We welcome submissions to Computational Geomechanics at the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. The conference will be in Chicago, July 20-24, 2025. Full description below. We would love to have contributions from you, your students, or your collaborators in this area. The abstract submission deadline has been extended to January 31. Abstracts may be submitted at https://usnccm18.usacm.org/abstract-submission. The minisymposium number is 1205. Please feel free to share.
Please feel free to contact Craig Foster, fosterc@uic.edu, if you have any questions.
Computational Geomechanics
Conveners:
Craig Foster, University of Illinois Chicago
Shabnam Semnami, University of California San Diego
Waiching (Steve) Sun, Columbia University
Ronaldo Borja, Stanford University
This minisymposium focuses on the modeling soil, rocks, concrete, and related materials. Numerical modeling of geomaterials is increasingly employed in a number of applications both geotechnical and geophysical. However, these are complex materials that are affected by cohesive bonds and frictional interactions, fluid pressure in the porous structure, degree of saturation, chemical and thermal processes, and other effects. This minisymposium is dedicated to advancing knowledge in understanding the physical processes and developing effective numerical models for analyzing the behavior of these materials under loading. Submissions on both fundamental processes and applications are welcome.
Contributions may include, but are not limited to
- Advances in constitutive modeling and algorithms for constitutive models
- Multiscale modeling
- Multiphysical processes that influence the mechanical response of geomaterials
- Modeling of fracture, shear bands, and other localized deformation patterns
- Fragmentation of geomaterials
- Parameter determination and validation
- Discrete and particle-based methods for geomaterials
- Numerical methods for extreme deformation
- Dynamics of geomaterials
- Data driven, machine learning, and AI approaches to solving geomechanics problems