ENVIRONMENTAL
ACADEMICS
DUKE CEE FACULTY

Lyesse Laloui

Natural and man-made systems with coupled phenomena. Environmental Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials.

Recent Publications (More Publications)

  1. Mattsson, Nina and Steinmann, Gilbert and Laloui, Lyesse, Advanced Compact Device for the In-situ Determination of Geothermal Characteristics of Soils, Energy and Buildings, vol. 40 (2008), ppt. 1344--1352 [abs]
  2. Laloui, Lyesse and Cekerevac, Cane, Numerical simulation of the non-isothermal mechanical behaviour of soils, Computers and Geotechnics, vol. In press (2008) [abs]
  3. Nuth, M. and Laloui, L., Effective Stress Concept in Unsaturated Soils :Clarification and Validation of an Unified Framework., Int. Journ. of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics., vol. 32 (2008), ppt. 771--801 [abs]
  4. Sanavia, Lorenzo and François, Bertrand and Bortolotto, R. and Luison, L. and Laloui, Lyesse, Finite element modelling of thermo-elasto-plastic water saturated porous materials, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, vol. 38 (2008), ppt. 7--24 [abs]
  5. Salager, Simon and Francois, Bertrand and El Youssoufi, Said and Laloui, Lyesse and Saix, Christian, Experimental Investigations of Temperature and Suction Effects on the Mechanical Behaviour of a Sandy Silt, SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS, vol. 48 no. 4 (2008) [abs]

Research Interests:

    Natural and man-made systems with coupled phenomena. Environmental Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials. Area of activities at Duke University: Thermo-mechanical behavior of soils, soil desiccation and shrinkage.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

CEE Events


Graduate Reading Period
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
12:00 AM-12:00 AM, None

Graduate Classes End
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
10:00 PM-10:00 PM, None

Thanksgiving Recess Begins
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
10:30 PM-10:30 PM, None

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