SANDLESS 2024
1-4 July 2024

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Opening of SANDLESS (8:45-9:00)
Itai Einav

The University of Sydney

Session 1 (9:00 - 10:30)
Clay deformation behavior from small to large strains under small to large
confining pressures
Kenichi Soga
University of California, Berkeley
Micromechanics of clays
Vanessa Magnanimo
Clay below the micron
Angela Casarella

University of Twente
Chalmers University of Technology

Morning Tea (10:30 - 11:00)

Session 2 (11:00 - 12:30)
What is in common between mud pumping under rail tracks and sinking ofcargo ships at sea?
Daichao Sheng
University of Technology Sydney
Desiccation cracking of clay soils: Observations, Mechanisms and Modelling
Jayantha Kodikara
Monash University
Partial saturation influences on the strength of silty tailings
Adrian R. Russell
University of New South Wales

Lunch (12:30 - 14:00) at the Views Restaurant

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Session 3 (14:00 - 15:30)
Clay Insights: Bridging Experiments and Soil Models
Merita Tafili
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Anisotropic bounding surface model for clay under monotonic and cyclic loading conditions
Zhongxuan Yang
Zhejiang University
Is lack of memory an intrinsic limitation of bounding surface plasticity?
Alexandros Petalas
Durham University

Afternoon Tea (15:30 - 16:00)

Session 4 (16:00 - 17:30)
TBA
Manolis Veveakis

Duke University

Friction angles in clayey soils
David Airey

The University of Sydney

A simple hydrodynamic model for clay
Max Wiebicke

The University of Sydney

Clayey Focus (18:00 - 19:00)
Chairs:Cino ViggianiFrançois Guillard

Université Grenoble Alpes
The University of Sydney

BBQ Dinner and Poster Session (19:30 - 22:30) at the Boilerhouse

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Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Session 5 (9:00 - 10:30)
Peridynamic modeling of multi-physics problems in rock mechanics
Jidong Zhao
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
On time and energy dissipation at the meso-scale of natural and 3D-printedrocks
Giang D. Nguyen
University of Adelaide
A hydrodynamic model for the chemo-mechanics of soft calcarenite
Yanni Chen
Zhejiang University

Morning Tea (10:30 - 11:00)

Session 6 (11:00 - 12:30)
Deformation and failure mechanisms of Lightweight Cemented Soils
Cino Viggiani
Université Grenoble Alpes
Cell Structure of Cohesive Granular Solid: Modelling and Simulation
Takashi MatsushimaUniversity of Tsukuba
Experimental and numerical assessment of dynamic loading response of rocks
with filled/unfilled flaws
Arghya Das
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Lunch (12:30 - 14:00) at the Views Restaurant

Afternoon Tea (15:30 - 16:00)

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Session 7 (16:00 - 17:30)
Unlocking the potential of broadband dielectric spectroscopy to enhance ourunderstanding of geomaterial behaviour
Alexander Scheuermann
The University of Queensland
Cracks with constricted opening
Elena Pasternak

The University of Western Australia

Thermo-chemo-hydro-mechanical couplings in porous media revealed by multimodal imaging
Alessandro Tengattini
Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut Laue-Langevin
Rocky Focus (18:00 - 19:00)
Chairs:Arcady Dyskin
Adnan Sufian

The University of Western Australia
University of New South Wales

Dinner (19:30 - 22:30) at the Governor Bourke Ballroom

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Thursday, 4 July 2024

Session 8 (9:00 - 10:30)
Thawing-triggered landslides: Constitutive model & multi-physics SPH framework
Ha H. Bui
Monash University
Modeling snow through its solid and liquid phase
Lars Blatny
ETH Zürich, Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research
Modelling compaction patterns in brittle porous media using FEMDavid Riley
École Centrale de Nantes

Morning Tea (10:30 - 11:00)

Session 9 (11:00 - 12:30)
Frozen Soils
Raul Fuentes

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Modelling rheological transitions in a solid-fluid-granular and cold material:
sea ice
Veronique Dansereau
Université Grenoble Alpes
Visco-Elastic Damage Model for Polycrystalline Ice in Permafrost
Mehdi Pourgaha
Carleton UniversityLunch (12:30 - 13:30) at the Views Restaurant

Translational Focus (13:30 - 14:30)
Chairs:Pierre Rognon
Chin Leo

The University of Sydney
Western Sydney University