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Director, Doctoral Programme |
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Doctoral Program in Solid and Fluid Mechanics
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Lyesse Laloui
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Soil Mechanics Laboratory
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Chair Professor Soil Mechanics, Geo-Engineering and CO2 Storage
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office(s):
GCD1416
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32314,37363,32315
fax: +41216934153
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MISSION
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Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory
Director of the Doctoral programme in Mechanics
Member of the EPFL Research Commission
Adjunct Full Professor - Pratt School of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department; Duke University, Durham, USA
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BIOGRAPHY
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210 publications including 107 refereed journal papers, 12 special refereed publications and 98 conference proceedings papers
Guest editorship of 6 special journal issues; 5 refereed chapters in books, 2 contributions in books, 4 Course notes
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NEW BOOK
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Mechanics of Unsaturated Geomaterials. Editor: L. Laloui. Wiley-ISTE, 380 pages, 2010.
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AWARD
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"Excellent Contributions Award 2008" presented by the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) for excellent contributions in the areas of computational geomechanics, environmental geomechanics and mechanics of multiphase porous materials and their applications for innovative engineering solutions.
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RESEARCH TOPICS
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o Environmental Geomechanics
Thermo-hydro-mechanics of saturated and unsaturated porous materials; Thermo-plasticity of soils; Geological disposal of nuclear and hazardous waste; Energetic geostructures (including thermal piles).
o Mechanics of geomaterials
Constitutive modelling of geomaterial behaviour, plasticity and viscoplasticity, mechanics of porous media and mixtures, cemented, fissured and structured soils; thermodynamics of dissipative processes in porous materials.
o Engineering problems
Numerical optimisation of the thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling of geostructures; Numerical analysis of debris flows and landslides; Cyclic hydro-mechanical modelling of unbound granular materials in road pavements and embankments; Mathematical and analytical modelling of multiphase flow in deformable porous material.
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CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS
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Current grants (as principal applicant)
o European programme FP7 - ENV. SafeLand - Living with landslide risk in Europe: Assessment, effects of global change, and risk management strategies.
o National Science Foundation - Assessment of soil damage induced by drying.
o Swiss Competence Center Environment and Sustainability - Coupled GeoHazards in Alpine Regions.
o Marie Curie Actions - Research Training Network (European Union). Mountain risks.
http://cordis.europa.eu/mc-opportunities/ind
o Swiss Competence Center Environment and Sustanibility. Triggering of Rapid Mass Movements in Steep Terrain. http://www.cces.ethz.ch/research/hazri/hazri_projects/approved_hazri_projects
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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L. Laloui, A. Ferrari, and S. Salager.
Testing the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour of a Shale.
In Shale Physics and Shale Chemistry: New Plays, New
Science, New Possibilities. European Association of Geoscientist and
Engineers, 2012.
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C. Knellwolf, H. Peron, and L. Laloui.
Geotechnical Analysis of Heat Exchanger Piles.
Journal Of Geotechnical And Geoenvironmental
Engineering, 137:890-902, 2011.
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R. Borja, S. Fauriel, and L. Laloui.
Biogrout propagation in soils.
In Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics,
volume 1, pages 77-80, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. Springer-Verlag.
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F. Dupray, B. François, and L. Laloui.
Analysis of the FEBEX multi-barrier system including
thermo-plasticity of unsaturated bentonite.
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical
Methods in Geomechanics, 2011.
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S. Fauriel and L. Laloui.
Modelling transport of biogrout in soils.
In Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, volume 2,
pages 801-807, 2011.
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