At the invitation of IRSM, Professor Andrew CHAN from Federation University Australia visits IRSM as the guest of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Academic Forum. Professor CHAN delivers a report with the title Numerical modeling of dynamic saturated soil and pore fluid interaction using FEM and DEM-LBM.

At the beginning of his speech, Professor CHAN introduces the harm, micro-cause and macro behavior of sand liquefaction; he shows a series of research achievements of finite element and discrete element applied to liquefaction of saturated sand, including finite element method for solving Biot equation, constitutive relation of sand liquefaction, and application of the two factors in earthquake liquefaction calculation.

Professor Hin Cheoing CHAN is now the Vice-president of Information and Engineering College in Federation University Australia; he is one of the global top experts in the field of dynamic saturated soil and pore fluid interaction. CHAN got his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1982 and 1988; he then gradated from Swansea University with his Doctor’s Degree in 1989. Professor CHAN worked as postdoctoral researcher, lecturer and professor in University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow, University of Birmingham and Federation University Australia from 1989. He obtains achievements in the research on FEM and DEM numerical calculation methods, program development and application. Professor CHAN has published more than 200 papers, which are cited more than 2000 times. Computational geomechanics with special reference to earthquake engineering, the book published by Professor CHAN and his supervisor Professor Zienkiewicz is cited about 500 times as one of the classic books in geotechnical engineering computational mechanics.