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Giang D. Nguyen is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, with significant contributions in civil and structural engineering, mechanics of materials, and computational mechanics. Other notable areas of interest include management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as ocean engineering.

Their main topics of work encompass a range of subjects related to geotechnical and fluid dynamics engineering, including:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Rock mechanics and modeling
  • Fluid dynamics simulations and interactions
  • Geotechnical engineering and underground structures
  • Geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics
  • Soil and unsaturated flow
  • Numerical methods in engineering

Giang D. Nguyen has authored numerous papers that contribute to the understanding of granular flows, porous media, concrete behavior, and seepage flows. Some recent notable publications include:

  • Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its applications in geomechanics: From solid fracture to granular behaviour and multiphase flows in porous media, 2021, Computers and Geotechnics
  • A scalable parallel computing SPH framework for predictions of geophysical granular flows, 2020, Computers and Geotechnics
  • Numerical investigation of the mechanism of granular flow impact on rigid control structures, 2021, Acta Geotechnica
  • Investigation of the compressive behavior and failure modes of unconfined and FRP-confined concrete using digital image correlation, 2020, Composite Structures
  • A general SPH framework for transient seepage flows through unsaturated porous media considering anisotropic diffusion, 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Their research is frequently published in venues such as:

  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • International Journal of Plasticity
  • Procedia Structural Integrity
  • Acta Geotechnica

Collaborations form an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Ha H. Bui
  • Murat Karakus
  • Dat G. Phan
  • Rupesh Kumar Verma
  • Terry Bennett

Best Publications

  • Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its applications in geomechanics: From solid fracture to granular behaviour and multiphase flows in porous media

    Ha H. Bui;Giang D. Nguyen

  • Effects of thermal damage on strain burst mechanism for brittle rocks under true-triaxial loading conditions

    Selahattin Akdag;Murat Karakus;Abbas Taheri;Giang Nguyen

  • Experimental and numerical investigation of influence of air-voids on the compressive behaviour of foamed concrete

    Thang T. Nguyen;Ha H. Bui;Tuan D. Ngo;Giang D. Nguyen

  • A new SPH-based approach to simulation of granular flows using viscous damping and stress regularisation

    Cuong T. Nguyen;Cuong T. Nguyen;Chi T. Nguyen;Ha H. Bui;Giang D. Nguyen

  • A coupled fluid-solid SPH approach to modelling flow through deformable porous media

    Ha H. Bui;Giang D. Nguyen

  • Numerical investigation of the impact behaviour of bioinspired nacre-like aluminium composite plates

    E.A. Flores-Johnson;Luming Shen;Irene Guiamatsia;Giang D. Nguyen

  • Coupled damage and plasticity models derived from energy and dissipation potentials

    I. Einav;G.T. Houlsby;G.D. Nguyen

  • The Energetics of Cataclasis Based on Breakage Mechanics

    Giang D. Nguyen;Itai Einav

  • A cohesive damage-plasticity model for DEM and its application for numerical investigation of soft rock fracture properties

    Nhu H.T. Nguyen;Ha H. Bui;Giang D. Nguyen;Jayantha Kodikara

  • A micromechanical investigation for the effects of pore size and its distribution on geopolymer foam concrete under uniaxial compression

    Thang T. Nguyen;Ha H. Bui;Tuan D. Ngo;Giang D. Nguyen

  • The end-bearing capacity of piles penetrating into crushable soils

    C. Zhang;G.D. Nguyen;I. Einav

  • A thermomechanical constitutive model for cemented granular materials with quantifiable internal variables. Part I-Theory

    Alessandro Tengattini;Alessandro Tengattini;Arghya Das;Giang D. Nguyen;Gioacchino Viggiani

  • Compaction bands due to grain crushing in porous rocks: A theoretical approach based on breakage mechanics

    Arghya Das;Giang D. Nguyen;Itai Einav

  • Development of an approach to constitutive modelling of concrete : Isotropic damage coupled with plasticity

    Giang D. Nguyen;Alexander M. Korsunsky

  • A nonlocal coupled damage-plasticity model for the analysis of ductile failure

    Giang D. Nguyen;Alexander M. Korsunsky;Jonathan P.-H. Belnoue

  • Experimental Study on the Damage Evolution of Brittle Rock Under Triaxial Confinement with Full Circumferential Strain Control

    Thomas Bruning;Murat Karakus;Giang D. Nguyen;David Goodchild

  • A numerical study of bioinspired nacre-like composite plates under blast loading

    E.A. Flores-Johnson;Luming Shen;Irene Guiamatsia;Giang D. Nguyen

  • A scalable parallel computing SPH framework for predictions of geophysical granular flows

    Edward Yang;Ha H. Bui;Hans De Sterck;Giang D. Nguyen

  • A thermodynamic approach to constitutive modelling of concrete using damage mechanics and plasticity theory

    Giang Dinh Nguyen

  • A new SPH-based continuum framework with an embedded fracture process zone for modelling rock fracture

    Yingnan Wang;Ha H. Bui;Giang D. Nguyen;P.G. Ranjith

  • A coupled damage–plasticity model for concrete based on thermodynamic principles: Part I: model formulation and parameter identification

    Giang D. Nguyen;Guy T. Houlsby

  • A thermomechanical constitutive model for cemented granular materials with quantifiable internal variables. Part II - Validation and localization analysis

    Arghya Das;Alessandro Tengattini;Alessandro Tengattini;Giang D. Nguyen;Gioacchino Viggiani

Frequent Co-Authors

Ha H. Bui
Ha H. Bui Monash University
Itai Einav
Itai Einav University of Sydney
Murat Karakus
Murat Karakus University of Adelaide
Alexander M. Korsunsky
Alexander M. Korsunsky University of Oxford
Vinh Phu Nguyen
Vinh Phu Nguyen Monash University
Jayantha Kodikara
Jayantha Kodikara Monash University
Federico Maggi
Federico Maggi University of Sydney
Abbas Taheri
Abbas Taheri University of Adelaide
Andrei Kotousov
Andrei Kotousov University of Adelaide
Abdul Hamid Sheikh
Abdul Hamid Sheikh University of Adelaide

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