Wojciech Solowski

Associate Professor

T214 Civil Engineering

Associate Professor

I specialise in computational simulations of soils, granular materials and constitutive modelling. My research focuses on:

1) numerical Modelling with Finite Element Method and Material Point Method

2) advancing Material Point Method and applying it to large deformation problems, mainly in geotechnics

3) thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical behaviour of saturated and unsaturated soils and associated coupling processes and implementation of those into numerical software (currently in-house developed Finite Element Code Thebes)

4) constitutive modelling of soils and granular materials, in particular influence of clay microstructure on its behaviour, soft soil modelling and THMC modelling of soils

5) soil improvement, including dynamic compaction and dynamic replacement

6) modelling soil freezing and thawing, assessing frost susceptibility and mitigation methods for frost susceptible soils

7) observational method, reducing the cost of construction based on observations during the construction phase

8) vibrations in the ground and methods to mitigate the vibrations

9) laboratory testing of soils, triaxial tests, dynamic triaxial tests, oedometric tests

10) establishing soil parameters based on testing results

Positions of trust:

International secretary of Finnish Geotechnical Society

Member of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering TC106 committee on unsaturated soil behaviour.

Member of ERTC7, European Regional Technical Committee for Numerical Methods, member of ERTC7 group EC 7 - based design by means of numerical methods

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

[email protected]

Phone number

+358505925254

Areas of expertise

Numerical modelling, Generalized iterpolation material point method (GIMP), Explicit stress integration, Constitutive modelling, Large displacements, Stress integration algorithms, Unsaturated soil mechanics, Problems involving extreme deformations, Material point method, Bentonite, THMC coupling, Nuclear waste repositories, Finite element method, triaxial tests, oedometric tests, dynamic compaction, dynamic replacement, soil improvement, observational method, soil parameters, ground vibration, dynamic triaxial tests, vibration mitigation, Finite Element Method, Plaxis, 2D and 3D numerical analysis, soil characterisation

Research groups

Mineral Based Materials and Mechanics, Professor (Associate Professor)

Publications

Multiple discrete crack initiation and propagation in Material Point Method

Tito Adibaskoro, Stéphane Bordas, Wojciech T. Sołowski, Simo Hostikka 2024 Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Numerical simulation of in-situ free fall cone penetrometer tests using the material point method

Debasis Mohapatra, Saeideh Mohammadi Hasanbarough, Maarit Saresma, Joonas Virtasalo, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2024 UK Association for Computational Mechanics

A constitutive framework for the chemo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated non-expansive clays

Liliana Gramegna, Ayman A. Abed, Wojciech T. Sołowski, Guido Musso, Gabriele Della Vecchia 2023 E3S Web of Conferences

An Elastoplastic Framework Accounting for Changes in Matric and Osmotic Suction in Unsaturated Non-expansive Clays

Liliana Gramegna, Ayman A. Abed, Wojciech T. Sołowski, Guido Musso, Gabriele Della Vecchia 2023 Geotechnical Engineering in the Digital and Technological Innovation Era

Identification of key thermal couplings affecting the bentonite behaviour in a deep geological nuclear waste repository

Abhishek Gupta, Ayman A. Abed, Wojciech T. Solowski 2023 Engineering Geology

Implementation and validation of pressure-dependent gas permeability model for bentonite in FEM code Thebes

Abhishek Gupta, Ayman Abed, Wojciech T. Sołowski 2023 E3S Web of Conferences

Geological, geophysical and mechanical identification of marine deposits from the Gulf of Finland

Zhongsen Li, Debasis Mohapatra, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Maarit Saresma, Joonas Virtasalo, Reza Khalili 2023 Proceedings of the 9th International SUT Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics Conference : Innovative Geotechnologies for Energy Transition

Measurement of three-dimensional shrinkage deformations and volumes of stabilised soft clay during drying with Structure from Motion photogrammetry

Zhong Sen Li, Leena Korkiala-Tanttu, Wojciech Sołowski 2023 Acta Geotechnica

Numerical Simulation of a Laboratory-Scale Free Fall Cone Penetrometer Test in Marine Clay with the Material Point Method

Debasis Mohapatra, Maarit Saresma, Joonas Virtasalo, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2023 VIII International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2023)

Replication of fall cone test in marine clay with a Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method simulation

Debasis Mohapatra, Z. Li, Maarit Saresma, J. Virtasalo, W. Solowski 2023 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

Shear strength and shear stiffness analysis of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite

X. Pintado, S. Kumpulainen, E. Romero, A. Lloret, R. C. Weber, A. Ferrari, M. V. Villar, A. Abed, W. Solowski, Ville Heino 2023 Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

In situ free-fall cone penetrometer (FF-CPT) and laboratory fall cone characterisation of soft marine sediments in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

Maarit Saresma, Joonas Virtasalo, Zhongsen Li, Debasis Mohapatra, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2023 Proceedings of the 9th International SUT Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics Conference: Innovative geotechnologies for energy transition

Granular Material Point Method : unsaturated soil modelling

Wojciech T. Sołowski, Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan 2023 Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

Experimental dataset for the macro-scale compression of Norway Spruce perpendicular to grain direction

Tito Adibaskoro, Wojciech Sołowski, Simo Hostikka 2022 Data in Brief

Multi-Surfaced Elasto-Plastic Wood Material Model in Material Point Method

Tito Adibaskoro, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Simo Hostikka 2022 International Journal of Solids and Structures

Estimation of water retention behaviour of bentonite based on mineralogy and mercury intrusion porosimetry tests

Ayman Abed, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2021 Géotechnique

Analysis of key thermal coupled factors in modelling of bentonite barriers

Abhishek Gupta, Ayman Abed, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2021 Third International Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics

Modelling of shear zones during quasi-static granular silo flow using material point method (MPM)

J. Krzyzanowski, J. Tejchman, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Marcin Wójcik 2021 Powder Technology

Modelling the behaviour of unsaturated non-active clays in saline environment

Giulia Scelsi, Ayman A. Abed, Gabriele Della Vecchia, Guido Musso, Wojciech T. Sołowski 2021 Engineering Geology

From solid to disconnected state and back: Continuum modelling of granular flows using material point method

Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2021 Computers and Structures

Material point method: Overview and challenges ahead

Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Martin Berzins, William Coombs, James Guilkey, Matthias Möller, Quoc Anh Tran, Tito Adibaskoro, Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan, Roel Tielen, Kenichi Soga 2021 Advances in Applied Mechanics

Application of the Frozen and Unfrozen Soil model to modelling effects of freeze-thaw on low-volume roads

M. Tuohino, W. Solowski, A. Abed, K. Koivisto, X. Lei 2021 IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Applications of the new thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical coupled code 'Thebes'

Ayman Abed, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2020 Environmental Geotechnics

Finite element method algorithm for geotechnical applications based on Runge-Kutta scheme with automatic error control

Ayman A. Abed, Wojciech T. Sołowski 2020 Computers and Geotechnics

Modelling of unsaturated gas flow by Thebes code : Validation tests

Ayman Abed, Wojciech Sołowski 2020 E3S Web of Conferences

A Convected Particle Least Square Interpolation Material Point Method

Quoc Anh Tran, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Martin Berzins, James Guilkey 2020 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Simulation of swelling pressure evolution during infiltration in a bentonite block-pellet laboratory scale test

Ayman Abed, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils

MPM Simulation of fine particle migration process within unsaturated soils

Xiaoqin Lei, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Soil-Water-Structure Interaction (MPM 2019)

Continuum modelling of the granular flows in gaseous states using material point method

Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Soil-Water-Structure Interaction (MPM 2019)

Enhancing Constitutive Models for Soils: Adding the Capability to Model Nonlinear Small Strain in Shear

Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 Advances in Civil Engineering

Material Point Method: the past and the future

Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 Proceedings of the 32nd Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics

An improved moving least squares method for the Material Point Method

Quoc Tran, Martin Berzins, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Soil-Water-Structure Interaction (MPM 2019)

Continuum damage modelling of quasi-brittle materials by using the material point method

Quoc Anh Tran, Tuan Nguyen, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Jarkko Niiranen 2019 Proceedings of the 32nd Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics

Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method modelling of large deformation problems including strain-rate effects – Application to penetration and progressive failure problems

Quoc Tran, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 Computers and Geotechnics

Moving least squares reconstruction for B-spline Material Point Method

Quoc Tran, Elizaveta Wobbes, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Matthias Möller, Cornelis Vuik 2019 Proceedings os the 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Sil-Water-Structure Interaction

Temporal and Null-space filter for the Material Point Method

Quoc Anh Tran, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2019 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Inclusion of chemical effect in a fully coupled THM finite element code

Ayman Abed, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Enrique Romero, Antonio Gens 2018 Unsaturated Soils

Material Microstructure Effects in Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modelling of Bentonite

Ayman A. Abed, Wojciech T. Solowski 2018 PANAM UNSATURATED SOILS 2017: FUNDAMENTALS

A coupled constitutive model for modelling small strain behaviour of soils

Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2018 Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX

AN OVERVIEW OF THE MATERIAL POINT METHOD

Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Quoc Tran, Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan 2018 ECCOMAS Newsletter

Experimental Study on Effects of NaCl Solutions on Soil-Water Characteristic Curves of Expansive Soil

Xiujuan Yang, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Henghui Fan, Jinqian Dang 2018 Proceedings of China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering

A study on how to couple thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils: Physical equations, numerical implementation and examples

Ayman A. Abed, Wojciech T. Sołowski 2017 Computers and Geotechnics

Validation of a Fully Coupled THM Finite Element Code: Simulation of CIEMAT Mock-Up Test

Ayman Abed, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2017

ESTIMATION OF GRANULAR FLOW IMPACT FORCE ON RIGID WALL USING MATERIAL POINT METHOD

Seyedmohammadjavad Seyedan, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2017 5th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2017

HYDRO-MECHANICAL COUPLED DUAL DOMAIN MATERIAL POINT METHOD STABILIZED WITH A NULL-SPACE FILTER

Quoc Tran, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Evan Cummings 2017 5th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2017

Large strain consolidation modelling using Dual Domain Material Point Method

Quoc Tran, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski 2017

Modelling of fall-cone tests with strain-rate effects

Quoc Tran, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Minna Karstunen, Leena Korkiala-Tanttu 2017 Procedia Engineering

Modelling of the quickness test of sensitive clays using the generalized interpolation material point method

Quoc Tran, Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Vikas Thakur, Minna Karstunen 2017 Landslides in sensitive clays

Hydro-mechanical modelling of MX-80 bentonite: one dimensional study

Ayman A. Abed, Mika Laitinen, Joni Lämsä, Tero Harjupatana, Wojciech T. Sołowski, Markku Kataja 2016 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils – E-UNSAT 2016

Estimation of water retention behaviour of MX-80 bentonite partially saturated with saline solution

Auli Kuusela-Lahtinen, Gowthaman Sinnathamby, João Mendez, Wojciech T. Sołowski, Domenico Gallipoli, Xavier Pintado, Leena K. Korkiala-Tanttu 2016 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils – E-UNSAT 2016

Explicit stress integration with streamlined drift reduction

W. T. Sołowski, S. W. Sloan 2016 Advances in Engineering Software

Benchmarking selection of parameter values for the Barcelona basic model

F. D'Onza, S. J. Wheeler, D. Gallipoli, M. Barrera Bucio, M. Hofmann, M. Lloret-Cabot, A. Lloret Morancho, C. Mancuso, J. M. Pereira, E. Romero Morales, M. Sánchez, W. Sołowski, A. Tarantino, D. G. Toll, R. Vassallo 2015 Engineering Geology

Simulations of dense snow avalanches with generalized interpolation material point method

Wojciech Solowski, Djebar Baroudi, Mojtaba Ghobakhlou, Leena Korkiala-Tanttu 2015 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2015

Equivalent stress approach in creation of elastoplastic constitutive models for unsaturated soils

W. T. Sołowski, S. W. Sloan 2015 International Journal of Geomechanics

Evaluation of material point method for use in geotechnics

W. T. Sołowski, S. W. Sloan 2015 International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Material point method simulation of triaxial shear tests

W. T. Sołowski, S. W. Sloan, D. Wang 2015 Computer Methods and Recent Advances in Geomechanics - Proceedings of the 14th Int. Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Recent Advances in Geomechanics, IACMAG 2014

Material point method modelling of granular flow in inclined channels

Wojciech Tomasz Sołowski, Scott William Sloan 2014 Applied Mechanics and Materials

Stress integration schemes for unsaturated soils

W. T. Sołowski, S. W. Sloan 2014 Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014

Numerical simulation of a small scale dynamic replacement stone column creation experiment

Wojciech T. Sołowski, Scott W. Sloan, Piotr T. Kanty, Sławomir Kwiecień 2013 Particle-Based Methods III: Fundamentals and Applications - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Particle-based MethodsFundamentals and Applications, Particles 2013