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Workshop: Long-term measurement of soil suction in the field and its modelling Click here for detailed information
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| 18:30- 20:30 |
Short Course: Introduction to Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and its importance in Geotechnical Practice Click here for detailed information
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| 20:30 |
Welcome Reception |
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| DAY 2 Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 | ||
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MAIN HALL |
PARALLEL HALL |
| 09:30- 10:00 |
Opening Session
Chairs: Michael Bardanis, George Belokas |
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| 10:00- 11:30 |
Session 01: Shrink-swell & collapse Chair: Fernando Marinho
01001 | Special Themed Lecture: A Unified Two Independent Stress Variable Approach to Moisture-Change-Induced Unsaturated Soil Volume Change
01002 | Influence of compaction on the soil shrinkage and swelling curves Sandra Houston, Xiong Zhang David Encalada, Abdallah Najdi, Joao Mendes, Pere Prat, Alberto Ledesma 01003 | Analysis of climate change impacts on the shrinkage-swelling phenomenon of clayey soils to adapt infrastructures Lamine Ighil Ameur 01004 | Swelling and collapse behavior of expansive marl and its implications in foundation engineering Dimitrios Loukidis, Georgia Lazarou, Ploutarchos Tzampoglou, Thrasivoulos Stylianou 01005 | An insights on the drying-wetting cycles of peat Luis J. Parra Gómez, Stefano Muraro, Cristina Jommi |
Session 02: Fundamental Soil Behavior - Part I
Chair: Bernardo Caicedo 02001 | Experimental observation and constitutive modelling of the shear strength of a natural unsaturated soil Ching-Yu Chao, Stefano Muraro, Wout Broere, Cristina Jommi 02002 | Evaluation of the Unsaturated Shear Strength Parameters of Compacted, Heaving Soil Using Geotechnical Properties Armand Augustin Fondjo, Elizabeth Theron, Richard P. Ray 02003 | Capillary cohesion of different granular materials determined from uniaxial compression and water retention tests Dennis Heinrich, Marius Milatz 02004 | Capillary collapse of unsaturated granular soils: experimental investigation and microscale insights Nicole Hüsener, Jürgen Grabe 02005 | Implementation and validation of pressure-dependent gas permeability model for bentonite in FEM code Thebes Abhishek Gupta, Ayman Abed, Wojciech T. Sołowski 02006 | Effect of Hydro-Mechanical Hysteresis on Active Earth Pressure for Unsaturated Soils Bestun J. Shwan 02007 | Effect of the optimum and residual moisture content on the strength characteristics of unsaturated sands Ahmad Waqar, Taro Uchimura, Muhammad Umar |
| 11:30- 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:45- 14:00 |
Session 03: Cyclic & dynamic behaviour of unsaturated soils
Chair: Kanthasamy Muraleetharan
03001 | Special Themed Lecture: Modeling seismic compression of unsaturated soils in the funicular regime
03002 | Field and laboratory measurements of shear wave velocity in unsaturated soils John S. McCartney, Dellena Kinikles Tareq Abuawad, Gerald Miller, Kanthasamy Muraleetharan 03003 | Influence of degree of saturation on the dynamic soil properties of a sandy soil Rafael Baltodano-Goulding, Laura Brenes-Garcia 03004 | Comparing trend of Vs at similar range of saturated and unsaturated stress state variables Zhuoyuan Cheng, Eng Choon Leong 03005 | Relating wave frequency and pore fluid homogeneity in quasi-saturated sands Guillaume Flood-Page, Luc Boutonnier, Jean-Michel Pereira 03006 | Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Data and Unsaturated Soil Response Ali Farahani, Majid Ghayoomi, Jennifer M. Jacobs 03007 | An evaluation of the effect of matric suction on the dynamic strain-dependent parameters of an unsaturated silt S. Mohsen Haeri, Behnam Sadollahzadeh, Vahid Zahed 03008 | One-dimensional cyclic loading tests on saturated and unsaturated sand-clay mixtures Arman Khoshghalb, Jiacheng Li, Babak Shahbodagh 03009 | Seismic behavior of piles foundations in unsaturated soils Ali Shojaeian, Sumangali Sivakumaran, Kanthasamy K. Muraleetharan |
Session 04: Fundamental Soil Behavior - Part II
Chair: Francesca Casini 04001 | The combination of splitting tensile strength and unconfined compression tests of unsaturated soils to measure the evolution of unsaturated shear strength Michael Bardanis, Sofia Grifiza, Dimitrios Kokoviadis, Marianna Feuillas 04002 | A simplified approach to estimating the evolution of residual shear strength of unsaturated soils with suction Michael Bardanis, Sofia Grifiza, Marianna Feuillas 04003 | Influence of water content on the electrical resistivity of biocemented soils investigated through the shape of the water retention curve and considering chemical effects Roman Fernandez Rodriguez, Rafaela Cardoso 04004 | Mechanical properties hysteresis of unsaturated granular soil Paul Chiasson, Horace Tamégnon 04005 | Coupled stress-suction changes in the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone Philipp Braun, Pierre Delage, Siavash Ghabezloo, Jean Talandier 04006 | Constant void ratio vs. constant confining pressure tests on partially saturated silty soil Tufail Ahmad, Riko Kato, Dipak Raj Shrestha, Jiro Kuwano 04007 | The laterally confined consolidation of initially compacted and wetted swelling clay Shay Nachum, Sam Frydman, Mark Talesnick 04008 | Experimental investigation on the hydromechanical behaviour of a porous chalk Danielle Rita Pajiep Ngongang, Nathalie Conil, Jian-Fu Shao, Mountaka Souley, Philippe Gombert 04009 | Soil-atmosphere interaction: cracking of a compacted soil under the effect of a thermo-hydric stress Sandrine Rosin-Paumier, Jaime Granados, Bernardo Caicedo |
| 14:00- 15:00 |
Lunch Break |
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| 15:00- 17:15 |
Session 05: Advances in testing techniques, methods and equipment
Chair: Joao Mendes
05001 | Special Themed Lecture: New challenges in experimental unsaturated soil mechanics. Experimental upscaling of an engineered gas-permeable seal
05002 | Defining a generic accelerated erosion testing method for earthen materials Enrique Romero, Clara Alvarado, Antonio Lloret Christopher Beckett, Paulina Faria 05003 | Interpretation of constant suction direct shear test Sam Bulolo, Eng Choon Leong 05004 | Suction in shales: consequences on triaxial testing Pierre Delage 05005 | Large cell triaxial tests of a partially saturated soil with vegetation Alessandro Fraccica, Enrique Romero, Thierry Fourcaud 05006 | Digital image-based analysis of small-scale dam failure during wetting Gerardo Morales, Núria M. Pinyol, Antonio Lloret 05007 | Model validation using induced tensile stress during cracking process measured with desiccation stress tests Mai Sawada, Mamoru Mimura, Kazuhide Yoshikawa 05008 | Developing a novel geophysical tool to investigate the influence of vegetation on slope stability Narryn Thaman, Jessica Holmes, Paul Wilkinson, James Boyd, Philip Meldrum, Jonathan Chambers, Ross Stirling, Colin Davie, Stephanie Glendinning |
Session 06: Understanding the effect of climate change on the environment and infrastructure through unsaturated soil behaviour
Chair: Bruna de Carvalho Faria Lima Lopes 06001 | Undrained Shear Strength of Frozen Unsaturated Silts Anshu Anhinav, Tugce Baser 06002 | Physical and numerical modelling of soil-atmosphere-structure interaction Jaime Granados, Bernardo Caicedo 06003 | Irreversible effects of drying-wetting cycles on shrinkage and water retention of compacted London clay Ana Sofia Dias, Paul Hughes, David Toll 06004 | The impact of soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction on a landslide initiation under torrential storms: a case study Alessandro Fraccica, Enrique Romero, Josette E. Fallas 06005 | Improved Thermal Conductivity Function for Unsaturated Soil with Physics-based Parameters Mohamed S. Musa, Yu Lu, John S. McCartney 06006 | Investigation of the hydraulic regime of a desiccated slope under both natural and simulated environmental conditions Emma McConnell, Jessica Holmes, Ross Stirling, Colin T Davie, Stephanie Glendinning 06007 | Influence of soil suction on runoff during whiplash events Tommy Bounds, Kanthasamy Muraleetharan, Gerald Miller 06008 | Effects of wetting and drying cycles on the mechanical behaviour of Lightweight Cemented Soils Filomena Sabatino, Olivier Cuisinier, Giacomo Russo, Enza Vitale, Marco Valerio Nicotera 06009 | The importance of unsaturated soil properties in the development of slope susceptibility map for Old Alluvium in Singapore Harianto Rahardjo, Yangyang Li, Alfrendo Satyanaga 06010 | The importance of permeability modelling in soil-atmosphere interaction Aikaterini Tsiampousi 06011 | Shear Wave Velocity Response of Compacted Kaolin during Drying-Wetting Cycles Christopher Walker, Ana Heitor, Barry Clarke |
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Coffee Break | |
| 17:30- 18:30 |
Session 07: Foundations Chair: Dimitrios Loukidis 07001 | Investigation of piled foundations in swelling clays Tiago A.V. Gaspar, Schalk W. Jacobsz, Ashraf S. Osman 07002 | The performance of laterally loaded pile in layered sandy soils under variable degree of saturation Ahmed Hasan, Rizgar Hummadi, Omed Azeez 07003 | An analytical method to evaluate the capacity of laterally loaded piles in unsaturated soils Leonardo Maria Lalicata, Agostino Walter Bruno, Domenico Gallipoli 07004 | Bearing capacity of shallow footing on an unsaturated embankment upon infiltration Rakshanda Showkat, G L Sivakumar Babu 07005 | Behaviour of a building foundation on unsaturated expansive soil Theodora Tika, George Koninis, Antigoni Vranna |
Session 08: Unsaturated Soil Mechanics instruction: Guiding the non-specialist instructor.
A panel discussion chaired and moderated by Marina Pantazidou
Panelists: Sandra Houston John McCartney Alessandro Tarantino |
| DAY 3 Thursday, May 4th, 2023 | ||
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MAIN HALL |
PARALLEL HALL |
| 09:30-11:00 |
Session 09: Water Retention Curves
Chair: Claudia Zapata 09001 | A simple model for the water retention curve of compressible biocemented sands using MIP results Rafaela Cardoso, Joana Vieira, Ana Filipa Calheiros, Inês Borges 09002 | Experimental Study of Soil Water Characteristic Curve for a Clayey Soil Reinforced with Model Geocell for Freezing-Thawing Cycles Bhavita S. Dave, Jitesh T. Chavda, Chandresh H, Solanki, Atul K. Desai 09003 | Water retention curves and tensile strength for studying desiccation cracking of compacted clay soils Hesam Ebrahimisadr, Bertrand Francois 09004 | Hydromechanical characterisation of a highly expansive clay Lucy Eost, Tiago A.V. Gaspar, Ashraf S. Osman 09005 | Drying and wetting soil-water retention behaviour of a highly expansive clay under varying initial density Ruan A. Murison, SW Jacobsz, Tiago A.V. Gaspar, Talia S. da Silva Burke, Ashraf S. Osman 09006 | Water retention curve of clayey sands determined from pore structure by using various methods Quoc Hung Vu, Jean-Michel Pereira, Anh Minh Tang 09007 | Soil water retention curves of a silty clayey sand compacted at different dry density Roberta Ventini, Marianna Pirone, Claudio Mancuso |
Session 10: Physical, numerical and constitutive modelling - Part I
Chair: David Mašín 10001 | Impact of Suction on the Near Surface Lateral Soil Response using Centrifuge Modeling Oladayo Komolafe, Majid Ghayoomi 10002 | Gaining insight into the effective stress parameter using pore-scale numerical modelling with the multiphase lattice Boltzmann method Reihaneh Hosseini, Krishna Kumar 10003 | Centrifuge modelling of unsaturated slopes subjected to the integrated effect of groundwater and rainfall infiltration Sanchitha Hema Sharendra Jayakody, Ryosuke Uzuoka, Kyohei Ueda 10004 | A Pore network modeling approach for simulating soil water retention curve under different stress conditions Suaiba Mufti, Arghya Das 10005 | Enhancement of a hydro-mechanical hypoplastic model for unsaturated fine-grained soils accounting for small strain stiffness Maria Pico-Duarte, David Mašín 10006 | Wetting-induced instabilities: triggering mechanism and predisposing factors Giada Maria Rotisciani, Augusto Desideri, Angelo Amorosi 10007 | Nanoscale soil-water retention curve of unsaturated clay via molecular dynamics Zhe Zhang, Xiaoyu Song |
| 11:00- 11:15 |
Coffee Break | |
| 11:15- 12:15 |
00002 | The 3rd Blight Lecture: The positive history of an error. Modelling the heave of a nuclear power station Eduardo E. Alonso Chair: Michael Bardanis |
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| 12:15- 12:30 |
Coffee Break | |
| 12:30- 14:00 |
Session 11: Effects of microstructure
Chair: Rafaela Cardoso
11001 | Special Themed Lecture: Effects of microstructure on THM behaviour of geomaterials
11002 | Impact of salinity and alkalinity on the microstructure of partially saturated Opalinus Clay from the lower sandy facies (LSF) of Mont Terri site Jean-Michel Pereira Yara Barakat, Nadia Mokni, Yu-Jun Cui, Pierre Delage, Frédéric Bernier 11003 | Microstructure of compacted low-plasticity soils: the initial fabric and its evolution on stress and suction paths Laura Gonzalez-Blanco, Enrique Romero, Núria M. Pinyol, Eduardo E. Alonso 11004 | Pore scale investigation of unsaturated granular soil behaviour by means of in situ CT experiments Marius Milatz, Dennis Heinrich 11005 | Consideration of microstructure in modelling the hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils Tianchi Wu, Peter Cleall, Snehasis Tripathy, Guoqing Cai |
Session 12: Unsaturated soils of fills, levees, embankments, dams, roads & pavements, railways and other pieces of infrastructure Chair: Cristina Jommi 12001 | 3-Dimensional Numerical Evaluation of Geosynthetic Encased Stone Columns in Unsaturated Soils Mohammed Shakeel Abid, G Venkata Ramana, Sai K Vanapalli, Kasinathan Muthukkumaran 12002 | An unsaturated soil mechanics approach for performance-based intelligent compaction Liuxin Chen, Javad Ghorbani, Amir Tophel, Jayantha Kodikara 12003 | Temperature- and saturation-dependent behaviour of unsaturated clay beams in bending tests Maximilian Hardenberg, Christos Vrettos 12004 | The effect of stress-dependent SWCC on the load carrying capacity of the slope subjected to the drying-wetting path Chidanand M Jadar, Sathiyamoorthy Rajesh, Suman Roy 10005 | Water characteristic curve and permeability function of recycled concrete aggregate Gulnur Pernebekova, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Rezat Abishev, Sung-Woo Moon, Jong Kim 12006 | Large-Scale Plate Load Tests to Determine the Collapse Potential at Santorini 150 kV GIS Substation Site Athanasios Platis, Konstantina Malliou 12007 | Unsaturated modelling, testing and monitoring towards the rehabilitation of a slope on National Route 3, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mario Schulz-Poblete, Frans Van Der Merwe, Fernando Pequerino 12008 | Analysis of transient seepage through a river embankment by means of centrifuge modelling Roberta Ventini, Elena Dodaro, Daniela Giretti, Marianna Pirone, Francesco Zarattini, Carmine Gerardo Gragnano, Vincenzo Fioravante, Fabio Gabrieli, Guido Gottardi, Claudio Mancuso |
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Lunch Break | |
| 15:00- 17:15 |
Session 13: Slope stability & landslides
Chair: Apiniti Jotisankasa
13001 | Special Themed Lecture: Transpiration in the water-limited regime: soil-plant-atmosphere interactions
13002 | Effect of Soil-Water Characteristic Curve on the Stability of Unsupported Vertical Trenches in Unsaturated Soils Alessandro Tarantino, Eve Roberts-Self Won Taek Oh, Mahsa Bajestani 13003 | A multidisciplinary study on the spatial variability of the local stratigraphic conditions in partially saturated slopes for flow-like landslide prediction Marianna Pirone, Rosa Di Maio, Giovanni Forte, Claudio De Paola, Simona Guglielmi, Rosanna Salone, Antonio Santo, Gianfranco Urciuoli 13004 | Hydro-mechanical modeling of a vegetated slope subjected to rainfall Hamed Sadeghi, Farshad Yazdani Bene Kohal, Mostafa Gholami, Pouya AliPanahi, Dongri Song 13005 | Effect of slope geometry on stability of slope in Almaty Alfrendo Satyanaga, Rezat Abishev, Assylanbek Sharipov, Martin Wijaya, Abdul Halim Hamdany, Sung-Woo Moon, Jong Kim 13006 | Numerical analysis of rainfall effects on the slope stability of open pit coal mines Alexandros Theocharis, Ioannis Zevgolis, Nikolaos Koukouzas 13007 | 3D effects of soil-atmosphere interaction on infrastructure slope stability Aikaterini Tsiampousi 13008 | Stability analysis of unsaturated soil slopes considering softening and non-softening approach Xiuhan Yang, Sai Vanapalli 13009 | Simulating landslides using two-phase two-point material point method Zhiqi Zhan, Chao Zhou |
Session 14: Hydro-mechanical and thermal properties of bentonites and bentonite-based mixtures - Part I
Chair: George Belokas 14001 | Homogenization of unsaturated bentonite during hydration Antonio Gens, Ramon Vasconcelos, Carlos Rodriguez, Jean Vaunat, Maria Victoria Villar 14002 | Shrinkage cracks of bentonite-zeolite mixtures Zhuoyuan Cheng, Yew Heng Sherman Seah, Eng Choon Leong 14003 | Impact of sand on the water retention properties of a bentonite/sand mixture by NMR characterization Pablo Eizaguirre, Anh Minh Tang, Benjamin Maillet, Rahima Sidi-Boulenouar, Baptiste Chabot, Michel Bornert, Jean-Michel Pereira, Patrick Dangla, Patrick Aimedeu, Jean Talandier, Minh-Ngoc Vu 14004 | Gas transport in a binary bentonite mixture used in sealing systems Arisleidy Mesa-Alcantara, Enrique Romero, Nadia Mokni 14005 | Large scale Vertical SEALing (VSEAL) tests: Impact of gas migration on bentonite based vertical seals Nadia Mokni, Justo Cabrera, Frederic Deleruyelle 14006 | Experimental and numerical study on homogenisation of BCV bentonite using dual density samples Jan Najser, David Mašín 14007 | On the thermal hydro mechanical chemical behavior of bentonite sand mixture Tomoyoshi Nishimura 14008 | Investigation on hydraulic-mechanical properties in bentonite-sand mixture with consideration of salinity water Takayuki Motoshima, Sachie Iso, Tomoyoshi Nishimura 14009 | Numerical modelling of unsaturated MX-80 bentonite subjected to two different hydration paths and subsequent loading to high-pressures Giuseppe Pedone, Lidija Zdravkovic, David M. Potts, Aikaterini Tsiampousi 14010 | Microstructure and hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted granular bentonite Hao Zeng, Laura Gonzalez-Blanco, Enrique Romero, Alessandro Fraccica |
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Coffee Break | |
| 17:30- 19:30 |
Session 15: Physical, numerical and constitutive modelling - Part II
Chair: Daichao Sheng
15001 | Special Themed Lecture: Calibration of BBM Parameters using the Modified State Surface Approach
15002 | Extending modified Cam-Clay to unsaturated soils by incorporating a scaled stress variable Xiong Zhang, Beshoy Riad, Eduardo E. Alonso Agostino Walter Bruno, Talenta Pitso, Leonardo Maria Lalicata, Adrian De Paoli, Domenico Gallipoli 15003 | Numerical implementation of BBM in FE package for solving unsaturated soil boundary value problems Vikas Prajapati, Arghya Das 15004 | A constitutive framework for the chemo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated non-expansive clays Liliana Gramegna, Ayman A. Abed, Wojciech T. Solowski, Guido Musso, Gabriele Della Vecchia 15005 | Finite element modelling of unsaturated soils using a modified version of the Barcelona Basic Model Anita Laera, Tuan Anh Bui, Sandro Brasile 15006 | A state dependent constitutive model for unsaturated soil-steel interfaces considering bonding effect Gengyun Liu, Jingpei Li 15007 | Numerical integration of the Glasgow Coupled Model (GCM) Marti Lloret-Cabot, Simon J Wheeler, Antonio Gens 15008 | A fully coupled hydro-mechanical model for the analysis of partially saturated multiphase geo-structures using the bounding surface plasticity Soodeh Samimi, Mahnoush Gharehdaghi, Babak Shahbodagh, Nasser Khalili |
Session 16: Partial saturation and tailings
Chair: Ioannis Zevgolis 16001 | Stress-strain behaviour of unsaturated compacted coal rejects and tailings Olivier Buzzi, Jianping Li, Jubert Pineda, Dan Payne, Kaiwen Ouyang, Jinbiao Wu 16002 | Estimations of water retention curves for fine-grained soils and tailings using their fractal particle size distributions Arturo Jimenez, Adrian R. Russell 16003 | Evaluation a volumetric water content sensor to be used for compacted filtered iron ore tailings Ariane de Sa Landim, Yuri Corrêa, João Paulo Silva, Fernando A.M. Marinho 16004 | Unsaturated shear strength parameters for compacted iron ore tailing Michelli Hora de Jesus, Rodrigo Serafim, João Paulo Silva, Fernando A.M. Marinho 16005 | Pore pressure response during tube sampling in gold tailings Gregory Darren Mc Donald, Wallace de Lange, Schalk Willem Jacobsz 16006 | Evaluating the performance of three sensor types for long-term measurement of suctions in gold tailings Yashay Narainsamy, Schalk Willem Jacobsz 16007 | The influences of partial saturation on cone penetration tests in silty gold tailings Adrian Russell, Thanh Vo, Juan Ayala, Yanzhi Wang, David Reid, Andy Fourie 16008 | Numerical investigation of saturated-unsaturated flow and stability analysis of tailings dams considering the influence of saline solutions Mona Anbarestani, Hamed Sadeghi, Ali Golaghaei Darzi 16009 | Strain Softening response of loose unsaturated tailings samples in undrained triaxial tests Felipe Urbina, David Reid, Andy Fourie 16010 | Constitutive modelling of instabilities and strengths of an unsaturated tailings Yanzhi Wang, Thanh Vo, Adrian Russell |
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Conference Dinner | |
| DAY 4 Friday, May 5th, 2023 | ||
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PARALLEL HALL |
| 09:30- 11:15 |
Session 17: Unsaturated soil mechanics in the preservation and pathology of historic monuments
Chair: Alessandro Flora 17001 | Investigation of the properties and behaviour of ancient and newly constructed mudbricks from the ancient walls of Eleusis Michael Bardanis, Theodoros Marinis, Eleni-Eva Toumbakari, Georgios Dounias 17002 | Reproduction and long-term monitoring of drying of mudbricks and small mudbrick walls for the preservation of the ancient mudbrick wall of Eleusis Michael Bardanis, Theodoros Marinis, Eleni-Eva Toumbakari, Georgios Dounias 17003 | Capillary Barrier Effect in an Earthen Roof of Historical House Aysenur Aslan Fidan, Mehmet Muhit Berilgen 17004 | Assessment of tunnels stability in the Maya archeological area of Copán, Honduras Emilio Bilotta, Alessandro Flora, Paulo Lourenço, Felipe Pires 17005 | Monitoring activities for the preservation of an Etruscan hypogeum in unsaturated soil mass Manuela Cecconi, Laura Melelli, Giacomo Russo, Alessio De Angelis, Paolo Carbone, Corrado Cencetti, Rosa Di Maio, Maria Angela Turchetti, Vincenzo Pane 17006 | Numerical study on the effects of groundwater table oscillation beneath the "Palazzaccio" courthouse in Rome Gorizia D'Alessio, Arianna Pucci, Giulia Guida, Francesca Casini 17007 | The Amazing Mechanism of the Standing for 700years of the Tall Masonry Stone Tower of 32m in height on Manmade Sandy High Mound by Shallow Direct Foundation, Bayon Temple, Angkor, Cambodia Yoshinori Iwasaki, Mitsuharu Fukuda, Mitsumasa Ishizuka, Robert McCarthy, Vanna Ly, Takeshi Nakagawa 17008 | Unlocking the water retention behaviour of turf construction materials Benedicta Yi Xin Lin, Christopher Beckett, Tanja Romankiewicz, J Riley Snyder, Ben Russell |
Session 18: Multi phase media and multi physical coupling - Part I
Chair: Adrian Russell 18001 | Gas production behaviour of gas hydrate–bearing clayey-sand during depressurization: novel in-flight centrifuge modelling Sina Baghbanrezvan, Charles Wang Wai Ng 18002 | Thermal conductivity of compacted Opalinus Clay at different degrees of saturation Nuria Sau, Florian Christ, Enrique Romero, Arash Alimardani Lavasanc 18003 | On the resistance of hydrophobic soil polymer coatings created by cold plasma polymerization Clara Magalhães Toffoli, Marius Milatz, Jürgen Grabe 18004 | Evolution of Water Retention Characteristics in Bio-Geochemically Altered Unsaturated Soils: A Pore-Scale Study Sina Nassiri, Claudia Zapata, Nariman Mahabadi 18005 | Modelling of water droplet dynamics on hydrophobic soils: a review Shuaihao Zhang, Xiangyu Hu, Sergio D.N. Lourenco |
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Coffee Break |
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| 11:30- 12:30 |
00003 | Plenary Lecture Effects of thermal cycles on soil behaviour: theoretical and experimental studies Charles W. W. Ng, Chao Zhou, Shuai Zhang, Qi Zhang Chair: Pierre Delage |
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| 12:30- 12:45 |
Coffee Break | |
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Session 19: Hydro-mechanical and thermal properties of bentonites and bentonite-based mixtures - Part II
Chair: Tomoyoshi Nishimura
19001 | Special Themed Lecture: Milos, the minerals island and its important asset: Bentonite
19002 | A parametric study on the hydromechanical properties of claystone/bentonite mixtures Michael Stamatakis Danai Tyri, Irini Djeran-Maigre, Jean-Claude Robinet, Jad Zghondi 19003 | Does gravity affect the thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in a bentonite barrier? María Victoria Villar, Carlos Gutiérrez-Álvarez, Rubén Javier Iglesias, Pedro Luis Martín 19004 | Investigation of water-retention and uniaxial compression behaviour of MX80 bentonite pellet at various suctions Jin-Wen Yang, Yu-Jun Cui, Nadia Mokni |
Session 20: Multi phase media and multi physical coupling - Part II Chair: Sergio Lourenco 20001 | An experimental methodology to assess the impact of desaturation on gas diffusion in clay based materials Aadithya Gowrishankar, Elke Jacops, Norbert Maes, Pieter Verboven, Hans Janssen 20002 | The effect of microbes on the stability of an unsaturated tropical slope Bruna de Carvalho Faria Lima Lopes 20003 | Physically-based reduction function to model unsaturated flow associated with plant transpiration Eve Roberts-Self, Alessandro Tarantino 20004 | An experimental setup to investigate the effect of mycorrhizal fungi inoculation on plant water uptake in unsaturated soils Eve Roberts-Self, Alessandro Tarantino 20005 | Influence of permeability on rainfall infiltration based on water gas two phase flow Wenjing Tian, Herman Peiffer, Benny Malengier 20006 | Numerical investigation on three-phase flow in unsaturated soil considering porosity effects on soil hydraulic properties Jiaren Yu, Chao Zhou |
| 14:00- 15:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Session 21: Geoenvironmental and geo energy applications of unsaturated soil mechanism - Part I
Chair: Nasser Khalili
21001 | Special Themed Lecture: When nature meets technology: AI-informed discovery of soil-water-root physical interaction
21002 | Composite Barrier Systems for Climate Adaptation Anthony Kwan Leung, Jianbin Liu, Zhenliang Jiang Jessica L. Holmes, Ross Stirling, Colin T. Davie, Narryn Thaman, Stephanie Glendinning 21003 | Drying Front and Vaporization Plane Dynamics during Evaporation from Homogeneous Soil Profiles Jumana Hussary, Adel Alowaisy, Noriyuki Yasufuku, Ishikura Ryohei, Monther Abdelhadi 21004 | Efficacy of Pond Ash as a Cover Material in Single and Dual Capillary Barriers Chitti Satya Sundara Uday Srikanth, BJ Ramaiah, Adapa Murali Krishna, Sai K Vanapalli |
Session 22: Long-term measurements of suction in the field and their relation to climatic parameters - Part I
22001 | High Capacity Tensiometers: performance and behaviours |
| 16:15- 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 23: Geoenvironmental and geo energy applications of unsaturated soil mechanism - Part II
Chair: Christopher Beckett 23001 | Unsaturated seepage analysis for an ordinary solid waste sanitary landfill in Costa Rica Rafael Baltodano-Goulding, Alonso Poveda-Montoya 23002 | Coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour of a Kaolin Clay in the context of the geothermal use of geotechnical structures Timon Kayser, Wiebke Baille, Merita Tafili, Torsten Wichtmann 23003 | Hygro-thermal coupling in earth building materials Leonardo Maria Lalicata, Agostino Walter Bruno, Domenico Gallipoli 23004 | Hygrothermal characterization of rammed earth according to humidity variations Alessia Emanuela Losini, Taini Chitimbo, Laura Leteve, Monika Woloszyn, Anne Cecile Grillet, Noemie Prime 23005 | Time-dependent hydrophobic characterization of granular materials synthesised with commercial chemical agents Yunesh Saulick, Cheuk Sze Chelsea Lok, Sergio Lourneco 23006 | Capillary absorption into CEBs and 2-layer composite building materials comprising of natural stone and CEBs Rafail Panagiotou, Ioannis Ioannou 23007 | The performance of a Horizontal Ground Heat Exchanger (HGHE) under the seasonal ground energy storage behavior Fujiao Tang, Mojdeh Lahoori, Hossein Nowamooz, Sandrine Rosin-Paumier, Farimah Masrouri |
Session 24: Long-term measurements of suction in the field and their relation to climatic parameters Part II
Chair: Aikaterini Tsiampousi 24001 | Some examples and lessons from long-term field measurements of suction in Greece Michael Bardanis, Dimitrios Kokoviadis 24002 | Probability Distribution of Soil Suction of Engineered Turf Cover and Compacted Clay Cover Md Jobair Bin Alam, Maalvika Aggarwal 24003 | Numerical Evaluation of Slope Stability based on Temporal Variation of Hydraulic Conductivity Alinda Gupta, Md Azijul Islam, Md Jobair Bin Alam 24004 | Field observations of soil moisture, suction and movement of cornfield in tropical highland with and without vetiver system Apiniti Jotisankasa, Wichuda Jamrueang, Sony Pramusandi, Surat Semmad, Jarunee Pilumwong 24005 | The importance of desiccation cracks in water migration inside expansive ground Dimitrios Loukidis, Ploutarchos Tzampoglou, Thrasivoulos Stylianou, Loizos Pogiatzis, Georgia Lazarou 24006 | Field monitoring of the water pressure and displacement of a partially saturated expansive marl under an unloading stress path due to deep excavation Missom Ouedaogo, Luc Boutonnier, Fabrice Emeriault, Dino Mahmutovic 24007 | The hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated loess in slopes, New Zealand Katherine Yates, Adrian Russell 24008 | UnSaLuDo: The development of an educational board game on unsaturated soil mechanics Gustavo Augusto Froes. Cardoso, Mariana Ramos Chrusciak, Manoel Porfirio Cordao-Neto, Bruna de Carvalho Faria Lima Lopes |
| 18:15- 19:00 |
Closing Session
Chairs: Michael Bardanis, Enrique Romero, Alessandro Flora, Marina Pantazidou |
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POSTER PRESENTATIONS
25001 | Numerical Investigation into the effects of rainfall and long stem plants spacing on Root Water Uptake (RWU)Ilaria Bertolini, Andrew Vidler, Guido Gottardi, Olivier Buzzi
25002 | A microstructure-based procedure to simulate the effect of wetting-drying cycles on the soil water retention curve
Andrew Vidler, Olivier Buzzi, Stephen Fityus
25003 | Soil parameters in terms of entropy coordinates
Emőke Imre, Tibor Firgi, Wiebke Baille, Maria Datcheva, Daniel Barreto, Shuyin Feng, Vijay Singh
25004 | Reliability of HCT-based Soil Water Retention Curves
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