Wang, B., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A., (2016) “Slope failure analysis using the random material point method”, Géotechnique Letters, 6(2), 113-118. DOI:10.1680/jgele.16.00019. Editor’s choice Q2 2016.
Li, Y., Hicks, M.A., Vardon, P.J. (2016) “Uncertainty reduction and sampling efficiency in slope designs using 3D conditional random fields” Computers and Geotechnics, 79, 159-172. DOI:10.1016/j.compgeo.2016.05.027.
Wang, B., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A., (2016) “Investigation of retrogressive and progressive slope failure mechanisms using the material point method”, Computers and Geotechnics, 78, 88-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2016.04.016.
Wang, B., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A., Chen, Z., (2016) “Development of an implicit material point method for geotechnical applications”, Computers and Geotechnics, 71, 157-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2015.08.008.
Sedighi, M., Thomas, H.R., Vardon, P.J., (2016) “Reactive transport of chemicals in unsaturated soils: model development and verification”, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 53(1), 162-172. DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2014-0436.
Falcón, I., Juncosa, R., Vardon, P., Rammlmair, D., Gunter, T., Noell, U., Delgado, J. (2016) “Hydrodynamic study of by-products from the dimension stone industry of Pontevedra (Spain): Experimental and Modelling”, Environmental Earth Sciences, 75, 421.
Sedighi, M., Thomas, H.R., Masum, S.A., Vardon, P.J., Nicholson, D., Chen, Q., (2014) “Geochemical Modelling of Hydrogen Gas Migration in Unsaturated Bentonite Buffer”, In Shaw, R. P. (ed.) Gas Generation and Migration in Deep Geological Radioactive Waste Repositories, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 415. DOI: 10.1144/SP415.12.
Vardon P J, Heimovaara T J, 2014 “Waste barriers in environmental geotechnics”, Environmental Geotechnics. DOI: 10.1680/envgeo.13.00100.
Vardon, P.J., (2015) “Climatic influence on geotechnical infrastructure: a review”, Environmental Geotechnics,2(EG3), 166-174. DOI: 10.1680/envgeo.13.00055. (online 2014)
Thomas H R, Vardon P J, Cleall P J, 2014, 'Three-dimensional behavior of a prototype radioactive waste repository in fractured granitic rock', Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 51(3), 246 - 259. DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2013-0094.
Bennett, D.P., Cuss, R.J., Vardon, P.J., Harrington, J.F., Sedighi, M., Thomas, H.R., (2015) “Exploratory data analysis of the Large Scale Gas Injection Test (Lasgit) dataset, focusing on ‘second-order’ events around macro-scale gas flows” In Shaw, R. P. (ed.) Gas Generation and Migration in Deep Geological Radioactive Waste Repositories, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 415. DOI: 10.1144/SP415.14
Bennett D P, Cuss R J, Vardon P J, Harrington J F, Thomas H R, 2014, 'Phenomenon exposure from the large scale gas injection test (Lasgit) dataset using a bespoke data analysis toolkit', Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement, Geological Society, Special Publications, 400. DOI: 10.1144/SP400.5.
Vardon P J, Thomas H R, Masum S A, Chen Q and Nicholson D, 2013, 'Simulation of repository gas migration in a bentonite buffer', Engineering and Computational Mechanics, Special Issue ‘Nuclear’. , 167 (EM1), 13-22.DOI: 10.1680/eacm.12.00018.
Bennett D P, Cuss R J, Vardon P J, Harrington J F, Philp R N and Thomas H R, 2012, 'Data analysis toolkit for long-term, large-scale experiments', Minerlogical Magazine, 76 (8), 3355-3364. DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2012.076.8.48.
Masum S A, Vardon P J, Thomas H R, Chen Q and Nicholson D, 2012, 'Multicomponent gas flow through compacted clay buffer in a higher activity radioactive waste geological disposal facility', Minerlogical Magazine, 76 (8), 3337-3344. DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2012.076.8.46.
Thomas H R, Sedighi M and Vardon P J, 2012, 'Diffusive Reactive Transport of Multicomponent Chemicals under Coupled Thermal, Hydraulic, Chemical and Mechanical (THCM) Conditions', International Journal of Geomechanics, 30(4), 841-857. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-012-9502-9.
Seetharam S C, Thomas H R and Vardon P J, 2011, 'Non-Isothermal Multi-Component Reactive Transport Model for Unsaturated Soil', ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics, 11(2), 84-89. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000018.
Thomas H R, Seetharam S C and Vardon P J, 2011, 'On the inclusion of some biological impacts and influences in coupled transport phenomena in unsaturated soil', ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 29, 181-191. DOI: 10.1007/s10706-010-9316-6.
Vardon P J, Cleall P J, Thomas H R, Philp R N and Banicescu I, 2011, 'Three-dimensional field-scale coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling: a parallel computing implementation', ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics, 11(2), 90-99. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000019.
Books
Vardon, P.J., Bykov, D., (eds.) (2016) Proceedings of the 2nd Petrus-OPERA PhD and early stage researcher conference. TU Delft, ISBN: 978-94-6186-669-1. pp. 96.
Conference publications
Wang, B., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A. (2016) “Preliminary analysis of rainfall-induced slope failures using the material point method”, Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice , Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium Landslides, Naples, 2037-2042.
(Abstract) Buragohain, P., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A. (2016) “Coupled Thermo–Hydro–Mechanical Processes for the Dutch Radioactive Waste Geological Disposal Facility in Boom Clay” Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI).
Vardon, P.J., Yuan, J., Hicks, M.A., Li, Y. (2016) “Initial Plug and Seal Design for the Dutch Repository Concept”, DOPAS Seminar.
Li, Y., Hicks, M.A., Vardon, P.J. (2015) “High performance computing strategies for nonlinear finite element analysis of long heterogeneous soil slopes”, Proceeding of the 23rd UK conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 427-430, Swansea.
Liu, K., Vardon, P.J., Arnold, P., Hicks, M.A., (2015) “Effect of hysteresis on the stability of an embankment under transient seepage”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Geohazards and Geomechanics (ISGG2015), IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 26, 012013, Warwick.
Vardon, P.J., Yao, Y., van Paassen, L., van Tol, A.F., (2015) “The use of a large-strain consolidation model to optimise multilift tailing deposits”, Proceedings of the Tailings and Mine Watse Management for the 21st Century, 263-270, Sydney.
Haxaire, A., Vardon, P.J., Galavi, V., Brinkgreve, R., (2015) Implementing a fully-coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model: lessons learned from the application to nuclear wastes storage. EUROCK2015
Li, Y., Hicks, M.A., Vardon, P.J., (2015) “Three dimensional discrete failures in long heterogeneous slopes”, Geotechnical Safety and Risk V, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR15), 677-682.
De Gast, T., Vardon, P.J., Jommi, C., Hicks, M.A., (2015) “The history of safety factors for Dutch regional dykes”, Geotechnical Safety and Risk V, Proceedings of the 5th International Syposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR15), 364-370.
Liu, K., Hicks, M.A., Vardon, P.J., Jommi, C., (2015) “Probabilistic analysis of velocity distribution under earth embankments for piping investigation”, Geotechnical Safety and Risk V, Proceedings of the 5th International Syposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR15), 683-688.
(Abstract) Vardon, P.J., Arnold, P., Milioritsas, M., Hicks, M.A., Fokker, P.A., Fokkens, J.H., (2015) “Geomechanical modelling of the Dutch radioactive waste repository accounting for uncertainties”, 6th International meeting on Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers, 413-414.
Arnold, P., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A., (2015) “Preliminary assessment of tunnel stability for a radioactive waste repository in Boom Clay”, Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, 6, 545 - 549.
Yao, Y., van Tol, A.F., van Paassen, L., Vardon, P.J. (2014) “Shrinkage and swelling properties of flocculated mature fine tailings”, IOSTC 2014, 27-35.
Vardon, P.J., Nijssen, T., Yao, Y., van Tol, A.F. (2014) “Numerical simulation of fine oil sand tailings drying in test cells”, IOSTC 2014, 59-69.
(Abstract) Wang, B., Vardon, P., Hicks, M., Chen, Z., (2014) “Preliminary investigations into progressive failures using the implicit material point method”, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2014), 28th – 30th July 2014, Cambridge, G.R. Liu and Z.W. Guan Eds., 480. ScienTech Publisher. <http://www.sci-en-tech.com/ICCM/index.php/2014/Cambridge/paper/view/480>.
Wang, B, Vardon, PJ, Hicks, MA, 2014, 'Investigation of aspects of an implicit dynamic material point method implementation', 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE) , Delft, 313-318.
Thomas H R, Sedighi M, Al-Masum S, Vardon P J, Nicolson D, Chen A, 2013, 'Gas-flow/geochemistry interactions in unsaturated bentonite buffer, Fate of repository gases project; Gas generation and migration international symposium and workshop, 109-112. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/forge/docs/reports/D0.9.pdf
Wang B, Vardon P J, Hicks M A, 2013, 'Implementation of a quasi-static material point method for geotechnical applications', 3rdInternational Symposium on Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo III), Krakow, 305-313.
van Paassen L A, Vardon P J, Mulder A, van de Weg G, Jeffrey P, 2013, 'Investigating the susceptibility of iron ore to liquefaction', Poromechanics V: Proceedings of the5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Vienna, 1478-1487, DOI: 10.1061/9780784412992.176.
Vardon P J and Nuttall J D, 2013, 'Fracture growth in heterogeneous geomaterials', In the proceedings of theInternational conferenceon installation effects in geotechnical engineering, Rotterdam, 38-42. DOI: 10.1201/b13890-7.
Bennett D P, Cuss R J, Vardon P J, Harrington J F, Sedighi M, Shaw R and Thomas H R, 2013, '‘Second Order’ Exploratory Data Analysis Of The Large Scale Gas Injection Test (Lasgit) Dataset, Focused Around Known Gas Migration Events', Fate of repository gases project; Gas generation and migration international symposium and workshop, 146-151. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/forge/docs/reports/D0.9.pdf
(Abstract) Vardon P J, Hicks M A, Fokker P A and Fokkens J H, 2012, 'Technical feasibility of a concept radioactive waste disposal facility in Boom Clay in the Netherlands', In the proceedings of the 5th International meeting on Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers, Montpellier, 348-349.
(Abstract) Bennett D P, Cuss R J, Vardon P J, Harrington J F and Thomas H R, 2012, 'Information contained within the large scale gas injection test (Lasgit) dataset exposed using a bespoke data analysis toolkit', In the proceedings of the 5th International meeting on Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers, Montpellier, 716-717.
Sedighi M, Thomas H R, Vardon P J, 2012, 'Numerical modelling of the reactive transport of chemicals in unsaturated expansive soils', In the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Problematic Soils, Wuhan, 211-218. (Highly commended paper – CIP-PS Award 2012)
Mosleh M H, Thomas H R, Turner M, Vardon P J, Sedighi M, Tripathy S, 2012, 'Gas transport and reaction processes in problematic soils', In the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Problematic Soils, Wuhan, 227-233.
Sedighi M, Thomas H R, Vardon P J, 2011, 'Modelling thermal impacts on reactive transport processes related to multicomponent chemicals in compacted clays', In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo II), Cavtat-Dubrovnik, 538-546, ISBN: 978-960-98750-1-1.
Sedighi M, Thomas H R, Vardon P J and Seetharam S C, 2010, 'Advances in modelling the non-isothermal behaviour of multicomponent chemicals in unsaturated soils', In the proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics (6ICEG), Delhi, 1619-1622.
Masum S A, Vardon P J, Thomas H R, Chen Q and Nicholson D, 2010, 'Initial investigation of gas pressure development at post closure stage of an underground disposal facility', In the proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics (6ICEG), Delhi, 1735-1738.
Vardon P J and Thomas H R, 2010, 'Recent developments modelling THCM behaviour of geoenvironmental problems', In Geoenvironmental engineering and geotechnics: proceedings of GeoShanghai 2010, ASCE GSP No. 204, 153-158.
Vardon P J, Cleall P J and Thomas H R, 2010, 'Three-dimensional modelling of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical behaviour', In the proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Environmental Geotechnics (6ICEG), Delhi, 1646-1649.
Vardon P J, Thomas H R and Cleall P J, 2009, 'An investigation of the re-saturation characteristics of the prototype repository', In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo I), Juan-les-Pins, 544-552, ISBN: 0-9510380-4-4.
Thomas H R, Vardon P J and Li Y C, 2009, 'Coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical modeling for geoenvironmental phenomena', In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Geoenvironmental Engineering, Hangzhou.
Vardon P J, Banicescu I, Cleall P J, Thomas H R and Philp R N, 2009, 'Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling: A new parallel approach', In IEEE proceedings of the PDSEC-09 workshop of the IPDPS 2009 conference, Rome, ISBN: 978-1-4244-3750-4.
Thomas H R, Seetharam S C, Siddiqua S and Vardon P J, 2009, 'On the development of a THM model to include higher temperature effects', In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo I), Juan-les-Pins, 403-411, ISBN: 0-9510380-4-4.
Thomas H R and Vardon P J, 2009, 'The TH(C)M behaviour of highly-compacted bentonite clay related to high-level nuclear waste disposal - some recent developments', International conference and workshop in the framework of the European Commission TIMODAZ and THERESA projects, Luxembourg.
Vardon P J, Thomas H R and Cleall P J, 2008, 'Aspects of thermo-hydro-mechanical simulation of a prototype repository in fractured rock', In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop of Young Doctors in Geomechanics, Paris, 11-14.
Vardon P J, Thomas H R and Cleall P J, 2008, 'Modelling the three-dimensional hydraulic performance of a prototype repository system within fractured crystalline rock', In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium GeoProc'2008, Lille, edited by Shao, J-F., Burlion, N., Wiley, ISTE, pp. 517-524, ISBN 978-1-84821-043-1.
Vardon P J, Cleall P J, Thomas H R and Philp R N, 2008, 'Three-dimensional field-scale coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling', In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Goa, 2419-2425.
PhD Thesis
Vardon PJ, 2009, A Three-dimensional numerical investigation of the thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of a large-scale prototype repository.
Other
Vardon, P.J., van Tol, A.F., van Paassen, L.A., Yao, Y. (2016) Comparison between field test data and numerical prediction published in IOSTC 2014. Report no. GE/PJV/15.001, TU Delft. pp. 25.
Palmu, M., Vardon, P.J., Paiva, I., (2015) IGD-TP Competence Maintenance, Education and Training Strategy and Action Plan for 2013-2016. Deliverable D-No. 3.2, EC contract 323260.
Palmu, M., Paiva, I., Vardon, P.J., (2015) CMET report on the feasibility study on the informal or sector internal accreditation body. Deliverable D-No. 3.4, EC contract 323260.
Arnold, P., Vardon, P.J., Hicks, M.A., Fokkens, J., Fokker, P.A., (2015) A numerical and reliability-based investigation into the technical feasibility of a Dutch radioactive waste repository in Boom Clay. Report no. OPERA-PU-TUD311. COVRA. pp. 316
Vardon, P.J., van Tol, A.F. (2014) Sludge Ripening Model – Documentation and User Manual (Rev 1). TU Delft internal report no. GE/PJV/13.002.
Vardon, P.J., Arnold, P., Neeft, E.A.C., Hicks, M.A., (2014) “Radioactive waste disposal in the Netherlands”, MV jaarboek, 222-229.
Van Paassen, L.A., Vardon, P.J. (2013)Investigating the effect of water-absorbing polymers on the transportable moisture limit (TML) of iron ore. TA/IG/13.010a, TU Delft. (Report for Arcelor Mittal)
Van Paassen, L.A., Vardon, P.J. (2013) Investigating the durability of the effect of water-absorbing polymers on the transportable moisture limit (TML) of iron ore. TA/IG/13.010b, TU Delft. (Report for Arcelor Mittal)
Van Paassen, L.A., Vardon, P.J. (2013)Investigating the susceptibility for liquefaction of ore from Guatemala. TA/IG/13.012, TU Delft. (Report for Oldendorff Carriers)
Vardon P J, Masum S A and Thomas H R, 2010, 'Initial investigation of gas pressure data ranges for use in the post closure Disposal System Safety Case', Report submitted to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in conjunction with Arup, pp. 93.
Thomas H R, Singh R M and Vardon P J, 2009, 'Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) modelling of the full Canister Retrieval Test (CRT)', THERESA project, Work Package 4, Deliverable 12, Geoenvironmental Research Centre, Cardiff University, UK.
Thomas H R, Singh R M and Vardon P J, 2008, 'THM modelling of Engineered Buffer at Canister Mid-height related to CRT', THERESA project, Geoenvironmental Research Centre, Cardiff University, UK.