Program
Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Updated as of Jan 11, 2020
Time
Event
08:00 - 08:30
Welcome and opening remarks (Jidong ZHAO, Zhenyu YIN, Charles NG)
Session 1A: Particle-fluid Interactions
08:30 - 09:00
Keynote #01: Soil-pore Fluid Interactions across Different Scales
University of California, Berkeley
09:00 - 09:30
Keynote #02: Some Extended Continuum-based Approaches for Particle Flow Modeling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
09:30 - 10:00
Keynote #03: How to Connect Four-scales in Geomechanics Fundamentals and SPH Applications with Hydromechanical Coupling
Monash University
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
Session 1B: Particle-fluid Interactions
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote #04: Impact of Grading Change on Granular Material Behavior
École Centrale de Nantes
11:00 - 11:30
Keynote #05: Internal Erosion in Granular Materials: Monotonic vs. Cyclic Gradient Condition
HKUST
11:30 - 12:00
Keynote #06: Fluid Displacement in Heterogeneous Granular Media
University of Sydney
12:00 - 12:30
Keynote #07: MPM Modeling of Rainfall and Earthquake-induced Slope Failure
HKUST
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch (For invited participants only; Venue: Conference Lodge)
Session 2A: Statistical Granular Mechanics
14:00 - 14:30
Keynote #08: Surprising Detailed Balance in Structural Dynamics of Dense Granular Fluids
University of Cambridge
14:30 - 15:00
Keynote #09: Continuum Homogenisation of Stochastic Comminution without Scale Separation (Eric HUANG, Benjy MARKS, Itai EINAV)
University of Sydney
15:00 - 15:30
Keynote #10: Statistics of Cell Stresses in 2D Granular Packs
University of Tsukuba
15:30 - 16:00
Keynote #11: A Generalized Effective Stress Equation for Soil
Colorado School of Mines
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
Session 3: Granular Physics
16:30 - 17:00
Keynote #12: Additive Rheology of Complex Granular Flows
University of Montpellier
17:00 - 17:30
Keynote #13: Plasticity and Dilatancy in Sheared Granular Materials
Shanghai Jiaotong University
17:30 - 18:00
Keynote #14: Compressing Granular Crystals into Glasses
HKUST
18:00 - 18:30
Day 1 Panel Discussion – Open Issues on the Session Topics
18:30 - 20:30
Dinner
20:30
Coach Bus Back to Hotel
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Event
Session 3A: Multiscale Modeling Methodologies & Applications
08:30 - 09:00
Keynote #15: Multiscale Models for Granular Matter: About the Stochastic, Intermediate, Meso-scale
University of Twente
09:00 - 09:30
Keynote #16: Some New Advancements in the Coupled FEMxDEM Multiscale Approach
Zhejiang University
09:30 - 10:00
Keynote #17: Multiscale Modeling of Granular Soils and Applications in Geotechnics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
Session 3B: Multiscale Modeling Methodologies & Applications
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote #18: Multi-scale Modeling of Wet Granular Materials: From Discrete Systems to Continua
Dalian University of Technology
11:00 - 11:30
Keynote #19: Multiscale Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials: The Fundamental Role of Intermediate Scales
IRSTEA Grenoble
11:30 - 12:00
Keynote #20: Messengers Crossing Scales for Granular Media
HKUST
12:00 - 12:10
Group Photos (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
12:10 - 13:30
Lunch (For invited participants only; Venue: Conference Lodge)
Session 4A: Micromechanics and Homogenization
13:30 - 14:00
Keynote #21: Revisiting Geomechanics Fundamentals by DEM
Laboratoire 3SR, Grenoble
14:00 - 14:30
Keynote #22: Micromechanical Description of Stresses in Fine-grained Wet Media: Adsorption and Capillary Forces
University of Calgary
14:30 - 15:00
Keynote #23: The Importance of Fabric and Its Evolution to the Mechanics of Granular Materials
University of Twente
15:00 - 15:30
Keynote #24: Breaking Curses in Big Data Analytics: Implications for Granular Mechanics from Bench to Field
University of Melbourne
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
Session 4B: Micromechanics and Homogenization
16:00 - 16:30
Keynote #25: A Multi-scale Derived Coarse-graining Framework for Large Scale Discrete Element Modelling of Particulate Systems
Swansea University
16:30 - 17:00
Keynote #26: Large Scale DEM Simulation on Modern Supercomputers
Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
17:00 - 17:30
Keynote #27: Billion Degree of Freedom DEM Simulation on Commodity Hardware
University of Wisconsin-Madison
17:30 - 18:00
Keynote #28: Breakages of Dilated Polyhedral Elements in DEM Simulations: Bonded Particles and Single Particle
Dalian University of Technology
18:00 - 18:30
Day 2 Panel Discussion – Open Issues on the Session Topics
19:15 - 21:30
Banquet at Sai Kung
21:30
Coach Bus Back to Hotel
/ HKUST
Time
Event
Session 5A: Failure of Cohesive Geomaterials
08:30 - 09:00
Keynote #29: Synchrotron X-ray Imaging in 4D: Multiscale Failure and Compaction Localization in Triaxially Compressed Porous Limestone
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
09:00 - 09:30
Keynote #30: Heterogeneous Compaction of Granular Rocks: Interplay between Material Response and Boundary Effects
Northwestern University
09:30 - 10:00
Keynote #31: Phase-field Modeling of Shear Banding in Geomaterials
The University of Hong Kong
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
Session 6: Innovation in Experimental Geomechanics
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote #32: Thermo-hydro-mechanical Localized Patterns in Geomaterials: Recent Experimental Observations
Laboratoire 3SR, Grenoble
11:00 - 11:30
Keynote #33: Wave Propagation in Granular Material: Some Findings and Insights
The University of Hong Kong
11:30 - 12:00
Keynote #34: Handling Multiscale Particle Morphology using X-ray Micro-CT and Mathematical and DEM Modeling
City University of Hong Kong
12:00 - 12:30
Keynote #35: Tribological Studies of Coated and Uncoated Interfaces of Geological Materials
City University of Hong Kong
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch (For invited participants only; Venue: Conference Lodge)
Session 7: Constitutive Modeling
14:00 - 14:30
Keynote #36: Coaxiality and Orthogonality of Fabric Tensor in Relation to Loading (Xiang-song LI, Yannis F. DAFALIAS)
HKUST
14:30 - 15:00
Keynote #37: The Elastic Behaviour of Granular Materials: Complex Features and Their Constitutive Modelling at the Macroscale
Sapienza University of Rome
15:00 - 15:30
Keynote #38: An Anisotropic Hypoplastic Model for Granular Soils
Zhejiang University
15:30 - 16:00
Keynote #39: Guidance for and Validation of Fabric Evolution and Dilatancy within ACST by DEM (Rui WANG, Yannis F. DAFALIAS, Pengcheng FU, Jian-Min ZHANG)
Tsinghua University
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby, G/F)
Session 8: Big-data, Machine Learning and Landslides
16:30 - 17:00
Keynote #40: ILS-MPM: An Unbiased Implicit Level-set-based Material Point Method for Frictional Particulate Contact Mechanics of Deformable Particles
Columbia University
17:00 - 17:30
Keynote #41: Innovations in Clay Fabric Characterizations Using 3D Printing and Deep Learning Techniques
HKUST
17:30 - 18:00
Keynote #42: Runout Scaling for Different Types of Geophysical Flow
The University of Hong Kong
18:00 - 18:30
Day 3 Panel Discussion – Open Issues on the Session Topics
18:30 - 20:30
Dinner & Closing Remarks
20:30
Coach Bus Back to Hotel