I am very happy that we have now published a new paper in Ocean Engineering, about improved prediction of soil properties based on free-fall cone penetrometer data. We managed to go all the way from the experimental data to numerical simulations to a simple design method improvement. Congratulations to Debasis and the whole team who helped with the paper!
The paper can be found here for some time. After the link expires, you can find a late draft version at research.aalto.fi
Photo by Aalto University/Mikko Raskinen
Please come and join us at Aalto on the 11th of June. We start at 9.45 am in R3. See the programme and details here: https://sgy.fi/tapahtumat/geotechnical-seminar-at-aalto/
Chenjie Ruan, a doctoral student in my group, is the first author in a very nice paper on soil freezing. The new thermodynamically compliant framework may predict soil freezing and frost heave quite well, with a limited amount of input data. Check it here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165232X26000972
Reza Khalili, another doctoral student in my group, is the first author of a paper where we calculated settlements of an underwater embankment securing a cable. Soil data comes from the Geomeasure project, with settlements computed with Soft Soil Creep and Creep S-Clay1S. The results are very interesting, and we still do not fully understand why the creep component of settlements depends so much on the permeability of soil. If you have any thoughts on this issue, please email me at wojciech.solowski@aalto.fi
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029801826003306
Congratulations Reza and Chenjie! Great work!
I have recently recorded an ‘Installation Talk’ entitled “THMC modelling of bentonite: Nuclear waste repositories safety barriers”. See it below:
In case you found it interesting, and would like to have more information, or collaborate on the subject, please do not hesitate to contact me at my Aalto email, search for Wojciech Solowski, Aalto to find it.
Also, hope all of you will have good time during the coming holiday season and let me wish you all the very best for the New Year 2021!
The Installation Talk has been recorded by Aalto University, as I have been tenured at Aalto and promoted to Associate Professor. Many thanks for all those who were involved!
Dr Núria Pinyol, Associate Research Professor at UPC BarcelonaTech is currently a visitor at Aalto, thanks to the support of UPC and the EU Erasmus+Teaching Mobility Grant. It is my great pleasure that in the beginning of September, we are holding an Intensive course on Geomechanics of Failures together at Aalto. Everyone is welcome!
You can register for the course in the Aalto system. In case you are from outside, please let me know at my Aalto University email and I will register you so you can attend the course.
The course will cover three important case studies:
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral – case study related to settlements calculations and interaction between neighbouring structures
Vajont landslide – case study related to the behaviour of large landslides and slope stability calculations
Barcelona port caisson failure – case study related to the pore pressure build-up due to cyclic loading in undrained conditions.
The lectures are related to Geomechanics of failures by Puzrin et al. 2009 (chapters 1 & 5) and Geomechanics of failures: advanced topics by Alonso et al. 2010 (chapters 2 & 5).
The course page is currently not very up to date, but more information will be given here.