Overview
Background
Research achievements other than research outputs
Dr Pedroso is an expert in numerical and computer methods for solid mechanics and materials modelling. He has a strong background in tensor calculus, partial differential equations, computational geometry, and computer programming, among other topics. Dr Pedroso has been developing methods to model the mechanical behaviour of porous media including mixtures of solids, liquids and gases. Dr Pedroso has also developed new methods in molecular dynamics to model solids and granular assemblies. Therefore, his research work is quite multi-disciplinary but revolves around computational engineering and mechanics.
Dr. Pedroso received the highly prestigious Argyris Lecture Award of 2016 from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, which is internationally recognized. The Argyris Lecture is the top award for experts working on Modeling and Simulations, in particular, with the Finite Element Method (FEM), because Prof Argyris is a pioneer of the FEM. Today, this method is the most attractive for approximating the solution of partial differential equations with complex geometries and boundary conditions. One key aspect that the committee considered in the award was the innovative papers on new techniques for porous media, such as a new method to handle unilateral and variable boundary conditions for the interface between liquid and gases within porous media.
Journal Reviews
Dr Pedroso is an expert in computational mechanics for porous media and optimisation and is reviewing papers for top journals such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Nature: Scientific Reports, Computers and Geotechnics, Geotechnique Letters, Advances in Engineering Software, Journal of Engineering Mechanics ASCE, Computer Physics Communications, International Journal of Plasticity, Soils and Foundations, Advances in Structural Engineering, Engineering Structures, among others.
Research Grants Reviewer
Dr Pedroso is an Australian Research Council (ARC) reviewer for DPs, DEs and LPs. He is also a reviewer for th Hong Kong Research Grants Council HK-RGC
Conference Services
Dr Pedroso has organised the 1st Workshop on New Advances on Computational Geomechanics in Australia in 2008 and the 5th Workshop on New Frontiers in Computational Geotechnics in 2010. Both in Brisbane, Australia.
Availability
- Dr Dorival Pedroso is:
- Not available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering, Institution to be confirmed
- Masters (Coursework) of Science, Institution to be confirmed
- Doctor of Philosophy, Institution to be confirmed
Research interests
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Computational mechanics
Computational mechanics, including numerical methods for partial differential equations and mathematical models for materials’ mechanical behaviour, in particular porous media.
Research impacts
Funding
Dr Pedroso secured an ARC-DECRA (DECRA 2012 – Only 2 awards in Civil Engineering in the Country – highly competitive scheme with a success rate around 11% at that time), 1 ARC-DP, 3 ARC Linkages and some industry projects. He also recently received a full sponsorship to visit SimTech at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Dr Pedroso is also a Chief Investigator of an Advance Queensland Project with funding over $2 million.
Invited Talks
Over the last few years, Dr Pedroso’s work has attracted some international attention as evidenced by the invited seminars he gave for which he got successfully got full financial sponsorship:
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2016 Prestigious Argyris Lecture at The University of Stuttgart, Germany, July 6, 2016. Check out Argyris Lecture 2016
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2015 invited lecture on structural reliability during the 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Computational Mechanics, October 12-14, 2015, Tokyo, Japan,
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2012 present a mini-course in Brazil
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2011 present a keynote lecture in Brazil
Significant change or advance of knowledge in your field.
Dr Pedroso has independently developed mathematical models, solution methods, algorithms and computer codes for a number of applications in geometry, mathematics, physics and engineering. He has journal papers in top-journals including papers published with him as the first author. He has also a number of papers submitted with some under revision.
He has a comprehensive set of computer libraries written by his research team and published at https://github.com/cpmech that serve as a foundation for his students’ and his research work on computational mechanics. These include recent and new evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective and multi-constraints optimisation (publications are underway). The set of libraries has been developed with much hard work and has been made open source for the benefit of the scientists, engineers and the community. The number of innovative, advanced and much organised computer code is significant as illustrated by simply looking at the code repositories. The indirect impact of this work is demonstrated by the number of followers and stars gained along the years through the GitHub social networking. For example, Gosl (Go Scientific Library) has attracted many stars.
Works
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2014
Journal Article
The subloading isotropic plasticity as a variable modulus model
Pedroso, Dorival M. (2014). The subloading isotropic plasticity as a variable modulus model. Computers and Geotechnics, 61, 230-240. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2014.05.013
2014
Conference Publication
An analysis of the strength of anisotropic granular assemblies via discrete methods
Galindo Torres, Sergio, Pedroso, Dorival, Williams, David and Muhlhaus, Hans (2014). An analysis of the strength of anisotropic granular assemblies via discrete methods. 1st Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACCM2013), Sydney, Australia, 3-4 October 2013. Stafa-Zurich, Switzerland: Trans Tech Publications. doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.553.525
2014
Conference Publication
Dynamics of water movements with reversals in unsaturated soils
Scheuermann, A., Galindo-Torres, S. A., Pedroso, D. M., Williams, D. J. and Li, L. (2014). Dynamics of water movements with reversals in unsaturated soils. 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2014), Sydney, NSW Australia, 2-4 July 2014. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003070580-18
2013
Journal Article
Strength of non-spherical particles with anisotropic geometries under triaxial and shearing loading configurations
Galindo-Torres, S. A., Pedroso, D. M., Williams, D. J. and Muehlhaus, H. B. (2013). Strength of non-spherical particles with anisotropic geometries under triaxial and shearing loading configurations. Granular Matter, 15 (5), 531-542. doi: 10.1007/s10035-013-0428-6
2013
Journal Article
Particle finite element analysis of large deformation and granular flow problems
Zhang, X., Krabbenhoft, K., Pedroso, D. M., Lyanmin, A. V., Sheng, D., Da Silva, M. Vicente and Wang, D. (2013). Particle finite element analysis of large deformation and granular flow problems. Computers and Geotechnics, 54, 133-142. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2013.07.001
2013
Journal Article
A Lattice Boltzmann model for studying transient effects during imbibition-drainage cycles in unsaturated soils
Galindo-Torres, S. A., Scheuermann, A., Li, L., Pedroso, D. M. and Williams, D. J. (2013). A Lattice Boltzmann model for studying transient effects during imbibition-drainage cycles in unsaturated soils. Computer Physics Communications, 184 (4), 1086-1093. doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.11.015
2013
Conference Publication
Effect of boundary conditions on measured water retention behavior within soils
Galindo-Torres, S., Scheuermann, A., Pedroso, D. M. and Li, L. (2013). Effect of boundary conditions on measured water retention behavior within soils. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA, 9-13 December, 2013.
2012
Journal Article
Breaking processes in three-dimensional bonded granular materials with general shapes
Galindo-Torres, S. A., Pedroso, D. M., Williams, D. J. and Li, L. (2012). Breaking processes in three-dimensional bonded granular materials with general shapes. Computer Physics Communications, 183 (2), 266-277. doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.10.001
2011
Journal Article
Extended Barcelona Basic Model for unsaturated soils under cyclic loadings
Pedroso, Dorival M. and Farias, Marcio M. (2011). Extended Barcelona Basic Model for unsaturated soils under cyclic loadings. Computers and Geotechnics, 38 (5), 731-740. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2011.02.004
2011
Journal Article
Automatic calibration of soil–water characteristic curves using genetic algorithms
Pedroso, Dorival M. and Williams, David J. (2011). Automatic calibration of soil–water characteristic curves using genetic algorithms. Computers and Geotechnics, 38 (3), 330-340. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2010.12.004
2011
Conference Publication
The SFG model for the cyclic behaviour of unsaturated soils
Pedroso, D., Sheng, D., Williams, D., Scheuermann, A., Farias, M. M. and Nakai, T. (2011). The SFG model for the cyclic behaviour of unsaturated soils. VII Brazilian Symposium on Unsaturated Soils - nSat2011, Pirenopolis, Brazil, 29-31 August 2011.
2011
Conference Publication
Extended Barcelona basic model to the cyclic behaviour of unsaturated soils
Pedroso, D. M., Farias, M. M., Williams, D. J., Scheuermann, A. and Buzzi, O. (2011). Extended Barcelona basic model to the cyclic behaviour of unsaturated soils. 13th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Melbourne, Australia, 9-11 May 2011. Sydney, Australia: Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety.
2010
Journal Article
Molecular dynamics simulations of complex-shaped particles using Voronoi-based spheropolyhedra
Galindo-Torres, S. A. and Pedroso, D. M. (2010). Molecular dynamics simulations of complex-shaped particles using Voronoi-based spheropolyhedra. Physical Review E, 81 (6) 061303, 061303-1-061303-9. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.061303
2010
Journal Article
A novel approach for modelling soil water characteristic curves with hysteresis
Pedroso, Dorival M. and Williams, David J. (2010). A novel approach for modelling soil water characteristic curves with hysteresis. Computers and Geotechnics, 37 (3), 374-380. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2009.12.004
2009
Journal Article
Molecular dynamics simulation of complex particles in three dimensions and the study of friction due to nonconvexity
Galindo-Torres, S. A., Alonso-Marroquin, F., Wang, Y. C., Pedroso, D. and Muñoz Castaño , J. D. (2009). Molecular dynamics simulation of complex particles in three dimensions and the study of friction due to nonconvexity. Physical Review E, 79 (6) 060301, 060301.1-060301.4. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.060301
2009
Journal Article
Automatic substepping integration of the subloading tij model with stress path dependent hardening
Farias, Marcio M., Pedroso, Dorival M. and Nakai, Teruo (2009). Automatic substepping integration of the subloading tij model with stress path dependent hardening. Computers and Geotechnics, 36 (4), 537-548. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2008.11.003
2009
Journal Article
The concept of reference curves for constitutive modelling in soil mechanics
Pedroso, Dorival M., Sheng, Daichao and Zhao, Jidong (2009). The concept of reference curves for constitutive modelling in soil mechanics. Computers and Geotechnics, 36 (1-2), 149-165. doi: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2008.01.009
2009
Conference Publication
Numerical procedure for modelling dynamic fracture of rock by blasting
Liu, HY, Williams, DJ, Pedroso, DM and Liang, WM (2009). Numerical procedure for modelling dynamic fracture of rock by blasting. 7th International Symposium on Rockburst and Seismicity in Mines, Dalian, China, AUG 21-23, 2009. New Jersey, U.S.A.: Rinton Press.
2008
Journal Article
Stress update algorithm for elastoplastic models with nonconvex yield surfaces
Pedroso, Dorival M., Sheng, Daichao and Sloan, Scott W. (2008). Stress update algorithm for elastoplastic models with nonconvex yield surfaces. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 76 (13), 2029-2062. doi: 10.1002/nme.2407
2008
Journal Article
Non-convexity and stress-path dependency of unsaturated soil models
Sheng, Daichao, Pedroso, Dorival M. and Abbo, Andrew J. (2008). Non-convexity and stress-path dependency of unsaturated soil models. Computational Mechanics, 42 (5), 685-694. doi: 10.1007/s00466-008-0268-0
Funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Dorival Pedroso is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Novel Database Management, Verification, and Cost Optimisation Tools for Parametric Steel Connection Design
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Joe Gattas
Completed supervision
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2021
Master Philosophy
Probabilistic Slope Stability Analysis Based on Conditional Random Field
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Scheuermann
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Reliability Analyses of the Stability of Slopes using the Limit Equilibrium Method and Genetic Algorithms
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Scheuermann
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
On accuracy, efficiency and stability of methods for solving porous media dynamics
Principal Advisor
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2017
Master Philosophy
Micromechanical study of granular assemblies by true triaxial test simulations
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor David Williams
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Extracting Wave Energy while Reducing Hydroelastic Response of Very Large Floating Structures
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Chien Ming Wang
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Bulking and Subsequent Self-Weight and Saturation Settlements, and Geotechnical Stability of High Coal Mine Spoil Piles
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor David Williams
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
ESTIMATION OF TAILINGS SURFACE FLUXES AS PART OF CLOSURE COVER DESIGN
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor David Williams
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
Static and Cyclic Laboratory Testing of Brisbane Rocks
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor David Williams
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