The Biot-Bažant Conference

on Engineering Mechanics and Physics of Porous Materials

A One-time Fusion of Concreep and the Biot Conference on Poromechanics

Parallel Sessions (PM2) Day 1  2 Hours

3:15 pm – 5:15 pm (CDT), UTC -5

Various talks held in parallel.

Session 1.3 Modeling and Characterization of Nonlinear Beahavior of Geomaterials

Chair Jose Andrade


216  Mechanical anisotropy of soft porous rocks – Julia Leuthold, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

320 Micromechanical investigation of particle size effect of granular materials in biaxial test with DEM – Pei Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

353 Study of the gas impact on clayrock integrity with a second gradient model – Gilles Corman, University of Liege

334 Role of soil viscosity on diffusive instability and flowslide runout – Yanni Chen, Northwestern University

373 Modeling penetration of self-burrowing impactor probes into granular regolith using the cavity expansion theory – Mahdi Alaei Varnosfaderani, University of Manitoba

188 Numerical procedure to obtain the effective dynamic permeability of heterogeneous poroelastic media – Nicolas Daniel Barbosa, University of Lausanne

Session 2.3 Impact of Environmental Factors on Creep

Session 3.3 Life-time and Durability

Chair Mohammed Alnaggar


273 Implications of climate change on the lifetime of concrete infrastructure in the US – Naiara Tonin, University of Colorado at Boulder

322 Statistical reconstruction and numerical simulation of damage development in cemented aggregate structures – Haozhou He, Georgia Institute of Technology

388 EM technology in cementitious systems and their influence on durability – Paul Brumm, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg

284 Experimentally-informed modelling of micromechanical properties of blast furnace slag cement pastes – Branko Avija, Delft University of Technology

410 Influence of loading frequency on micromechanics of concrete fatigue fracture – Keerthana Kirupakaran

Session 4.3 Poromechanics, Part 1

Chair Ange Akono


272  Voronoi-cell lattice models of plastic settlement of fiber-reinforced concrete – John Bolander, University of California, Davis

378 Effective pressure coefficient for porosity matters for compressibility coefficients – Gautier Njiekak, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada

354 Quantification of root-induced shear on sand – Floriana Anselmucci, Université Grenoble Alpes

336 Hydro-mechanical analysis of tunneling in anisotropic ground: Effect of face advance on pore pressure evolution. – Lina Maria Guayacan-Carrillo, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

356 Laboratory investigation of the transversely isotropic, stress dependent poroelastic properties of shale – Philipp Braun, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

365 Measurements of anisotropic poroelastic moduli in Westerly granite – Bobby Elsigood, University College London

Session 5.3 Surface Effects

Chair Giuseppe Buscarnera


210 Coupling fluid adsorption with porous media deformation using classical density functional theory and enhanced poromechanics – Youssef Khaldouni, L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour

253 Confinement of a water fluid film during crystallization in a porous material – Antoine Barthes, L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour

298 A model of drying shrinkage that takes into account capillarity and surface adsorption effects – Matthieu Vandamme, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

347 Determination of clay-water contact angle by deep learning enhanced method – Xiaoyu Song, University of Florida

316 Silica/Epoxy interface shear debonding: interlocking or van der Waals forces? Insights from molecular dynamics. – Koochul Ji, Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance

Session 6.3 Multiscale Approaches to Creep

Chair Gianluca Cusatis


297 Creep behavior of an over-consolidated clay in relation to the microstructure – Mahdia Hattab, Université de Lorraine

168 Effects of nanoscale C-S-H behavior on the properties of cement paste – Yige Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder

308 Mechanisms of aging basic creep explored using multiscale modeling – Brock Hedegaard, University of Minnesota Duluth

213 Image-based meso-scale modelling of basic creep of concrete – Sen Zhang, University of New South Wales, Sydney

382 Calibration of the viscoelastic behavior of polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete with the extended Lattice Discrete Particle Model approach – Clementina Del Prete, University of Bologna

247 A homogenization framework for inelastic layered porous materials – Shabnam J. Semnani, University of California, San Diego

Session 7.3 Performance of Geotechnical Systems and Structures

Chair ‪Chloé Arson‬


205 LSM-DFN modeling for seismic responses in naturally-fractured media – Ning Liu, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

233 Elastic strain of chalk due to oil production – Ida Lykke Fabricius, Technical University of Denmark

368 Impact of ductile deformation in modifying the subsurface stress states in reservoir and fault zones. – Hiroki Sone, University of Wisconsin-Madison

408 Dynamic soil-structure interaction in the presence of liquefaction – Majid Manzari, The George Washington University

259 Including temperature in the effective stress equation a case study from the deep North Sea basin – Tobias Orlander, Technical University of Denmark

303 Simulation of landslide creep driven by coupled hydro-mechanical processes – Xiang Li, Northwestern University