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February 22, 2016

08:45 - 09:00 Welcome address
09:00 - 09:30 David Muir Wood - University of Dundee Soils and Space (various modelling challenges in which the volumetric packing plays an important role)
09:30 - 10:00 Ivo Herle - TU Dresden On selection of advanced constitutive models for geotechnical tasks
10:00 - 10:30 Helmut F. Schweiger - Graz University of Technology Multilaminate models for soils - recent developments and applications
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Aldo Madaschi and Alessandro Gajo - University of Trento Constitutive approach for rate-dependent behaviour of organic soils and clays
11:30 - 12:00 Stefano Muraro and Cristina Jommi - Delft University of Technology The deviatoric behaviour of peats: modelling some experimental observations
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Antonio Gens et al. - UPC Barcelona Chemo-mechanical constitutive modelling of expansive clays
14:30 - 15:00 Allesandro Gajo - University of Trento Chemo-mechanical interactions in active clays and cemented soils
15:00 - 15:30 Allesandro Gajo and Francesco Cecinato - University of Trento Thermo-mechanical modelling of geomaterials subjected to very high temperature changes
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 Christos Vrettos, Kai Merz and Andreas Becker - Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Parameters for an elasto-visco-plastic constitutive model for frozen sand from cubic triaxial tests
16:30 - 17:00 Achilleas Papadimitriou, Yannis Chaloulos, Yannis Dafalia - National Technical University of Athens Fabric Evolution of Sands and its Effects on the Response of Geostructures
17:00 - 17:30 Mario Liu - University of Tuebingen Granular Solid Hydrodynamics (GSH): from static stress and elastoplastic motion to fast dense flow

February 23, 2016

09:00 - 09:30 Peter Gamnitzer - Innsbruck University A smoothed cap model for variably saturated soils
09:30 - 10:00 Lorenzo Sanavia and Maria Lazari - University of Padova Numerical modelling of strain localization in multiphase porous media with local/non-local viscoplasticity
10:00 - 10:30 Jithender Jaswant Timothy, Dirk Leonhart and Günther Meschke - Ruhr University Bochum Determination of the effective transport properties of fractured heterogeneous rocks using Micromechanics and XFEM
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Abdullah Alsahly, Carlo Callari and Günther Meschke - Ruhr University Bochum A new approach for the shear localization analysis of strong discontinuous fields based on incompatible modes in frictional materials
11:30 - 12:00 Jacques Huyghe, Ernst Remij, Jingqian Ding and Joris Remmers - Eindhoven University of Technology XFEM simulation of hydraulic fracturing
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 David Masin - Charles University in Prague Hypoplasticity with explicitly defined asymptotic states
14:30 - 15:00 Gertraud Medicus - Innsbruck University Barodesy and its application for clay
15:00 - 15:30 Wolfgang Fellin and Alexander Ostermann - Innsbruck University Requirements on the Numerics in application of barodesy and hypoplasticity
15:30 - 16:00 Laudatio for Dimitris Kolymbas Gerd Gudehus - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
19:00 - 23:00 Colloquium Dinner

February 24, 2016

09:00 - 09:30 Pierre-Yves Hicher, Zhen-Yu Yin, Yinfu Jin, Christophe Dano - L'Université Nantes Angers Le Mans Modeling the mechanical behavior of coarse granular materials
09:30 - 10:00 Erich Bauer - Graz University of Technology Constitutive modelling of rheological properties of weathered rockfill materials
10:00 - 10:30 David Unteregger - Innsbruck University Damage plasticity model for intact rock and rock mass
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Benjamin Cerfontaine, Frédéric Collin and Robert Charlier - University of Liege A constitutive law describing the cyclic behaviour of rocks
11:30 - 12:00 Claudio Tamagnini and Matteo Oryem Ciantia - University of Perugia A Finite Deformation Plasticity Model for Calcarenite Rocks Subject to Weathering
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Excursion to the Brenner Basetunnel