Name: 1st Scientific Colloquium - Large Scale Testing (Linking Research and Industry)
Start: 2026-09-13T16:50:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-15T16:40:00+02:00
Location: KIT Campus Süd

1st Scientific Colloquium - Large Scale Testing (Linking Research and Industry)

from Sunday, September 13, 2026 (4:50 PM) to Tuesday, September 15, 2026 (4:40 PM)

Monday, September 7, 2026
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Sunday, September 13, 2026

5:00 PM Registration: Registration 1 - Ice Breaker
Registration 1 - Ice Breaker
5:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Geb. 40.25 (Versuchshalle 1)

7:30 PM Optional social activity: Karlsruhe Light Festival (weather permitting). Meeting point: Institute of Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics. From there, we will walk together to Karlsruhe Palace to enjoy the Light Festival.
Optional social activity: Karlsruhe Light Festival (weather permitting). Meeting point: Institute of Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics. From there, we will walk together to Karlsruhe Palace to enjoy the Light Festival.
7:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Room: Geb. 40.22 (Entrance)

Monday, September 14, 2026

8:00 AM Registration: Registration 2
Registration 2
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

8:30 AM :: Official Welcome from KIT-Vice Provost
Official Welcome from KIT-Vice Provost
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

8:40 AM :: TC101 Prof. Erdin Ibraim
TC101 Prof. Erdin Ibraim
8:40 AM - 8:50 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

8:50 AM :: Welcome Address Prof. Stutz
Welcome Address Prof. Stutz
8:50 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

9:20 AM Keynote: Testing the Untestable? Sandra Linero Molina
Testing the Untestable? Sandra Linero Molina
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

10:00 AM Coffe Break
Coffe Break
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Foyer)

10:20 AM ::: A Good Fit Is Not a Failure Criterion - When Fitting Breaks Mohr Tangency. Marco Arrieta
A Good Fit Is Not a Failure Criterion - When Fitting Breaks Mohr Tangency. Marco Arrieta
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
10:40 AM Engineering application
10:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

10:40 AM Optimisation of an excavation pit through large-scale triaxial tests on gravel Niederterrassenschotter Basel - Konrad Westermann (Gruner AG)

11:00 AM Bearing Capacity Assessment of Rubble Mounds Composed of Porous Rock: A Case Study Toward Practical Application - Rawiwan Sukhumkitcharoen (Port and Airport Research Institute)

11:20 AM Characterization of coarse mine waste rockfill using AI-assisted pressuremeter testing, large triaxial testing and CPTu - Rafael Martinez (Pangea Geotecnia)

11:40 AM Large-Scale Geotechnical Testing: Technical and Operational Challenges in the South American Mining Industry - Danae Momberg (IDIEM Universidad de Chile) Eduardo Fuenzalida (IDIEM Universidad de Chile)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Geb. 40,25 (Versuchshalle 1)
1:20 PM Engineering application
1:20 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

1:20 PM Large scale testing of reinforced unbound railway base courses - Claudia Bräunig

1:40 PM Extrapolation limits of small-scale triaxial testing for large rockfill and waste dump - Hans Henning Stutz (KIT-IBF) Marco Arrieta (University of Oulu)
2:00 PM Fundamentals and experimental testing for soil
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

2:00 PM Experimental and numerical study of the scalping effect on the behaviour of coarse soils - Didier Marot (Nantes University, Ecole Centrale Nantes, CNRS, GeM, UMR 6183)

2:20 PM Compressibility of an andesitic rockfill and a scaled gravel - Manuel J. Mendoza López (Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
2:40 PM Development of large - scale testing and specimen preparation
2:40 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

2:40 PM Large scale shear tests between pipe/cable segment and coarse fabric materials - Andrea Diambra (University of Bristol)

3:00 PM Robotic Air Pluviation for Large-Scale Sand Specimens - Peña Carlos (IBF-KIT)
3:20 PM Coffe Break
Coffe Break
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Foyer)

3:40 PM ::: High-capacity large-scale direct shear test with floating upper box. Kartal Toker
High-capacity large-scale direct shear test with floating upper box. Kartal Toker
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
4:00 PM Development of large - scale testing and specimen preparation
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

4:00 PM Preparation of large sand samples using the air pluviation method – investigation of factors influencing homogeneity - Michael Niebler (Technische Universität München, Zentrum Geotechnik, Lehrstuhl und Prüfamt für Grundbau, Bodenmechanik, Felsmechanik und Tunnelbau)

4:20 PM Development of a Large-Scale Geotechnical Calibration Chamber for Controlled Cone Penetration Testing - Axel Wolfsteller (Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Referat Geotechnik Nord, Abteilung Geotechnik)

4:40 PM Large-scale shear tests to determine the shear parameters of existing earthfill dams - Florian Landstorfer (VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH) Roman Markiewicz (TU Wien, Institut für Geotechnik)
6:40 PM Get Together - Dinner
Get Together - Dinner
6:40 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Geb. 01.52 Gastdozentenhaus
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

8:40 AM Keynote: Micro-to-macro mechanisms behind size effects in coarse granular soils. Carlos Ovalle
Micro-to-macro mechanisms behind size effects in coarse granular soils. Carlos Ovalle
8:40 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

9:20 AM ::: Development of A New Large Scale Triaxial Test Facility. Greg Siemens
Development of A New Large Scale Triaxial Test Facility. Greg Siemens
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

9:40 AM ::: Auto-Optimized Rock Berm Design in Complex Seabed Conditions. Danial Gorgani
Auto-Optimized Rock Berm Design in Complex Seabed Conditions. Danial Gorgani
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

10:00 AM Coffe Break
Coffe Break
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Foyer)
10:20 AM Fundamentals and experimental testing for rock and rock mass
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

10:20 AM Large-scale true-triaxial rock testing apparatus - Alexander Cadmus (GUT, Rwth Aachen)

10:40 AM Observations from large-scale triaxial compression tests at jointed slaking rock masses - Jonathan Caspar Walter (IBF)

11:00 AM From facility development to multiphysics measurements including predictive and retrospective TH2M-coupled numerical simulations: A large-scale triaxial test system for repository engineering - Ralf Wolters-Zhao (TU Clausthal)

11:20 AM Large Scale Testing of Jointed Rock Mass: True Triaxial Loading and Anisotropy - Bernhard Stabel (Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG) Hans-Joachim Stech (Holzhäuser Ingenieur Consult GmbH) Thomas Mutschler (Past: KIT, Institute of Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechaniks)
11:40 AM ::: Simulating the Seabed: Characterizing Homogeneity for Trawling Geomechanics. Sudhanshu Rathore
Simulating the Seabed: Characterizing Homogeneity for Trawling Geomechanics. Sudhanshu Rathore
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Geb. 40,25 (Versuchshalle 1)
1:20 PM Fundamentals and experimental testing for soil
1:20 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

1:20 PM Large-Scale Monotonic and Cyclic Testing of Gravel for Offshore Applications - Abdalla Mustafa Abdalla Almukashfi (Geo)

1:40 PM Scale Effects in Triaxial Compression Testing of Rockfill: Correlating Small-, Medium-, and Large-Scale Results through Parallel Gradings - Itsuki Sato (Port and Airport Research Institute)
2:00 PM Modelling
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)
Contributions

2:00 PM Semi-Technical Scale Experiments and Digital Twins for Bentonite-Based Shaft Seals - Thomas Nagel (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)

2:20 PM Finding a generalized compaction model for 19 oedometric tests on granular salt - Mara Tews (BGR Hannover)

2:40 PM GPU-accelerated SPH study of large-scale debris flow impact and overflow on dual barriers - Hongcheng Jiao (Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, BOKU University)

3:00 PM Critical State Behaviour of Coarse Granular Materials: NorSand Calibration from Large-Scale Triaxial Testing - Chang-Gyun (CJ) Jeong (BGC Engineering Inc.)
3:20 PM :: Closing Address
Closing Address
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Geb. 40.50 (Engler-Bunte Hörsaal)