ALERT Workshop 2016
3^rd  – 5^th October 2016, Aussois, France

DAY 1, MONDAY, October 3
New trends in micromechanical approaches of Particulate Materials – experiments and modelling aspects
Coordinators: Minna Karstunen, Nadia Benahmed, Mahdia Hattab

• Experimental study of the cracking mechanisms of clay during drying (Jean-Marie Fleureau, Xin Wei, Mahdia Hattab)
• Quantitative comparison between the crack apertures, strains and microstructure in Tournemire clay-rocks (Anne-Laure Fauchille, Stephen Hedan, Valery Valle, Dimitri Prêt, Philippe Cosenza)
• Parameteric sensitivity study of particle shape effect through 3D printing (Seung Jae Lee, Beena Sukumaran)
• Microstructural changes in the background of the one-dimensional compression behaviour of a stiff clay (Federica Cotecchia, Francesco Cafaro, Simona Guglielmi)
• On the determination and description of fabric in natural granular materials (Max Wiebicke, Edward Andò, Gioacchino Viggiani, Ivo Herle)
• Conceptual micromechanical model for non-active clays (Matteo Pedrotti, Alessandro Tarantino)
• Description of the mechanical response of soils subjected to suffusion based on a micro-hydromechanical model (Rodaina Aboul Hosn, Cong Doan Nguyen, Luc Sibille, Nadia Benahmed, Bruno Chareyre)
• On the observation of trans-scale structural response of soft soils during mechanical loading (Jelke Dijkstra, Georgios Birmpilis, Stephen Hall)
• Validity of DEM in describing stresses in wet granular materials (Jérôme Duriez, Mahdad Eghbalian,  Richard Wan)
• Experimental analysis of interparticle force distribution in granular media (Stephen A. Hall, Ryan Hurley, Jonathon Wright, Stefanos Athanasopoulos)
• Scale separation in suffusion: a micromechanical attempt (Antoine Wautier, Stéphane Bonelli, François Nicot)

DAY 2, Tuesday, October 4
Mechanics of multiphase porous media in modelling cementitious materials: from early ages to durability issues
Coordinators: Lorenzo Sanavia, Francesco Pesavento, Matthieu Briffaut

• Intrinsic, apparent and relative permeability estimation of cementitious materials based on pore size distributions (Lionel Ecay, David Grégoire, Fadi Khaddour, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot)
• Numerical coupling between mechanical state and permeability for concrete applied on a 3D splitting test (M. Ezzedine El Dandachy, Matthieu Briffaut, Frédéric Dufour, Stefano Dal Pont)
• Water flow in cracking concrete : experimental study and numerical modeling based on a probabilistic cracking approach (Giuseppe Rastiello, Claude Boulay, Stefano Dal Pont, Jean-Louis Tailhan, Pierre Rossi)
• Nano-granular texture of cement hydrates (Katerina Ioannidou, Franz-Josef Ulm, Pierre Levitz, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, Emanuela Del Gado)
• Constitutive modelling of hydrating cement paste : application to oil-well cement sheath integrity (Siavash Ghabezloo, Jean Sulem, Nicolaine Agofack, Marcos Samudio, Sara Bahafid)
• Modelling Coupled Chemo-Hygro-Thermo-Mechanical Phenomena in Cementitious Materials (Francesco Pesavento, Dariusz Gawin)

DAY 3, Wednesday, October 5
Geomechanics of faults, with applications spanning from earthquake nucleation to landslides
Coordinators: Manolis Veveakis, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Ioannis Stefanou, Jean Sulem

• Faulting: Do we know what we are talking about? (Gary Couples)
• Experimental Investigation of the Shear Strength of Rock Mass with Intermittent Joints (Eleni Gerolymatou, Theodoros Triantafyllidis)
• Fault orientation: how it affects the stick-slip behaviour of saturated sandstones at the laboratory scale (Elli-Maria Charalampidou, Georg Dresen)
• Effect of Brittle off-fault Damage on Earthquake Rupture Dynamics (Harsha Bhat)
• Geomechanical Simulation of Structural Geology: More than just a boundary value problem? (Helen Lewis)
• Borehole stability and flow-through drying in gas flow (Euripides Papamichos)
• Collapse of granular media subjected to wetting (Zahra El Korchi, Maroc Frédéric, Moulay Saïd El Youssoufi)
• Fracture networks in carbonate laminites (Stephanie Zihms, Helen Lewis, Gary Couples, Steven Hall, Jim Somerville)
• Couplings involved in the weakening of faults: comparison of linear stability and finite element analysis with field observations (Hadrien Rattez, Ioannis Stefanou, Manolis Veveakis, Thomas Poulet, Jean Sulem)
• Microseismicity and deep fluid injections (François Cornet)
• Earthquake nucleation and observations of mechanical-hydraulic-geochemical interactions due to drainage of a surface water reservoir in Switzerland (R.J. Lunn, M. Kinali, R. Lord, S. Pytharouli, Z.K. Shipton, M. Stillings)
• Analysis of dynamics in multiphysics modelling of active faults (Sotiris Alevizos, Thomas Poulet, Manolis Veveakis, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb)
• Thermo-poro-mechanical modelling of the creeping and failure phases of catastrophic landslides (Francesca Brambilla, Antonis Zervos, Claudio Di Prisco)
• Modelling multiphase geomaterials at high temperature with application to strain localization and rapid catastrophic landslides (Lorenzo Sanavia, Toan Duc Cao)
• Modelling faults from engineering (landslides) to geodynamic (subduction initiation) scales (Klaus Regenauer-Lieb)