Keynote Lectures
Plenary Keynote (Biot Lecture)
Prof. Zdeněk P. Bažant
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
Modeling of Creep and Hygrothermal Deformations of Concrete:  Intriguing Consequences of Nano-Porosity

Plenary Keynote (Mindlin Lecture)
Prof. James R. Rice
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences & Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Some Fluid-Solid Interactions in Earthquake and Glacier Dynamics

Plenary Keynote (Burmister Lecture)
Prof. Fumio Tatsuoka
Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Rate Effects on Elastic and Inelastic Stress-Strain Behaviours of Geomaterials Observed in Experiments




Prof. Zhigang Suo, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Large Deformation and Instability in Swelling Polymeric Gels

Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
The Nanogranular Nature of Hydrated Porous Materials: Concrete, Shale and Bone

Prof. Jerry M. Harris, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Differential Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy:
A Laboratory Method for the Estimation of Compressibility and Attenuation of Porous Materials at Low Frequencies

Prof. Shaul Sorek, Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Shock Wave Through Deformable Saturated Porous Media

Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
A Framework for Coupled Solid-Deformation/Fluid-Diffusion Analysis of Variably Saturated Slopes:
Mathematical Developments and Numerical Simulations of Coos Bay Experimental Catchment

Prof. Stephen C. Cowin, Departments of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering, City College, City University of New York
Poroelastic Models of Bone Tissue


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