Núria PinyolÂ
Associate Research Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
Pere Virgili Health Research Institute
Spain
Biography
Núria Pinyol is Lecturer in the Department of Geotechnical Engineering and a postdoc researcher in the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). She obtained her PhD at UPC in 2010. Her thesis describes the thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis of rapid landslides. It was awarded by UPC as the best thesis in the field of Civil Engineering presented in the period 2009-2010. One of her research interests still focused in the field of landslides. She is currently working modelling landslides using a coupled MPM (Material Point Method) code under development.She is a co-author of two original books published in Springer (“Geomechanics of Failures” and “Geomechanics of Failures. Advanced Topics”) in which some real cases (Vaiont landslide, the sinking of Barcelona Harbour caissons and two tunnel instabilities, among other failures) are described and analyzed in detail. She teaches a course in the UPC Master in Civil Engineering based on these books. She is the author of 12 journal publications and 30 papers in international conferences and workshops.
Research Interest
(a) modelling of the geotechnical behaviour of earth and rockfill dams; (b) advanced constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils including microstructure; (c) constitutive modelling of soft rocks and hard soils including expansive behaviour and degradation.
Publications
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Alonso EE, Pinyol NM. Criteria for rapid sliding I. A review of Vaiont case. Engineering Geology. 2010 Aug 10;114(3):198-210.
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Yerro Colom A, Alonso Pérez de Agreda E, Pinyol Puigmartà NM. The material point method for unsaturated soils. Géotechnique. 2015;65(3):201-17.
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Alonso EE, Pinyol NM, Gens A. Compacted soil behaviour: initial state, structure and constitutive modelling. Géotechnique. 2013 Apr 11;63(6):463.
