Wojciech Sołowski

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20062024

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Artistic and research interests

I specialise in computational simulations of soils, granular materials and constitutive modelling. My research focuses on:

1) numerical Modelling with Finite Element Method and Material Point Method

2) advancing Material Point Method and applying it to large deformation problems, mainly in geotechnics

3) thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical behaviour of saturated and unsaturated soils and associated coupling processes and implementation of those into numerical software (currently in-house developed Finite Element Code Thebes)

4) constitutive modelling of soils and granular materials, in particular influence of clay microstructure on its behaviour, soft soil modelling and THMC modelling of soils

5) soil improvement, including dynamic compaction and dynamic replacement

6) modelling soil freezing and thawing, assessing frost susceptibility and mitigation methods for frost susceptible soils

7) observational method, reducing the cost of construction based on observations during the construction phase

8) vibrations in the ground and methods to mitigate the vibrations

9) laboratory testing of soils, triaxial tests, dynamic triaxial tests, oedometric tests

10) establishing soil parameters based on testing results

Positions of trust:

International secretary of Finnish Geotechnical Society

Member of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering TC106 committee on unsaturated soil behaviour.

Member of ERTC7, European Regional Technical Committee for Numerical Methods, member of ERTC7 group EC 7 - based design by means of numerical methods

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water

Education/Academic qualification

Doctoral degree, Other, Durham University

Award Date: 16 Jan 2009

Keywords

  • Numerical modelling
  • Generalized iterpolation material point method (GIMP)
  • Explicit stress integration
  • Constitutive modelling
  • Large displacements
  • Stress integration algorithms
  • Unsaturated soil mechanics
  • Problems involving extreme deformations
  • Material point method
  • Bentonite
  • THMC coupling
  • Nuclear waste repositories
  • Finite element method
  • triaxial tests
  • oedometric tests
  • dynamic compaction
  • dynamic replacement
  • soil improvement
  • observational method
  • soil parameters
  • ground vibration
  • dynamic triaxial tests
  • vibration mitigation
  • Finite Element Method
  • Plaxis
  • 2D and 3D numerical analysis
  • soil characterisation

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