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Giang Nguyen

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BEng MEng DPhil
Post-doctoral Researcher
Centre for Geotechnical Research



School of Civil Engineering, Room 343
Phone: +61 2 9351 3721
Fax: +61 2 9351 3343
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Research Interests

  • Constitutive modelling of geomaterials.
  • Computational mechanics.

Selected Publications

  • Nguyen, G.D., and Einav, I., 2010, Nonlocal regularisation of a model based on breakage mechanics for granular materials, International Journal of Solids and Structures, accepted (20/01/2010) and in press.
  • Nguyen, G.D., and Einav, I., 2010, A stress return algorithm for nonlocal constitutive models of softening materials, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, accepted (05/10/2009) and in press.
  • Nguyen, G.D., and Einav, I., 2009, The energetics of cataclasis based on breakage mechanics, Pure and Applied Geophysics 166, 1693–1724.
  • Nguyen, G.D., and Houlsby, G.T., 2008, A coupled damage-plasticity model for concrete based on thermodynamic principles: Part I: Model formulation and parameter identification, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 32(4), 391-413.
  • Nguyen, G.D., 2008, A thermodynamic approach to nonlocal damage modelling of concrete, International Journal of Solids and Structures 45, 1918-1934.
  • Nguyen, G.D., and Houlsby, G.T., 2007, Nonlocal damage modelling of concrete: a procedure for the determination of parameters, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 31, 867-891.
  • Nguyen, G.D., and Korsunsky, A.M., 2006, Damage-plasticity modelling of concrete: calibration of parameters using separation of fracture energy, International Journal of Fracture 139(2), 325-332.