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 (AM) Day 1  2 Hours

9:15 am – 11:15 am (CDT), UTC -5

Various talks held in parallel.

Session 1.1 Special Session Celebrating 70th Birthday of Prof. Rudnicki, Part 1

Chair Dmitry Garagash


422 My nearly career-long collaborations with John Rudnicki – James Rice, Harvard University

342 Effect of pore pressure oscillations on slip on a fault governed by rate and state friction – John Rudnicki, Northwestern University

366 Hydraulic fracture in weak rock – Emmanuel Detournay, University of Minnesota

423 Fracture mechanics of faults with rate-and-state friction – Dmitry Garagash, Dalhousie University

418 Impact of layering and mineral-fabric orientation on fracture surface roughness – Laura Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue University

421 Following in the footsteps of John Rudnicki: Simulation of sequence of induced earthquakes and aseismic slip due to injection into a hydrologically isolated rate and state fault – Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Session 2.1 Interplay Between Creep, Relaxation, and Shrinkage

Session 3.1 Shrinkage and Sustained Load Behavior

Session 5.1 Concrete and Cementitious Materials

Chair Matthieu Vandamme


260 The role of disjoining pressure on the desiccation shrinkage of cementitious materials – Syeda Rahman, University of Texas at Austin

339 Breakage mechanics for cemented granular materials in surface-reactive environments – Xianda Shen, Northwestern University

352 Time-dependent behaviour of composite slabs subjected to different surface drying conditions: an experimental study – Gianluca Ranzi, The University of Sydney

387 Basic creep of cement paste at early age hydration and aging – Mateusz Wyrzykowski, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

420 Investigation on the influence of the spring-loaded creep frame in deducing the concrete creep compliance function – Najeeb Shariff, National Institute of Technology, Warangal

197 Experimental study of water vapour condensation in cracked concrete with different specimen states visualised by fast neutron radiography – Ritesh Gupta, Université Grenoble Alpes

Session 6.1 Poromechanics and Biot Theory

Chair Christian Helmich


242 Discretizing pore structure at the steel-concrete interface for transport modeling – Thilo Schmid, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

243 Water uptake/release by hydrates as source of hygrothermic coefficients and thermal expansion of cement paste – Bernhard Pichler, Technische Universität Wien

293 Morphometric characterization of geomaterials’ strength – Alexandre Guevel, Duke University

310 Biot coefficients for low permeability rocks – Patrick Selvadurai, McGill University

345 Effects of porosity structure on the moisture-mechanical damage responses of a viscoelastic multiphase medium – Aimane Najmeddine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

337 A reactive-chemo-mechanical model for subcritical cracking in acidized carbonate rocks – ManMan Hu, The University of Hong Kong

Session 7.1 Dynamic Measurement and Identificaiton

Chair Brock Hedegaard


232 Detecting shear wave arrival in highly porous chalk – Ermis Proestakis, Technical University of Denmark

329 Insights on ultrasonic dispersion in concrete – Eric Landis, University of Maine

362 Towards using geotechnical in-situ point measurements for the improvement of acoustic seabed surveying methods – Nina Stark, Virginia Tech

371 Identification of ultrasonic waves in multiphase frozen soils using the theory of poroelastodynamics – Hongwei Liu, University of Manitoba

409 Multi-target prediction of concrete engineering properties based on a single deep learning model – Yu Song, University of California, Los Angeles