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A/PROF ANTOINETTE TORDESILLAS



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Organization: Mathematics and Statistics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER
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Homepage: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/Personnel/profile.php?PC_id=68
Work: 8344 9685
Fax: 8344 4599
Room: G17
Level: Ground
Building: Richard Berry Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Wollongong

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Towards generalized continuum models of granular and soil-tire interaction Chief Investigator US ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE Project Grants 25/06/2002
Seeing the discrete in a continuum: an integrated numerical-rheological-experimental approach towards high resolution micromechanical continuum ... Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Modelling and simulation of emergent behaviour in particulate assemblies under terrestrial and microgravity conditions: a focus on force propogation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/05/2006
MICROMECHANICAL MODELLING OF FAULT GOUGE DYNMICS: TOWARDS AN IMPROVED FAULT CONSTITUTIVE RELATION Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007
MULTISCALE PHENOMENA IN THE SOLID-LIQUID TRANSITION STATE OF GRANULAR MATERIAL: ANALYSIS, MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTATION Chief Investigator US ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE Project Grants 30/05/2007
CONFINED COMMINUTION AND PARTICLE FLOW: A GENERAL MODEL FOR LARGE-SCALE CANONICAL SOLUTIONS Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • "Stranger than friction: Force chain buckling and its implications for constitutive modelling"
    Year: 2007
    Book: Granular and Complex Materials
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
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Journal Articles

  • Force chain buckling, unjamming transitions and shear banding in dense granular assemblies


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Philosophical Magazine A - Physics of Condensed Matter Structure Defects & Mechanical Properties
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 32
    Page numbers: 4987-5016
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  • Development of micromechanical models for granular media: The projection problem
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Granular Matter
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 337-352
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Effects of particles size distribution in a three-dimensional micropolar continuum model of granular media
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Powder Technology
    Volume: 161
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 110-121
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  • Finite element methods for micropolar models of granular materials
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied Mathematical Modelling
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1043-1055
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  • How do interparticle contact friction, packing density and degree of polydispersity affect force propagation in particulate assemblies?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
    Volume: 2006
    Issue: September
    Page numbers: Article Number P09003
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  • Uncovering the secrets to relieving stress: discrete element analysis of force chains in particulate media
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: C355-C372
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A micromechanical constitutive modelling of granular media: evolution and loss of contact in particle clusters
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Engineering Mathematics
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 1-3
    Page numbers: 93-106
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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  • A thermomechanical formulation of finite element schemes for micropolar continua
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: C336-C350
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • Capturing the S in segregation: a simple model of flowing granular mixtures in rotating drums
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 861-877
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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  • Characterization of force chains in granular material
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Physical Review E
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 041307
    Publisher: American Physical Society(Maryland)
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  • Real world maths in action!
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Vinculum
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 3-6
    Publisher: The Mathematical Association of Victoria
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  • Role of particle rotations and rolling resistance in a semi-infinite particulate solid indented by a rigid flat punch
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: C260-C275
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • The link between discrete and continuous modelling of liquid foam at the level of a single bubble
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Rheology
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 819-838
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Analysis of deformation and localization in thermomicromechanical Cosserat models of granular media
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 5th International Conference on Micromechanics of Granualr Media
    Conference Publication: Powers and Grains 2005
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 419-424
    Publisher: A A Balkema(Leiden)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A thermomechanical approach to the development of micropolar constitutive models of granular media
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Acta Mechanica
    Volume: 167
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 145-169
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wein(Vienna)
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  • Bridging the length scales: micromechanics of granular media
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Bit (Lisse)
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 539-556
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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  • Insights into 1D localisation theory and micromechanical constitutive laws
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Geotechnique
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 327-330
    Publisher: Thomas Telford Services(London)
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  • Micromechanics of shear bands
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Solids and Structures
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 5885-5901
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Real World Mathematics in Action 2002!
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Mathematical Society Gazette
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 175-183
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • Shear band evolution and accumulated microstructural development in Cosserat media
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 981-1010
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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  • The stress response of a semi-infinite micropolar granular material subject to a concentrated force normal to the boundary
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Granular Matter
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1434-5021
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Getting hooked on mathematics through its applications
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 63-75
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Incorporating rolling resistance and contact anisotropy in micromechanical models of granular media
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Powder Technology
    Volume: 124
    Page numbers: 106-111
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Stranger than friction: micromechanics of granular media
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 14th International conference of the international society for terrain-vehicle systems
    Conference Publication: The International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems. Proceedings of International Conferences
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • 2000 Maths in Action!
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Vinculum
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 4-7
    Publisher: The Mathematical Association of Victoria
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  • Real world mathematics in Action! I'd like to see that!
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Mathematical Society Gazette
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 135-142
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