MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Times correspond to Brasilia – DF, Brazil, GMT-3)
Webinar on Undergraduate Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Teaching
Friday, July 16th, 2021 | 6:00 PM (Brasília time, GMT-3)
Media: ABMS’ Youtube channel
Format: 1 lecture followed by a forum of discussion including 3 invited panelists
Webinar outline
Teaching unsaturated soil mechanics concepts at the undergraduate level prepares students for dealing with numerous real-case scenarios that the soon- to-be engineers will face in their engineering practice. However, the academia faces several challenges when attempting to introduce unsaturated soils mechanics concepts in the regular curricula. This international webinar will focus on undergraduate unsaturated soil mechanics teaching, with world-class specialists sharing their views and experiences.
Program
- Undergraduate unsaturated soil mechanics for the 2020s. Delwyn G. Fredlund (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
- Centrifuge modelling of unsaturated soils, what is known, and what is missing. Bernardo Caicedo (Los Andes University, Colombia)
- Building an understanding of the impacts of transient flow processes on the mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils. John S. McCartney (University of California San Diego, USA)
Roundtable Discussions, with the participation of the speakers and moderators:
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| Delwyn Fredlund | Bernardo Caicedo | John McCartney | Katia V. Bicalho |
Gilson Gitirana |
| Course on Applied Unsaturated Soil Mechanics | July 23rd (Friday) | ||
| 09:00 | Slope Stability | Prof. André Luis B. Cavalcante (University of Brasilia, Brazil) |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Pavements | Prof. Bernardo Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) |
| 12:30 | Break | |
| 13:30 | Design of Barriers | Prof. Alexandre Cabral (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) |
| 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:30 | Numerical Applications on Mining | Dr. Murray Fredlund (Bentley Systems Inc., Canada) |
| Start | July 26th, 2021 (Monday) | Finish | ||
| 10h00 | Opening ceremony | 10h30 | ||
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| 10h30 | KN1 – Gerald Miller (University of Oklahoma, USA) | Fernando Marinho (USP, BR) | 11h20 | |
| 11h20 | STA1 – Laureano R. Hoyos (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) | 12h10 | ||
| 12h10 | Break | 13h10 | ||
| 13h10 | Paper sessions on Fundamentals | 14h10 | ||
| Session | Chair | Secretary | ||
| 1A | Laureano R. Hoyos (UTA, USA) | Mariana Benessiuti (UNESP, BR) | ||
| 1B | Rafaela Cardoso (IST, PT) | Giovana Georgetti (UFU, BR) | ||
| 14h10 | Break | 14h50 | ||
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| 14h50 | KN2 – Xiong Zhang (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) | Orêncio M. Vilar (USP-SC, BR) | 15h40 | |
| 15h40 | STA2 – John McCartney (University of California at San Diego, USA) | 16h30 | ||
| 16h30 | Break | 17h00 | ||
| 17h00 | Paper sessions on Fundamentals | 18h00 | ||
| Session | Chair | Secretary | ||
| 2A | Juan Carlos Rojas Vidovic (USFX, BO) | Manoel Barroso Neto (PUC-Rio, BR) | ||
| 2B | Willian Likos (UW-M, USA) | Elisângela do Prado Oliveira (UFPR, BR) | ||
| Start | July 27th, 2021 (Tuesday) | Finish | ||
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| 10h00 | KN3 – José Camapum de Carvalho (Universidade de Brasília, BR) | Gilson Gitirana (UFG, BR) | 10h50 | |
| 10h50 | KN4 – G. Ward Wilson (University of Alberta, CA) | 11h40 | ||
| 11h40 | KN5 – Delwyn G. Fredlund (University of Saskatchewan, CA) | 12h30 | ||
| 12h30 | Break | 13h30 | ||
| 13h30 | Paper sessions on USM Practice | 14h30 | ||
| Session | Chair | Secretary | ||
| 3A | Jorge Zornberg (UTA) | Thiago Carnavale (UNIFESO, BR) | ||
| 3B | Alfrendo Satyanaga (Nazarbayev Univ, KZ) | Alexandro Cirone (PUC-Rio, BR) | ||
| 14h30 | Break | 15h10 | ||
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| 15h10 | KN6 – Luciano Oldecop (UNSJ, AR) | André Cavalcante (UnB, BR) | 16h00 | |
| 16h00 | KN7 – Paul Simms (Carleton University, CA) | 16h50 | ||
| 16h50 | Break | 17h20 | ||
| 17h20 | Paper sessions on Tailings | 18h20 | ||
| Session | Chair | Secretary | ||
| 4A | Luciano Oldecop (UNSJ, AR) | Carlos Bésso (PUC-Rio, BR) | ||
| 4B | Eduardo Rojas-Gonzáles (UAQ, MX) | João Guilherme Rassi Almeida (UFG, BR) | ||
| 18h20 | TC-106 Meeting | 19h00 | ||
| Start | July 28th, 2021 (Wednesday) | Finish | ||
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| 10h00 | KN8 – José Fernando T. Jucá (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR) | Heraldo Giacheti (UNESP, BR) | 10h50 | |
| 10h50 | KN9- Leonardo Guimarães (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR) | 11h40 | ||
| 11h40 | Break | 12h40 | ||
| 12h40 | Paper sessions on Modeling | 13h40 | ||
| Session | Chair | Secretary | ||
| 5A | Marcelo J. Sanchez (TAMU, USA) | Sandro L. Machado (UFBA, BR) | ||
| 5B | Hamed Sadeghi (SUT, IR) | Fernando Henrique M. Portelinha (UFSC, BR) | ||
| 13h40 | Break (40 min) | 14h20 | ||
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| 14h20 | KN10 – Claudia Zapata (Arizona State University, USA) | Márcia Mascarenha (UFG, BR) | 15h10 | |
| 15h10 | STA3 – Sai Vanapalli (University of Ottawa, CA) | 16h00 | ||
| 16h00 | Break (20 min) | 16h20 | ||
| 16h20 | Paper sessions on USM Practice | 17h20 | ||
| Session | Chair | Secretary | ||
| 6A | Katerina Tsiampousi (IC, UK) | Cristina de H. C. Tsuha (USP-SC, BR) | ||
| 6B | Bernardo Caicedo (Uniandes, CO) | Marcelo Heidemann (UFSC, BR) | ||
| 17h20 | Break (20 min) | 17h40 | ||
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| 17h40 | STA4 – Sandra Houston (Arizona State University, USA) | Tácio de Campos (PUC-Rio, BR) | 18h30 | |
| 18h30 | Closure | 18h50 | ||
| Lecturers | ||
| # | Keynote | Theme |
| KN01 | Gerald A. Miller (University of Oklahoma, USA) | Application of in situ tests in unsaturated soils to analysis of spread footings |
| KN02 | Xiong Zhang (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA) | Recent advances in measuring volume changes of unsaturated soil specimen during triaxial testing |
| KN03 | José Camapum de Carvalho (University of Brasilia, Brazil) | Unsaturated soils in the context of tropical soils |
| KN04 | G. Ward Wilson (University of Alberta, Canada) | The new expertise required for designing safe tailings storage facilities |
| KN05 | Delwyn G. Fredlund (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) | Myths and misconceptions related to unsaturated soil mechanics |
| KN06 | Luciano Oldecop (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina) | Unsaturated mine tailings disposal |
| KN07 | Paul Simms (Carleton University, Canada) | The role of unsaturated behaviour in unconventional tailings deposition |
| KN08 | José Fernando T. Jucá (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) | Brasília municipal solid waste landfill: A case study on flow and slope stability |
| KN09 | Leonardo Guimarães (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) | Coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical and chemical modeling of clays and clayed rocks |
| KN10 | Claudia Zapata (Arizona State University, USA) | An improved framework for volume change of shrink/swell soils subjected to time-varying climatic effects |
| # | State-of-the -Art | Subject |
| STA1 | Laureano R. Hoyos (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) | Behavior of unsaturated cohesive-frictional soils over a whole range of suction/thermo-controlled stress paths and modes of deformation |
| STA2 | John McCartney (University of California at San Diego, USA) | Hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soils: Interpretation of compression curves in terms of effective stress |
| STA3 | Sai Vanapalli (University of Ottawa, Canada) | Analytical and numerical methods for prediction of the bearing capacity of shallow foundations in unsaturated soils |
| STA4 | Sandra Houston (Arizona State University, USA) | Review of expansive and collapsible soil volume change models within a unified elastoplastic framework |