Visitors

2012

Professor Alexander (Sasha) M. Puzrin visited the Lab for the second time, as part of collaborative work between the Lab and the Geomechanics group at ETH, Zurich. He gave a talk about state of geomechanics research globally.

2011

	Prof. Masayuki Hyodo is the chair of TC105 on micromechanics of geomaterials, and a Professor of Environmental Geotechnical Engineering at Yamaguchi University, Japan. He visited the Lab and gave a riveting talk on the state of earthquake damage in Japan, as a result of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
	A/Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki visited the Lab with Prof. Masayuki Hyodo, and gave a talk on earthquake dynamics and geomechanics. A/Prof. Suzuki studies the dynamic nature of naturally cemented sand, and its' stability during earthquakes.
	Dr. James Hambleton visited the Lab during October 2011, during which he gave a talk on contact problems in plasticity. Dr. Hambleton is a Research Associate at The School of Engineering at The University of Newcastle, Australia.
	Prof. Stefan Luding is a Professor for Multi Scale Mechanics in Mechanical Engineering at UTwente, Enschede, The Netherlands. His research deals with fluids and solids, particles and their contacts, granular materials and powders, micro-fluid systems, self-healing materials and a variety of multi-scale theory and modeling approaches. He visited the Lab during July 2011 as part of a tour around Australia.
	Dr Giuseppe Buscarnera visited the Lab from the Politecnico di Milano. He worked on the constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils, the theory of material instability and its application to slope stability analyses. He visited A/Prof Einav to study the interaction between saturation processes and particle breakage.
	Dr Emmanuil Veveakis visited us from the National Technical University of Athens. He works on the mathematical modeling of multi-physical mechanisms taking place during landslides and earthquakes. He visited A/Prof Einav to study the influence of microstructure to the response of faults, by studying possible particle breakage and growth processes.
	Professor Alexander (Sasha) M. Puzrin visited the Lab from 29 Jan to 2 Feb 2011 where he gave a seminar to the School of Civil Engineering. He has been Professor and Chair of Geotechnical Engineering at the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering at the ETH Zurich since 2004. He is engaged in the analysis of progressive and catastrophic failure in soils in creeping and tsunamigenic landslides, development of novel sensor technologies for geotechnical monitoring, chemical and biological soil improvement and in the constitutive modeling of geo- and biomaterials. Professor Puzrin is currently involved as an expert and consultant in large scale geotechnical projects in Russia, Israel, USA, Mexico and Switzerland.

2010

	Dr Adrian Russell visited us from the University of New South Wales. Dr Russell is an expert in the behaviour of unsaturated and fibre reinforced soils. He is researched particle crushing in granular media with A/Prof Itai Einav during his visit.
	Professor J. Carlos Santamarina visited the Lab from 25 to 27 November 2010 and gave a talk at the Particles, Grains and Complex Fluids semiar series. He is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, where he holds the Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair.
	Kevin Gentric visited us from The University of Technology of Belfort Montbéliard in France, and worked on crystal plasticity modelling of titanium and magnesium. This was part of a project in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals.
	Camille Drubay visiting the Lab from The Université de technologie de Troyes in France. Her project was on characterisation of heritage materials. Several pieces of cast iron from bridges built in Australia between 1880 and 1930 were collected and comparisons were made using their mechanical properties by doing hardness testing, tensile testing and fracture testing. The microstructure of these materials was characterised using microscopy techniques such as optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy.

2009

Richard Portelli visited the Lab for 6 months from 2009 to 2010 and worked on the flow of viscous fluids through porous media.

Jordan Bonivin visited the Lab during 2009 and worked on heat flow problems in granular materials.