Mechanics of Natural Solids

Professor Dimitrios Kolymbas studierte Bauingenieurwesen an der Universität Karlsruhe, wo er am Institut für Boden- und Felsmechanik promovierte und sich habilitierte. Seit 1994 ist er Professor für Geotechnik und Tunnelbau an der Universität Innsbruck.

Sand as an archetypical natural solid.- The Physics of Granular Mechanics.- Are we there yet? Following the energy trail in cohesionless granular solids.- Micromechanical alternatives to phenomenological hardening plasticity.- Mechanisms of localized deformation in geomaterials: an experimental insight using full-field measurement techniques.- Two-dimensional Distinct Element Method (DEM) modeling of tectonic fault growth in mechanically layered sequences.- When geophysics met geomechanics: Imaging of geomechanical properties and processes using elastic waves.- Fracture of Ice and other Coulombic Materials.- Experimental studies of the viscoplasticty of ice and snow.- Discontinuities in granular materials: Particle-level mechanisms.- Grain Crushing, Pore Collapse and Strain Localization in Porous Sandstone.- Long term behaviour and size effects of coarse granular media.- Nature - A Very Clever Experimentalist.