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The 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, China
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Professor Jean-Pierre Bardet, a civil engineer who studies earthquakes, has just returned from a trip to China's Sichuan region to study the earthquake damage caused by a magnitude 8 temblor on May 12, 2008. He will present his observations at a public lecture and Powerpoint presentation open to the entire USC campus community. Professor Bardet was a member of an official U.S. delegation invited by the Chinese Earthquake Authority to survey the damage caused by this powerful earthquake. The quake caused more that 70,000 casualties and produced massive landslides and pervasive surface fault ruptures.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jennifer Cantwell
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DARCYS LAW---150 years old (1856--2006)
Wed, Aug 27, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Jacob Bear,
TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Haifa, IsraelAbstractThe objective of this presentation is to celebrate the 150th birthday of Darcy's Law (1856), and to use this opportunity for stock-taking: what have weresearchers and practitioners who use this law in various disciplines--achieved since Darcy's introduction of this law, and where should we go now, in view of the needs to solve problems.We'll start with a few words about Henry Darcy, his life and his scientific and professional contributions; we'll talk about his law, and its extension beyond the original experimentally-based law, and we'll mention other forms of the motion equations for cases for which Darcy's law is not valid. We'll review extensions of Darcy's motion equation to multiple phases. We'll review approaches leading to the porous medium envisioned as a continuum, and the principles underlying the description of flow and transport phenomena by well-posed mathematical models.Finally, we'll try to indicate knowledge gaps, as indicated by the need to solve problems of practical interest.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes