The 15th edition of the GéoMécanique newsletter is brought to you by Chao Yuan. It contains the latest news regarding research publications, conference visits and other activities of the staff and students from the GéoMécanique group of Laboratoire 3SR (Sols, Solides, Structures – Risques). If you have something you want to share, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: geomecanique.newsletter@3sr-grenoble.fr. Please feel free to forward the letter to colleagues and friends, and let them know that they can subscribe by themselves here. Enjoy.
Honors, Awards and Invitations
Dorjan Dauti (thesis Tec21, supervised by S.Dal Pont) received the 1st prize award in the Empa PhD Symposium. Dorjan’s thesis is in collaboration with the EMPA of Zurich in Switzerland.
He said, “The event is called Empa PhD Symposium. It is an event organized once a year where PhD students from 30 labs at Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology) present their research work, either by a poster or an oral presentation. I attended with a poster and my poster was ranked 1st from the experts who are research scientists here at Empa. It is the first time that a participant from the Structural Engineer Lab (the lab which I belong here) wins an award in this symposium. The one handling the price in the photo is the director of Empa, Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona…“
Publications
- Eduard Puig-Montellà, Marcella Toraldo, Bruno Chareyre and Luc Sibille published “Localized fluidization in granular materials: Theoretical and numerical study”. Physical Review E, 94(5), 052905, 2016.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.052905
- Igniciao Tejada, Luc Sibille and Bruno Chareyre published “Role of blockages in particle transport through homogeneous granular assemblies”. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 115(5), 54005, 2016.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/115/54005/meta
- Rodaina Aboul Hosn, Luc Sibille, L., Benahmed, N., & Chareyre, B. (2017). “Discrete numerical modeling of loose soil with spherical particles and interparticle rolling friction”. Granular Matter, 19(4), 2017.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10035-016-0687-0
- K Wang, WC Sun, S Salager, SH Na and G Khaddour. “Identifying material parameters for a micro-polar plasticity model via x-ray micro-computed tomographic (ct) images: lessons learned from the curve-fitting exercises”. International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 14(4), 2016).
http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/61fd1b191cf7e96f,2b8c00292c2d9c29,7f3216382af87d2a.html
Visits and conferences
Cino and Eddy visited Yannis Dafalias, Manolis Vairaktaris, Alexandros Theocharis and colleagues in Athens at the end of November for the SOMEF project.
