HAS200
4TH UNSATURATED SOIL, GRANULAR MATTER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
2ND WORKSHOP IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR G. N. PANDE

Online

organised by the Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering & HBM Systems Research Centre,
Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary;
The Department of Engineering Geology and Geotechnics, Civil Engineering, BME, Budapest, Hungary;
Wigner Physics Institute; 
 
supported by the Hungarian National Committee of ISSMGE,
ISSMGE TC106 and TC201, ON_DEM, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

16th January, 2026, Budapest,Hungary
 

PROGRAM

(Technical meeting room: Room: 266, ÓU, Doberdó út 6.)

08:55 – 09:05
J. Józsa - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Opening

Part 1 Unsaturated soils
09:05 – 09:15
K. Rajkai, chair, Introduction
HAS Agriculture Section and Soil Science Institute, guest in the last few decades of ISSMGE TC106, M. Datcheva: co-chair, Á. Bálint, co-chair.
09:15 – 09:50
Enrique Romero
Hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted soils and rockfill across different scales
09:50 – 10:25
Francesca Casini, J. Vaunat
A procedure for the direct determination of Bishop’s parameter
10:25 – 10:40
E. Imre, T. Firgi, Delphin Kabey, Á. Bálint et al.
Grading entropy and Soil Water-Retention Curve (SWRC) of sand mixtures with fractal distribution. Validation of SWRC and permeability models.

Part 2 Geo-environment and in situ testing
10:40 – 10:45
J. Józsa : Introduction, Maria Datcheva : chair, H. Bayoumi : co-chair, Á. Bálint, co-chair.
10:45 – 11:00
Emőke Imre et al.
Szeged - Ballina - finding post-depositional changes
11:15 – 11:25
Szilvia Simon
Groundwater and surface salinisation
11:25 – 11:35
Ágnes Bálint et al.
Evaluation of atmospheric heavy metal deposition load in South-Western Hungary based on moss monitoring
11:35 – 11:45
Edit Fenyvesi
Using Eötvös torsion balance. Signal or noise? Seismic and environmental effect?

Part 3 to 4 Dikes, embankments, Math aspects, DEM, Physics
13:00 – 13:05
J. Józsa: Introduction, Ágnes Bálint, chair, M. Datcheva, co-chair, H. Bayoumi, co-chair
13:05 – 13:35
Francesca Casini
Hydromechanical behaviour of an embankment during inundation
13:35 – 13:50
Edina Koch
Hungarian dike reports for TC201
13:50 – 14:05
Dániel Nagy
Selected theoretical topics. 1. Cavitation research & 2. Development of a GPU-based DEM solver for parameter optimisation in the simulations of soil-sweep tool interactions
14:05 –14:30
Adane Akate – D. Kabey – E. Imre et al.
Some notes on the Maths of global permeability relations of granular matter
14:30 –14:40
István Talata, T. Goda et al.
P&G 2005 conference papers
14:40 – 14:55
Szabina Fodor
Twice enough or ABS algorithm

Part 5 Granular matter, breakage
15:20 – 15:25
J. Józsa: Introduction, Ágnes Bálint, chair, M. Datcheva, co-chair, H. Bayoumi, co-chair
15:25 – 15:45
Giulia Guida, Italy
Laboratory Insights into Compressibility and Permeability of Granular Soils
15:45 – 16:05
Min Wang
An adaptive REV algorithm for multiscale modelling of granular materials undergoing large deformation
16:05 – 16:45
Stanislaw Pietruszczak
Modelling of hydro-mechanical response of rock mass containing a discrete fracture network

Part 6 Reserve lectures – Environment
17:00 – 17:05
Ágnes Bálint, chair, M. Datcheva, co-chair, H. Bayoumi, co-chair
17:00 – 17:10
Antal Ürmös, P. Felker, M. Gula, Zs. Hortobágyi, E. Imre et al.
EGRWSE 2024 to 2028, EE 31thEnergy and Environment
17:10 – 17:20
Lilys Safitri
Some use of concentrated solar power
17:20– 17:30
Ágnes Bálint et al.
Heat and Moisture Dynamics during Soil Drying under a Daily Solar Radiation Cycle Simulated by Infrared Lamps
17:30 – 17:40
Salman Brbhan
Soil Thermal Conductivity Enhancement as a Key Factor in Geothermal Heat Pump Performance
17:40– 17:45
Closing conference