地质灾害国家重点实验室学术报告会通知

时间：8月5日（周五）下午14:30-17:00

地点：新实验楼211（珙桐园对面）

报告及报告人介绍：

David Frost教授讲座介绍：

Materials have historically been one of the fundamental yet perhaps less appreciated building blocks of transportation infrastructure. As increasing engineering challenges are placed on our infrastructure systems due to the need to construct infrastructure in more challenging environments, the need to achieve higher performance expectations due to the desire to increase maintenance intervals and yet the need to be prepared to meet unprecedented demands as a result of the demand for increased resilience in the face of climate change and other unprecedented natural phenomena, materials are now at the core of some of the most innovative science and engineering based developments. This presentation will illustrate through a few examples how approaches such as multi-functional materials, construction innovations and bio-inspired systems are emerging to central roles in the next generation of infrastructure materials and systems.

David Frost教授简介：

Frost received B.A. and B.A.I degrees in Mathematics and Civil Engineering from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 1980 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering in 1986 and 1989 from Purdue University, USA. Prior to entering academia, he worked in industry in Ireland and Canada on infrastructure projects ranging from highways to railroads to tailings impoundments to artificial sand islands for oil exploration in the Arctic. At Georgia Tech, he has served as Head of the Geosystems Engineering Group and as a Vice Provost.

His research is centered on the development and implementation of digital data collection systems for studying subsurface problems related to natural and man-made disasters at multiple scales and he has received two U.S. patents for multi-sensor data collection systems. He has graduated more than 30 PhD students, 40% of whom have gone on to academic positions. He has published more than 150 refereed articles and given more than 80 invited seminars and lectures worldwide. He has edited or co-edited more than 10 conference and workshop proceedings. He is a founding member and co-chair of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association, an NSF sponsored organization that responds to natural and man-made disasters worldwide. He is the resource recovery research thrust leader and Co-PI for the recently funded NSF Engineering Research Center on Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics.

Frost has been recognized for his teaching and research, including being a recipient of an NSF National Young Investigator Award, the ASCE Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the ASTM International Hogentogler Award and he is a Fellow of ASCE. Frost is co-founder of a software company that develops digital data collection software and systems with an emphasis on subsurface information. This company provides data collection and management software systems for more than 400 clients worldwide.

A.P.S. Selvadurai教授讲座介绍：

Engineering activities in the areas of energy land-based resources extraction, landfills for containment of hazardous wastes, safe geological disposal of high level nuclear fuel waste, offshore exploration for energy recovery, geothermal energy extraction, energy resources transportation vis pipelines, geologic sequestration of greenhouse gases, rock falls in inhabited areas all require the input form geomechanical considerations in order to provide safe and reliable engineering solutions. This lecture will focus on the extensive range of engineering problems encountered in the above applications and will focus on some recent research activities that will emphasize the role of the geomechanics input.

A.P.S. Selvadurai教授简介：

Dr. Selvadurai has been a productive researcher for four decades and has addressed topical issues facing the discipline of environmental geomechanics through seminal research publications covering mathematical and computational modelling and experimental research. He has guided the education and training of highly qualified research and engineering personnel who now lead successful research initiatives in the area of environmental geomechanics related to waste management and resources engineering. He is in the editorial boards of eleven scientific journal focusing on geomechanics, geotechnique and the environment, applied mathematics and the mechanics of geomaterials encountered in the earth sciences. He has been an invited speaker at several prestigious meetings and learned societies devoted to environmental geomechanics, applied mechanics, computational multi-physics and applied mathematics.

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