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Lidija Zdravkovic, Professor of Computational Geomechanics at Imperial College London
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Abstract
Increasing demand for low carbon energy sources, long-term solutions for nuclear waste storage, and mitigation of the risks related to earthquakes and adverse weather conditions, have all emphasised the need for more advanced technical solutions to these problems.
Particularly challenging in creating new solutions has been the development of reliable predictive computational capabilities in geotechnical engineering, combined with a more sophisticated understanding of the behaviour of soils under extreme conditions.
This lecture will explore the latest successes of the Geotechnics Research Group at Imperial in the field of computational geomechanics. In particular it will look at their success in reproducing realistic soil behaviour, implementing numerical algorithms and using advanced boundary conditions to address some of geotechnical engineering’s greatest challenges that could impact the long-term sustainability of our built environment.
Biography
Lidija Zdravkovic is a Professor of Computational Geomechanics at Imperial. Her research interests involve development of numerical tools for advanced geotechnical analysis and their application to solving practical problems related to tunnelling, earth retaining structures, offshore geotechnics, earthquake engineering, ground source energy systems, nuclear engineering geotechnics and similar.
Lidija is Head of the Geotechnics Section in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. She sits on Editorial Boards of Géotechnique and Computers & Geotechnics and is a UK representative and core member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Technical Committee for Numerical Analysis.
She has written over 150 technical papers and received prizes and medals for her work from the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the British Geotechnical Association. She has co-authored two monographs on theory and application of the finite element analysis in geotechnical engineering and has delivered the prestigious Géotechnique Lecture.