TC 215 Workshop (ECSMGE 2024)

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).