Laurent Vulliet

Host Professor

laurent.vulliet@epfl.ch http://lms.epfl.ch/en

Fields of expertise

- Design and testing of geostructures - Behaviour of geomaterials: Constitutive modeling, unsaturated soils, thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling effects, creep of clayey soils, multiphase flow in deformable porous media, cyclic loading, elasto-visco-plasticity, numerical modeling
- Risk Management: Landslides, debris flow, vulnerability, probabilistic approaches, neural networks, integral risk management.

Biography

EDUCATION
2016: Board Member Certificate, Swiss Board School, Switzerland
2008: AMP (Advanced Management Program), INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
1986: PhD (Dr sc. tech.), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
1980: Ms, Civil Engineering (Dipl. Bauing. ETH), ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland

PRESENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2021 - Present: President of the Board, De Cérenville Géotechnique SA, Ecublens
2018 - Present: Owner, Prof. Vulliet Consulting, Lausanne.
2018 - Present: President, Société du Quartier Nord de l'EPFL
2003 - Present: Foundation Council Member, Les Bois Chamblard Foundation, Lausanne.
1995 - Present: Member and now President (since 2020), Foundation Council of the Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR), Lausanne
1994 - Present: Professor, EPFL. Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory (1994-2008). Part-time position since 2008. Honorary Professor since February 2023.

PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2016 - 2023: Member of the Board of Directors, Implenia, Opfikon, Switzerland
2009-2013: Vice-President, Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA).
2008 - 2015: CEO, BG Consulting Engineers, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2006 - 2015: Member of the Board of Directors, BG Consulting Engineers, Lausanne
2003-2008: Member, Stiftungsrat der Präventionsstiftung der KGV (a Swiss foundation for the financing of applied research in the domain of natural risks from Cantonal Building Insurances).
2001 - 2008 Dean, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), EPFL
1999 - 2001 Head, Civil Engineering Department, EPFL
1998 2001: Member of the Board of Directors, Stump Bohr AG, Nänikon.
1989 - 1993 Senior Engineer, De Cérenville Géotechnique SA, Ecublens, Switzerland
1987 - 1989 Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
1986 Invited Researcher, Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées (LCPC), Paris, France
1981 - 1986 Research assistant, and PhD student, Soil Mechanics Laboratory (LMS), EPFL. Thesis on the modeling of natural creeping slopes. Co-advisors Prof. E. Recordon (EPFL) and Prof. K. Hutter (TU Darmstadt)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- International Association for Computer Meth. and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG)
- International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
- International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM)
- Swiss Society for Soil and Rock Mechanics (SSMSR)
- Swiss Society for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (SGEB)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
- Kantonale Expertengruppe Sicherheit (KES). Expertise in the field of underground construction/rock mechanics for the Cantonal Expert Group on Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal (cantons of Zurich, Aargau, and Schaffhausen). (KES). (2020 - Present )- Federal Geological Commission (FGC), a permanent extra-parliamentary commission which advises the Federal Council on applied geology (appointed by the Federal Council). (2020 - Present)- Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). A network of Switzerland’s most eminent names in the various engineering fields. (2014 - Present)
- Member, Federal Geological Commission (FGC), a permanent extra-parliamentary commission which advises the Federal Council on applied geology (appointed by the Federal Council). (2020 - present) - Swiss National Science Foundation (NSF): member of the Foundation Council and of the Electoral Commission (1996-2003)
- Extra-Parliamentary National Commission on Natural Disasters (PLANAT): member of the Commission 1997-2007 (member of the Executive Board from 1997 to 2000)
- Natural Hazards Competence Centre CENAT (ETH Domain): founder member and member of the Board of Directors (1995-2007)
- Alliance of European Research Laboratories (ALERT), member of the Board of Directors (1995-2009)
- Beratende Kommission Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL): member (2000-2004)
- Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF, Monte Verità): member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (1997-2007)
- EPFL Press and Information Commission (CPI). Member 1994-94, President 1995-2000

EDITORIAL BOARDS
- Adjunct Editor-in-Chief, Revue française de génie civil (Hermès); founder member (1996-2009). Now "European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering"
- Editorial Advisory Board, Int. J. Num. Analyt. Meth. in Geomech., John Wiley (1997-2009).
- Editorial Board, Int. J. of Geomechanics (2000-2009).
- Editorial Board, Computer & Geotechnics, Elsevier (2001-2009).
- Editorial Board, Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica (1997-2009).

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Développement d’une méthode de calcul par élément orienté coût pour l’estimation économique de projets incluant un processus BIM dans le contexte de l’entreprise

A. Glaus

2023

L. Vulliet, L. Laloui, J. Zhao Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne, 2016, 604 p.	Mécanique des sols et des roches
Vulliet L., Laloui L., Schrefler B. (Eds) PPUR , 421 p., 2002	Environmental Geomechanics
Vulliet L. J. Wiley & Sons, 706 p., 2000	Natural slopes in slow movement. A chapter of the book Modeling in Geomechanics, Zaman, Booker & Gioda Editors
Klubertanz G., Bouchelaghem F., Laloui L., Vulliet L. Mathematical and Computer Modelling Journal., vol. 37, pp. 571-582, 2003	Miscible and immiscible multiphase flow in deformable porous media.
Vulliet L. Ed. Hermes Science, 334 p., 2001	Instabilit� des massifs de sol. Un chapitre du livre "G�om�canique environnementale risques naturels et patrimoine" . Sous la direction de B. Schrefler, P. Delage
Vulliet L., Laloui L. Ed. Springer, , Berlin, 393 p., 2001	Mechanics of multiphase porous media-application to unsaturated soils . A chapter of the book "Continuum mechanics and applications in geophysics and environment.". Editors B. Straughan et al.,
Geiser F., Laloui L., Vulliet L. Balkema, Rotterdam, 199p., 2000	Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated silt. A chapter of the book "Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Approaches in Unsaturated Soils". Tarautino & Maucuso. Ed.
Desai C.S., Samtani N., Vulliet L. J. of Geotech. Eng., ASCE, Vol. 121, No 1, pp. 43-56, 1995	Constitutive modeling and analysis of creeping slopes
Vulliet L., Hutter K. Geotechnique, Vol.38, No.2, pp. 199-217, 1988	A continuum model for natural slopes in slow movement.
Vulliet L. Ed. Hermes Science, 334 p., 2001	Instabilit� des massifs de sol. Un chapitre du livre "G�om�canique environnementale risques naturels et patrimoine" . Sous la direction de B. Schrefler, P. Dalage.
Vulliet L., Laloui L. Ed. Springer, Berlin, 393 p., 2001	Mechanics of multiphase porous media-application to unsaturated soils . A chapter of the book "Continuum mechanics and applications in geophysics and environment.". Editors B. Straughan et al.
Geiser F., Laloui L., Vulliet L. Balkema, Rotterdam, 199p., 2000	Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated silt. A chapter of the book "Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Approaches in Unsaturated Soils". Tarautino & Maucuso, Editors

Laurent Vulliet

Host Professor

Fields of expertise

Biography

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Développement d’une méthode de calcul par élément orienté coût pour l’estimation économique de projets incluant un processus BIM dans le contexte de l’entreprise

Application of random fields in geotechnical reliabilty analysis

Enterprise Risk Management & Civil Engineering Consulting Firms in Switzerland

Analyse et gestion des risques dans la planification d’un projet de Génie Civil

Integration of geological data into the BIM process in infrastructure projects

Numerical modeling and neural networks to identify model parameters from piezocone tests: II. Multi-parameter identification from piezocone data

Analytical and numerical analyses of the load-bearing capacity of retaining walls laterally supported at both ends

Numerical modeling and neural networks to identify model parameters from piezocone tests: I. FEM analysis of penetration in two-phase continuum

Structural characterization of unsaturated aggregated soil

Instability of soil masses

Constitutive modeling of unsaturated aggregated soils

Identification of mechanisms for landslide type initiation of debris flows

Cyclic properties of sand : dynamic behaviour for seismic applications

Behavior of Unsaturated Aggregated Soil in Oedometric Condition

Characterization of natural sand under complex dynamic loading

Optimization framework for calibration of constitutive models enhanced by neural networks

A combined neural network/gradient-based approach for the identification of constitutive model parameters using self-boring pressuremeter tests

Numerical modeling and neural networks to identify constitutive parameters from in situ tests

New basis for the constitutive modelling of aggregated soils

Mechanical behaviour of unsaturated aggregated soils

Assessment of structural evolution of aggregated soil using neutron tomography

New basis for constitutive modelling of unsaturated aggregated soil with structure degradation

Advanced Constitutive Model for Unsaturated Structured Soil with Double Porosity.

Water flow between soil aggregates

Automated Digital Image Processing for Volume Change Measurement in Triaxial Cells

Étude expérimentale du dégel d'un limon argileux : application aux chaussées et pergélisols alpins

Soil structure evolution : experimental and constitutive consideration.

Interaction sol-structure dans le domaine des tranchées couvertes

Experimental study of flow and deformation in aggregated soils using neutron tomography.

Management of risks from large landslides : the problems of acceptable and residual risks

Considerations on the design of cut-and-cover tunnels

Experimental and numerical investigations of the behaviour of a heat exchanger pile

Suction induced effects on the fabric of a structured soil

Advances in volume measurement in unsaturated triaxial tests

Elasto-plasticity of unsaturated soils : laboratory test results on a remoulded silt

Comportement, calcul et dimensionnement des tranchées couvertes

RISK21 - Coping with Risk due to Natural Hazards in the 21st Century

Attrition and particle breakage under monotonic and cyclic loading

Structure degradation of dry aggregated soils: experimental evidence and model formulation.

Point de vue : Une culture du risque face aux forces de la nature

Interactive computer-aided learning of landslide identification and monitoring process

Attrition and particle breakage under monotonic and cyclic loading

Effective stress in double porous media with two immiscible fluids

Numerical analysis of natural slopes

Stochastic analysis of single particle segregational dynamics

A Novel Triaxial Apparatus for Thermo-Mechanical Testing of Soils

Experimental and numerical investigations of the behaviour of a heat exchanger pile

Non-isothermal modelling of the cyclic mechanical behaviour of MC clay

Mathematical analysis of the hydric behaviour of structured soils

Plasticity in soil-structure interaction applied to cut-and-cover tunnels

Mechanik ungesättigter Böden und deren Anwendung auf Hangbewegungen (Mechanics of unsaturated soils and their application on slope stability).

Vulnerability and risk assessment of a mountain road crossing landslides

Modelling suction increase effects on the fabric of a structured soil

Unsaturated structured soil with multi-porosity = Multi-poröse Strukturen in teilgesättigten Böden

A new temperature controlled triaxial apparatus

Heat exchanger pile : in situ testing and constitutive modelling

Classification of debris-flow deposits for hazard assessment in alpine areas

Behavior of a dual-purpose pile as foundation and heat exchanger [Comportement d'un pieu bi-fonction, fondation et échangeur de chaleur]

Miscible and immiscible multiphase flow in deformable porous media

Solid - air coupling in multiphase porous media

Methodology of debris flows diagnosis on an alpine watershed

Interface behavior of unsaturated soil with small-scale models and use of image processing techniques

Environmental geomechanics : an introduction

Volume measurement in unsaturated triaxial test using liquid variation and image processing

Mechanical testing and modelling of an unsaturated silt, with engineering applications

Dependency law for thermal evolution of preconsolidation pressure

Nouveautés dans l’analyse des mouvements de terrain

Thermomechanisches Verhalten von Böden mit Anwendung auf Energiepfähle

Méthodologie de diagnostic des laves torrentielles sur un bassin versant alpin

Thermo-plasticity of clays : a simple constitutive approach

Experimental validation of the hydro-mechanical modeling of unsaturated soils

Environmental Geomechanics

Simplified constitutive modelling of the behaviour of unsaturated soil