Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140100945]Researchers: A/Prof Abbas El-Zein (Chief Investigator) , Dr Giang Nguyen (Chief Investigator) , Federico Maggi (Chief Investigator) , Luming Shen (Chief Investigator) , ARC Linkage Grant LP1701000985 (Funded by)
Brief description A multi-scale theory of unsaturated porous media under extreme loading. Extreme loading induced by impacts, explosives or earthquakes generates stress wave propagation through unsaturated media; this can lead to rock fracturing and soil liquefaction and severely damage civil, mining and military infrastructures and operations. The project aims to develop a novel experimentally-validated theory, with associated models, for describing dynamic responses of unsaturated porous media subject to extreme loading. Our continuum framework will allow building constitutive models directly from saturation-dependent contact laws at the micro-scale. This will remove the need to use the site-dependent empirical models and thus give the derived constitutive models truly predictive capabilities.
Funding Amount $405,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140100945
- ARC : DP140100945