: experiments and implications for pore-scale modeling – Patrick Kurzeja, Institute of Mechanics, TU Dortmund
251 Poroelastic fracture properties inferred from seismic attenuation – Simn Lissa, University of Lausanne
265 Influence of pore fluid on shear wave transmissivity across discontinuities – Josue Gonzalez, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
340 Occurrence of upward-directed pore pressure gradients in a sandy beach during a storm event – Matthew Florence, Virginia Tech
192 Porosity gradients alter the permeability tensor – Mahyar Madadi, The University of Melbourne