June 9th, 2023
COST Action CA22132 - Open Network on DEM Simulations (ON-DEM) led by Dr Barreto has been approved and it is now open! More info here.
June 5th, 2023
Prediction of permeability for coarse-grained soils. Paper published in Transportation Geotechnics.
May 20th, 2023
Dr Leak and Dr Barreto Barreto attended the Numerical Analysis of Geomaterials Symposium dedicated to the memory of Prof. G.N. Pande. They presented their work on “Numerical and experimental investigations into force chain networks in soils - a grading entropy approach” and “The computation of soil water retention curves from particle size distributions - assessing the assumptions”, respectively. Extended abstracts here.
May 3rd, 2023
James Leak wins prize at the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment PhD paper competition 2022-23!
April 20th, 2023
Dr McDougall becomes member of the International Advisory Committee for CREST 2023 (2nd Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies) at Kyushu University, Japan.
April 18th, 2023
Dr Leak granted internal funding for a project on “Predicting phase transformations in coarse grained soils”
April 14th, 2023
New paper by Dr Bernal-Sanchez! “Carbon impact & mitigation of housing developments on peatlands in the UK - A case study” has been accepted for the 9th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics.
April 11th, 2023
Success all around in latest round of internal funding! Projects on “An experimental investigation on the mechanical behaviour and sustainability of stabilised peats with rock flour” (led by Dr Bernal-Sanchez) and “Portable monitoring system for soil-water contamination using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) associated with deep learning” (led by Dr Barreto) have been approved.
April 2nd, 2023
Sand-rubber mixtures to mitigate liquefaction potential. Our new paper in the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering uses the grading entropy concept to assess their susceptibility to liquefaction.
March 28th, 2023
Paper “Soil parameters in terms of entropy coordinates” resulting from an international collaboration and co-authored by Dr Barreto accepted for UNSAT2023
March 3rd, 2023
Prof. Hing-Ho Tsang visited us virtually to deliver a lecture on geotechnical seismic isolation (GSI) systems. This was for Juan Bernal’s MSc module on Geotechnical Earthquake and Offshore Engineering.
March 3rd, 2023
Two conference papers accepted. James Leak and Juan Bernal’s work on frost susceptibility and peat, respectively, have been accepted for the Geo-Congress 2024 in Vancouver.
February 10th, 2023
Two extended abstracts accepted. James Leak and Daniel Barreto will be attending the Symposium dedicated to the memory of Prof. G.N. Pande to present their work on force chains and soil water retention curves, respectively.
February 1st, 2023
Conference paper accepted. A paper on on the estimation of minimum dry density in terms of grading entropy coordinates, resulting from a cooperation between Daniel Barreto, Shuyin Feng and Paul Vardanega (University of Bristol) and Emoke Imre (Obuda University, Hungary) has been accepted for the 17th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2023.
January 19th, 2023
Daniel Barreto joins the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Built Environment Geotechnical Engineering. See Frontiers.
January 10th, 2023
James Leak defended his PhD. Contratulations!
January 8th, 2023
Daniel Barreto appointed as Technical Advisory Panel member for Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering 2023. See NUMGE 2023.
December 14th, 2022
Internal erosion or (fast) liquefaction? Some interesting dyke failures in Hungary. Technical note written by Emoke Imre (Obuda University, Hungary) and Daniel Barreto published by the Leeves Working Group of ICOLD. Read it here.