ALERT Doctoral School 2015
1^st-3^rd October 2015, Aussois, France
“Coupled and multiphysics phenomena”
Coordination: Bernhard Schrefler, Lorenzo Sanavia, Frederic Collin

Day 1, Thursday, October 1

• Introduction to the Course (L. Sanavia, F. Collin)
• Thermo-hydro-mechanical issues in geomaterials: physical mechanisms and experimental determination (P. Delage)
• Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory (TCAT) to model the coupled behaviour of multiphase porous systems (W. Gray)
• Generalized plasticity modelling of geomaterials: the role of dilatancy (M. Pastor)

Day 2, Friday, October 2

• Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory (TCAT) to model the coupled behaviour of multiphase porous systems (W. Gray)
• An introduction to numerical modelling of coupled problems in geomechanics (M. Pastor)
• General theory of mixtures. Physical chemistry of mixtures and swelling (J. Huyghe)
• Finite deformation poromechanics with application to heart muscle and blood perfusion (J. Huyghe)

Day 3, Saturday, October 3

• Finite element analysis of non-isothermal multiphase porous media in dynamics (L. Sanavia)
• Numerical modelling of a Municipal Waste Disposal as a Bio-Chemo-Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical problem (F. Collin)
• Hydraulic fracture (B. Schrefler)