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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
My research group effort focuses on advanced geomechanics, considering engineering problems involving mechanical, hydraulic, thermal, geochemical, and biological couplings. Problems in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics are generally strongly coupled with mutual interactions between different physics. Specific challenges include: the design of nuclear waste disposal, modeling the THMC behavior of gas hydrate sediments, the design of energy piles (and other forms of energy exchange with the ground), understanding the degradation of geomaterials due to climate change (including desiccation cracks), advancing the design of geological CO2 sequestration, improving our scientific understanding of hydraulic fracturing, and assisting energy production from existing and new sources.

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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National University of San Juan - (San Juan, Argentina)

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Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - (Barcelona, Spain)

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Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - (Barcelona, Spain)

# educationAndTraining[].field
Civil Engineering (Caminos, Canales y Puertos)

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Salient comments from an expert panel on energy geotechnics

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Precise observation of soil surface curling

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Power Law Model to Predict Creep Movement and Creep Failure

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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An orthotropic interface damage model for simulating drying processes in soils

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On the use of high aspect ratio finite elements to model hydraulic fracturing in deformable porous media

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Numerical study on the effect of rigid inclusions on existing railroads

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THM and reactive transport analysis of expansive clay barrier in radioactive waste isolation

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Characterisation, mechanical and microstructural behaviour of an unsaturated silt

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Benchmarking selection of parameter values for the Barcelona basic model

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An adaptive concurrent multiscale model for concrete based on coupling finite elements

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Effect of thermo-coupled processes on the behaviour of a clay barrier submitted to heating and hydration.

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Generalised elasto-plastic stress-strain relations of a fully coupled hydro- mechanical model

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Probabilistic modelling of auto-correlation characteristics of heterogeneous slopes

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Formulation of a three-dimensional constitutive model for unsaturated soils incorporating mechanical-water retention couplings

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Stochastic analysis of unsaturated seepage through randomly heterogeneous earth embankments

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Wellbore stability analysis during drilling through marine gas hydrate-bearing sediments in Shenhu area: A case study

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Extension of the Barcelona Basic Model considering subloading concept

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A unified mechanical and retention model for saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour

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Geological Storage of High Level Nuclear Waste

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A constitutive mechanical model for gas hydrate bearing sediments incorporating inelastic mechanisms

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Evaluation of models for laterally loaded piles

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Coupled hydro-mechanical fault reactivation analysis incorporating evidence theory for uncertainty quantification

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Study of a Natural Unsaturated Clay and Its Effect on Railroads

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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An experimental study on the compaction and collapsible behaviour of a flood defence embankment fill

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Behavior of railroads on shrink-swell soils

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Creep Behavior of Soil Nails in High Plasticity Clay under Various Load Level

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Experimental and numerical analysis of desiccation of a mining waste

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Coupled Numerical Modeling of Gas HydrateBearing Sediments: From Laboratory to FieldScale Analyses

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Investigation of crack desiccation in soil from a flood protection embankment

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Mechanical behavior of an unsaturated clayey silt: an experimental and constitutive modelling study

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Mechanical behaviour of heavily compacted bentonite under high suction changes

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Stability and failure mass of unsaturated heterogeneous slopes

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Modeling drying cracks in soils using a mesh fragmentation method

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Thermal Cone Test to Determine Soil Thermal Properties

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Mechanical behaviour of heavily compacted bentonite under high suction changes

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Hydromechanical behaviour of a heterogeneous compacted soil: experimental observations and modelling

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Bentonite THM behaviour at high temperatures: experimental and numerical analysis

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THM analysis of a large-scale heating test incorporating material fabric changes

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An experimental, analytical and numerical study on the thermal efficiency of energy piles in unsaturated soils

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Effect of the Unsaturated Soil Condition on the Thermal Efficiency of Energy Piles

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Analysis of unsaturated materials hydration incorporating the effect of thermo-osmotic flow

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Existing Railroads on Shrink-Swell Soils: Field Monitoring, Laboratory Tests, and Numerical Simulation

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Generalised elasto-plastic stress-strain and modified suction-degree of saturation relations of a fully coupled model

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Themed Issue on Selected Papers SEG2015  Part II

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Unsaturated flow of unfrozen water in frozen soils

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Hydro-mechanical coupled modeling of hydraulic fracturing using the mesh fragmentation technique

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Coupled hydromechanical analysis of an underground compressed air energy storage facility in sandstone

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Rainfall-induced differential settlements of foundations on heterogeneous unsaturated soils

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Behaviour of a bentonite barrier in the laboratory: Experimental results up to 8 years and numerical simulation

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Characteristics of failure mass and safety factor during rainfall of an unsaturated slope

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Exploring desiccation cracks in soils using a 2D profile laser device

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Modelling 3D desiccation cracking in clayey soils using a size-dependent SPH computational approach

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A double structure generalized plasticity model for expansive materials

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Experimental studies on curling development of artificial soils

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Thermo-mechanical behavior of energy piles in high plasticity clays

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Probabilistic Study of Rainfall-Triggered Instabilities in Randomly Heterogeneous Unsaturated Finite Slopes

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Coupled modeling of gas hydrate bearing sediments

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Assessment of water retention behaviour in compacted fills

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A full-scale in situ heating test for high-level nuclear waste disposal: observations, analysis and interpretation

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Developments in modelling the generalised behaviour of unsaturated soils

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Field Measurements on Geothermal Foundations

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Thermal performance and economic study of an energy piles system under cooling dominated conditions

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Observation of soil curling using 2D laser scanner

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Thermal-hydraulic-mechanical (THM) behaviour of a large-scale in situ heating experiment during cooling and dismantling

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Problems Associated with Railroads on Shrink-Swell Soils

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A geomechanical model for gas hydrate-bearing sediments

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Modeling the formation and propagation of desiccation cracks in soils

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Modeling 3-D desiccation soil crack networks using a mesh fragmentation technique

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NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THERMAL FIELDS AROUND SUBSEA BURIED PIPELINES

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Energy geostructures: A review of analysis approaches, in situ testing and model scale experiments

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Unification of plastic compression in a coupled mechanical and water retention model for unsaturated soils

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Homogenization in clay barriers and seals: Two case studies

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Thermal cone test to determine soil thermal properties

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Implementation algorithm of a generalised plasticity model for swelling clays

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Behaviour of a silt used in flood embankment construction in Indonesia

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Energy geotechnics: Advances in subsurface energy recovery, storage, exchange, and waste management

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Soil curling process and its influencing factors

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On constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils

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Mechanical Modeling of Gas Hydrate Bearing Sediments Using an Elasto-Plastic Framework

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An elastoplastic mechanical constitutive model for microbially mediated cemented soils

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Behaviour of compacted silt used to construct flood embankment

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Typical geomechanical problems associated with railroads on shrink-swell soils

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A chemo-mechanical constitutive model accounting for cation exchange in expansive clays

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Themed Issue on Selected Papers SEG2015  Part I

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Effect of Depth of Desiccation Cracks on Earth Embankments

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Coupled THMC modeling of unsaturated swelling clays: Constitutive formulation and boundary value problems

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Editorial: XV Pan-American Conference: Selected papers on energy geotechnics

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Mechanisms of rainfall induced differential settlements in unsaturated heterogeneous foundations

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Impact of Coupled Gas Migration and Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes on the Performance of Repositories for High Level Nuclear Waste

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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THCM Coupled Model For Hydrate-Bearing Sediments: Data Analysis and Design of New Field Experiments (Marine and Permafrost Settings)

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Civil Engineering; 3136 TAMU

# schools[]
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)