MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Times correspond to Brasilia – DF, Brazil, GMT-3)
Webinar on Undergraduate Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Teaching
Hour to be confirmed
Media: Youtube (link to be defined)
Format: 1 lecture followed by a forum of discussion including 3 invited panelists
Summary
Soil-water saturation states may vary within a wide range in geo-structures exposed to environmental changes, and the study of the continuity between saturated and unsaturated states or vice versa is important in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering practice (e.g. earth and tailing dams, pavements and embankments, natural slopes stability, bearing capacity for shallow foundations, waste treatment and disposal). This webinar presents and discusses some educational materials making fundamental concepts in modelling unsaturated soil behavior more attractive for students to see how important it is for them to apply the material professionally in current and future challenges (e.g. climate change, sea level rise, energy, sustainability) in civil and environmental engineering. It emphasizes the benefits of introducing fundamental concepts and reviewing classical examples of applications of unsaturated soil mechanics to undergraduate courses in civil and environmental engineering. The resulting material is presented in an easy to understand manner for implementation without changing the workload of the existing undergraduate civil and environmental engineering curricula.
| Course on Applied Unsaturated Soil Mechanics | ||
| 09:00 | Slope Stability | Prof. André Luis B. Cavalcante (University of Brasilia, Brazil) |
| 10:30 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 11:00 | Pavements | Prof. Bernardo Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) |
| 12:30 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 13:30 | Design of Barriers | Prof. Alexandre Cabral (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) |
| 15:00 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 15:30 | Numerical Applications on Mining | Dr. Murray Fredlund (Bentley Systems Inc., Canada) |
| Hour | ROOM 1 | ROOM 2 |
| 10:00 | OPENING CEREMONY | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lecture 1 | |
| 11:20 | State-of-the-Art 1 | |
| 12:10 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 13:10 | Paper Session 1A – Fundamentals | Paper Session 1B |
| 14:10 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 14:50 | Keynote Lecture 2 | |
| 15:40 | State-of-the-Art 2 | |
| 16:30 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 17:00 | Paper Session 2A – Fundamentals | Paper Session 2B |
| 18:00 | Industry AD | |
| Hour | ROOM 1 | ROOM 2 |
| 10:00 | Special session on the practice of unsaturated soil mechanics (Keynotes Lectures 3 to 5) | |
| 10:50 | ||
| 11:40 | ||
| 12:30 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 13:30 | Paper Session 3A USM practice | Paper Session 3B |
| 14:30 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 15:10 | Keynote Lecture 6 | |
| 16:00 | Keynote Lecture 7 | |
| 16:50 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 17:20 | Paper Session 4A – Tailings | Paper Session 4B |
| 18:20 | Industry AD – TC-106 Meeting | |
| Hour | ROOM 1 | ROOM 2 |
| 10:00 | Keynote Lecture 8 | |
| 10:50 | Keynote Lecture 9 | |
| 11:40 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 12:40 | Paper Session 5A – Modeling | Paper Session 5B |
| 13:40 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 14:20 | Keynote Lecture 10 | |
| 15:10 | State-of-the-Art 3 | |
| 16:00 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 16:20 | Paper Session 6A – USM practice | Paper Session 6B |
| 17:20 | Break – Industry AD | |
| 17:40 | State-of-the-Art 4 | |
| 18:30 | Closure |
| Confirmed Lecturers | ||
| # | Keynote | Theme |
| 1 | Martinus T. van Genutchen (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) | Water scarcity and pollution |
| 2 | Claudia Zapata (Arizona State University, USA) | Geotechnics of roads |
| 3 | José Camapum de Carvalho (University of Brasilia, Brazil) | Properties and behavior of unsaturated tropical soils in the context of weathering profiles |
| 4 | G. Ward Wilson (University of Alberta, Canada) | Safety and reliability in mining engineering |
| 5 | Delwyn G. Fredlund (Golder Associates, Canada) | The practice of unsaturated soil mechanics |
| 6 | Luciano Oldecop (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina) | Tailings engineering |
| 7 | Paul Simms (Carleton University, Canada) | Unconventional tailings technologies |
| 8 | José Fernando T. Jucá (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) | Municipal solid waste landfilling |
| 9 | Leonardo Guimarães (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) | Numerical modelling |
| 10 | Gerald A. Miller (University of Oklahoma, USA) | Application of in situ tests in unsaturated soils to analysis of shallow foundations |
| # | State-of-the -Art | Subject |
| 1 | Laureano R. Hoyos (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) | Instrumentation: laboratory & in-situ |
| 2 | John McCartney (University of California at San Diego, USA) | Hydromechanical properties |
| 3 | Sai Vanapalli (University of Ottawa, Canada) | Prediction of bearing capacity |
| 4 | Sandra Houston (Arizona State University, USA) | Expansive and collapsible soils |