We got the paper accepted that extends the Granular Material Point Method into unsaturated soil regime. Please have a look here. This is the final paper of Seyedan doctoral thesis. Seyedan has graduated with doctoral degree from Aalto few months ago. Congratulations!
It has been very busy weeks, turning into busy months and without noticing, almost a year has passed. The main news is that I got a Academy of Finland project, Compact It, and we still are looking for a researcher who would be interested to take part. Your task will be to use and develop Granular Material Point Method and Uintah software suite, to model dynamic soil exchange. The project will involve close cooperation with Menard and build over resaerch from 2013. You can find the advertisement at Aalto webpage. The position is open until filled. Please apply, I try to check the applications weekly!
We got new paper published on Granular Material Point Method in Computers & Structures. We are proud of the paper, where we show how you can get continuous material discontinuous during the flow, and then, continuous again. Thanks to that, we can have the silo filled properly 🙂
Are you interested? We have open positions for a post-doctoral position, open until 14th of June 2021. Contact me for more information, as you will have to show your multidisciplinary approach in the application. Good luck!
Last month I had a pleasure to give presentations on MPM and modelling of clays at Chalmers University, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). The presentations are here for MPM and Clay
Hopefully the cooperation with those universities will be successful and we will get some grants together in the future!
Aalto University has had the pleasure to host a public lecture of Professor Dragan Grgic (GeoRessources Laboratory, Université de Lorraine). Professor Grgic visited Finland due to cooperation with VTT and GTK. During the visit, he kindly agreed to held a lecture at Aalto.
Professor Grgic presentation can be downloaded here.
Last several months have been really busy, with me having really no time to catch my breath (but well, we have now 5 journal papers under review, keep fingers crossed). Recently, SeyedMohammadJavad Seyedan presented in the beautiful city of Porto in the NUMGE 2018 conference. He was explaining how to enrich the constitutive model for soil with capability to model the small strain shear nonlinearity. It is a neat expansion, which has also thermodynamical consistency (note: full paper under review)… Then, Dr Ayman Abed presented on chemical coupling (download paper) in UNSAT Conference in Hong Kong. That is a nice effort with cooperation from UPC BarcelonaTech. Finally, I have been presenting in Vienna Dr Yang Xiujuan paper on water retention behaviour of MX-80 bentonite, when partially saturated with saline solution, as unfortunately Xiujuan could not come to Vienna.
Hong Kong – photo from the conference dinner (yay, my new camera)
Hey,
Today in the beautiful city of Milan, I had a seminar at the Politecnico di Milano on the bentonite behaviour modelling, related to THEBES project. The slides are here. Also, the keynote lecture in the IV ECCOMAS YOUNG INVESTIGATOR CONFERENCE – YIC2017 entitled “MPM or FEM / PFEM / SPH /… Insights on the Material Point Method future” is here. In case you need more information or the movies (sorry, no movies in the .pdf), please do not hesitate to contact me! We are always happy to share!
Enjoy!
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