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John Eichenberger Soil Mechanics Laboratory Civil Engineer EPF, PhD doctoral assistant nationality: Swiss, Canadian office(s): GCD0402 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 35398 MISSION PhD doctoral assistant in the Doctoral Program in Mechanics since December 2008. PhD thesis dealing with computational methods for slope stability analysis under the supervision of Prof. Laloui of the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics. Current research focuses on the constitutive and numerical modelling of soil behaviour in the context of landslides: - Modelling the initiation of shallow slips and debris flows in the context of multiphase continuum mechanics, in particular unsaturated soil mechanics. - Modelling the behaviour of large landslides displaying in general low displacement rates. - Soft-computing techniques for the prediction of landslide behaviour (i.e. neural networks). Project activities: - EC FP7 SafeLand: Living with landslide risk in Europe with contributions to: - CCES TRAMM: Triggering of rapid mass movements - CCES COGEAR: Coupled seismogenic geohazards in Alpine regions - NAGRA: Swiss agency for nuclear waste disposal Activities as teaching assistant in the Civil Engineering Department: - Groundwater flow - Soil mechanics - ENAC faculty course: Natural hazards in mountaineous regions - Mountain Risk Intensive Course: Multi-technique Landslide Investigation for Hazard Assessment. - MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) Tunneling: Soil mechanics module - Student semester and master projects Other activities: - Conference co-organiser and co-editor of the proceedings of the First EPFL Doctoral Conference in Mechanics, February 19, 2010. - Member of the organizing committee of the 2nd ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Local School at EPFL, Lausanne, July 4-9, 2010. - Webmaster of the LMS website 2009-2010. BIOGRAPHY Fluent in 3 languages: German, French and English Studies: Since 2008.... Doctoral assistant in LMS 2008............. Master Degree in Civil Engineering at the EPFL MASTER THESIS entitled "Influence of anisotropic rock mass characteristics on the design of pervious pressure tunnels", in collaboration with the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH) and the Laboratory of Soil Mechanics (LMS) at EPFL. 2006-2008..... Master of Civil Engineering, specialisation: Structural Engineering 2006............. Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering at the EPFL BACHELOR THESIS on the design of a small hydroelectric power plant along the river Venoge, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Hydraulic Constructions (LCH) at EPFL. 2003-2006..... Bachelor of Civil Engineering at the EPFL Antecedent studies: 2002............. Maturity in Literature at the Kantonsschule Olten, Switzerland. 1995-2002..... Literaturgymnasium at the Kantonsschule Olten, Switzerland. Professional experience: 2006 & 2007.. Summer internship at Ingeni SA (formerly Fellrath & Bosso SA), Lausanne. Design of concrete and steel structures. 2005-2007.... Teaching assistant in the private institution Interlink Olten GmbH, Olten. 2006-2008.... Teaching assistant at the Institute for Steel Structures (ICOM) at EPFL. MAIN PUBLICATIONS s. Pietruszczak, G. Pande, J. Eichenberger, M. Nuth, and L. Laloui. Hydromechanically coupled analysis of transient phenomena in a rainfall-induced landslide. In 2nd International Symposium on Computationel Geomechanics, pages 547-556, Rhodes, Greece, 2011. International Center for Computational Engineering (IC2E). [ Details | Full Text ] J. Eichenberger, M. Nuth, and L. Laloui. Modeling the Onset of Shallow Landslides in Partially Saturated Slopes Subjected to Rain Infiltration. In Geo-Frontiers 2011 - Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, pages 1672-1682. ASCE, 2011. [ Details | Full Text ] L. Laloui, J. Eichenberger, and A. Ferrari. Analyse et modélisation de glissements de terrain. Tracés, Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande, (15/16):15-18, 2010. [ DOI | Details ] J.-P. Malet, T. Glade, N. Casagli, J. Eichenberger, A. Ferrari, and L. Laloui. Rainfall thresholds for shallow landslides based on a numerical analysis. In Mountain Risks: Bringing Science to Society, pages 67-72, Strasbourg, France, 2010. CERG Editions. [ Details | Full Text ] L. Laloui, A. Ferrari, and J. Eichenberger. Effect of climate change on landslide behaviour. Geo-Strata, October:36-41, 2010. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ] H. Péron, J. Eichenberger, and L. Laloui. Drying shrinkage and cracking initiation in clays: Main modeling concepts and application to the ventilation of a tunnel. In Unsaturated Soils, pages 1055-1060, London, 2010. Taylor & Francis Group. [ Details | Full Text ] L. Laloui, J. Eichenberger, M. Nuth, and L. Laloui. Modeling landslides in partially saturated slopes subjected to rainfall infiltration. In Mechanics of unsaturated geomaterials, pages 235-249. John Wiley & Sons, 2010. [ Details | Link ] H. Péron, J. Eichenberger, L. Laloui, and S. Salager. Modelling of drying and cracking initiation in a gallery excavated in shale. In Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering, pages 771-774. CRC Press, 2010. [ Details | Full Text ] F. Demoures, J. Nembrini, T. S. Ratiu, Y. Weinand, N. Andreini, J. Eichenberger, G. Epely, S. Levy, and A. Vogel. AVI as a Mechanical Tool for Studying Dynamic and Static Euler-Bernoulli Beam Structures. In Proceedings of the 1st EPFL Doctoral Conference in Mechanics, pages 69-72, Lausanne, 2010. [ Details | Full Text ] POSTERS J. Eichenberger, A. Ferrari, L. Laloui (2011). Geomechanical determination of pore pressure thresholds for a landslide early-warning system. IIE Green Days 2011, Champoussin. F. Casini, S. M. Springman, J. Eichenberger, L. Laloui (2010). Geomechanical properties and modelling of Ruedlingen landslide. Latsis Symposium 2010, Zurich. J. Eichenberger, M. Nuth, L. Laloui (2010). Facing geo-hazards: Predictive tools for a better assessment. ENAC Research Day 2010, EPFL, Lausanne. J. Eichenberger, L. Laloui (2010). Coupled neurocomputational-deterministic prediction tool for landslide hazard assessment, EPFL, Lausanne.

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