14:00 – 14:05

Welcome speech,

Speaker: Shifan Qiao, Central South University, China

14:05 – 14:10

Introduction of GDRI,  Speaker: Francico   Nicot, France

14:10 – 14:35

Invited Speech-1: Plastic   waste as geosynthetic for low volume gravel roads  (Invited Young   Faculty Lecture)

Speaker: Dr. Francisco Grajales, Technological University of Panama,   PA

14:35 – 15:10

Invited Speech-2: Mechanical   behavior of grouted sand

Speaker: Pierre-Yves Hicher, Research Institute in Civil and   Mechanical Engineering, UMR CNRS, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

15:10 – 15:45

Invited Speech-3: High-speed   railway geotechnical problems

Speaker: Daichao Sheng, University of Technology Sydney, Australia   & Central South University, China

15:45   – 16:00

Coffee break, 15 minutes

16:00 – 17:50   Session -3: WORKSHOP

Session Chairs: Yuanjie Xiao, Jidong Teng

16:00 – 16:35

Invited Speech-4: Multiscale   constitutive modeling of geomaterials: applications to soil failure

Speaker: François Nicot, Directeur de Recherche / Research   Professor – Université Grenoble Alpes –INRAE (formerly IRSTEA), France

16:35 – 17:10

Invited Speech-5: Optimisation   of receiver's location in bender element tests using advanced computational   techniques

Speaker: António Gomes Correia (ISISE-University of Minho,   Portugal) & Dragos Moldovan (CERIS-University of Lisbon, Portugal)

17:10 – 17:45

Invited Speech-6:   Homogenization of ionic transfer in porous materials

Speaker: Olivier   Millet, La Rochelle University, France

17:45   – 17:50

Closing Speech    Session Chair: Yuanjie Xiao

Speaker: Xiaobin   Chen, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Central South University, China