CLAY BEHAVIOUR: CHEMO-MECHANICAL COUPLING from nano-structure to engineering applications Maratea, Italia June 28-30, 2001

Organizers: Caterina di Maio, Tomasz Hueckel and Benjamin Loret Schedule Day Session Keynote Lecture Thursday Morning I. The Role of Microstructure and Mineralogy Asuri Sridharan Thursday Afternoon II. Effects of Solid-Gas Interaction Nasser Khalili Friday Morning III. Influence of Pore-Liquid Composition Neal Skipper Friday Afternoon IV. Beyond the Chemo-Mechanical Couplings in Clays Charles Shackelford Saturday Morning V. Towards Engineering Applications - | Back to Main Page| a '*" next to author's name means that the manuscript has been received. Thursday Morning June 28, 2001 Session I. ROLE of MICROSTRUCTURE and MINERALOGY Session chairman: Vincenzo Caputo, Università della Basilicata 8h30-9h00: Registration and welcome address * 9h00-10h00: Asuri Sridharan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Engineering behaviour of clays: influence of mineral composition. * 10h00-10h30: Maria-Franca Brigatti, Università di Modena, Modena, Italia, Effect of ionic solutions on clay minerals crystal chemistry. 10h30-11h00: Break * 11h00-11h30: J.C. Santamarina, K. Klein, A. Palomino and M. Guimaraes, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, Micro- and macro-scale aspects of chemo-mechanical coupling. Interparticle forces and fabric. * 11h30-12h00: Alfred Delville, CNRS, Orléans, France, The influence of electrostatic forces on the stability and mechanical properties of clay suspensions. 12h00-12h30: Malcolm Bolton, Cambridge University, UK, Modelling clays as crushable materials. 12h30-14h00: Lunch | Back to top| Back to Main Page| Thursday Afternoon June 28, 2001 Session II. EFFECTS OF SOLID-GAS INTERACTION Session chairman: Vincenzo Pane, Università di Perugia * 14h00-14h45: Nasser Khalili, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, The effective stress approach for unsaturated soils. * 14h45-15h15: Gilliane Sills, Oxford University, UK, Pore pressures in soils containing gas. * 15h15-15h45: Lyesse Laloui, G. Klubertanz et L. Vulliet, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse, Solid-air coupling in multiphase porous media. 15h45-16h15: Break * 16h15-16h45: Eduardo Alonso, UPC Barcelona, V. Navarro and A. Lloret, Modelling long term deformations of clay. * 16h45-17h15: Stephen Fityus and David Smith, The University of Newcastle, Australia, The development of expansive potential in a clay soil of residual origin. 17h15-17h45: Luigi Mongiovì and Alessandro Tarantino, Università di Trento, Italia, Pore pressure measurement in unsaturated soils. | Back to top| Back to Main Page| Friday Morning June 29, 2001 Session III. INFLUENCE of PORE-LIQUID COMPOSITION Session chairman: Luciano Picarelli, Università di Napoli * 8h45-9h30: Neal Skipper University College, London, UK Molecular dynamics simulations of nano-structures * 9h30-10h00: Duilio Marcial, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, P. Delage and Y. Cui, Effect of exchangeable cations on the compressibility of bentonite clays. 10h00-10h30: Break * 10h30-11h00: Tomasz Hueckel, Duke University, Durham, USA, B. Loret and A. Gajo, Swelling clays as reactive, deformable, two-phase materials: basic concepts and options. * 11h00-11h30: Marcio Murad, LNCC, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and Ch. Moyne, Nancy, France, Micromechanical Computational Modeling of the Hydration Swelling of Montmorillonite. * 11h30-12h00: Sudhakar Rao and P. Shivananda, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Swelling behaviour of lime stabilized expansive soils subjected to cycles of wetting and drying. 12h00-14h00: Lunch | Back to top| Back to Main Page| Friday Afternoon June 29, 2001 Session IV. BEYOND CHEMO-MECHANICAL COUPLINGS in CLAYS Session chairman: Erio Pasqualini, Università di Ancona 14h00-14h45: Charles Shackelford and M. Malusis, Colorado State University, Ft Collins, USA, Coupled Solute Diffusion and Membrane Behavior in Clays. * 14h45-15h15: Sibel Pamukcu, Lehigh University, USA, Electrokinetic processes in treatment of contaminated clay. * 15h15-15h45: Phil Studds and Doug Stewart, University of Leeds, UK, The Behaviour of Bentonite Enhanced Soils for use as Environmental Barriers. 15h45-16h15:Break * 16h15-16h45: Mario Manassero, C. Deangeli, A. Dominijanni, Politecnico di Torino, Italia, Modelling the Influence of Osmosis on Pollutant Migration Through Mineral Barriers. * 16h45-17h15: Julie Shang and R.K. Rowe, The University of Western Ontario London, Canada, Dielectric behaviour of a clayey till permeated by ionic aqueous contaminants. * 17h15-17h45: Rita Hermanns Stengele, M. Plötze and G. Kahr, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, Alteration of clay minerals in long-term nuclear wastes. | Back to top| Back to Main Page| Saturday Morning June 30, 2001 Session V. TOWARDS ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS Session chairman: Giuseppe Scarpelli, Università di Ancona * 8h45-9h15: Mathieu Molenaar, Shell Exploration Production, Rijswijk,The Netherlands, Shales and time dependent borehole stability. * 9h15-9h45: John D. Sherwood, B. Craster & L. Bailey, Schlumberger, Cambridge, UK, Osmotic transport through a clay membrane. * 9h45-10h15: Alessandro Gajo, Università di Trento, Trento, Italia, B. Loret and T. Hueckel, Electro-chemo-mechanical couplings and the elastic-plastic behaviour of heteroionic expansive clays. 10h15-10h45: Break * 10h45-11h15: Lynn S. Bennethum University of Colorado, Denver, USA, Thermodynamics of Macroscale Pressure in Clay. * 11h15-11h45: Mariusz Kaczmarek, Bydgoszcz University, Poland, Deformations and swelling stresses in chemically sensitive soils. Macroscopic modelling. 11h45-12h15: L. do N. Guimaraes, S. Olivella and Antonio Gens, UPC Barcelona, Coupled THM and Geochemical modelling of unsaturated expansive clays. | Back to top| Back to Main Page| AUTHORS Lecturer Session Co-author(s) Alonso, Eduardo II - Bennethum, Lynn V - Bolton, Malcom I - Brigatti, Maria-Franca I - Delville, Alfred I - Di Maio, Caterina III - Fityus, Stephen II D. Smith Gajo, Alessandro V B. Loret, T. Hueckel Gens, Antonio V L. do Guimaraes, S. Olivella Hermanns Stengele, Rita IV M. Plotze, G. Kahr Hueckel, Tomasz III B. Loret, A. Gajo Kaczmarek, Mariusz V - Khalili, Nasser II - Laloui, Lyesse II G. Klubertanz, L. Vulliet Manassero, Mario IV - Marcial, Duilio III P. Delage, Y. Cui Mitchell, James K. V - Molenaar, Mathieu. IV - Mongiovi, Luigi II A. Tarantino Murad, Marcio III Ch. Moyne Pamukcu, Sibel IV - Rao, Sudhakar III P. Shivananda Santamarina, Juan Carlos I A. Palomino, M. Guimaraes Shackelford, Charles IV M. Malusis Shang, Julie IV R.K. Rowe Sherwood, John D. V B. Craster, L. Bailey Sills, Gilliane II - Skipper, Neal III - Sridharan, Asuri I - Studds, Phil IV D. Stewart | Back to top| Back to Main Page| LIST OF REGISTRED ATTENDANTS Gianluca Ambrosini, ETH Zurich Angelo Amorosi, Politecnico di Bari Ernesto Ausilio, Università della Calabria Anna Brancucci, Potenza Francesco Cafaro, Politecnico di Bari Roberto Cairo, Università della Calabria Vincenzo Caputo, Università della Basilicata Robert Charlier, Université de Liège Giuseppe Cicciù, Reggio Calabria Gabriella Claps, Potenza Enrico Conte, Università della Calabria Federica Cotecchia, Politecnico di Bari Gabriella Coviello, Potenza Giampiero D'Ecclesiis, Potenza Pierre Delage, Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne la Vallée Giovanni Dente, Università della Calabria Corrado Fidelibus, Politecnico di Bari Ildiko Fonyo, ETH Zurich Muriel Gasc, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Anja Heinz, ETH Zurich Gaetano Internò, Taranto Guenther Kahr, ETH Zurich Sven Koehler, ETH Zurich Kurt Kradolfer, ETH Zurich Monica Larocca, Università della Basilicata Piernicola Lollino, Politecnico di Bari Pietro Lorenzo, Potenza Francesca Maggiò, Università di Napoli Clemente Mata, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Luca Medici, CNR Giuseppe Milito, Università della Basilicata Nicola Moraci, Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Mortara, Reggio Calabria Christian Moyne, CNRS-LEMTA, Nancy Christian Mueller, ETH Zurich Urs Mueller, Los Angeles Guido Musso, Politecnico di Torino Leonardo José do Nascimento Guimaraes, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Salvatore Papale, Roma Domenico Petruzzelli, Politecnico di Bari Michael Ploetze, ETH Zurich Luciano Poppi, Modena Massimo Ramondini, Università di Napoli Ingeborg Reichenbach, ETH Zurich Giuseppe Romano, Reggio Calabria Enrique Romero Morales, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Giacomo Russo, Università di Cassino Paolo Saturno, Roma Giuseppe Scarpelli, Università di Ancona Paolo Schiavone, Tricarico Robrecht Schmitz, Université de Liège Francesco Sdao, Università della Basilicata Jianfu Shao, Lille Giancanio Sileo, Potenza Francesco Silvestri, Università della Calabria Fernando Simoes, Lisboa Giuseppe Spilotro, Università della Basilicata Vito Summa, CNR Roberto Tamagnini, Roma Alessandro Tarantino, Trento Antonello Troncone, Università della Calabria Gianfranco Urciuoli, Napoli Maurizio Ziccarelli, Palermo | Back to top| Back to Main Page| This page has been constructed by Benjamin Loret: Benjamin.Loret@hmg.inpg.fr Last update: Monday, June 21, 2001.