Antoinette Tordesillas

Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Confined Granular Systems Stabilized by Bacterial Cementation

Elaheh Kashizadeh, Abhijit Mukherjee, Antoinette Tordesillas

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Geomechanics

Early prediction of macrocrack location in concrete, rocks and other granular composite materials

Antoinette Tordesillas, Sanath Kahagalage, Charl Ras, Michal Nitka, Jacek Tejchman

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scientific Reports

Heterogeneous quasibrittle composites like concrete, ceramics and rocks comprise grains held together by bonds. The question on wh..

Early identification of an impending rockslide location via a spatially-aided Gaussian mixture model

Shuo Zhou, Howard Bondell, Antoinette Tordesillas, Benjamin IP Rubinstein, James Bailey

Journal article  |  2020  |  Annals of Applied Statistics

Movement of soil and rocks in an unstable slope under gravitational forces is an example of a complex system that is highly dynami..

Coupled Evolution of Preferential Paths for Force and Damage in the Pre-failure Regime in Disordered and Heterogeneous, Quasi-Brittle Granular Materials

Antoinette Tordesillas, Sanath Kahagalage, Charl Ras, Michal Nitka, Jacek Tejchman

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Materials

Modeling big spatio-temporal geo-hazards data for forecasting by error-correction cointegration and dimension-reduction

Hong Wang, Guoqi Qian, Antoinette Tordesillas

Journal article  |  2020  |  Spatial Statistics

Experimental and numerical investigation on heap formation of granular soil sparsely cemented by bacterial calcification

Elaheh Kashizadeh, Abhijit Mukherjee, Antoinette Tordesillas

Journal article  |  2020  |  Powder Technology

Spatiotemporal Evolution of a Landslide: A Transition to Explosive Percolation

Kushwant Singh, Antoinette Tordesillas

Journal article  |  2020  |  Entropy: international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information studies

Patterns in motion characterize failure precursors in granular materials. Currently, a broadly accepted method to forecast granula..

Rattler wedging and force chain buckling: metastable attractor dynamics of local grain rearrangements underlie globally bistable shear banding regime

Sebastian Pucilowski, Antoinette Tordesillas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Granular Matter

Preferential flow pathways in a deforming granular material: self-organization into functional groups for optimized global transport.

Joost H van der Linden, Antoinette Tordesillas, Guillermo A Narsilio

Journal article  |  2019  |  Scientific Reports

Existing definitions of where and why preferential flow in porous media occurs, or will occur, assume a priori knowledge of the fl..

Near Real-Time Characterization of Spatio-Temporal Precursory Evolution of a Rockslide from Radar Data: Integrating Statistical and Machine Learning with Dynamics of Granular Failure

Sourav Das, Antoinette Tordesillas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Remote Sensing

This study builds on fundamental knowledge of granular failure dynamics to develop a statistical and machine learning approach for..