Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

A Newton Institute Workshop

Flow and Failure of Dense Fluid-Infiltrated Granular Materials

17 Sep - 17 Sep 2003

Timetable:

List of participants

Please note - earlier starting time


Wednesday 17 September

09.15-09.20 JR Rice (Harvard)

Introduction

09.20-10.20 CA Wibberley (Nice-Sophia Antipolis)

Laboratory constraints on hydromechanical weakening of granular fault
gouge during earthquake slip

10.20-11.00 JW Rudnicki (Northwestern)

Effects of shear heating on stability of a dilatant, fluid-saturated
fault zone

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.00 JR Rice (Harvard)

Heating, weakening and partial melting of rapidly sheared fault gouge

12.00-12.30 JN Hutchinson (Imperial College)

Field examples of liquefaction, mudslides and rock avalanches, and
problems as to mechanisms

12.30-13.40 Lunch

13.40-14.20 I Vardoulakis (Athens)

Fluidisation in artesian flow conditions: cases of hydromechanically
stable versus unstable granular media

14.20-15.00 AC Palmer (Cambridge)

Wave-induced liquefaction of the seabed around submarine pipelines

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.10 RM Iverson (Cascades Volcano Observatory)

Dilatancy and pore-pressure feedback as causes of diverse styles and
rates of landslide motion

16.10-16.50 RV Craster (Imperial College)

Mud/lava viscoplastic flow downslope

16.50-17.20 K Hutter (TU, Darmstadt)

Avalanches of snow, debris and mud - geophysical systems between
order and disorder

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