Search Results - "Vardon, P.J."

CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material by Kulshreshtha, Y., Schlangen, E., Jonkers, H.M., Vardon, P.J., van Paassen, L.A.

“…•A novel material which uses corn starch as a binder and sand as filler.•Rapidly hardening material gaining strength by heating at a relatively low temperature…”
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Sequential reduction of slope stability uncertainty based on temporal hydraulic measurements via the ensemble Kalman filter by Liu, K., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A.

“…A data assimilation framework, utilising measurements of pore water pressure to sequentially improve the estimation of soil hydraulic parameters and, in turn,…”
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Rainfall-induced slope collapse with coupled material point method by Wang, B., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A.

“…Rainfall-induced slope failures are a major category of slope failure, with incidents likely to increase with the predicted escalation of extreme rainfall…”
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Uncertainty reduction and sampling efficiency in slope designs using 3D conditional random fields by Li, Y.J., Hicks, M.A., Vardon, P.J.

“…A method of combining 3D Kriging for geotechnical sampling schemes with an existing random field generator is presented and validated. Conditional random…”
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Mechanisms causing injectivity decline and enhancement in geothermal projects by Luo, W., Kottsova, A., Vardon, P.J., Dieudonné, A.C., Brehme, M.

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Investigation of retrogressive and progressive slope failure mechanisms using the material point method by Wang, B., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A.

“…Retrogressive and progressive slope failures are a dynamic process, in the sense that they involve a progressively changing scenario. This paper uses the…”
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Study of landslides and soil-structure interaction problems using the implicit material point method by González Acosta, J.L., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A.

“…Mesh based methods such as the finite element method (FEM) are the most usually used techniques for analysing soil-structure interaction problems in…”
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Combined effect of hysteresis and heterogeneity on the stability of an embankment under transient seepage by Liu, K., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A., Arnold, P.

“…The stability of most earth embankments is strongly influenced by the water content of the soil. The water content directly influences the suction or pore…”
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An improved semi-analytical method for 3D slope reliability assessments by Varkey, D., Hicks, M.A., Vardon, P.J.

“…An improved semi-analytical method for calculating the reliability of 3D slopes with spatially varying shear strength parameters is proposed. The response of…”
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Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling: A new parallel approach by Vardon, P.J., Banicescu, I., Cleall, P.J., Thomas, H.R., Philp, R.N.

“…A hybrid MPI/OpenMP method of parallelising a bi-conjugate gradient iterative solver for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical finite-element simulations in…”
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