Departmental Seminar (E9500)

Note:
Attendance required for full-time graduate students

Lecture Series:
The Biot Lecture, The Burmister Lecture, The Mindlin Lecture,
 
The DJ Memorial Lecture, Lou Silano Lecture

Past Seminars and Lectures


Fall 2014

7/21/2014
1:30-2:30 pm, 750 Shapiro CEPSR

Prof. Tamon Ueda, Hokkaido University (host: Prof. Kawashima)
Material Properties Necessary for Strengthening*

8/12/2014
2:00-3:00 pm, Mudd 644
Prof. Yuhong Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (host: Prof. Yin)
Asphalt Binder Aging in Perpetual Flexible Highway Pavements*


8/21/2014
2:00-3:00 pm, Mudd 627
Prof. Caglar Oskay, Vanderbilt University (host: Prof. Fish)
Modeling High Performing Structures at Extreme Environments: Effects of Environmental Degradation*


9/5/2014
11:00 am, Mudd 233 (joint seminar with Dept of Mechanical Engineering)

Prof. Shawn A. Chester, NJIT (CEEM hosts: Prof. Waisman & Prof. Sun)
Multiphysics Mechanics of Polymeric Materials*

 
9/18/2014

2:30-3:30 pm, 414 Schapiro CEPS
Prof. Geert Lombaert  (host: Prof. Smyth)

KU Leuven, Belgium
Excitation Mechanisms and Mitigation Measures for Railway-Induced Ground Vibration
*


9/23/2014

2:30-3:30 pm, 253 Engineering Terrace
Dr. Stanislav Parez (host: Prof. Sun)

Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Simulations of Granular Chute Flow: Application to Mobility of Landslides*

9/30/2014
2:30-3:30 pm, 253 Engineering Terrace
Dongju Lee Memorial Lecture

Prof. Mladen Vucetic (host: Prof. Ling)
UCLA
Profound Effects of The Rate of Loading and Deformation on The Input Soil Parameters for The Seismic Site Response Analyses*


10/16/2014 (Thursday)

2:30-3:30 pm, 414 Schapiro CEPSR

Prof. Assaf Klar (host: Prof. Sun/Waisman)
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Analytical and Experimental Approaches for Estimating Tunneling Induced Ground Displacements*


10/21/2014

2:30-3:30 pm, 253 Engineering Terrace
Dr. Hongkyu Yoon (host: Prof. Sun)
Sandia National Laboratories

Multi-Scale Characterization of Geo-Materials with Nano-Pores and Coupled Constitutive Behavior of Heterogeneous Deforming Porous Media*
 

10/23/2014

2-3 pm (joint seminar with Dept of Mechanical Engineering)
Prof. Harold Park (host: Prof. Waisman)
Boston University
Atomistic Modeling at Experimental Strain Rates and Time Scales*


10/24/2014

2:30-3:30 pm, 602 NW Corner Building
Prof. Leonid I. Manevitch (host: Prof. Deodatis)
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow

Energy Exchange, Localization and Transfer in Nonlinear Oscillatory Chains and Nanostructures (Resonance Non-Stationary Dynamics) *


10/28/2014

4:00-5:30 pm, CEPSR 750
Burmister Lecture
Prof. Fred H. Kulhawy, Cornell University
Evaluation of Rock Foundation Sockets & Some Observations on Professor Burmister *

11/19/2014
3:30-4:30 pm, Davis Auditorium

Biot Lecture

Prof. Jean H. Prevost, Princeton University
One-Way versus Two-Way Coupling in Reservoir-Geomechanical Models *


12/5/2014

3-4 pm, 420 Pupin
Prof. Elisa Budyn
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France

Live Allograft Bone Systems Showing How Human Bone Is a Very Organized Self-Repairing Tissue *



Spring 2014

Time and Place: 2:30 - 3:30 pm (Tuesday), 644 Mudd

January 27
4:00PM-5:00PM in 414 Schapiro CEPSR
A Summary of Challenges for Energy Pipelines
Robert Smith of the U.S. Department of Transportation (Host: Prof. Kawashima)

January 28
Non-Contact Air-Coupled Sensing for NDT of Concrete Infrastructure
Prof. Jinying Zhu of the University of Texas at Austin (Host: Prof. Yin)

February 25
Interface Mechanics, Fracture and Non-Destructive Detection Technology on Layered Composite Materials and Structures
Dr. Fangliang Chen, Associate Research Scientist, CEEM (Host: Prof. Yin)

March 25
Theory of Plasticity with Generalized Hardening Rule for Modeling Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Degradation Process in Cemented Soils and Weak Rocks
Prof. Claudio Tamagnini, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy (Host: Prof. Sun)

April 1
Risk and Reliability Criteria in European Infrastructure Projects
Prof. Dimitris Diamantidis, OTH Regensburg, Germany (Host: Prof. Deodatis)

April 29
Recent Developments in the Generalized Finite Element Method and Applications in 3-D Fracture Propagation and Coalescence
Prof. C. Armando Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Host: Prof. Waisman)

May 6
2:30-3:30 in 750 CEPSR
Mindlin Lecture: Soft Machines *
Prof. Zhigang Suo, Harvard University

May 28

2:00-3:00 pm
Aircraft Design via High-Fidelity Multidisciplinary Optimization
Prof. Joaquim Martins, Dept of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan (Host: Prof. Waisman)



* cross listed with ASCE Met Section Engineering Mechanics Committee Seminar