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