Granular Materials Committee
Purpose:
To promote and support the advancement of knowledge and understanding in the mechanics of granular or particulate materials, utilising analytical, numerical and experimental techniques.
2022 Granular Materials Committee Student Competition Winners
The Granular Materials Committee hosted its first video competition for graduate students to present their research findings in experimental, computational and theoretical studies (students were allowed to submit in one of these categories) within the broad field of granular materials. As nearly every product, commodity, or infrastructure is constituted from, derived from, or supported by particulate materials through mining, agriculture, and/or chemical processing, the competition spans the engineering disciplines, applied mathematics, materials science and physics. The following winners were selected by a distinguished panel of jurors, from a number of outstanding submissions.
Abhishek Paul (Computational category)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Title: “Continuum modeling of corn stover feedstock through a compression feed screw”
Statement from judges:
“The author developed a continuum simulation of the first stage of an industrial process that converts a biomass granular material into bio-ethanol, a stage that, if conducted improperly, results in disruption and downtime. The challenge was to model an apparently discontinuous and fibrous granular material as a continuum so that FEM analyses could be conducted of the continuous-feed process."
Noor Mili (Computational category)

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
Title: "Computational analysis of tapped density evolution in granular beds”
Statement from judges:
“The author conducted a comprehensive study of a granular bed that is periodically disrupted by regular vertical impulses of the bed's floor. These impulses produce rearrangements of the monodisperse spheres and a continual increase in density."
Dawa Seo (Experimental category)

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Title: “Experimental analysis of shape distribution of fragments under particle breakage with 3D X-ray tomography”
Statement from judges:
“The author developed a new experimental approach for identifying the evolution of particle shape during confined compaction. The author first performed oedometric compression experiments on granular materials with in-situ 3D x-ray tomography measurements. The x-ray tomography measurements, made at varying stress levels during oedometric compression, provided 3D images of grains."
Membership
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Marcial Gonzalez,
Ph.D.
Chair -
Anthony D. Rosato,
Ph.D., Ph.D., F.AAM
Past-Chair
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Rafi Blumenfeld,
Ph.D.
Associate Committee Member -
Giuseppe Buscarnera,
Ph.D., M.ASCE
Member
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Kam Tim Chau,
Ph.D.
Associate Committee Member -
Alexander H D Cheng,
F.EMI, M.ASCE
Member
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Qingli Dai,
Ph.D., M.ASCE
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Ali Daouadji,
Ph.D.
Member
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Mahdia Hattab,
Ph.D.
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Pierre-Yves Hicher,
F.EMI
Associate Committee Member -
Ryan Colt Hurley,
Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member
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Dinesh R Katti,
Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, F.ASCE
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Matthew R Kuhn,
P.E., M.ASCE
Member
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Shuiqing Li,
Ph.D.
Associate Committee Member -
Ning Lu,
Ph.D., F.EMI, F.ASCE
Member
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Ramesh Babu Malla,
Ph.D., F.EMI, F.ASCE
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Alejandro Martinez,
Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE
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Arif Masud,
Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
BOG Liaison -
Anil Misra,
Ph.D.,, P.E., F.EMI, F.ASCE
Member
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Tang-Tat Percy Ng,
F.ASCE
Member
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Ranganathan Parthasarathy,
Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
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Payam Poorsolhjouy,
Ph.D.
Associate Committee Member
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Usama Samir El Shamy,
P.E., M.ASCE
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Nadia Saiyouri,
Ph.D.
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Steve Waiching Sun,
Ph.D., M.ASCE
Member
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Antoinette Tordesillas,
Ph.D.
Associate Committee Member
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Linbing Wang,
Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, F.ASCE
Member
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Zhanping You,
Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, F.ASCE
Member
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Mourad Zeghal,
A.M.ASCE
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Yida Zhang,
Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE
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Jidong Zhao,
Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE
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Aditya Zutshi,
P.E.
Associate Committee Member