MECHANICS OF SATURATED AND PARTIALLY
SATURATED POROUS MEDIA AND APPLICATIONS
TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Programme

Monday

09.00-09.45 Course presentation - Audience contact
09.45-10.30 Partially saturated soil dynamics
11.00-11.45 Partially saturated soil dynamics
11.45-12.30 Numerical solution of governing equations
14.30-15.15 Numerical solution of governing equations
15.15-16.00 Partially saturated soil dynamics: examples
16.30-17.15 Numerical solution of governing equations
17.15-18.00 Discussion

Tuesday

09.00-09.45 Partially saturated soil dynamics: discretisations in space and time
09.45-10.30 Convergence problems for the discretised equations
11.00-11.45 Error analysis in numerical solutions
11.45-12.30 Computational plasticity
14.30-15.15 Organization of a software for consolidation problems
15.15-16.00 Partially saturated soil dynamics: finite strains formulation
16.30-17.15 Block description of a computer code for consolidation
17.15-18.00 Discussion

Wednesday

09.00-09.45 Solution procedures for partially saturated dynamic problems
09.45-10.30 Parallel computing techniques
11.00-11.45 Heat and mass transfer in porous media
11.45-12.30 Constitutive models for soil plasticity
14.30-15.15 Parameter identification for soil plasticity models
15.15-16.00 Parameter identification for soil plasticity models
16.30-17.15 Parameter identification from field measurements
17.15-18.00 Discussion

Thursday

09.00-09.45 ED-Multifield: an educational software for consolidation problems
09.45-10.30 ED-Multifield: an educational software for consolidation problems
11.00-11.45 ED-Multifield: an educational software for consolidation problems
11.45-12.30 The code COMES-GEO
14.30-15.15 Surface subsidence: real examples
15.15-16.00 Surface subsidence: analysis of the problem
16.30-17.15 Surface subsidence: vertically averaged problems
17.15-18.00 Discussion

Friday

09.00-09.45 Strain localisation and liquefaction problems
09.45-10.30 Benchmarks for partially saturated problems
11.00-11.45 Infinite elements in non-isothermal consolidation
11.45-12.30 Final remarks and discussion
14.30-18.00 Free