Geo-Micromechanics Research Group

Big news! Our experiment boarded sucessfully to ISS, on hydrophobic sand-water-air mixtures flow and transport. Super excited, read and listen more on the links below.
Nov 18, 2022
More graduates are out of my lab!
Sep 01, 2022
Busy summer in the lab!
Aug 01, 2022
My lab members have won quite a few awards in recent years! Excited for the hard work recognition and a chance to disseminate our research more broadly!!! Click here to see the award list
Apr 01, 2022
Preparations to send our experiments to the International Space Station (ISS) are on the way! Wenpi Ma and Space Tango are working tirelessly to prepare some fun science! We also learned that our "cube" is likely going to be "shipped" up with NG-18!
Feb 01, 2022
Our Summer STARS undergraduate lab member from UCI, Melissa Lepe, wins the ePoster award at ABRCMS 2021 Presentation Award for Engineering, Physics and Mathematics for the work she did with us on post-wildfire mudflow micromechanics!!! Way to go, Melissa!
Nov 15, 2021
Brian D. Yamashiro defends his Ph.D.! YEEEEY!!! Congratulations Brian!
Aug 16, 2021
"A Numerical Study of Neutrally Buoyant Slickwater Proppant Flow and Transport in Rough Fractures" by Brian D. Yamashiro and Ingrid Tomac has been accepted for publishing in Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment!
Jul 02, 2021
Professor Tomac has been awarded with ARMA's Distinguished Service Award for 2021 at the Junior level
Jun 21, 2021
Assessment of Physical Properties of Water Repellent Soils Mahta Movasat; Ingrid Tomac has been accepted for publication in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering!
May 12, 2021
"Experimental Investigation of Proppant Clustering in Intersected Fractures", has been accepted for publication in Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology
Feb 22, 2021
A new paper accepted for publishing in Computers and Geotechnics! Yamashiro B. and Tomac I. Particle Clustering Dynamics in Dense-Phase Particle-Fluid Slurries
Jan 19, 2021
Check out our new paper: Experimental investigation of proppant flow and transport dynamics through fracture intersections, in Geomechanics for Energy and Environment
Jan 07, 2021
RESEARCHERS LOOK TO THE STARS FOR INSIGHT ON WILDFIRES, MUDSLIDES Jan 6, 2021 | Flooding & Watersheds |
Jan 06, 2021
Group research in KPBS! https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/nov/13/uc-san-diego-engineers-send-gassy-soil-space-tackl/
Nov 13, 2020
Mrs. Lan Luo selected to attend the 2015 "Women Exploring Graduate Opportunities in Civil and Environmental Engineering (We Go CEE) Workshop"
Jul 15, 2015