Programme Overview

DAY 1  Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023  
TIME
MAIN HALL
PARALLEL HALL
09:30- 14:00   Workshop: Long-term measurement of soil suction in the field and its modelling

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18:30- 20:30 Short Course: Introduction to Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and its importance in Geotechnical Practice

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20:30 Welcome Reception  
DAY 2  Wednesday, May 3rd, 202   
TIME
MAIN HALL
PARALLEL HALL
09:30- 10:00 Opening Session  
10:00- 11:30 Session 01: Shrink-swell & collapse   Session 02: Fundamental Soil Behavior - Part I
11:30- 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45- 14:00 Session 03: Cyclic & dynamic behaviour of unsaturated soils Session 04: Fundamental Soil Behavior - Part II  
14:00- 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00- 17:15 Session 05: Advances in testing techniques, methods and equipment   Session 06: Understanding the effect of climate change on the environment and infrastructure through unsaturated soil behaviour
17:15- 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30- 18:30 Session 07: Foundations   Session 08: Unsaturated Soil Mechanics instruction: Guiding the non-specialist instructor. A panel discussion
18:45- 20:15   TC106 MEETING
DAY 3  Thursday, May 4th, 2023   
TIME
MAIN HALL
PARALLEL HALL
09:30-11:00 Session 09: Water Retention Curves Session 10: Physical, numerical and constitutive modelling - Part I
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  
12:15- 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30- 14:00 Session 11: Effects of microstructure   Session 12: Unsaturated soils of fills, levees, embankments, dams, roads & pavements, railways and other pieces of infrastructure
14:00- 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00- 17:15 Session 13: Slope stability & landslides Session 14: Hydro-mechanical and thermal properties of bentonites and bentonite-based mixtures - Part I
17:15- 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30- 19:30 Session 15: Physical, numerical and constitutive modelling - Part II Session 16: Partial saturation and tailings
21:00 Conference Dinner  
DAY 4  Friday, May 5th, 2023   
TIME
MAIN HALL
PARALLEL HALL
09:30- 11:15 Session 17: Unsaturated soil mechanics in the preservation and pathology of historic monuments   Session 18: Multi phase media and multi physical coupling - Part I
11:15- 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30- 12:30 00003 | Plenary Lecture
Effects of thermal cycles on soil behaviour: theoretical and experimental studies
 
12:30- 12:45 Coffee Break
12:45- 14:00 Session 19: Hydro-mechanical and thermal properties of bentonites and bentonite-based mixtures - Part II   Session 20: Multi phase media and multi physical coupling - Part II  
14:00- 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00- 16:15 Session 21: Geoenvironmental and geo energy applications of unsaturated soil mechanism - Part I   Session 22: Long-term measurements of suction in the field and their relation to climatic parameters - Part I  
16:15- 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30- 18:15 Session 23: Geoenvironmental and geo energy applications of unsaturated soil mechanism - Part II Session 24: Long-term measurements of suction in the field and their relation to climatic parameters Part II
18:15- 19:00 Closing Session