ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Unified framework for modelling progressive to catastrophic failure in fractured media
Climate change, characterised by rising temperatures, extreme rainfall, permafrost thaw, and sea level rise, poses great new challenges for mitigating extreme geohazards like mountain collapses, glacier breakoffs, and volcanic eruptions. Many of these extreme events are due to catastrophic failure in fractured media. There is a fundamental and urgent need to reliably predict these catastrophes and minimise their consequences. Extensive evidence indicates that geomaterials commonly incubate progressive failure, characterised by diffuse, gradual, and intermittent deformations, before culminating in catastrophic failure marked by localised, rapid, and runaway rupture. As of today, it remains…
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