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Thank you to everyone who participated in the ALERT Geomaterials Annual Meeting! Your contributions and participation made both the workshop and doctoral school a success.
If you attended the workshop, the school, or both, you can obtain your certificate of attendance here.
We look forward to seeing you at the next ALERT Geomaterials annual meeting!
https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/assistant-professor-tenure-stream-position-geotechnical
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see attached announcement.
For further information, see the attached [PDF].
ALERT Geomaterials announces Nova-bates, a series of visual podcasts and online discussions addressing topics of interest to the geomaterials and geomechanics community.
The first topic is artificial intelligence in geomechanics, covering education, research and engineering practice. The podcasts will form the basis of three online discussions, the first on 23 November 2026 at 5:00 pm CET.
Watch the first videos in ALERT Geomaterials YouTube Channel
The link to join the first online discussion will be sent later. Dates for the remaining events will follow.
The Institute of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (IGG) at TU Braunschweig, Germany, and the Mechanics and Civil Engineering Lab (LMGC), a French laboratory in University of Montpellier, France, are each searching for one PhD student to investigate the hydro-mechanical behaviour of partially saturated granular media experimentally and numerically within the collaborative project “Micromechanics-Integrated Capillary Analysis and Physics with High Resolution 4D CT and LBM-DEM Computations (MICAP-4D)”.
The project is funded for three years in the joint research programme by the French National Agency for Research (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The tentative starting date of the project is January 2027.
For further information, see the attached [PDF].
The PhD project will generate knowledge to address the challenges of maintaining and extending the lifetime of embankment dams while increasing the flexibility of hydropower technology. In doing so, the PhD project will contribute to enabling flexible hydropower to support the energy transition and reach national energy, climate and nature targets.
The main objective of PhD research is to develop knowledge that supports the hydropower industry in the safe design of future dams and management of existing embankment dams, including those subjected to flexible hydropower operation. Emphasis will be placed on the performance of filters protecting moraine (glacial till) cores against internal erosion. The research will combine studies of existing embankment dams in Norway with extensive laboratory testing of core and filter materials, providing a unique opportunity to contribute to the future safety and sustainability of hydropower infrastructure.
This six day advanced course presents recent theoretical and numerical advances in dynamic fracture mechanics, focusing on sub , inter , and super-shear rupture in dry and fluid saturated media. Emphasis is placed on mode I tensile fracture, mode II shear rupture, forerunning (mother–daughter crack mechanisms), and the role of poroelastic coupling in accelerating rupture beyond classical wave speed limits.
The course integrates theory, experiments, numerical modeling,
and geophysical relevance.
Advanced School coordinated by:
Bernhard A. Schrefler, University of Padua, Italy
Jianfu Shao, Université de Lille, France
For further information, see the attached [PDF].
As part of a one-year collaborative research project, the GEOMAS laboratory at INSA Lyon, in partnership with BRGM, proposes an innovative numerical approach to study the Grand-Ilet landslide on Réunion Island. The main objective is to assess site stabilization methods through drainage using a coupled hydro-mechanical finite element numerical model.
The project aims to simulate several drainage strategies to support decision-making regarding the best solution to implement in the field, while accounting for geological and hydrogeological uncertainties and assessing the potential effects of climate change on landslide dynamics.
For further information, see the attached [PDF].
Click here to download the program, the participants list, the doctoral book & the booklet of abstracts.