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Manuel Pastor

Curriculum Vitae of Manuel Pastor

Born in Madrid on May 1953
Ingeniero de Caminos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (June 1975)
Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences (Sevilla), 2006
Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (July 1980)
Researcher at Laboratorio del Transporte y Mecánica del Suelo (Geotecnia) 1975 to 1980
Researcher at Departamento de Carreteras of Laboratorio del Transporte y Mecánica del Suelo 1980 to 1982
Researcher, Oceanographic Engineering Department, Centro de Estudios de Puertos y Costas (1982-1985)
Head of the Computational Engineering Department of Centro de Estudios de Técnicas Aplicadas (1985-2008)
Lecturer, Física de Materiales, ETS de Ing. de Caminos, 1976-1983
Prof.Titular Dept. of Matemática e Informática aplicadas a la Ingeniería Civil, ETS de Ingenieros de Caminos de Madrid (1986-2008)
Visiting Scholar at Universities of Swansea, UK (1983-1984, 1987) Grenoble (September 1991) and Imperial College of London (1992). Honorary Prof. at Hohai University (Nanjing, China).
Research Areas:
Soil dynamics: laboratory testing (1975-1980).
Dynamic behaviour of road materials (1980-1982)
Constitutive modelling for soil dynamics (liquefaction) (1983-1991)
Finite element modelling on:
- Geotechnical Engineering: Landslides, debris flows, flow slides, dynamic behaviour of earth dams, dynamic behaviour of railroad plattforms, transport of pollutants,...
- Harbour Engineering: Resonance, and long wave amplification, castal hydrodynamics, estuary dynamics.
- Hydraulics Engineering: Dam break, waves in reservoirs caused by landslides
- Structural Engineering: Dynamic behaviour of concrete dams with reservoir interaction, Cable and catenary dynamics, Shock propagation and fast dynamics
Supervision and Cooperation in doctoral thesis presented in Madrid, París, Lyon, Montpellier, Tetuán, Hohai ( Nanjing), Milán, Bolonia and Rome
Member of Editorial Boards of International Journals: Mechanics of Cohesive Frictional Materials, Int.J.Num.Anal.Methods in Geomechanics, Italian Geotechnical Journal, Journal of Geomechanics.
Samsher Prakash Foundation Award (1994) at University of Missouri ( USA)
Member of the Academy of Sciences of Sevilla, Spain
Member of the Board of Directors of the European Research Network ALERT Geomaterials
Participation in European Projects: EPOCH (1992), ALERT (1993-1997), LAMÉ (1998-2001), TMR DIGA (2002-2005), TEMPUS-MEDA Force with ENIT Tunis (2005-2008)
Participation in cooperative research with China (1993-2005), funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Spanish Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional
Papers published on en international journals (Int.J.Numerical Methods in Engineering, Mechanics of Cohesive Frictional Materials, J.Computational Physics, Geotechnique, Int.J.Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Int.J.Numerical Methods in Fluids, Archives of Mechanics, Computers and Geotechnique, Comm.Applied Numerical Methods.

SOME RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

O.C.ZIENKIEWICZ, A.H.CHAN, M.PASTOR, B.SCHREFLER and T.SHIOMI
COMPUTATIONAL GEOMECHANICS.
John Wiley and Sons, 1999

M.Pastor and C.Tamagnini (Eds)
Numerical Modelling of Geomaterials
Hermes, París (Fr) ISBN 2-7462-0537-8 2002

M.I. Herreros, M. Mabssout, M. Pastor
An eulerian mixed formulation for viscoplastic materials
Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 196 (2007) 1924-1932

M. Pastor, J. A. Fernández Merodo, M. I. Herreros, P. Mira, E. González, B. Haddad, M. Quecedo, L. Tonni, and V. Drempetic
Mathematical, Constitutive and Numerical Modelling of Catastrophic Landslides and Related Phenomena
Rock Mech. Rock Engng. (2007)

M.Mabssout, M.I.Herreros, M.Pastor
Wave propagation and localization problems in saturated viscoplastic Geomaterials
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (2006), Vol 68, Issue 4, pp 425-447

M.Mabssout, M.Pastor, M.I.Herreros, M. Quecedo
A Runge-Kutta, Taylor-Galerkin scheme for hyperbolic systems with source terms. Application to shock wave propagation in viscoplastic geomaterials
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (2006) Volume 30, Issue 13 , Pages 1337 - 1355

M.I.Herreros, M.Mabssout, M.Pastor
Application of Level-Set approach to moving interfaces and free surface problems in flow through porous media
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering,, vol.195 , pg1-25, 2006

M. Quecedo, M. Pastor, M.I. Herreros, J.A. Fernández Merodo, Qinfen Zhang
Comparison of two mathematical models for solving the dam break problem using the FEM method
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol.194 , pg. 3984-4005, 2005

J.A.Fernández Merodo, R.Tamagnini, M.Pastor and P.Mira
Modelling damage with generalized plasticity
Italian Geotechnical Journal XXXIX , n4, pp.32-42 (2005)

M.Pastor, M.Quecedo, M.I.Herreros, E.González, B,Haddad, J.A.fernández Merodo and P.Mira
Modelling of fase landslides and waves induced by them in reservoirs and other water bodies
Italian Geotechnical Journal XXXIX , n4, pp. 46-62 (2005)

P.Mira, M.Pastor, T.Li et X.Liu
Failure problems in soils: an enhanced strain coupled formulation with application to localization problems
Revue française de genie civil, Vol. 8 , n5-6, pg.735-759, 2004

M. Quecedo, M. Pastor and M.I. Herreros
Numerical modelling of impulse wave generated by fast landslides
Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., 59: 1633-1656, March 2004

M. Quecedo, M. Pastor, M.I. Herreros and J.A. Fdez. Merodo
Numerical modelling of the propagation of fast landslides using the Finite Element Method
Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., Vol. 59, Issue 6, pp. 755-794, February 2004

M.Quecedo and M.Pastor, “Finite Element modelling of free surface flows on inclined and curved beds”, Journal of Computational Physics (2003) 45-62
M.Pastor, M.Quecedo, J.A.Fernández Merodo, M.I.Herreros, E.González and P.Mira, Modelling Tailing dams and mine waste dumps failures, Geotechnique LII, 579-592, 2002
M. Quecedo, M. Pastor, M.I. Herreros and J.A. Fdez. Merodo, : Numerical modelling of the propagation of fast landslides using the Finite Element Method, Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., Vol. 59 , Issue 6, pp. 755-794, February 2004
J.A. Fernández Merodo, M. Pastor, P. Mira, L. Tonni, M.I. Herreros, E. González y R. Tamagnini, : “Modelling of diffuse failure mechanisms of catastrophic landslides”, Comp.Meth.Appl.Mech.Engrg. pp. 2911–2939, 2004