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SUMMARY:Professor Lyesse Laloui to deliver the 2022 Eshbach Lecture
DTSTART:20221012T150000
DTEND:20221012T160000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Professor Lyesse Laloui\nEPFL's Professor Lyesse Laloui to del
 iver the 2022 Eshbach Lecture at Northwestern University in Chicago\, Unit
 ed States.\n\nAbstract: Among the non-conventional soil consolidation tech
 niques\, bio-mineralization has been a central\nfocus of research for the 
 past decade. At its core\, Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipita
 tion (MICP) is a\nmulti-physical phenomenon\, resulting in a natural CaCO3
  bio-cement\, capable of improving the mechanical properties\nof geomateri
 als. At the confluence of many disciplines\, the technique is also propose
 d as a solution for a diverse\nrange of geotechnical and geo-environmental
  applications. To better elucidate the fundamental mechanisms\ngoverning t
 he process and thereby enabling better predictability and optimization\, a
  holistic understanding of MICP is\nachieved through multiple levels of st
 udy\, each with specific focuses and challenges\, namely the microscopic\,
 \ngeotechnical laboratory and\, field scale applications. A focus will be 
 devoted to the multiphysical modelling of the\nchemo-bio-mechanical intera
 ctions at the constitutive as well as boundary problem levels.
LOCATION:Technological Institute L211\, Northwestern University
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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