A.P.S. Selvadurai

Dr. A.P.S. Selvadurai is currently William Scott Professor and James McGill Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Mechanics from the University of Nottingham, under the tutelage of the eminent continuum mechanicist the late Professor A.J.M. Spencer FRS, for research in the area of “Non-linear Elasticity” and in 1986 the D.Sc. in Theoretical Mechanics for research into “Mathematical Modelling of Problems in Geomechanics and Elastomechanics”. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1975 as Assistant Professor, became Professor in 1981 and Head of the Department from 1982 to 1991. In 1993, he was invited by McGill University to become Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, a position he held till 1997. He has held Visiting Professorships at the The University of Nottingham - U.K, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, The Laboratoire 3S-R, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France; The Department of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; The Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; The School of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Departement de Genie Civil, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, The Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands and The Department of Civil Engineering, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In 1998, Dr. Selvadurai received the Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Foundation of Germany), given to internationally acclaimed scientists and engineers. In 2000, he became the first civil engineer to be awarded the Killam Research Fellowship Canada Council for the Arts, one of Canada’s most distinguished research awards. In 2001 he was awarded the Inaugural John Booker Medal  International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics-IACMAG. In 2003 he received the prestigious Max Planck Forschungspreis in the Engineering Sciences. In 2007, he was awarded the Killam Prize in Engineering from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Gold Medal of the Canadian Congresses of Applied Mechanics. In 2008 he received the IACMAG Medal for Outstanding Accomplishments in Geomechanics. In 2010, he was awarded the ALERT Research Medal, by the Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology. In 2013, he was awarded the Eric Reissner Medal of the ICCES and the Maurice A. Biot Medal of the ASCE.

He has published over 255 research papers in archival journals devoted to applied mechanics, geomechanics and applied mathematics, transport in porous media and computational mechanics and more than 275 in refereed international and national conferences. He is the author or co-author of texts devoted to Elastic Analysis of Soil-Foundation Interaction (Elsevier, 1979), Elasticity and Geomechanics (with R.O. Davis) (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics, Vols. 1&2 (Springer-Verlag, 2000), Plasticity and Geomechanics (with R.O. Davis) (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Transport in Porous Media. Aspects of Micro/Macro Behaviour (with Yasuaki Ichikawa) (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2012). He has also edited or co-edited 9 books and 7 Special Issues of International Journals with peer review, devoted to nuclear waste disposal, environmental geomechanics, mathematics and mechanics of granular media, theoretical solid mechanics and contact mechanics. He serves on the Editorial Boards of nine leading International Journals devoted to Geomechanics, Applied Mechanics, Computational Mechanics and Engineering Mathematics. Dr. Selvadurai is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, American Academy of Mechanics, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

• 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 2009
at McGill University

From left: Professor 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)

Environmental Geomechanics Research Group 2010
at McGill University

From left: Hasan Nikopour (Doctoral student), Kristina Bondy (Master’s student), Amirabbas Katebi (Doctoral student), Alex Suvorov (Post Doctoral Research Fellow), Bryan Siciliani (Research Assistant), Dr. Kostas Soldatos (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK, Visiting Professor), Professor A.P.S. Selvadurai, Luc Jenner (Master’s student), Benjamin Hekimi (Master’s student), John Bartczak (Geomechanics Technician), Professor Yasuaki Ichikawa (School of Urban Development, University of Okayama, Japan, Visiting Professor), Meysam Najari (Doctoral student), Antoine Letendre (Master’s student)

Environmental Geomechanics Research Group 2011
at McGill University

Upper row (Left to right): Luc Jenner (Master’s student), Sven Stühler (Visiting Diplomarbeit student from Universität Stuttgart), Benjamin Hekimi (Master’s student)

Lower Row (Left to right): Meysam Najari (Doctoral student) , Antoine Letendre (Master’s student), Amirabbas Katebi (Doctoral student), Hasan Nikopour (Doctoral student), Professor M. Hanss (Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Universität Stuttgart), Professor A.P.S. Selvadurai, Professor T.J. Massart (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Marie Curie Visiting Fellow), Professor K. Kimoto (Okayama University), Jueun Kim (Research Assistant), Dr. A.P. Suvorov (Post Doctoral Fellow), Mr. Gerard Bechard (Laboratory Technician)

Missing in photograph: Kristina Bondy (Master’s student), Adrian Głowacki (Doctoral student)

Environmental Geomechanics Research Group 2012
at McGill University

Left to right: Michael Boyd (Research Assistant), Meysam Najari (Doctoral Student), Alan Fournier (Technical Assistant), Hasan Nikopour (Doctoral Student), John Bartczak (Geotechnical Technician), Adrian Glowacki (Doctoral Student), Professor Thierry Nassart (Visiting Professor and Marie Curie Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Professor A.P.S. Selvadurai, Professor Lichou Wu (State Key Laboratory for Geohazards Prevention, Chengdu University of Technology, China), Benjamin Hekimi (Master's Student), Jueun Kim (Doctoral Student), Amirabbas Katebi (Doctoral Student), Gerard Bechard (Laboratory Technician)

Missing in Photograph: Dr. Alex Suvorov (Post Doctoral Fellow) Kristina Bondy (Master’s Student); Mark Selvadurai (Research Assistant); Daniel Cuneo (Research Assistant)

Geomechanics Research Colloquium 2017 at McGill University

Participants, left to right: Wendel Yue (University of Alberta), Ying Wang, A.P.S. Selvadurai, Adrian Glowacki, Seyed Rezaei Niya, Ariel Gallagher, Darren Newell (Griffith University), Jean-Baptiste Regnet

[Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co, 1979]	[Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co, 1979]
[Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co, 1985]	[Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co, 1986]
[US National Science Foundation, 1993]	[Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co, 1995]
[Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996]	[Cambridge University Press, 1996]
[Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 & 2004]	[WIT Press, 2000]
[Cambridge University Press, 2004]	[Sringer Verlag, Berlin, 2005
[BE Tech, EC Ltd., 2005]	[TechScience Press, 2010]

Ambassador of Japan's Visit to Civil Engineering Department [.pdf]

Report of Recent Earthquake and Tsunami in the North-Eastern Japan - Y. Ichikawa of Okayama University, Japan (March 22, 2011)

Part 1 - Earthquake and Tsunami [.pptx]
Part 2 - Earthquake and Tsunami [.pptx]
Part 3 - Earthquake and Tsunami [.pptx]

Video 1 - FireKesennuma [.wmv]
Video 2 - TsunamiSimKamaishi [.wmv]
Video 3 - TsunamiSimRikuzenTakada [.wmv]
Video 4 - TsunamiSim [.wmv]

Presentation by Mr. Mark Jensen
Nuclear Waste Management Organization (November 2015)

Lecture by Dr. K. Soldatos
University of Nottinham (Visiting Professor, 2010)

Description:

These are COMSOL input files for solving the problem of a  fractured rock domain subjected to advance of a glacier. The  fractured rock domain consists of an intact rock and a  network of fracture zones -- intersecting narrow regions  having the shape of a prismatoid. Hydraulic and mechanical  properties of the intact rock and fractures are different.

 Advance of the glacier induces mechanical, hydraulic and  thermal loading on underlying fractured rock domain.

 The files can be opened with COMSOL version 4.2a or newer.

The first file solves the hydro-mechanical (HM) problem for  the fractured rock domain, the second one solves the  thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) problem for the  domain.  The files accompany the manuscript "Thermo-hydro-mechanical  processes in fractured rock formations during glacial  advance" submitted to the Geoscientific Model Development  journal. The authors are Selvadurai A.P.S., Suvorov A. and  Selvadurai P. 

COMSOL Downloads:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/83b1gcrukw47sib/glacierproblem_mesh158728_noheat.mph?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oy7fo28303td1lf/glacierproblem_mesh158728_withheat.mph?dl=0

• Professor M.J. Boulon, Laboratoire 3S, Université Joseph Fournier, Grenoble, France
• Professor G. Dasgupta, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, USA
• Professor R.O. Davis FRSNZ, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Professor N.A. Dumont, Departamento de Engenharia Civil Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio, Brazil
• Professor L. Gaul, Institut für Angewandte und Experimentelle Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
• Professor M. Hanss, Institut für Institut für Technische und Numerische Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
• Professor J.M. Hill, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Professor Y. Ichikawa, School of Urban Development, University of Okayama, Japan
• Professor N. Khalili, School of Civil Engineering, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
• Dr T.S. Nguyen, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ottawa, Ontario
• Professor Michel Malo, Professor B. Giroux, Profesor Bernard Long, INRS-ETE, Quebec
• Dr. K. Soldatos, Division of Theoretical Mechanics, School of Mathematics, University of Nottingham, UK
• Professor K. Willner, Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik, Universität Erlangen, Germany
• Mr. Mark Jensen, Dr. Monique Hobbs, Mr. Tom Lam, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Toronto
• Dr. P.M. Benson, Department of Geological Engineering, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Dr. Thomas Keller, Agroscope, Department of Natural Resources & Agriculture, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich
• Professsor T.J. Massart, Building, Architecture and town Planning, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Professor L. Wu, State Key Laboratory for Geohazards Prevention and Geoenvironmental Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, China

(1) Journals
[current ones only]

• 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 Journal 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)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Porous Media (2009-Present)

(2) Conferences
[last 10 years only]

• 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, 3rd International Conference on Coupled THMC Processes in Geo-Systems, GeoProc 2008, Lille, France (2008)
• Member, International Technical Committee and Organizing Committee, 3rd Canadian Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Toronto, Canada (2008)
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 4th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, New York, NY, USA (2009)
• Technical Advisory Panel, 1st International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics, Juan-le-Pins, France (2009)
• Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods BEM/MRM 31, The New Forest, UK (2009)
• Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods BEM/MRM 32, The New Forest, UK (2010)
• Member, International Organizing Committee, 10th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Sciences, Las Vegas, USA (2010)
• Member, International Advisory Committee, 13th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Melbourne, Australia (2011)
• Technical Advisory Panel, 2nd International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics, Dubrovnik, Croatia (2011)
• Member, International Scientific Committee, International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials, Provence, France (2011)
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 16th International Conference on Composite Structures, Porto, Portugal (2011)
• Member, International Organizing Committee, 11th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Sciences, Nanjing, China (2011)
• Member, International Organizing Committee, 12th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Sciences, Chania, Crete (2012)
• Member, International Organizing Committee, 13th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Sciences, Seattle, USA (2011)

• CIVE 311 Geotechnical Mechanics 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Civil Engineering: The origin and formation of soils. Soil classification systems and phase composition in soils. Stress states in geotechnical materials. Total stresses, pore fluid pressures and effective stresses. Terzaghi’s concept of effective stresses. Time-dependent influences of pore pressure development during loading. Water flow in porous media. Darcy’s law. Laboratory and field measurement of hydraulic conductivity. Hydraulic conductivity of soil composites. Deformation of geomaterials. Elastic deformations and consolidation behaviour. Failure of soils. The Mohr-Coulomb criterion. Stress paths. Dilatancy, Taylor’s interpretation of stress dilatancy and applications.

  Offered by: Civil Engineering

  • (4-2-6)
  • Prerequisite: CIVE 207

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Patrick A P S Selvadurai
• CIVE 684 Course not available

• 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)
• Consultant in Environmental Geomechanics, Shell Canada, Montreal, QC (1999-2000)
• External Reviewer, Ontario Council of Graduate Studies (2002)
• Consultant in Soil Dynamics, Dessau Soprin, Montreal, QC (2003)
• Site Visit Committee, NSERC Chair, Université Laval (2003)
• Consultant in Ice Mechanics, Hydro-Quebec, Montreal, QC (2004)
• Consultant in Computational Multiphysics of THM Processes, Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Ontario Power Generation (2008-Present)

• JORJ O. OSTERBERG LECTURE, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, 2013.
• MAURICE A BIOT LECTURE, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, NY, USA, 2012.
• KEYNOTE LECTURE, 4^th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Hyderabad, India, 2012
• SEMI-PLENARY LECTURE, 10^th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, São Paulo, Brazil, 2012.
• PLENARY LECTURE, IACMAG'11 International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics , Melbourne, Australia, 2011.
• ALERT INVITED LECTURE, Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology, Aussois, France, 2010.
• JOHN ADJELEIAN LECTURE, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada , 2010.
• PLENARY LECTURE, 12^thInternational Conference on Fracture, Ottawa, Canada, 2009.
• INVITED GUEST SPEAKER, EPFL Mechanics Day, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009.
• PLENARY LECTURE, 45^th Society of Engineering Science Annual Technical Meeting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2008.
• DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES, 5^th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Busan, Korea, 2008.
• WILLIAM MONG DISTINGUISHED LECTURER, The University of Hong Kong, China, 2007.
• PLENARY LECTURE, 9^th International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2006.
• OVERVIEW LECTURE, IACMAG '05 , International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Turin, Italy, 2005.
• KEYNOTE LECTURE, Golden Jubilee Conference of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2001.
• KEYNOTE LECTURE, 1^st International Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in the Management of Arid Lands,   UAE, 2000.
• KEYNOTE LECTURE, 21^st Latin American-Iberian Conference on Computational Mechanics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2000.
• DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON SOLIDS, Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Hong Kong, China, 1998.
• LEAD LECTURES AT NUMOG and COMGEO CONFERENCES: Swansea, UK (1992), Davos, Switzerland (1995), Montreal, Canada (1997), Graz, Austria (1999), Rome, Italy (2002), Ottawa, Canada  (2004), Rhodes, Greece (2007), Nice, France (2009), Dubrovnik, Croatia (2011).
• THEME LECTURES AT IACMAG CONFERENCES: Morgantown, W. VA, USA (1994), Wuhan, China (1997), Tucson, AZ, USA (2001).
• KEYNOTE LECTURES AT CONTACT MECHANICS CONFERENCES, Madrid, Spain (1997), Stuttgart, Germany (1999), Seville, Spain (2001), Crete, Greece  (2003).
• DAVIDSON DUNTON RESEARCH LECTURER, Carleton University, 1987.
• DISTINGUISHED LECTURER, University of Nevada, Reno, 1985.

• MAURICE A. BIOT MEDAL, American Society of Civil Engineers, Engineering Mechanics Institute, 2013
• ERIC REISSNER MEDAL, International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering & Sciences, 2013
• ALERT MEDAL, Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology, 2010.
• IACMAG MEDAL for Outstanding Accomplishments in Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Geomechanics, 2008.
• KILLAM PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING, Canada Council for the Arts, 2007.
• GOLD MEDAL, 21st Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, 2007.
• MAX PLANCK FORSCHUNGS-PREISTRAGER, The Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, 2004-2009.
• KILLAM RESEARCH FELLOW, Canada Council for the Arts, 2000-2002.
• THE BOOKER MEDAL, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 2001.
• HUMBOLDT FORSCHUNGS-PREISTRAGER, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung,Bonn, Germany, 1998-2001.
• CNRS FELLOW, Laboratoire Structures, Sols, Solides, Univ. Joseph Fourier, France, 1998.
• ERSKINE FELLOW, The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, N.Z., 1998.
• PAPER PRIZE, Computational and Analytical Theory Category, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 1997.
• SIGNIFICANT PAPER AWARD, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 1994.
• ENGINEERING MEDAL FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, 1993.
• ERSKINE FELLOW, The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, N.Z., 1992.
• LEIPHOLZ MEDAL, 1991. (Awarded for the Best Paper in Engineering Mechanics Published in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering).
• CNRS FELLOW, Inst. Mecanique de Grenoble, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, 1991
• RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, Carleton University, 1990.
• RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN THEORETICAL MECHANICS, Science and Engineering Research Council, University of Nottingham, U.K., 1969 1970.
• KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP, Stanford University, Fellowship Awarded by the English Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, 1965.

• 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)

For a complete list of publications in refereed journals, see List of  Research Publications

• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2010) A thermo-hydro-mechanical problem for an embedded disc inclusion, ICCES ’10, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences (D. W. Pepper and S.N. Atluri, Eds.), Las Vegas, Nevada, Tech Science Press, pp. 61-68.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2010) Boundary elements and non-linear contact mechanics, Recent Developments in Boundary Element Methods, A Volume to Honour John T. Katsikadelis (E.J. Sapountzakis, Ed.), WIT Press, Southampton, pp. 199-212.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Boulon, M.J. (2010) De la base analytique d’Interpretation des essais de plaque par cable tendu dans les masses rocheuses, Journées nationales de Géotechnique et de Géologie de l’Ingénieur JNGG 2010, (M.J. Boulon et E. Flavigny, Eds.) Grenoble, France, pp. 1-7.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Selvadurai, P.A. (2010) The role of modelling and simulations in estimating Multiscale effective permeability, International Workshop on Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics (R.I. Borja, E.M. Duncan, E. Kuhl and J.A. White, Eds.), Stanford, Palo Alto, pp. 1-4.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Dumont, N.A. and de Oliveira, M.F.F. (2010) Mindlin’s problem for a halfspace indented by a flexible circular plate, Proceedings of PACAM XI, 11th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (A.R. Aguiar), Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Paper No. PAC 0227.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2010) Advective transport from defects in porous geologic media, Porous Media and its applications in Science, Engineering and Industry, 3rd International Conference, Montecatini, Italy, (K. Vafai, Ed.), American Institute of Physics 978-0-7354-0803, pp. 115-120.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S.(2009) Flaw-bridging in fibre-reinforced materials: Implications for fracture mechanics (Plenary Lecture), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fracture, Ottawa, ON, (R. Bell, Ed.) Paper 1496: 1-16.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2009) Stress intensity factors for an external circular crack with fibre-bridging, ICCS 15, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Composite Structures, Porto (A.J.M. Ferreira, Ed.), FEUP, Porto, pp. 27: 1-2.
• Suvorov, A.P. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2009) THM Processes in a Fluid-Saturated Poroelastic Geomaterial: Comparison of Analytical Results and Computational Estimates, Proceedings of the 3rd CAN-US Rock Mechanics Symposium, May 2009, (Ed: M. Diederichs and G. Grasselli), Toronto, Ontario, pp. Paper 4120: 1-10.
• Selvadurai, P.A. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2009)On the surface permeability of Indiana Limestone, Proceedings of the 3rd CAN-US Rock Mechanics Symposium, May 2009, (Ed: M. Diederichs and G. Grasselli), Toronto, Ontario pp. Paper 4118: 1-9.
• Mattar, P. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2009) Radial Flow Permeability Testing of Indiana Limestone, Proceedings of the 3rd CAN-US Rock Mechanics Symposium, May 2009, (Ed: M. Diederichs and G. Grasselli), Toronto, Ontario, pp. Paper 4119: 1-7.
• Shi, M.Q. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2009) Mechanical behaviour of a natural rubber, Proceedings of the CSCE 2009 Annual General Conference,(L. Lye, Ed.) St John’s, Newfoundland, pp. GC- 130: 1-6.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Suvorov, A.P. (2009) Boundary heating of a fluid-saturated geomaterial, Proceedings of ComGeo 09: Computational Geomechanics I (S. Pietruszczak, G.N. Pande, C. Tamagnini and R. Wan, Eds.) Int. Centre for Comp. Eng., pp. 412-421.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2009) Mechanics of an embedded caprock layer during pressurization of a CO2 reservoir, Proceedings of ComGeo 09: Computational Geomechanics I (S. Pietruszczak, G.N. Pande, C. Tamagnini and R. Wan, Eds.) Int. Centre for Comp. Eng., pp. 466-475.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) Fragmentation of ice during contact, Advances in Contact Mechanics: A Tribute to J.J. Kalker (T. Scarpas, K. Vuik and Y. Sutjiadi, Eds.) TU Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 69-70.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) Analytical and computational results for the interpretation of cable-jacking tests on rock masses, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (D.N. Singh, Eds.) pp. 92-100.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Ghiabi, H. (2008) Continuum poro-elasto-plasticity of geomaterial composites, Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Non-Linear Solid Mechanics, Toronto (E.Croitoro, Ed.), pp. 335-344.
• Turrin, S., Hanss, M. and Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) An approach to uncertainty analysis of landslide problems, Proceedings of the Leuven Symposium on Applied Mechanics in Engineering, LSAME 08, Leuven, Belgium.
• Schmidt, H., Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Willner, K. (2008) Separation at a pre-compressed frictionless interface due to asymmetric localized loads, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics ISBN. 978-84-96736-55-9 (WCCM 8).
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) Analysis of pulse tests in the light of residual hydraulic potentials, GeoProc 2008, 3rd International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Geo-Systems (Shao, J.-F. and Burlion, N., Eds.) Wiley, UK, pp. 259-266.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) Normal stress-induced permeability reduction of a fracture in a large granite cylinder, GeoProc 2008, 3rd International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Geo-Systems (Shao, J.-F. and Burlion, N., Eds.) Wiley, UK, pp. 211-218.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2008) Mechanics of fragmentable geomaterials, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering Science, ICCES 08 (Murakawa, H., Okada, H., Dowling, J.P., Lee, S.W., Tang, D. and Tewary, V., Eds.), Honolulu, USA, pp. 1037-1041.
• 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. 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. (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.
• 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 Characterization 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. 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.
• 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.
• 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. (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, (C. Constanda and S. Potapenko, Eds.) Niagara Falls, ONT, Birkhauser-Verlag, Wien, pp. 227-236.
• 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.
• 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. (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. (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. (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. 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, pp. 423-429.
• 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. (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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. (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.
• 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, (T. Schanz Ed.) Springer Proceedings in Physics, Proceedings of the ISSMGE International Conference: From Experimental Evidences towards Numerical Modelling of Unsaturated Soils, Weimar, Germany, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Vol. II: 15-18.

• 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) "Elasticity 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.

• 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.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and D.F. Stolle (Eds.)(2006) "Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering", in Honour of M.S. Mirza, pp. 639-793.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S., Rajagopal, K.R. and Soldatos, K.(Eds.) (2009) Mechanics, Mathematics and Materials. In Memory of Professor A.J.M. Spencer, International Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol. 47, pp. 1055-1471.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Ed.) (2009) Contact Mechanics in the Engineering Sciences I. Micromechanical Processes and Modelling of Contact. Special Issue of Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 48, No. 3 pp. 217-336.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Ed.) (2009) Contact Mechanics in the Engineering Sciences II. Contact Modelling in Material Characterization. Special Issue of Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 123-215.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (Ed.) (2009) Contact Mechanics in the Engineering Sciences III. Contact Modelling in the Geosciences. Special Issue of Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 52, No. 3, 215-318.

• 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.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. and Atluri, S.N. (Eds.) (2010) Contact Mechanics in the Engineering Sciences: Material Characterization, Micromechanical Processes and Modelling, Geosciences, Tech Science Press, GA, USA.

• 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.
• Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2010) Thermally-induced moisture transport and pore pressure generation in nearly saturated geomaterials, Chapter 18, Mechanics of Unsaturated Geomaterials: New Trends (L. Laloui, Ed.), ISTE, London, pp.

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