Presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2024

ALERT Doctoral School 2024
3rd October-5th October, “Numerical Methods in Geomechanics”
Coordination: Claudio Tamagnini, Lorenzo Sanavia, and Manuel Pastor

DAY 1

  • Introduction to the School (Claudio TAMAGNINI, Lorenzo SANAVIA, Manuel PASTOR)
  • Introduction to the Finite Element Method (Manuel PASTOR)
  • Theory of Plasticity (Claudio TAMAGNINI)
  • Time dependent problem: seepage and dynamics (Manuel PASTOR)
  • Practical aspects of FEM (Pablo MIRA)
  • Introduction to GeHoMadrid and GID (Pablo MIRA, Diego MANZANAL, Manuel PASTOR)
  • FEM technology: bending and locking (Pablo MIRA, Diego MANZANAL, Manuel PASTOR)
  • Plasticity I: homogeneous specimen (Pablo MIRA, Diego MANZANAL, Manuel PASTOR)
  • Localization I: plane strain specimen (Pablo MIRA, Diego MANZANAL, Manuel PASTOR)

DAY 2

  • Coupled behaviour (saturated geomaterials) (Lorenzo SANAVIA)
  • Computational Plasticity (I) (Pablo MIRA)
  • Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in variably saturated geomaterials (Lorenzo SANAVIA)
  • Viscoplasticity (Claudio DI PRISCO)
  • Computational Plasticity (II) (Claudio TAMAGNINI)
  • Footing on a cohesive soil (Pablo MIRA, Diego MANZANAL, Manuel PASTOR)
  • 1D consolidation (Pablo MIRA, Diego MANZANAL, Manuel PASTOR)
  • Consolidation under a footing (Pablo MIRA, Diego MANZANAL, Manuel PASTOR)

DAY 3

  • Modelling of unsaturated soil with Generalized plasticity (Diego MANZANAL)
  • FEM modelling of non-isothermal variably saturated soils (quasi-statics
  • and dynamics) (Lorenzo SANAVIA)
  • Introduction to Isogeometric analysis (Claudio TAMAGNINI)
  • Closure of the school (Claudio TAMAGNINI)