Simulations of shear zones and cracks in engineering materials using extended Finite Element Method.- Discrete modelling of micro-structural phenomena in granular shear zones.- Modelling hydromechanical dilation geomaterial - cavitation and localization.- Fabric evolution and its effect on strain localization in sand.- Micro-mechanical observations of strain localization in granular soils during simple shear loading.- Grainsize evolution in open systems.- Numerical modeling of failure process in cohesive geomaterials.- Hydromechanical modelling of an initial boundary value problem: Studies of non-uniqueness with a second gradient continuum.- A FE model for hydro-mechanical coupling.- Numerical simulation and length scale calibration of micropolar hypoplastic model.- Micromechanical analysis of second order work in granular media.- Stability and bifurcation in reinforced boreholes.- Shear banding in torsion shear tests on cross-anisotropic deposits of fine Nevada sand.- Effects of flooding on crushable sand.- Numerical analysis of 1D seepage failure process of sandy materials by CWENO method.- Mechanisms of deformation in porous rocks at the grain scale.- The influence of fines content on the onset of instability and critical state line of silty sand.- A multiscale investigation of strain localization in cohesionless sand.- The effect of rotational degrees of freedom on the formation of deformation patterns in granular materials using digital image correlation.- Stick-slip motion and the associated frictional instability caused by vertical oscillations.- Investigation of direct shear interface test using micro-polar continuum approach.- Energy criterion of in-plane fracture propagation in geomaterials with rotating particles.- Dynamic instability in geomaterials associated with the presence of negative stiffness elements.- Numerical modeling of particle breaking process in granular materials: compaction and evolution of size distribution.- Onset of strain localization in unsaturated soils subjected to constant water content loading.- Double-scale assessment of micro-mechanics based constitutive models for granular materials undergoing mechanical degradation.- Hypoplastic constitutive modelling of grain damage under plane shearing.- Hierarchy of failure indicators in the failure analysis of geomaterials.- Static liquefaction of granular soils: the role of grain shape and size.- Static liquefaction and instability in granular media subjected to monotonic loading - A micromechanical investigation.- Capillary effect on critical length of force chains in partially saturated granular materials within the pendular regime.- Study on the initiation of strain localization in soils by 3D non-coaxial plasticity.- Micromechanics-based constitutive modeling and DEM simulation of localized failure in soil.- Thermally induced deformation and failure in shale under drained and undrained heating.- Instability of dissociation process of methane hydrate bearing soil.- Development of image analysis tools to evaluate in-situ evolution of the grain size distribution in sand subjected to breakage.- FEMÍDEM multi-scale analysis of boundary value problems involving strain localization.- Evolution of packing structure in cyclic mobility and post-liquefaction of granular soils.- Experimental versus finite element approach to study scale dependent features in granular materials' stress and deformation fields.- Onset of strain localization in fiber reinforced composites subjected to plane stress loading.- Using shear strain localisation to model the fracturing around gallery in unsaturated Callovo-Oxfordian claystone.- Experimental study on the behavior of a plasticine material.- Thermodynamic analysis of instability in unsaturated soils.- Plastic deformations in granular materials with rotation of principal stress axes.- A framework to assess the controllability of wetting on unsaturated collapsible soils.- Model tensile cracking in soil with coupled m