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Michael Habte

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Office Location:
CE 708 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5035
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: m.habteroberto@unsw.edujlo.au

Research Areas

Constitutive Modelling
Elasto-viscoplastic constitutive models for monotonic and cyclic loading in bound and unbound geo-materials, bounding surface plasticity theory.
Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils
Effective stress analysis, thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling in multiphase materials
Computational Geomechanics
Finite element method, explicit stress integration algorithms, cyclic and dynamic analysis.

Selected Publications

Khalili N., Habte M.A. and Valliappan S. (2004). A bounding surface model for granular soils subject to cyclic loading. Keynote Lecture, 6th World Congress on Comp. Mech. in conjunction with 2nd Asian-Pacific congress on Computational Mechanics, September 5-10, Beijing, China.

Khalili N., Habte M.A. and Valliappan S. (2005). A bounding surface plasticity model for cyclic loading of granular soils. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng, 63(14), 1939-1960.

Khalili N., Habte M.A., Russell A.R. and Valliappan S. (2005). An elasto-plastic model for cyclic analysis of granular soils. Theme paper, 11th IACMAG, Turin, Italy, 373-382.

Habte M.A. and Khalili N. (2006). A constitutive model for cyclic analysis of unsaturated soils. 4th Int. Conf. Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2006, April 2-5, Carefree, Arizona, 1920-1931.

Khalili N., Habte M.A. and Valliappan S. (2006). Monotonic and cyclic analysis of granular soils. Semi-Plenary Lecture, EPMESC X, August 21-23, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, 59-70.

Khalili N. and Habte M.A. (2006). A fully coupled hydro-mechanical model for cyclic analysis of unsaturated soils. Abstract Proceedings CD-ROM, 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 16 - 22, Los Angeles, California.

Habte M.A. and Khalili N. (2007). Numerical implementation of a hydro-mechanical model for partially saturated soils. 10th Australia New Zealand conference on Geomechanics, October 21- 24, Brisbane, Australia.

Habte M.A. and Khalili N. (2007). A computational model for elasto-viscoplastic behaviour of pavement materilas. APCOM’07 in conjunction with EPMESC XI, December 3-6, 2007, Kyoto, JAPAN.

Habte M.A. and Khalili N. (2007). A bounding surface elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model for cyclic analysis of asphaltic materials. International Journal of Plasticity (Under review).

Habte M.A. and Khalili N. (2006). Explicit integration of a bounding surface plasticity model for variably saturated soils. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng. (Under review).

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