The Maurice A. Biot Lecture

Date	Speaker	Lecture	Remarks
November 21, 2023	Prof. Tadatsugu Tanaka University of Tokyo	Plastic Behaviors of Geomaterials and Their Application to Static and Dynamic Problems	Photo
November 29, 2022	Prof. Emmanuel Detournay University of Minnesota	Hydraulic Fracture in Highly Permeable Rock	Photo
November 12, 2019	Prof. George W. Scherer Princeton University	Relating Permeability to Thermal Strain of Saturated Materials
December 7, 2017	Prof. Teng-fong Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong	Compaction Localization, Permeability Evolution and Effective Stress Behavior of Porous Rock
October 17, 2016	Prof. Kimberly E. Kurtis Georgia Institute of Technology	21st Century Cement Technology: Addressing Sustainability Throuh Innovation
December 11, 2015	Prof. Robert W. Zimmerman Imperial College London	The Effects of Pore Structure, Pore Fluid, Stress, and Frequency on Elastic Wavespeeds in Sandstones
November 19, 2014	Prof. Jean H. Prevost Princeton University	One-Way Versus Two-Way Coupling in Reservoir-Geomechnical Models
November 7, 2013	Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja Stanford University	Persistent Shear Band in Unsaturated Porous Materials	Photos video
November 19, 2012	Prof. A.P.S. Selvadurai McGill University, Canada	Contact and Inclusion Problems in Poromechanics	Photos video
October 18, 2011	Prof. Alexander Cheng University of Mississippi	Intrinsic Material Constants of Poroelasticity	Photos
October 5, 2010	Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm M.I.T.	Poromechanics: From Atoms to Concrete Structures Dedicated to Olivier Coussy (1953-2010)	Photos
June 8, 2009	Prof. Zdeněk P. Bažant Northwestern University	Modeling of Creep and Hygrothermal Deformations of Concrete:  Intriguing Consequences of Nano-Porosity	Photos
December 2, 2008	Prof. Younane Abousleiman The University of Oklahoma	Electrokinetic and Chemical Effects in Poromechanics Through the Solution of the Inclined Wellbore Problem	Photos
October 30, 2007	Prof. John W. Rudnicki Northwestern University	True Triaxial Testing and the Failure of Rocks	Photos pdf
November 16, 2006	Prof. Van C. Mow Columbia University (Biomedical Engineering)	The Role of Biomechanics in Cartilage Tissue Engineering (how to access Prof. Mow's papers?)	Photos
October 19, 2005	Prof. James R. Rice Harvard University	Biot Poromechanics in Earthquake and Faulting Phenomena (link to Prof. Rice's home page at Harvard University power point presentation, related paper)	Photos
December 9, 2004*	Prof. Stephen C. Cowin City University of New York	Strain Amplification in the Mechanosensory System in Bone	Photos

Links:
The Fifth Biot Conference on Poromechanics, 2013
The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics, 2009
Olivier Coussy Memorial Symposium at EMI2010
- A symposium in memory of Pr. Olivier Coussy
Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids: a tribute to Prof. Olivier Coussy
   Ecole des ponts ParisTech, France (18 to 20 April 2011)

Maurice A. Biot  (link to PoroNet, maintained by Prof. Alex Cheng)
Introduction by Mindlin (1962 Timoshenko Medal)
Maurice A. Biot (by Mindlin, in Memorial Tributes, Vol. 3, National Academy of Engineering, 1989, pp. 30-35)
*The Opening Speech by Prof. Bruno Boley is edited and published in the Biot Centennial Volume of the Third Biot Conference on Poromechanics