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