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Christelle ABADIE

Chargée de Recherche de Classe Normale

Bouguenais

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Christelle ABADIE

Chargée de Recherche de Classe Normale

Academic Researcher

Géotechnique pour le Développement Durable dans le Contexte du Changement Climatique

Les nations du monde entier sont confrontées à un défi sans précédent : garantir une énergie sécurisée tout en limitant le réchauffement climatique. Parallèlement, le réchauffement climatique aggrave les conditions météorologiques extrêmes, augmentant ainsi la fréquence des géorisques tels que les effondrements, les glissements de terrain et les tremblements de terre. Il est ainsi essentiel de contribuer au développement des énergies vertes tout en protégeant les infrastructures contre ces événements potentiellement catastrophiques.

Les ingénieurs géotechniciens jouent un rôle central dans la résolution de ces problèmes en fournissant des solutions novatrices pour faire face au changement climatique et en proposant de construire des infrastructures durables. Mes travaux de recherche en géomécanique et en intéraction sol-structure sont à l'interface entre le domaine de l'énergie et celui de la conception d'infrastructures durables. Mes travaux ont pour but de développer des solutions géotechniques dans le contexte du changement climatique et se divisent en deux axes de recherche principaux:


1 | La conception et l'optimisation des fondations et structures de support des éoliennes offshore

J'ai plus de 10 ans d'expérience de recherche sur l'amélioration des méthodes de calculs et la compréhension du comportement des fondations des éoliennes offshore soumises à diverses conditions de charge :

  1.  chargement cyclique à grand nombre de cycles (modèle HARM)
  2. charge ultime et chargement monotonique (modèle PISA)
  3. excitations sismiques (en particulier, le comportement de la pièce de transition)
  4. Systèmes d'ancrage pour les éoliennes flottantes
  5. Transfert de connaissances pour l'optimisation des fondations éoliennes terrestres afin de réduire les émissions de carbone et les coûts

2 | Système d'alerte précoce pour les effondrements de sol de type doline ou fontis

Je suis la responsable académique du projet SINEW, un projet de recherche en cours visant à développer un système d'alerte précoce pour les mouvements du sol, et basé sur une combinaison de détection par fibre optique et de surveillance par satellite. Ce projet s'effectue en collaboration avec l'Université de Pretoria (Afrique du Sud), l'Université Federico II (Naples, Italie), l'Université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) et l'Université de Manchester (Royaume-Uni).

Biographie

Dr Christelle Abadie est l'une des chargées de recherche au sein du groupe Centrifugeuses Géotechniques de l'Université Gustave Eiffel, sur le Campus de Nantes (Bouguenais). Elle est titulaire d'un diplôme d'ingénieur des Grandes Ecoles de l'ENSTA ParisTech et d'un doctorat en génie civil de l'Université d'Oxford. Au cours de son doctorat, elle a étudié la réponse des fondations monopieux à des chargements latéraux cycliques à long terme (modèle HARM), suivi d'un post-doctorat à l'Université d'Oxford, sur le projet PISA2 (Pile Soil Analysis). Elle a ensuite poursuivi ses recherches en tant que professeure adjointe en génie civil à l'Université de Cambridge, où elle était membre de Fitzwilliam College. Elle est actuellement co-secrétaire générale de la conférence ISFOG 2025 (International Symposium for Frontiers in Geotechnics) qui se tiendra à Nantes en juin 2025.


Geotechnics for Sustainable Development in the Context of Climate Change

Countries across the world are grappling with the unprecedented twin challenge of providing secure energy while curbing global heating to avoid the worst eects of the current climate crisis. In parallel, on-going global warming enhances local extreme weather conditions, which in turn increases the frequency of geohazards, such as sinkholes, landslides or earthquakes. Contributing to the development of green energy sources while protecting infrastructure against the occurrence of this potentially catastrophic geohazardous events is becoming increasingly important for the built environment.

The geotechnical engineers and researchers play a central role in addressing these issues and providing novel and innovative solutions to combat and adapt to climate change whilst constructing sustainable infrastructure for the future. My research in geomechanics and soil-structure interaction is at the interface between energy and sustainable infrastructure, with the aim of developing geotechnical solutions in the context of climate change.

I focus principally on two main axes of research:

1 | The design and optimisation of foundations and support structures for wind energy applications

I have over 10 years research experience working on improving design methods and further understanding the behaviour of foundations for offshore wid turbines subjected to a range of loading conditions:

  • Long-term cyclic loading (principally the HARM model)
  • Monotonic ultimate limit loads (PISA method)
  • Seismic excitations (in particular, the behaviour of the transition piece)
  • Anchors for floating offshore wind turbines
  • Knowledge transfer for optimisation of onshore wind foundations for carbon emission and cost reductions

2 | Modelling and monitoring of ground movements for climate-change induced geo-hazards

I am the academic lead for  the SINEW project, an on-going research project that aimed at developing an early-warning system for ground movement based on combined fibre optic sensing and satellite monitoring. This project is in collboration with the University of Pretoria (South Africa°, the University Federico II (Naples, Italy), the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Manchester (UK).

Short Biography

Dr. Christelle Abadie graduated in 2011 with a double degree from ENSTA Paris and an MSc in Advanced Structural Design. She then completed a PhD at the University of Oxford, specializing in offshore geotechnics, where she developed a novel model for monopile foundations under cyclic lateral loading. Following her PhD, Dr. Abadie continued research as the lead postdoctoral researcher on the PISA2 project at Oxford. In 2018, she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, where she was the youngest permanent academic staff member in Engineering and the first female fellow in Engineering at Fitzwilliam College. In 2023, she joined the University Gustave Eiffel as a permanent member of the academic staff in the geotechnical centrifuge group, where she focuses on advancing next-generation offshore wind turbine foundations.

Dr. Abadie is an active member of the offshore geotechnical community, collaborating with leading offshore wind energy companies. She has served as the academic representative for the British Offshore Engineering Society and as the UK representative for the European Large Geotechnical Institutes Platform. Dr. Abadie is also a corresponding member of TC209 and contributed as lead editor and co-general secretary for the 2025 ISFOG conference. In recognition of her contributions to the field, she was awarded the 2025 Bright Spark Award in Offshore Geotechnics.


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Publications

Publications

Christelle Nadine Abadie, Gianluigi Della Ragione, Yuanguo Kuang, Talia da Silva Burke, Sivasakthy Selvakumaran, et al.
Système de détection d‘effondrement de fontis. Journées Nationales de Géotechnique et de Géologie de l’Ingénieur, Jun 2024, Poitiers, France. 8p
Christelle Nadine Abadie, Talia Simone da Silva Burke, Sivasakthy Selvakumaran, Gianluigi Della Ragione, Yuanguo Kuang, et al.
Fibre Optic Sensing and Satellite Imaging for Early Warning of Catastrophic Ground Subsidence. 2024
10.2139/ssrn.4829064
Christelle Nadine Abadie, Byron Byrne, Guy Houlsby, Harvey Burd, Ross Mcadam, et al.
Modélisation des performances de durée de vie des monopieux éolien offshore. Journées Nationales de Géotechnique et de Géologie de l’Ingénieur, Jun 2024, Poitiers, France. 8p
Carlos Español-Espinel, Stuart Haigh, Gopal S.P
Madabhushi, Christelle Nadine Abadie, James Go, et al.. Evolution of excess pore water pressures around monopiles subjected to moderate seismic loading. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2024, 176, pp.108316
10.1016/j.soildyn.2023.108316
Christelle Nadine Abadie, William Beuckelaers, Byron Byrne, Guy Houlsby, Harvey Burd, et al.
Modeling Lifetime Performance of Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Applications. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2023, 149 (8)
10.1061/JGGEFK.GTENG-9833
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Della Ragione, Christelle Nadine Abadie, X. Xu, T. da Silva Burke, T. Möller, et al.. Fibre optic sensing for strain-field measurement in geotechnical laboratory experiments. Géotechnique Letters, 2023, 13 (4), pp.196-203
10.1680/jgele.23.00048
Diarmid M Xu, Gopal Madabhushi, C N Abadie, John M Harris, Richard J S Whitehouse
Effect of rock density on the response of scour protection to earthquake-induced liquefaction for offshore wind applications. 9th International SUT OSIG Conference on Innovative Geotechnologies for Energy Transition, Sep 2023, London, United Kingdom
Chisom U Ifeobu, C N Abadie, Stuart Haigh
Cyclic response of shallow onshore wind turbine foundations in dense sand. 5th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Dec 2023, Hanoi (Vietnam), Vietnam
Gianluigi Della Ragione, Emilio Bilotta, Xiaomin Xu, Talia da Silva Burke, Tobias Möller, et al.
Numerical investigation of fibre-optic sensing for sinkhole detection. Geotechnique, 2023, pp.1-14
10.1680/jgeot.22.00241
Christopher Hamilton, Christelle Nadine Abadie
Seismic excitation of offshore wind turbines and transition piece response. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 2023, 52 (7), pp.2091-2114
10.1002/eqe.3872
Tobias Möller, Talia S
Da Silva Burke, Xiaomin Xu, Gianluigi Della Ragione, Emilio Bilotta, et al.. Distributed fibre optic sensing for sinkhole early warning: experimental study. Geotechnique, 2023, 73 (8), pp.701-715
10.1680/jgeot.21.00154
Carlos Español-Espinel, Gopal Madabhushi, Stuart Haigh, C N Abadie, Diarmid M Xu, et al.
Seismic Response of Large Diameter Monopiles for Offshore Wind Turbines in Liquefiable Soils. 9th International SUT OSIG Conference on Innovative Geotechnologies for Energy Transition, Sep 2023, Londres, United Kingdom
G Della Ragione, T Möller, C N Abadie, X Xu, T S da Silva Burke, et al.
Fiber Optic Sensing for Sinkhole Detection in Cohesionless Soil. 8th Italian National Conference of Researchers in Geotechnical Engineering, Jul 2023, Palermo, Italy. pp.186 - 193
10.1007/978-3-031-34761-0_23
Charlie Aaron Spicer, C N Abadie, Gopal Madabhushi
Anchor Pile Design for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines. 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure (ICONHIC), Jul 2022, Athens, Greece
10.17863/CAM.91865
Christelle Nadine Abadie, Byron Byrne, Guy Houlsby, Harvey Burd, Ross Mcadam, et al.
Modelling of offshore wind monopile lifetime performance. 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG), Aug 2022, Austin (Texas, USA), United States
10.17863/CAM.83193
Diarmid M Xu, C N Abadie, Gopal Madabhushi, John M Harris, Richard J S Whitehouse
Response of armour rock-scour protection to earthquake-induced liquefaction for offshore wind applications. 10th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG), Sep 2022, Daejon, South Korea
Xiaomin Xu, C N Abadie, Tobias Möller, Gianluigi Della Ragione, Talia da Silva Burke
On the use of high-resolution distributed fibre optic sensing for small-scale geotechnical experiments at 1g. 10th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG), Sep 2022, Daejon, South Korea
Juntae Seong, Christelle Nadine Abadie, Stuart Haigh, Gopal S.P
Madabhushi. Seismic response of offshore wind monopiles in cohesionless soils. 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG), Aug 2022, Austin (Texas, USA), United States
10.17863/CAM.83192
Juntae Seong, Christelle Nadine Abadie, Gopal S.P
Madabhushi, Stuart Haigh. Dynamic and monotonic response of Monopile Foundations for Offshore wind turbines using centrifuge testing. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2022, 21 (2), pp.1303-1323
10.1007/s10518-022-01524-7
Harvey Burd, David Taborda, Lidija Zdravković, Christelle Nadine Abadie, Byron Byrne, et al.
PISA design model for monopiles for offshore wind turbines: application to a marine sand. Geotechnique, 2020, 70 (11), pp.1048-1066
10.1680/jgeot.18.P.277
Harvey Burd, Christelle Nadine Abadie, Byron Byrne, Guy Houlsby, Christopher Martin, et al.
Application of the PISA design model to monopiles embedded in layered soils. Geotechnique, 2020, 70 (11), pp.1067-1082
10.1680/jgeot.20.PISA.009
Byron Byrne, Harvey Burd, Lidija Zdravkovic, Christelle Nadine Abadie, Guy Houlsby, et al.
PISA Design Methods for Offshore Wind Turbine Monopiles. Offshore Technology Conference, May 2019, Houston, France
10.4043/29373-MS
Christelle Nadine Abadie, Byron Byrne, Guy Houlsby
Rigid pile response to cyclic lateral loading: laboratory tests. Geotechnique, 2019, 69 (10), pp.863-876
10.1680/jgeot.16.P.325
Christelle Nadine Abadie, Guy Tinmouth Houlsby, Byron Walter Byrne
A method for calibration of the Hyperplastic Accelerated Ratcheting Model (HARM). Computers and Geotechnics, 2019, 112, pp.370-385
10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.04.017
Guy Tinmouth Houlsby, Christelle Nadine Abadie, William J
A. P. Beuckelaers, Byron Walter Byrne. A model for nonlinear hysteretic and ratcheting behaviour. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2017, 120, pp.67-80
10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2017.04.031
C N Abadie, Byron Byrne, Guy Houlsby
Modelling of monopile response to cyclic lateral loading in sand. 8th International Conference, Smarter Solutions for Future Oshore Developments (SUT OSIG), Sep 2017, Londres, United Kingdom
Christelle Nadine Abadie
Cyclic Lateral Loading of Monopile Foundations in Cohesionless Soils. Géotechnique. University of Oxford [Oxford], 2016. English
C N Abadie, Byron Byrne, Sarah Levy-Paing
Model pile response to multi-amplitude cyclic lateral loading in cohesionless soils. 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Oshore Geotechnics (ISFOG), Jun 2015, Oslo, Norway
10.17863/CAM.40861
C N Abadie, Byron Byrne
Cyclic loading response of monopile foundations in cohesionless soils. 8th International Conference of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG), Jan 2014, Perth, Australia