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WS 1 | Sustainable Practices in Environmental Geotechnics
Organization TC215 | Environmental Geotechnics
Room Eocene (Meo Arena) | Seating capacity 50 | Date 25 August 2024 / 14:30 - 18:30
Workshop fees Delegates ECSMGE: EUR 65/35(students) Non-delegates: EUR 150
Introduction
The workshop will focus on sustainable geo-environmental practices aimed at designing environmentally compatible, economically viable and socially equitable structures, products and systems that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The main theme of the workshop will be centred around identifying laboratory and field-testing methods, analytical and numerical modelling approaches, and construction and field work management methods which are capable of promoting the minimization of materials and energy consumption, the preservation of natural resources, the minimization of waste generation and the maximization of future reuse options for polluted sites. Moreover, the workshop will explore the need for geo-structures that are resilient with respect to extreme events, such as earthquakes, storms, floods, permafrost melting, and desertification, to protect the environment from the consequences of catastrophic failures in the face of global climate change.
Topics covered
Adaptive management
Carbon sequestration
Clean-energy transition
Climate change impacts on environmental applications of geotechnical engineering
Contaminant transport modelling
Decarbonization
Deep repositories
Emerging contaminants
Energy geo-structures
Impoundments
Mine waste
Nuclear/radioactive waste
Resilient geo-environmental infrastructure
Solid and hazardous waste
Subaqueous containment
Sustainability of geosynthetics
Sustainable barrier systems for polluted sites
Sustainable waste disposal in landfills
Programme
14:30 – 16:30 Session 1 | Fundamentals Issues
New Contexts in Environmental Geotechnics | Ana Vieira
The concept of sustainability in the design of landfill lining systems | Andrea Dominijanni
Evaluation of potential soil contamination resulting from malfunctioning of the barrier systems of the waste landfills | Celeste Jorge, Devendra N. Singh
Holistic approach to consider the influence of seismic hazard on the stability of waste deposits | Alessandra Di Mariano, Yeudy Felipe Vargas Alzate
Modelling of expansion of clay-based barriers including chemical interactions | Anna Ramón Tarragona, Sebastia Olivella
Sustainable soils for geoenvironmental applications | Gemmina Di Emidio, Ahsan Rehman Khan, Muhammad Khizar Khan
Agricultural Geotechnics: A New Direction of Environmental Geotechnics | George Appiah-Kubi, Shashank Bettadapura Subramanyam, Ana Heitor, Xiaohui Chen
Round Table
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break / Networking
16:45 – 18:30 Session 2 | Novel Research Findings
Dialysis-based purification methods for enhancing the exchangeable sodium percentage of bentonites | Nicolò Guarena, Davide Bernardo, Francesco Mazzieri, Andrea Dominijanni, Evelina Fratalocchi, Mario Manassero
Challenges in the numerical modelling of the coupled phenomena in electrokinetic soil treatments | Ángel Yustres Real, Rubén López-Vizcaíno, Xiaojuan Yang, Laura Asensio, Vicente Navarro
Sustainable binders for soil stabilization | Marta Di Sante, Evelina Fratalocchi, Francesco Mazzieri
Design, construction and repair of eco-engineered slope protection structure in Scotland | Slobodan Mickovski
Evaluation of underseepage on the Szigetköz floodplain area | Edina Koch, Richard Ray
Site reclamation with dumped hazardous waste - A Portuguese case study | António Roque, Vitor Monteiro
Round Table
Information on Workshop organization
If you would like to have other details about the workshop organization, please contact the TC 215 Chair, Andrea Dominijanni (andrea.dominijanni@polito.it).
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