ALERT Workshop 2017
2^nd  – 4^th October 2017, Aussois, France

DAY 1, MONDAY, 2nd October
Porous Media Mechanics from geomaterials to non-geological media
Coordinators: William G. Gray, Bernhard Schrefler, Claudio Tamagnini

• A multiphase porous media model for vascular tumor growth and drug delivery (Bernhard Schrefler)
• A hierarchical multi-compartment porous medium system for evolution of tumor microenvironment during avascular and vascular growth (G. Sciumé)
• Toward the Closure of a New Generation of Multiphase Flow Models (Cass T. Miller, J.E. McLure, W.G. Gray)
• Micromechanical micro-UNSAT expression of a stress-(quasi-elastic)strain-strength effective stress in dry and wet porous media (J. Duriez, R. Wan)
• Swelling processes in grouting mortar induced by local phase transition (M. Sauerwein, H. Steeb)
• Conceptual model of the microstructure of hydrophobized sand in unsaturated state conditions (P. Baryla, M. Lefik)
• Mechanics and multi-physics of drying of particulate and polymer materials (Tomasz Hueckel)
• Impact of drying – wetting cycles on the microstructure and hydraulic behaviour of a compacted clayey silt (A. Azizi, G. Musso, C. Jommi)
• Experimental observations and constitutive description of the effect of compaction banding on the hydraulic properties of porous rock (J. Leuthold, E. Gerolymatou, M. Vergara)
• The role of gas on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of peat (S. Muraro, C. Jommi)
• A new practical analytical solution for the one-dimensional consolidation under a general time-dependent loading (M. Stickle, M. Pastor, D. Manzanal, A. Yague, P. Mira)
• Application of IGA-FEM to second-gradient poroelastoplasticity (C. Plua, C. Tamagnini, P. Bésuelle)
• Numerical and Experimental Approaches Using Unconventional Geomechancs for Porous Media (Mustafa Sari, Manolis Veveakis, Thomas Poulet, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb)

DAY 2, TUESDAY, 3rd October
Must Critical State Theory for Granular Mechanics be Revisited?
Coordinators: Yannis F. Dafalias, Gioacchino Viggiani

• Why the workshop? (Yannis F. Dafalias, Gioacchino Viggiani)
• Critical State: misleading elegance? (J. Carlos Santamarina)
• Fabric: a missing link between Critical State and Critical State Theory (Yannis F. Dafalias, Achilleas G. Papadimitriou, Alexandros I. Theocharis, Emmanouil Vairaktaris)
• Critical State of finely grained soils under “environmental loads” (Cristina Jommi, Guido Musso, Claudio Tamagnini)
• Is Critical State a utopia? A Barodesy answer (Dimitrios Kolymbas)
• On critical state, rate and state, and thermodynamic state of soils (Itai Einav)

Discussion of David Muir Wood and Yannis Dafalias before having the workshop

• David Muir Wood to Yannis Dafalias
• Response of Yannis Dafalias to David Muir Wood

DAY 3, Wednesday, 4th October
Advanced numerical modelling of geomaterials with emphasis on large deformation and flow problems
Coordinators: Michael A. Hicks, Pablo Mira, Lorenzo Sanavia

• Coupling solid and fluid phases in fast landslide propagation (Manuel Pastor, Angel Yagüe, Miguel Martin Stickle, Diego Manzanal, Saeid Moussavi, Chuan Lin, Andrea Furlanetto, Pablo Mira, Jose A. Fernandez Merodo)
• Cylinder Drag through Saturated Granular Bed in Zero Effective Gravity: Experiment and SPH Simulation (Siliang Guo, Takashi Matsushima)
• Mechanisms and consequence of bed entrainment for landslides of the flow type (Sabatino Cuomo)
• Local Max-Ent meshfree method applied to large deformation problems in saturated soils (Pedro Navas, Lorenzo Sanavia, Susana López-Querol, Rena C. Yu)
• Eulerian-Lagrangian scheme for hydro-mechanical simulations on CT-scans (Martin Lesueur, Manolis Veveakis, Thomas Poulet)
• Multiscale modeling of large deformation in geosynthetic-reinforced granular soils (Hongyang Cheng, Ning Guo, Hariyuki Yamamoto)
• G-PFEM: a Particle Finite Element Method platform for geotechnical applications (Lluís Monforte, Marcos Arroyo, Antonio Gens, Josep Maria Carbonell)
• Numerical simulation of cone penetration tests using G-PFEM (Laurin Hauser, Lluís Monforte, Helmut F. Schweiger, Marcos Arroyo)
• Modelling of the progressive failure of the sensitive landslide in Saint Monique, Quebec (Quoc Anh Tran, Wojciech T. Sołowski)
• The role of constitutive models in large deformation MPM simulations (Elliot James Fern, Kenichi Soga)
• Application of the random material point method to slope reliability, risk and the evolution of slope failure mechanisms (Michael Hicks, Philip Vardon, Bin Wang, Leon Gonzalez-Acosta)
• Real scale test design of a sand flowslide by MPM slope (in)stability analysis (Marco Bolognin, Michael Hicks, Philip Vardon, Alexander Rohe)
• Modelling of compaction grouting using the implicit MPM (Peter Geißler, Ilaria Iaconeta, Matthias Baeßler, Pablo Cuéllar)