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 2  2 Hours

9:15 am – 11:15 am (CDT), UTC -5

Various talks held in parallel.

Session 1.4 Computational Modeling of Localization Instability

Chair Jia-Liang Le


333 Flaw size sensitivity of amorphous silica nanostructures – Kedar Kirane, Stony Brook University

282 Mechanism-based energy regularization in numerical modeling of quasibrittle failure – Anna Gorgogianni, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

419 Mechanical and fracture characteristics of multi-size carbon fibers reinforced concrete – Mohammed Abdellatef, University of New Mexico

376 Waves as a trigger for multiscale, multi-physics instabilities – Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, The University of New South Wales

Session 2.4 Rate and Cyclic Effects on Creep

Chair Madura Pathirage


161 Microstructural dynamics of thermally induced creep in cohesionless soils – Jibril B. Coulibaly, Northwestern University

184 Comparison of long-term strain development of concrete due to creep and cyclic loading – Bianca Kern, Leibniz University Hannover

385 Modeling rate sensitivity in soils with multiple viscous mechanisms – Zhenhao Shi, Tongji University

240 Viscous flow of salt sheets and its interaction with basin sediments – Maria Nikolinakou, The University of Texas at Austin

Session 4.4 Poromechanics, Part 2

Session 5.4 Waves and Dynamic Effects

Chair Gianluca Cusatis


182 The role of wettability in wave propagation in partially saturated granular material – Jimmy Li, Curtin University

219 Numerical interpretation of laboratory measurements of attenuation and dispersion in a multiphase saturated sandstone – Samuel Chapman, University of Lausanne

281 Towards a rock physical model for fine grained permafrost: Insights from velocity and NMR measurements – Leonardo Teixeira Pinto Meireles, Technical University of Denmark

400 Morphological implications on microstructure of armor ceramics to enhance ballistic performance – Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University

223 Ultrasonic measurements in fluid-saturated carbonate rocks at different confining pressures: when is Biot-Gassmann’s equation valid? – Elisabeth Bemer, French Institute of Petroleum

374 Signatures of slow shear wave in poroelastodynamics – Gabriel Mejia, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada

Session 6.4 Atomistic, Granular, and Particle Approaches, Part 1

Chair Jose Andrade


224 Micro-scale modeling of granular solids with a Level Set shape description – Jerome Duriez, INRAE, Aix Marseille Univ, RECOVER

207 Atoms-to-beam homogenization, applied to DNA – Johannes Kalliauer, Technische Universität Wien

402 KMC simulations of dissolution of cements: effect of stress-induced defects on mechanisms and rates – Kumaran Coopamootoo, Newcastle University

231 Derivation of all thermo-poro-mechanical moduli from atomistic fluctuations – Laurent Brochard, Laboratoire Navier

255 DFT-to-hyperelasticity upscaling of graphene under large deformations – Christian Hellmich, Technische Universität Wien

268 Microscale Lattice Discrete Particle Model for chemo-mechanical behavior of cementitious materials – Ying Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute