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  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to scalable commercial computing systems

Overview

Daniel Dias is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and focuses primarily on engineering research, with an emphasis on civil and structural engineering. Their work spans several subfields including safety, risk, reliability and quality, mechanics of materials, management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as statistics, probability and uncertainty.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum within geotechnical engineering, including:

  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Dam Engineering and Safety
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Landslides and related hazards

Daniel Dias has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Computers and Geotechnics (19 publications)
  • Transportation Geotechnics (10 publications)
  • Applied Sciences (10 publications)
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (8 publications)
  • International Journal of Geomechanics (8 publications)

Representative recent papers include:

  • Performance of segmental and shotcrete linings in shallow tunnels crossing a transverse strike-slip faulting, 2020, Transportation Geotechnics
  • 3D numerical study of the performance of geosynthetic-reinforced and pile-supported embankments, 2021, SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS
  • First order reliability-based design optimization of 3D pile-reinforced slopes with Pareto optimality, 2023, Computers and Geotechnics
  • A sequential sparse polynomial chaos expansion using Bayesian regression for geotechnical reliability estimations, 2020, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Kriging based reliability and sensitivity analysis - Application to the stability of an earth dam, 2020, Computers and Geotechnics

Frequent collaborators in Daniel Dias's research include:

  • Xiangfeng Guo
  • Ngoc Anh
  • Chuanqi Li
  • Tuan A. Pham
  • Zhibin Sun

The scope of their work demonstrates a consistent focus on geotechnical engineering challenges, including underground structures, soil mechanics, and reliability assessments using numerical and statistical methods. Their contributions include studies on the reliability and stability of structures such as tunnels, embankments, slopes, and dams.

Among recognitions, Daniel Dias was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2011 for contributions to scalable commercial computing systems.

Best Publications

  • Rotational failure mechanisms for the face stability analysis of tunnels driven by a pressurized shield

    Guilhem Mollon;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • Face Stability Analysis of Circular Tunnels Driven by a Pressurized Shield

    Guilhem Mollon;Guilhem Mollon;Daniel Dias;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • An efficient reliability method combining adaptive Support Vector Machine and Monte Carlo Simulation

    Qiujing Pan;Daniel Dias

  • Probabilistic Analysis and Design of Circular Tunnels against Face Stability

    Guilhem Mollon;Guilhem Mollon;Daniel Dias;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • Probabilistic Analysis of Circular Tunnels in Homogeneous Soil Using Response Surface Methodology

    Guilhem Mollon;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • Three-dimensional numerical simulation of a mechanized twin tunnels in soft ground

    Ngoc-Anh Do;Ngoc-Anh Do;Daniel Dias;Pierpaolo Oreste;Irini Djeran-Maigre

  • 2D numerical investigation of segmental tunnel lining behavior

    Ngoc-Anh Do;Daniel Dias;Pierpaolo Oreste;Irini Djeran-Maigre

  • Three-dimensional face stability analysis of pressurized tunnels driven in a multilayered purely frictional medium

    Eliane Ibrahim;Abdul-Hamid Soubra;Guilhem Mollon;Wassim Raphael

  • Validation of a New 2D Failure Mechanism for the Stability Analysis of a Pressurized Tunnel Face in a Spatially Varying Sand

    Guilhem Mollon;Kok Kwang Phoon;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • Three-dimensional numerical simulation for mechanized tunnelling in soft ground: the influence of the joint pattern

    Ngoc-Anh Do;Ngoc-Anh Do;Daniel Dias;Pierpaolo Oreste;Irini Djeran-Maigre

  • The effect of pore water pressure on tunnel face stability

    Qiujing Pan;Daniel Dias

  • Two-Dimensional Physical and Numerical Modeling of a Pile-Supported Earth Platform over Soft Soil

    Orianne Jenck;Daniel Dias;Richard Kastner

  • Continuous velocity fields for collapse and blowout of a pressurized tunnel face in purely cohesive soil

    Guilhem Mollon;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • Use of lime and cement treated soils as pile supported load transfer platform

    U.S. Okyay;D. Dias

  • Upper-bound analysis on the face stability of a non-circular tunnel

    Qiujing Pan;Daniel Dias

  • Probabilistic analyses of tunneling-induced ground movements

    Guilhem Mollon;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • Three dimensional face stability of a tunnel in weak rock masses subjected to seepage forces

    Qiujing Pan;Daniel Dias

  • Probabilistic Analysis of Pressurized Tunnels against Face Stability Using Collocation-Based Stochastic Response Surface Method

    Guilhem Mollon;Daniel Dias;Abdul-Hamid Soubra

  • Numerical analysis of the behaviour of mechanically stabilized earth walls reinforced with different types of strips

    Abdelkader Abdelouhab;Daniel Dias;Nicolas Freitag

  • Probabilistic evaluation of tunnel face stability in spatially random soils using sparse polynomial chaos expansion with global sensitivity analysis

    Qiujing Pan;Daniel Dias

  • Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of a Piled Embankment

    Orianne Jenck;Daniel Dias;Richard Kastner

Frequent Co-Authors

Antônio Lúcio Teixeira
Antônio Lúcio Teixeira The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Kok-Kwang Phoon
Kok-Kwang Phoon Singapore University of Technology and Design
Ákos Török
Ákos Török Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Junichi Koseki
Junichi Koseki University of Tokyo
Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara
Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Pornkasem Jongpradist
Pornkasem Jongpradist King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Helmut Prendinger
Helmut Prendinger National Institute of Informatics

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