On October 27, 2020, the “Innovation Base of Earthquake Engineering Comprehensive Simulation” held a “Cloud Report”, and invited Prof. Cino Viggiani, Professor from University of Grenoble Alps, France, to present a report named “3D experimental micromechanics at the grain scale: what for”.
Associate Prof. Jie Xu from the School of Civil Engineering hosted the report. Prof. Mingjing Jiang of School of Civil Engineering, who invited Prof. Cino Viggiani to present this report, delivered a welcome speech.
By way of an online classroom, Prof. Cino Viggiani introduced the experimental and analytical research carried out by Grenoble Alps University through "cloud", and shared the latest progress made by his team in experimental micromechanics in X-ray tomography and digital image analysis. Through this wonderful report, teachers and students have a deeper understanding of X-ray imaging as a measurement tool. The data from X-ray imaging can help modeling applications provide a lot of effective information. After that, Professor Cino viggiani answered the relevant questions raised by teachers and students online and held a heated discussion.
A total of 291 teachers and students participated this “Cloud Report”, including 15 teachers, 198 graduate students, 31 international students and 47 undergraduate students. The audience were from Tianjin University, Hebei University of Technology, etc. After the report, Prof. Cino viggiani and the audience took an online group photo.
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Fig.1. Online group photo of some participating teachers and students |
Introduction to Prof. Cino Viggiani:
Professor Cino Viggiani obtained is Ph.D from the University of Roma in Italy and joined Laboratoire 3SR in Grenoble, France, where he works since 1998. His research involves experimental investigations as well as theoretical and numerical modeling of the behavior of geomaterials, including localized failure and hydro-mechanical coupling. On the experimental side, he has been developing and using quite a range of innovative soils and rock testing apparatus and experimental techniques – in particular, Digital Image Correlation and x-ray tomography. He is author of over 250 scientific papers, including about 100 peer-reviewed Journal papers and about 140 refereed publications in Books, International Workshops and Conferences. He is frequently invited to give keynote presentations at international conferences (17 in the last 10 years). Professor of Outstanding Quality at Université Grenoble-Alpes, he has been offered a Visiting Professor position at universities in the USA, Australia, UK, and Japan. Cino was Vice-President for Research at the University of Grenoble, and he is currently President of ALERT-Geomaterials. Last, but not least, he was one of the four Editors of the International Journal Acta Geotechnica since its creation until 2017. In 2018, he left his editorial role with Acta Geotechnica and has created with eight colleagues, a new fully open-access journal, Open Geomechanics.
(Corresponding：Dazhi Dang, Hao Cao)
