Lyesse Laloui

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LMS - Soil Mechanics Laboratory

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EPFL ENAC IIC LMS
GC D1 416 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 23 14
+41 21 693 23 15
Office: GC D1 416
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Fields of expertise

Study of natural and man-made systems with emphasis on the mechanics of various interacting phenomena.

Lecturing in Civil Engineering (soil mechanics, underground seepage, geomechanics) and Mechanics (mechanics of porous media, mixture theory, multiphase flow).

Research in Environmental Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials.

Biography

Lyesse Laloui is Full Professor at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland where he is Director of the Soil Mechanics Laboratory and the Civil Engineering Section. He also is honorary director of the International Joint Research Center for Energy Geotechnics in China.

Laloui is a leading scientist in the field of environmental geomechanics, geotechnical and environmental engineering and the mechanics of multiphase, porous materials. He is the recipient of an Advance ERC grant for his BIO-mediated GEO-material Strengthening project. He has written and edited 13 books and published more than 360 peer reviewed papers; his work is cited more than 9000 times. Two of his papers are among the top 1% in the academic field of Engineering. Laloui has received multiple awards, delivered keynote lectures at over 40 international conferences and is a frequent source of expertise for Swiss and international news outlets.

He is the European Vice President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and Editor in Chief of the Elsevier Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment journal, as well as a founding partner of the international engineering companies Geoeg, Nesol and the start-ups MeduSoil and Enerdrape.

Recent keynote lectures

Keynote lecture, ISSMGE TC308 on Energy Geotechnics, Kiel, Germany, August 2016.
Keynote lecture, International mini symposium chubu - New concepts and new developments in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Nagoya, Aichi, Japan May, 2016.
Keynote lecture, 1st International Conference on Geo_Energy and Geo_Environment (GeGe2015), Hong-Kong, December, 2015.
Keynote lecture, Sixth International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Soils, Buenos Aires (Argentina), November, 2015.
Keynote lecture, EAGE Geomechanics and Energy workshop Geomechanical solutions for Geo-Energy issues, Celle (Germany), October 2015.
Keynote lecture, Prague Geotechnical Days 2015 Analysis of a volcanic ash slope subjected to wetting and drying cycles, Prague (Czech Republic), May 2015.

Google citations:

https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=XgJfPH4AAAAJ&hl=fr

Awards

12th G.A. Leonards Lecture", University of Purdue, 2014.

"Vardoulakis Lecture" - University of Minnesota, 2012.

"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.

Expertise

Rates for Consulting Works

Awards

2022 : Honoris Causa : Recognized for outstanding contribution to the field of geomechanics.

2022 : Honoris Causa : recognized for his ongoing Recognized for contributions to geotechnical engineering solutions for a sustainable world.

2022 : Vienna Teraghi Lecture : Internationally renowned geotechnical engineer.

2022 : 2022 Eshbach Lecture

Distinguished lecture Northwestern Sustainabilty

Publications

Infoscience publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Salinity-dependent ultimate shear strength of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite investigated by triaxial tests

J. Kim; S. Kumpulainen; A. Ferrari; X. Pintado; L. Laloui et al.

Applied Clay Science. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.clay.2024.107576.

Lyesse Laloui

Full Professor

LMS - Soil Mechanics Laboratory

Fields of expertise

Biography

Recent keynote lectures

Google citations:

Awards

Expertise

Awards

Publications

Infoscience publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Salinity-dependent ultimate shear strength of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite investigated by triaxial tests

A FEM modelling workflow to simulate THM effects in the rock around nuclear waste packages

Impact of CO2-rich seawater injection on the flow properties of basalts

Insights from an extensive triaxial testing campaign on a shale for comparative site characterization of a deep geological repository

Etude géotechnique de la patinoire du Trèfle Blanc - Lancy GE

A bio-chemo-hydro-mechanical model of transport, strength and deformation for bio-cementation applications

Evolution of water content and suction of Opalinus Clay from recovery at the drilling site to handling in the laboratory

Assessing and exploiting the interaction between ventilation and geothermal systems in an underground data centre

Performance of energy piles foundation in hot-dominated climate: A case study in Dubai

Performance of complex energy geostructures

Thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of the Callovo-Oxfordian claystone under thermal changes

Pore-pressure coefficients for unsaturated soils: generalized effective stress approach

Mechanics, Modeling, and Upscaling of Biocemented Soils: A Review of Breakthroughs and Challenges

Addressing the challenges of homogeneity, quality control and waste handling in soil bio-cementation: A large-scale experiment

Etude géotechnique de la section Plaines du Loup Blécherette du métro m3 de Lausanne

Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of energy barrettes: Field experiments and numerical simulations

Influence of pore-scale heterogeneity on the precipitation patterns in Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP)

Thermal performance of energy barrettes in an urban environment

Modelling the density homogenisation of a block and granular bentonite buffer upon non-isothermal saturation

Energy geotechnology: A new era for geotechnical engineering practice

Pore-pressure coefficients for unsaturated soils: Generalised effective stress approach

Thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis of the complete lifetime of the bentonite barrier in the FEBEX in-situ test

Caractéristiques Structurelles des Chaussées Routières

Insights into the interaction of a shale with CO2

Microfluidic study in a meter-long reactive path reveals how the medium’s structural heterogeneity shapes MICP-induced biocementation

Impact of water saturation on the bulk modulus of gas shales and its stress dependency

Characterizing the Deformation Evolution with Stress and Time of Biocemented Sands

Thermal interactions among vertical geothermal borehole fields

Evaluating CO2 breakthrough in a shaly a caprock material: a multi-scale experimental approach

Early-stage thermal performance design of thermo-active walls implemented in underground infrastructures

Numerical Simulation and Modeling of Complex Geomechanical Problems

Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment: Current Developments

Visualising the coupled mechanics of CO2 breakthrough

Swelling and shrinkage of gas shales due to suction variations

Effective stress concept for mechanical modeling of clays under different environmental conditions

Behaviour of energy pile-soil interface in frozen conditions: a design for robustness

Mechanical performance and upscaling of bio-improved soils

The impact of the compaction and mineralogical composition on the water retention behavior of Opalinus Clay

Failure mechanism of fine-grained soil-structure interface for energy piles

A coupled hydro-mechanical approach for modelling the behaviour of bentonites

Swelling and shrinkage of partially saturated gas shales: from laboratory tests to an effective stress framework

The impact of the compaction and mineralogical composition on the retention behaviour of Opalinus Clay

Discussion on "Experimental Deformation of Opalinus Clay at Elevated Temperature and Pressure Conditions: Mechanical Properties and the Influence of Rock Fabric" of Schuster, V., Rybacki, E., Bonnelye, A., Herrmann, J., Schleicher, AM, Dresen, G.

Insights into the hydro-mechanical behaviour of Opalinus Clay subjected to gas transport

Investigation of the effect of mineral dissolution on the geomechanical behaviour of geomaterials

Controlling the calcium carbonate microstructure of engineered living building materials

Experimental analysis of a thermoactive underground railway station

Coupled hydro-mechanical analysis of compacted bentonite behaviour during hydration

Experimental investigation of energy piles: From laboratory to field testing

Tunnel in urban site - Lausanne Metro m3 Section Casernes – Blécherette

Microstructure observations in compacted clays subjected to thermal loading

Pile interaction effects and environmental impacts of refrigerant on the performance of an energy pile foundation

Energy Funding Programme 2013–2020, Final Report

Effect of the mineralogical composition on the elastoplastic hydromechanical response of Opalinus Clay shale

Machine learning enhancement of thermal response tests for geothermal potential evaluations at site and regional scales

Hydrothermal interactions in energy walls

Soil-structure interaction of surface footings

Benchmark study of undrained triaxial testing of Opalinus Clay shale: Results and implications for robust testing

Experimental and numerical investigation of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy sheet pile wall

Energy performance of a high BHEs density at district scale

Thermo-hydraulic behaviour of Energy barrettes

Experimental assessment of the hydro-mechanical behaviour of a shale caprock during CO2 injection

On the mechanical behavior of expansive porous media with consideration on chemical effects

A generalised water retention model with soil fabric evolution

Cyclic thermomechanical behaviour of pile-soil interface and design methods for energy pile foundations

Generalized effective stress concept for saturated active clays

Scale effects in Opalinus Clay: experimental investigations and theoretical analyses

Séquestration du CO2: remettre le carbone à sa place