IS-Cambridge 2014 Closing Speech - Prof. Jiang & Prof. Fang
(1) Prof Jose Andrade – California Institute of Technology
"To see and compute as never before in granular materials: the Avatar concept"
(2) Prof Itai Einav – University of Sydney
“A prospect for turbulence in geomechanics”
(3) Prof Takashi Matsushima – Tsukuba University
“Micromechanics of clay studied by 2D Discrete Element simulations”
(4) Prof Jim McElwaine – Durham University
"Granular Flows from the Laboratory to the Ski Jump"
(5) Dr Catherine O’Sullivan – Imperial College London
“Advancing geomechanics using DEM”
(6) Prof Farhang Radjai – University of Montpellier
"Contact dynamics and plastic granular flows"
(7) Prof Cino Viggiani – Joseph Fourier University
“X-ray tomography for granular materials: current trends and perspectives”
(8) Prof Yu-Hsing Wang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
“Aging, structuration, and creep behaviour of sand”
Special “Professor Malcolm Bolton” session
(1) Prof Malcolm Bolton – University of Cambridge
“What can geotechnical engineers learn from granular mechanics?”
(2) Prof Matthew Coop – City University of Hong Kong
“Laboratory Testing of Sands at Micro- and Macro-Scales”
(3) Dr Matthew Kuo – University of Cambridge
“The micromechanics of biological structures in marine sediments”
(4) Prof Glenn McDowell – University of Nottingham
“The role of particle crushing in soil mechanics”
(5) Prof Yukio Nakata – Yamaguchi University
“Geomechanics of crushable materials with the change of grading”
