SESSION 3: WHAT STRUCTURE AT MICROSCALE TELLS YOU ABOUT FUNCTIONALITY AT MACROSCALE?

Chair: Christopher Wensrich

Plenary Lecture: Geomaterials across scales

Ronaldo Borja, Stanford University

Data mining and pattern detection - Part III.

Ben Rubinstein, Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne;

Michael Small, School of Mathematics, University of Western Australia;

Joost van der Linden, Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne

Across the scales (perspectives from the laboratory versus the field): Virtual laboratories

Kristian Krabbenhoft, ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering, University of Newcastle

Morning Tea

Challenges in material microstructure characterisation

Sam Yang and Sherry Mayo, Materials Science & Engineering, CSIRO

Snapshots of challenges in data analytics

Short presentations and discussions on data for monitoring granular and geomaterial degradation and failure. Presenters: Elaheh Kashizadeh (Curtin University, UK), Samintha Perera (Monash University), Sebastian Pucilowski (University of Melbourne)

Panel III: Discussion on Bridging the Scales

Panel Members: Borja, Krabenhoft, Mayo (Chair), Rubinstein, Yang, Wensrich (Chair)

Lunch

SESSION 4: FORCE TRANSMISSION AND MOTION ACROSS SCALES

Chair: Mahdi Disfani

Across the scales (perspectives from the laboratory versus the field): Data analytics for force transmission

Roberto Arevalo, Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Use of nuclear imaging instruments to measure force transmission

Chris Wensrich, Newcastle University

Measurements on soil-structure interaction and broadly soft-matter-structure interaction

Tejas Murthy (in absentia), Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 

Afternoon Tea

Soil micromechanics for soil-structure interaction

Adrian Russell, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales

Panel IV: Closing Discussion on Bridging the Scales

Panel Members: Arevalo, Borja (Chair), Russell, Santamarina (Chair), Tordesillas, Wensrich

Closure