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SUMMARY:Some impacts of thermal behaviour in geoenvironmental engineering
DTSTART:20111013T121500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Peter Cleall\nThis talk will discuss the impact of thermal 
 behaviour on a number of geoenvironmental engineering problems ranging fro
 m the high temperatures found in geological high level nuclear waste dispo
 sal facilities to the low temperatures found in regions of permafrost.  A 
 wide range of coupled processes will be considered including convection  s
 hrinkage/swelling  phase change  the movement of moisture due to gradients
  of vapour pressure  matrix suction and cryogenic suctions and also the de
 velopment of ice lenses.   The talk will focus mainly on the development o
 f coupled thermo-hydro-chemical-mechanical (THCM) theoretical and numerica
 l models and their application to geoenvironmental problems.  Results from
  experimental studies looking at moisture movement under thermal gradients
  and the development of ice segregation will also be presented.\n\nBio: Dr
  Cleall graduated from Cardiff University in 1994 with a first class honou
 rs degree in Civil Engineering. He remained in Cardiff to read for a PhD  
 which he completed in 1998.  His PhD focused on modelling the thermal-hydr
 aulic-mechanical behaviour of expansive clays.  Following a period as a re
 searcher at the Geoenvironmental Research Centre he was appointed as an ac
 ademic member of staff in 2002 in the Cardiff School of Engineering.  He h
 as just completed a 12 month secondment to the international consultancy J
 acobs where he worked in the sustainable solutions area of the business.  
 He also currently serves on the Geotechnique Advisory Panel and will be on
  the Advisory Panel for the forthcoming Symposium in Print.  Dr Cleall’s
  research activities initially focused on coupled flow and deformation beh
 aviour in soils and have developed to encompass a number of areas in the s
 ubject of geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineering. He has been activ
 ely involved in a number of international research programmes  (for exampl
 e  the Prototype Repository project and the Integrated Project NF-Pro  bot
 h key European Commission funded research activities in the area of geolog
 ical disposal of high level nuclear waste). He has expertise in numerical 
 and analytical modelling  saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour  pollut
 ant movement in the subsurface  behaviour of freezing and thawing soils  t
 hermal ground energy and subsurface gas generation  flow and management.
LOCATION:GC C330
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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