Professor
PhD, DSc, FRSC, PEng, CMath,

William Scott Professor and James McGill Professor

Education

DSc (Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, UK, 1986)
PhD (Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, UK, 1971)
MS (Civil Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA, 1967)
DIC (Soil Mechanics, Imperial College, London University, 1965)

Professional registrations

PEng (Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada)
CMath (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, UK)

Contact

Tel: 514-398-6672
Fax: 514-398-7361
e-mail

General information

Professor Selvadurai has research interests in applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, computational geomechanics and experimental mechanics. His teaching interests include geomechanics and mathematical methods in solid mechanics and environmental geomechanics. He is a consultant to a number of engineering organizations in Canada and abroad, and the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1998, The Killam Research Fellowship of the Canada Council for the Arts in 2000 and the Max Planck Research Prize in 2003. He is the first civil engineer to receive the Killam Research Fellowship and the only Canadian engineer to receive the Humboldt and Killam and the Max Planck research awards. In 2007 he received the Killam Prize for Engineering awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Gold Medal of the Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Research interests

• Multi-phase transport in porous media
• Thermally induced flows in fractured geological media
• Mechanics of soil-pipeline interaction
• Mechanics of ice-structure interaction
• Thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in porous media
• Damage mechanics for poroelastic materials
• Mechanics of brittle fragmentation
• Mechanics of membranes subject to chemical damage
• Mathematical modelling of large strain phenomena
• Fracture initiation in contact problems
• Integral equation methods in elasticity
• Fluid flow in evolving fractures
• Coupled problems in geo-environmental transport processes
• Symbolic methods for partial differential equations
• Transient methods for evaluating hydraulic conductivity
• Contact and inclusion problems in elasticity
• Non-homogeneity in elasticity and plasticity

Environmental Geomechanics Research Group
at McGill University

[From left: Prof A.P.S. Selvadurai, Catherine Spirito (UG-SURE), John Bartczak(Geomech Technician), Paul Selvadurai (Grad Student), Ahmed El-Baghdadi(Res Assistant), Mei Shi (Grad Student), Patrick Mattar (Grad Student), Antoine Letendre (Res Assistant), Alex Suvorov (Post Doc), Benjamin Hekimi (NSERC-USRA), Yi Chao-Chen (UG-SURE), Dana Saba (NSERC-USRA), Kevin Fournier (Res Assistant)

Research collaborations

• Professor A.J.M. Spencer, FRS, Dr. K. Soldatos Department of Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, UK
• Professor L. Gaul, Institut für Angewandte und Experimentelle Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
• Professor G. Dasgupta, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering
• Professor R.O. Davis FRSNZ, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Professor M.J. Boulon, Laboratoire 3S, Université Joseph Fournier, Grenoble, France
• Professor J.M. Hill, Dr. M.P. Edwards, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
• Professor Y. Ichikawa, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nagoya, Japan
• Professor K. Willner, Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik, Universität Erlangen, Germany
• Professor M. Hanss, Institut für Angewandte und Experimentelle Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
• Dr T.S. Nguyen, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ottawa, Ontario
• Professor N.A. Dumont, Departamento de Engenharia Civil Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio, Brazil
• Professor N. Khalili, School of Civil Engineering, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
• Professor A. Scarpas, Dr. N. Kringos, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

Scientific editorial activities

(1) Journals

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (1983-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (1989-Present)
• Executive Associate Editor, Journal of Engineering Mathematics (1996-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Computers and Geotechnics (1997-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Fracture (1997-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Boundary Element Techniques (1999-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Electronic Jounal of Boundary Elements (2000-Present)
• Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Geomechanics(2000-Present)
• Member, Editorial Board, Structural Integrity and Reliability (2004-Present)
• Associate Editor, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences (2008-Present)

(2) Conferences

• Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, 27th World Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods, Orlando, Fla., USA (2005)
• Member, International Advisory Committee, 11th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Turin, Italy (2005)
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 3rd Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Norman, OK, USA (2005)
• Member, Organizing Committee, CANCAM XX, 20th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Montréal, Canada (2005)
• Co-Chair, BeTeq 2005, 6th International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, Montréal, Canada (2005)
• Member, International Advisory Committee, Boundary Elements and other Mesh Scientific Reduction Methods BEM/MRM 28, Skiathos, Greece (2006)
• Member, Scientific Conference Advisory Committee , BETEQ06, 6th International on Boundary Element Techniques, Paris, France (2006)
• Member, Technical Advisory Panel, NUMOG X, Numerical Models in Geomechanics, Rhodes, Greece (2007)
• Member, International Scientific Committee, International Conference on Advanced Characterization of Pavement and Soil Engineering Materials, Athens, Greece(2007)
• Member, International Advisory Committee, Geo-Changsha International Conference New Developments in Geotechnics, Geoenvironmental Engineering and Rock Mechanics, Changsha, China(2007)
• Member, International Advisory Committee, 12th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Goa, India (2008)
• Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods BEM/MRM 30, Maribor, Slovenia (2008)
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 4th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, New York, NY, USA (2009)

Courses offered

• CIVE 311A Geotechnical Mechanics
• CIVE 382B Partial Differential Equations in Engineering
• CIVE 416B Geotechnical Engineering
• CIVE 611B Plasticity and Geomechanics
• CIVE 684A Flow and Transport in Porrous Media
• CIVE 611A Elasticity and Geomechanics

Professional activities

• Consultant, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (1990-Present)
• Consultant to Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Program, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (1983-1997)
• Member, External Peer Review Panel, Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analysis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas (1995)
• Consultant in Computational Geomechanics, Centre for Frontier Engineering Research, Alberta (1990-1992)
• Consultant, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (1985-1998)
• Consultant, Aéroports de Montréal (1997-Present)
• External Reviewer, Ontario Council of Graduate Studies (2002)
• Site Visit Committee, NSERC Chair, Université Laval (2003)

Prestigious invited lectures

• Invited Lecture IACMAG'08 International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Goa, India(2008)
• The William Mong Lecturer, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2007)
• Overview Lecture, IACMAG'05 International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Turin, Italy (2005)
• Lead lectures at NUMOG Conferences in Swansea (1992), Davos (1995), Montreal (1997), Graz (1999), Rome (2002), Ottawa (2004), Rhodes (2007)
• Keynote lecture, 21st Latin American-Iberian Conf. Computational Mechanics, Rio de Janeiro (2000)
• Keynote lecture, First International Conference Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in the Management of Arid Lands, UAE (2000)
• Theme lectures at IACMAG Conferences in Morgantown, W. Va, USA (1994), Wuhan, China (1997), Tucson, AZ, USA (2001)
• Keynote lectures at Contact Mechanics Conferences, Madrid (1997), Stuttgart (1999), Seville (2001), Crete (2003)
• Keynote lecture, International Conference in Civil Engineering, ICCE 2001, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2001)
• Keynote address, Moving Boundary Problems IV, Lemnos, Greece (2001)

Research Awards, Prizes and Fellowships

• Killam Prize in Engineering, Canada Council for the Arts (2007)
• Gold Medal, Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (2007)
• Max Planck Research Prize in the Engineering Sciences, Max Planck Foundation, Germany (2003-2005)
• John Booker Medal, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (2001)
• Killam Research Fellow, Canada Council for the Arts (2000-2002)
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, Germany (1998)
• CNRS Fellow, Laboratoire Structures, Sols, Solides, Université Joseph Fournier, Grenoble, France (1998)
• Erskine Award, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1998)
• Paper Prize, Computational and Analytical Theory Category, International Association for Computer Materials and Advances in Geomechanics (1997)
• Significant Paper Award, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (1994)
• Engineering Medal for Research and Development, Professional Engineers of Ontario (1993)
• Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1992)
• Leipholz Medal, Best Paper Award for Engineering Mechanics, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (1991)

Fellowhips of Learned Societies

• Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (2007)
• Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering (2005)
• Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada (1990)
• Fellow, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (1989)
• Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics, USA (1987)
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, UK (1984)

Recent publications

For a complete list of publications in refereed journals, see Research Publications 2008 [.pdf]

Publications in refereed journals

• Edwards, M.P., Hill, J.M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) "Lie group symmetry analysis of transport in porous media with variable transmissivity", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Accepted).
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Yu, Q. (2008) "Mechanics of polymeric membranes subjected to chemical exposure", International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics (Accepted).
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Scarpas, T. and Kringos, N. (2008) "A Winkler ligament contact between a rigid disc and an elastic halfspace", Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures (Accepted).
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) "On the surface displacement of an isotropic elastic halfspace containing an inextensible membrane", Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids (Accepted).
• Kringos, N., Scarpas, T., Casbergen, C. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) "Modelling of combined physical-mechanical moisture-induced damage in asphaltic pavements". Part 1. "Governing processes and formulations", International Journal of Pavement Engineering (In Press).
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Kringos, N. and Scarpas, A. (2008) "Bond stress development at a surface coating-elastic substrate interface due to the action of a nucleus of thermoelastic strain", Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 202, pp. 1704-1711.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Głowacki, A. (2008) "Evolution of permeability hysterisis of Indiana Limestone during isotropic compression", Ground Water, Vol. 46, pp. 113-119.
• Selvadurai, P.A. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "On cavity flow permeability testing of a sandstone", Ground Water, Vol. 45, pp. 93-97.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "Interface porosity and the Dirichlet/Neumann pore pressure boundary condition in poroelasticity", Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 64, DOI 10.1007/s11242-007-9117-4.
• Dong, W. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "A Taylor-Galerkin approach for modeling a spherically symmetric advective-dispersive transport problem", Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. (In Press).
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Labanieh, S. and Boulon, M.J. (2007) "Mechanics of contact between a flexible transducer diaphragm located at a rigid boundary and an elastic material", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 31, pp. 933-952.
• Yu, Q. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "Mechanics of a rate-dependent polymer network", Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 87, pp. 3519-3530.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "The analytical method in geomechanics", Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 60, pp. 87-106.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "On adhesion energy estimates derived from the pressurized brittle delamination of a flexible thin film", Acta Materialia, Vol. 55, pp. 4679-4687.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Yu, Q. (2006) "Constitutive modelling of a polymeric material subjected to chemical exposure", International Journal of Plasticity, Vol.22, pp. 1089-1122.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Dong, W. (2006) "Modelling of advection-dominated transport in a porous column with a time-decaying flow field", Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 63, pp. 261-288.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2006) "Deflections of a rubber membrane", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 54, pp. 1093-1119.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S and Dong, W. (2006) "Numerical modeling of advective transport in the presence of fluid pressure gradients", International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 30, 615-634, doi.10.1002/nag 494.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2006) "Gravity-driven advective transport during deep geological disposal of contaminants", Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L08408, doi: 10.1029/2006GL025944.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Dong, W. (2006) "A time-adaptive scheme for the accurate solution of the advection equation with a transient flow velocity", Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 12, pp. 41-53.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Willner, K. (2006) "Surface-stiffened elastic halfspace under the action of a horizontally directed Mindlin force", International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 48, pp. 1072-1079.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Yu, Q. (2006) "On the indentation of a polymeric membrane", Proceedings of the Royal Society, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Series A, Vol. 462, pp.189-209.
• Dong, W. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2006) "An image processing technique for determining the concentration of a chemical in a fluid-saturated porous medium", Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 25, pp. 385-391.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2006) "Non-linear mechanics of cracks subjected to indentation", Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 33, pp. 766-775.

Publications in refereed conference proceedings

• Ghiabi, H. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "Laboratory testing of a soft silty clay, Soft Soil Engineering (D.C. Chan and K.T. Law, Eds.)", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 447-456.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Ghiabi, H. (2007) "Consolidation behaviour of a soft clay composite, Soft Soil Engineering (D.C. Chan and K.T. Law, Eds.)", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 437-446.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "Reciprocity in elastomechanics: Development of explicit results for mixed boundary value problems (Plenary Lecture)", Proceedings of IMSE 06, Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, (S. Potapenko and C. Constanda, Eds.) Niagara Falls, ON (in press).
• Dong, W. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "An infinite element approach for spherical symmetric flow problem in a semi-infinite region", CANCAM 07, Proceedings of the Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (G. Kawall, S. Yu and D. Naylor, Eds.), Toronto, Canada, pp. 529-530.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Yu, Q. (2007) "On constitutive models for geosynthetics: Recent Advances", Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics (G.N. Pande and S. Pietruszczak Eds.), Rhodes, Greece, pp. 3-8.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Ghiabi, H. (2007) "Oedometric consolidation of a fluid-saturated soil composite", Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics (G.N. Pande and S. Pietruszczak Eds.), Rhodes, Greece, pp. 289-295.
• Kringos, N., Scarpas, A. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "Simulation of mastic transport from open-graded asphalt mixes using a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element approach", Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Characterizatio of Pavements and Soil Engineering Materials (A. Loizos, A. Scarpas and I.L. Al-Qadi, Eds.) Athens, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 767-778.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2007) "Mechanics of Polymeric materials under chemical action", Proceedings of the 8th HSTAM International Congress in Mechanics (Bazeos,N., Karabalis, D.L., Polyzos, D., Beskos, D.E. and Katsikadelis, J.T. Eds.) Patras, Greece, Vol.I, pp. 35- 43.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Plastre, A. (2007) "Influence of anchorage loads on the in situ testing of rock masses", Proceedings of the 50th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Ottawa, pp. 2019-2025.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Ghiabi, H. (2007) "Consolidation settlement of a foundation resting on a soil composite layer", Proceedings of the 50th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Ottawa, pp. 1228-1235.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2006) "On recent analytical results for advective transport in fluid-saturated porous media, in Modern Trends in Geomechanics- Springer Proceedings in Physics", Vol. 106 (W. Wu and H.S. Yu, Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modern Developments in Geomechanics, Vienna, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 361-374.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2006) "Betti’s reciprocal theorem and compact results for inclusion and contact problems", Angewandte und Experimentelle Mechanik: Ein Querschnitt (K.Willner und M. Hanss, Hrsg.), Der Andere Verlag, Tönning, Germany, pp. 233-248.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "On contact problems for inhomogeneous media", ICCES 2005 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Science, Chennai, India (S.M. Sivakumar et al. Eds.) Tech. Sci. Press., pp. 1374-1379.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "Thermally-induced pore pressure generation in a nearly saturated cementitious material, (Keynote Lecture) In: Unsaturated Soils: Numerical and Theoretical Approaches, Springer Proceedings in Physics, 94 (T. Schanz Ed.)." Proceedings International Conference: From Experimental Evidences Towards Numerical Modelling of Unsaturated Soils, Weimar, Germany, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Vol. II: 15-28.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "Recent analytical results of particular interest to geomechanics (Overview Lecture), IACMAG 2005," Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, (G. Barla et al. Eds.) Torino, Italy, Pátron Editore, Bologna, Vol. 4, pp. 23-54.
• Yu, Q. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "On constitutive models for untreated and chemically-treated geosynthetics, IACMAG 2005," Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, (G. Barla and M. Barla. Eds.) Torino, Italy, Pátron Editore, Bologna, Vol. 2, pp. 403-410.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Dong, W. (2005) "Advective transport of a chemical plug in a fluid-saturated porous medium, IACMAG 2005," Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, (G. Barla and M. Barla, Eds.) Torino, Italy, Pátron Editore, Bologna, Vol. 1, pp. 691-698.
• Dong, W. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "A visualization technique for determining the chemical concentration in a porous column, CANCAM 05," Proceedings of the Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (M. Ostoja-Starzewski, Ed.), Montreal, Canada, pp. 216A-216B.
• Foroutan, R. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "Shape factors for cylindrical intakes located in transversely isotropic porous media, CANCAM 05," Proceedings of the Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (M. Ostoja-Starzewski, Ed.), Montreal, Canada, pp. 525-526.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "Betti’s reciprocal relationships for disc inclusion problems, CANCAM 05," Proceedings of the Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (M. Ostoja-Starzewski, Ed.), Montreal, Canada, pp. 457-458.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2005) "On crack-bridging in composites, BETEQ 6," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, Montréal, Canada (A.P.S. Selvadurai , C.-L. Tan and M.H. Aliabadi, Eds.), Montréal, Canada, EC Press, UK, pp. 89-94.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Dong, W. (2005) "Pore pressure transients and the advective transport problem, Poromechanics III", Proceedings of the 3rd Biot Conference in Poromechanics, (Y. Abousleiman, A.H.-D. Cheng and J.-F. Ulm, Eds.) Norman, OK, USA, A.A. Balkema, 423-429.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2004) (Keynote Lecture) "On computational approaches to coupling poroelasticity and damage mechanics, ICCES2004," Proceedings of the International Conferences on Computational Engineering Science, Madeira, Portugal (S.N. Atluri and A.J.B Tadeu, Eds.) Trans Tech Publ., pp.1254-1258.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2004) "Frictionally constrained wing-cracks, ICCES2004," Proceedings of the International Conferences on Computational Engineering Science, Madeira, Portugal (S.N. Atluri and A.J.B Tadeu, Eds.) Trans Tech Publ., pp. 266-271.
• Dong, W. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2004) "Chemical transport in fluid-saturated porous column, NUMOG IX," Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics, (G.N. Pande and S. Pietruszczak, Eds.) Ottawa, ON, Canada, pp.355-361.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Shirazi, A. (2004) "Poroelastic damage resulting from an in-plane loaded disc anchor, NUMOG IX," Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics, (G.N. Pande and S. Pietruszczak, Eds.) Ottawa, ON, Canada, pp. 381-388.
• Nguyen, T.S., Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Armand, G. (2004) "Thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated bentonite, NUMOG IX," Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics, (G.N. Pande and S. Pietruszczak, Eds.) Ottawa, ON, Canada, pp. 319-326.
• Shirazi, A. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "Lateral loading of a cylindrical rock socket embedded in a damage susceptible poroelastic weak rock," Proceedings of the 31st CSCE Annual Conference, Moncton, NB, Paper GCJ-187, 9pp.
• Yu, Q. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "Indentation of a geosynthetics membrane," Proceedings of the 31st CSCE Annual Conference, Moncton, NB, Paper GCJ-368, 6pp.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Dong, W. (2003) "Advective transport in a non-homogeneous porous medium, CANCAM 03," Proceedings of the 19th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (M. Epstein, L. Sudak and A. Budiman, Eds.), Calgary, ALTA., pp.92-93.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "Perturbation of the adhesive contact between a plate and an elastic halfspace by a nucleus of thermoelastic strain, CANCAM 03," Proceedings of the 19th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics (M. Epstein, L. Sudak and A. Budiman, Eds.), Calgary, ALTA., pp.292-293.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "Contaminant migration from a line source: A mathematical model, IS-Okayama, 2003," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Geoenvironmental Engineering (I. Kono, M. Nishigaki and M. Komatsu, Eds.) Okayama, Japan, A.A. Balkema, pp. 367-372.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "Stationary damage concept for poroelastic contact mechanics," (Keynote Lecture) Sixth International Conference on Contact Mechanics 2003, Crete, Greece (C.A. Brebbia, Ed.), pp. 47-54.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "On the mechanics of damage-susceptible poroelastic media," (Keynote Lecture), Advances in Fracture and Damage Mechanics," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Damage and Fracture Mechanics, Paderborn, Germany (F.-G. Buchholz, H.A. Richard and M.H Aliabadi, Eds.), Trans Tech Publ., Vol. 251-252, pp. 363-374.
• Nguyen, T.S., Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Armand, G. (2003) "Computational predictions of the buffer response in an in-situ heater test at the Grimsel site," Proceedings of the 55th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Winnipeg (R.M. Kenyon, Ed.), pp. 595-601.
• Nguyen, T.S., Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Armand, G. (2003) "Thermo-poro-elastic modelling of buffer materials considered for nuclear fuel waste disposal endeavours," Proceedings of the 55th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Winnipeg (R.M. Kenyon, Ed.), pp. 602-610.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Nguyen, T.S. and Armand, G. (2003) "Computational predictions of the rock mass response in an in-situ heater test for nuclear waste disposal," Proceedings of the 55th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Winnipeg (R.M. Kenyon, Ed.), pp. 611-618.
• Khalili, N. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "Constitutive modelling of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling effects in double porous media," Proceedings of GEOPROC 2003, International Conference on Coupled THMC Processes in Porous Media, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 556-561.
• Musso, A., Provenzano, P. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2003) "Stability of motion of detrital river banks, ISEC 03," Proceedings of the International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, (A. Musso, Ed.) Rome.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Willner, K. and Gaul, L (2002) "A receding contact problem in elastostatics, Applied Mechanics in the Americas," Proceedings of the 7th Pan American Congress in Applied Mechanics, Temuco, Chile (P. Kittl, G. Diaz, D. Mook and J. Geer, Eds.) AAM, Phil., 117-120.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "A generalized Kelvin’s solution for a bimaterial elastic solid with a flexural interface, Applied Mechanics in the Americas," Proceedings of the 7th Pan American Congress in Applied Mechanics, Temuco, Chile (P. Kittl, G. Diaz, D. Mook and J. Geer, Eds.) AAM, Phil.,205-208.
• Hanss, M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "Influence of fuzzy variability on the estimation of hydraulic conductivity properties of transversely isotropic geomaterials, NUMOG VIII," Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics, Rome (G.N. Pande and S. Pietruszczak, Eds.) A.A. Balkema, The Netherlands, 675-680.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "Some remarks on the elastic drive equation, Environmental Geomechanics," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Environmental Geomechanics, Monte Verita, Ascona (L.Vulliet, L. Laloui and B.A. Schrefler, Eds.) EPFL Press, Lausanne, 253-258.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "Certain analytical solutions for advective transport in a porous medium," (Keynote Lecture) Environmental Geomechanics, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Environmental Geomechanics, Monte Verita, Ascona (L.Vulliet, L. Laloui and B.A. Schrefler, Eds.) EPFL Press, Lausanne, 69-82.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "Weakly coupled problems in environmental geomechanics: Computational aspects and analytical constraints," (Keynote Lecture), Proceedings of the 4th GRACM Congress on Computational Mechanics, Patras, Greece (in Press).
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "Second-order elasticity for axisymmetric torsion: A spheroidal coordinate formulation," (Keynote Lecture) Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Conference on Non-Linear Solid Mechanics (E. Croitoro, Ed.) Vancouver, B.C., E-Print It, ON, Vol. 1: 27-49.
• Shirazi, A. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "Indentation of a poroelastic halfspace susceptible to damage," Proceedings of the Canadian Conference in Civil Engineering, Montreal, Paper No. GES 020, 10 pp.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. ,Yu, Q. and El Hindy, E. (2002) "Transfer of shear loads at a fracture: Influence of profile, contact friction and separation at compatible surfaces," Proceedings of the Canadian Conference in Civil Engineering, Montreal, Paper No. GES 022, 10 pp.
• Lebel, G. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "The use of GIS in the monitoring of the hydrogeological regime: A case study involving the downtown core of the City of Montreal," Proceedings of the Canadian Conference in Civil Engineering, Montreal, Paper No. GE 021, 9 pp.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Shirazi, A. (2002) "Pressure decay in a fluid inclusion in a damage sensitive poroelastic solid, Poromechanics II," Proceedings of the 2nd Biot Conference in Poromechanics, (J.-L. Auriault, C. Geindreau, P. Royer, J.-F. Bloch, C. Boutin and J. Lewandowska, Eds.) Grenoble, France, A.A. Balkema, 933-939.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2001) "On some recent developments in poroelasticity, (Theme Lecture) IACMAG 2001," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, (C.S. Desai et al. Eds.) Tucson, Arizona, 2, pp. 1761-1769.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2001) "On incremental boundary element procedures for frictionally constrained interfaces," Proceedings of the IUTAM/IABEM Symposium on Advanced Mathematical and Computational Mechanics Aspects of the Boundary Element Method, Krakow, Poland (T. Burczynski, Ed.), pp. 339-349.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2001) "Computational modelling of coupled processes in geo-environmental engineering," (Keynote Lecture) Proceedings of the International Conference in Civil Engineering, ICCE 2001, Bangalore, India, Vol. 1: pp. 44-66.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Willner, K. and Gaul, L. (2001) "On the indentation of a membrane reinforced elastic halfspace: analytical and computational approaches," Proceedings of the International Conference on Contact Mechanics, Seville, Spain (J. Dominguiz and C.A. Brebbia, Eds.), pp. 233-240.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2001) "On the action of Boussinesq forces at a pre-compressed elastic interface," Proceedings of the International Conference on Moving Boundary Problems, Lemnos, Greece (B. Sarler and C.A. Brebbia, Eds.), pp. 205-210.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Nguyen, T.S. and Armand, G. (2001) "Thermo-poro-elastic response of an embedded inclusion," (Invited Lecture) Proceedings of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference in Computational Mechanics, Sydney, Australia (S. Valliappan and N. Khalili Eds.) Elsevier Science Publ., The Netherlands, 837-852.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Brunelle, J. (2001) "On intake shape factors for entry points located at hydraulically inhomogeneous interfaces in porous media," Proceedings of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference in Computational Mechanics, Sydney, Australia (S. Valliappan and N. Khalili Eds.), Elsevier Science Publ., The Netherlands, 591-597.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Nguyen, T.S. and Armand, G. (2001) "Computational and analytical estimates for Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) behaviour of a fluid saturated porous medium," Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Key Issues in Waste Isolation Research, ENPC, Paris, pp. 543-591.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Boulon, M.J. and Nguyen, T.S. (2001) "Permeability of an intact granite," Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Key Issues in Waste Isolation Research, ENPC, Paris, pp. 103-152.

Books Published

• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (1979) "Elastic Analysis of Soil Foundation Interaction: Developments in Geotechnical Engineering", Vol.17, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam. pp. 543.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (1984) "Tu Yu Jichu Xianghuzuoyong de Tanxingfenxi", Chinese Acad. Sci., Beijing, pp.364. (Chinese Translation of 1).
• Davis, R.O. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (1996) "Elasticity and Geomechanics", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 206.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2000) "Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics Vol. 1: Fundamentals, Laplace’s Equation, the Diffusion Equation, the Wave Equation", Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 595. [Special Edition released in Peoples Republic of China, 2004].
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2000) "Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics Vol. 2: The Biharmonic Equation", Poisson’s Equation, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 698. [Special Edition released in Peoples Republic of China, 2004].
• Davis, R.O. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2001) "Elasticitay va Geomechanik", University of Bu-Ali Sina, Iran (Persian Translation of 3).
• Davis, R.O. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2002) "Plasticity and Geomechanics", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 299.

Special Issues of International Journals

• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Ed.) (1997) "Hydro-Thermo-Mechanics of Engineered Clay Barriers and Geological Barriers", Special Issue of Engineering Geology, Vol.47, pp. 311-379.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Desai, C.S. (Eds.)(1998) "Environmental Geomechanics", Special Issues of International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 22, pp.1-74; 515-595.
• Hill, J.M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Eds.) (2000) "Developments in Theoretical Mechanics", Special Issue of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics, in Honour of A.J.M. Spencer FRS, pp.288.
• Meleshko, V.V. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Eds.) (2003) "Contributions of L.N.G. Filon to the Theory of Elasticity and Subsequent Developments in Biharmonic Problems in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Mathematics", Special Issue of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics, pp.288.
• Hill, J.M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Eds.) (2005) "Mathematics and Mechanics of Granular Materials", Special Issue of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Springer, Berlin, pp. 243.
• A.P.S. Selvadurai and D.F. Stolle (Eds.)(2006) "Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering", in Honour of M.S. Mirza, pp.639-793.

Volumes Edited or Co-Edited

• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Ed.) (1981) "Mechanics of Structured Media, Vol. II and I". Studies in Applied Mechanics, Vols. 5A and 5B, Proc. International Symposium on the Mechanical Behaviour of Structured Media, Ottawa, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam. pp. 534 & pp.500.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Voyiadjis, G.Z. (Eds.) (1986) "Mechanics of Material Interfaces", Studies in Applied Mechanics, Vol.11, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam. pp.245.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Ed.) (1987) "Developments in Mechanics", Studies in Applied Mechanics, Vol.16, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam. pp.468.
• Zaman, M.M., Desai, C.S. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Eds.) (1993) "Recent Accomplishments and Future Trends in Geomechanics in the 21st Century", Proceedings, U.S.–Canada Workshop, Sponsored by National Science Foundation (USA), Directorate of Engineering, Geomechanical, Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Systems Program, pp.193.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Boulon, M.J. (Eds.) (1995) "Mechanics of Geomaterial Interfaces", Studies in Applied Mechanics, Vol. 42, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, The Netherlands. pp.568.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Ed.) (1996) "Mechanics of Poroelastic Media", Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. pp.302.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and C.A. Brebbia (Eds.)(2000) "Damage and Fracture Mechanics VI." Computer Aided Assessment and Control, WIT Press, Boston, pp. 610.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Tan, C.-L. and Aliabadi, M.H.(Eds.) (2005) "Advances in Boundary Element Techniques VI", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, Montreal, Canada, EC Ltd., UK., pp. 364.

Chapters in Books

• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (1986) "Combined Foundations", Chapter 5, pp.405 501, in Design and Construction of Engineering Foundations, (Edited by F.D.C. Henry), Chapman and Hall, London.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (1987) "Soil Structure Interaction", Chapter 46, in Ground Engineers Handbook, (Edited by F.G. Bell), Butterworths, London, pp.46/1 46/18.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Au, M.C. (1987) "Boundary Element Modelling of Interface Phenomena", Chapter 5, Vol.4 in: Progress in Boundary Elements, (Edited by C.A. Brebbia), Springer Verlag, pp. 112 128.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2000) "On the Mathematical Modelling of Certain Fundamental Elastostatic Contact Problems in Geomechanics", in: Modelling in Geomechanics, (Edited by M. Zaman, G. Gioda and J.R. Booker) Chapter 13, pp.301-328.

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