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Associate Professor Antoinette TORDESILLAS
	Position:	Associate Professor/Reader
	Email:	A.Tordesillas@ms.unimelb.edu.au
	Room:	G17
	Ext. Number:	49685
	Webpage:	www.mgm.ms.unimelb.edu.au
Research Group:	- Applied Mathematics - Complex Systems
Interests:	- Homogenization Theory - Interfacial Continuum Mechanics - Mechanics of Complex Systems - Mechanics of Granular Media
Recent Publications: Selected Publications \| Publications RSS Feed Buckling force chains in dense granular assemblies: physical and numerical experiments(2009) more Statistical Properties of a 2D Granular Materials Subjected to Cyclic Shear(2009) more Are we there yet? Tracking the energy trail(2009) more Non-coaxiality and force chain evolution(2009) more Topological evolution in dense granular materials: A complex networks perspective(2009) more

Current Postgraduate Supervision:

"Birth and Death process in evolving force networks."

Past Postgraduate Supervision:

Maya MUTHUSWAMY	"Micromechanics of force transmission in dense, cohesionless granular"
Stuart WALSH	"A thermomechanical approach for micromechanical continuum models of granular media"

Recent Honours Students:

Shaun COLE	"Higher order thermomicropolar models of granular media"
Richard WEBB	"Analysis of granular-solid contact systems"
Stephen MCATEER	"Unjamming as Structural Instability"

Subject(s) Currently Teaching:

620-293	Engineering Mathematics (Semester 2, 2009)
620-635	Advanced Materials Modelling (Semester 2, 2009)

Recent Grant History:

Year(s)	Source	Type	Title
2009 - 2011	ARC	Discovery	Confined comminution and particle flow: a general model for large-scale canonical solutions
2007 - 2010	ARC	Discovery	Micromechanical modelling of fault gouge dynamics: towards an improved fault constitutive relation
2007 - 2010	US Army Research Office	Single Investigator	Multiscale phenomena in the solid-liquid transition state of a granular material: Analysis, Modelling and Experimentation
2005 - 2007	ARC	Discovery	Seeing the discrete in a continuum: an integrated numerical-rheological-experimental approach approach towards high resolution micromechanical continuum models of granular materials
2002 - 2007	US Army Research Office	Single Investigator	Toward a generalized continuum model of granular soil and granular soil-tyre interaction
2006	ARC	Linkage International	Modelling and simulation of emergent behaviour in particulate assemblies under terrestrial and microgravity conditions: a focus on force propagation.

Awards:

Year	Name	Organisation
2000	JH MICHELL Medal for distinguished research in Applied Mathematics	Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematic

Responsibilities:

MSc Management Science Coordinator

Committees:

Growing Esteem Working Group

Honours and Masters Committee

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