Abstract submission for the 1st Scientific Colloquium – Large Scale Testing is now open!
This new event brings together researchers, industry professionals, and early-career scholars to discuss advances in experimental geomechanics. The focus is on large-scale laboratory testing methods needed for coarse materials such as rockfill, gravels, and fibrous soils; materials whose behaviour cannot be fully captured with conventional small laboratory setups. The colloquium aims to strengthen collaboration between research and practice.
We invite you to contribute and share your recent findings, innovative approaches, and case studies with the community.

– Large-scale laboratory testing (e.g. triaxial, compression, shear tests)
– Specimen preparation and other techniques
– Automation and digitalization & Constitutive modelling
– Engineering case studies on design and performance

Abstract Submission at https://indico.kit.edu/event/5322/abstracts/ (Deadline: 28.02.2026)

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

Australia’s geotechnical industry is facing unprecedented pressures — increasingly complex infrastructure, climate-driven uncertainty, accelerated construction programs, and a regulatory environment struggling to keep up with modern design practices.

This debate night in Hybrid mode brings together leading geotechnical engineers, researchers, and engineering geologists to explore this question from technical, regulatory, practical, and commercial perspectives.

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Australian Eastern Standard time.

Please register to receive the Zoom link via: https://geomechanics.org.au/meetings/modern-codes-for-modern-problems/

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission for ISRM Specialised Conference CouFrac 2026 (5th International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media) is now open!

Since its launch in 2018 in Wuhan, the CouFrac conference series has grown into a leading international forum on coupled processes in fractured geological media, with successful meetings subsequently held in Seoul (2020), Berkeley (2022), and Kyoto (2024). We are delighted to host the next edition, CouFrac 2026, in Uppsala, Sweden, from 20 to 23 September 2026.

We warmly invite you to submit an abstract and share your latest research, insights, and innovations with the CouFrac community. Contributions spanning fundamental studies, field observations, laboratory experiments, numerical modelling, and engineering applications are all welcome.

Abstract Submission: https://www.coufrac2026.com/abstracts/ (deadline: 15 December 2025)

Second announcement:
TEC 21 Winter school on “Multi scale approaches and multiphysics couplings in fluid and solid mechanics” (6th Edition)
Grenoble – France – 2-6 February 2026

Important societal issues require to solve problems of increasing complexity. A key vector of progress relies on multi-scale and multi-physics approaches. The objective of the winter school is to review the various approaches, numerical and experimental techniques used to tackle the complexity of today’s engineering, environmental and health-related problems. Lectures are illustrated through up-to-date examples. Afternoons are devoted to practical laboratory work, combining experiments and numerical modeling. The final day of the school will be dedicated to a workshop on “multiscale and multiphysics approaches in biomechanics”.

Web Page: https://www.tec21.fr/winter-school-2026/

The number of participants is limited and registrations are subject to availability.
Registration dead line: 1st December 2025.

ALERT friends may be interested to attend online (or in person) Beatrice Baudet’s Geotechnique Lecture “Clay behaviour through the keyhole”, next Tuesday (4th November) at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London at 18:30 UK time. There is further information and registration (free) for online attendance (or in person) at:

2025 Géotechnique Lecture – Clay behaviour through the (key)hole

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

Registrations for the 2026 SFSI-OS – Riva del Garda, 28 June-1 July 2026 – are now open.

2026 SFSI-OS will offer a full-immersion training programme dedicated to dynamic soil-structure, fluid-structure and soil-fluid-structure interactions, with reference to civil engineering structures subjected to seismic, hydrodynamic (tsunami and flood) and fire hazards.

Participants will engage in hands-on modelling sessions throughout the School, combining theory and practice to master simulation techniques across different levels of complexity.

The School is tailored for researchers, PhD students and professional engineers seeking to understand and master numerical modelling of coupled multiphysics interaction problems in OpenSees.

Further information on the event can be found on the official website: https://compdssi.altervista.org/

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

TEC 21 Winter school on “Multi scale approaches and multiphysics couplings in fluid and solid mechanics” (6th Edition)
Grenoble – France – 2-6 February 2026

Important societal issues require to solve problems of increasing complexity. A key vector of progress relies on multi-scale and multi-physics approaches. The objective of the winter school is to review the various approaches, numerical and experimental techniques used to tackle the complexity of today’s engineering, environmental and health-related problems. Lectures are illustrated through up-to-date examples. Afternoons are devoted to practical laboratory work, combining experiments and numerical modeling. The final day of the school will be dedicated to a workshop on “multiscale and multiphysics approaches in biomechanics”.

Web Page: https://www.tec21.fr/winter-school-2026/

The number of participants is limited and registrations are subject to availability.
Registration dead line: 1st December 2025.

Dear all,

On behalf of the Géotechnique Editorial team, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the upcoming 2026 Géotechnique Symposium in Print on “Tailings geotechnics, stability and safety”. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, 3 November 2025.

Selected contributors will be invited to submit a full paper by Monday, 2 February 2026. Accepted papers will be published in a dedicated issue of Géotechnique, and the authors will be invited to present their work at a separate symposium event. Further details can be found at the following link:

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/call-abstracts-geotechnique-symposium-print-2026-tailings-geotechnics-stability?utm_source=smc_email_authorship_acquire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GLO-ATM-AUT-EJ-Flagship_CFPemail_JGEOT-20259030

With our kindest regards,

The Géotechnique Editorial team

Call for Abstracts!
Riva del Garda (Trentino, Italy), 1-3 July 2026

Building on the success of the previous editions, we are delighted to announce that the Call for Abstracts is now open for the 2026 International Conference on “Computational Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction” – CompDSSI.

2026 CompDSSI will be a high-level, focused meeting point for researchers and designers to discuss the latest advances in numerical analysis, design and protection of soil-structure systems under natural hazards.

The programme will feature:
• Thematic sessions on cutting-edge topics
• Keynote lectures by world-leading experts
• Peer-reviewed presentations

All accepted contributions will be published in the Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering series (Springer), indexed in Scopus.
In addition, the most valuable contributions will be invited for publication in a Special Issue of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.

A full description of the event is available at https://compdssi.altervista.org

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in RootS25 – the 3rd International Workshop on Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Interaction, which will take place at the Politecnico di Bari from 6 to 8 November 2025 (bulletin attached).
Registration is now open and must be completed no later than 20 October 2025 by filling out the following Google Form (https://forms.gle/cNqHoMfRYQL9gU1s7) and paying the conference fee via bank transfer. All information and payment details are available at https://roots-25.com/
We also warmly remind you of the special lecture by Prof. Lidija Zdravkovic (Imperial College London), entitled “Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Society”, which will take place on the afternoon of 5 November 2025 at the Aula Magna “Domus Sapientiae” of the Politecnico di Bari.
We sincerely hope you will join us for this event and look forward to welcoming you to Bari for RootS25.
For any questions, contact us at workshop.roots25@gmail.com

Best regards

For further information, see the attached [PDF].