Dr. José E. Andrade, CalTech | ISTVS Terramechanics Bite
Channel: ISTVS
Date: 13/10/2021

Professor Andrade's research focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of the multiscale and multiphysical behaviors of porous materials—everything from soils, rocks, and concrete to bone. He also studies the behavior of granular materials like sand, snow, and even grain stored in silos. His research has particular applications to geologic and engineering infrastructure materials, as well as to the petroleum industry.

» In this talk, we will explore new paradigms for modeling continuum mechanics problems (e.g., mobility) using non-local approaches that completely bypass the need for ad-hoc constitutive descriptions. Instead, we rely on a data-driven approach that relies on physics-based virtual experiments that are able to furnish data on demand. We show that the new approach is predictive and avoids phenomenological assumptions by relying on the data, all the data and nothing but the data.