A special session on Geomaterials will be organised during the 10th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics. The conference takes place at the Heriot Watt University from the 1st to the 3rd of September, see the poster of the session and the link to the conference pre-call: http://www.bssm.org/default.asp?p=6&event=186.
The PhD project – http://www.davidpconnolly.com/Hydraulic_fracturing_Connolly.pdf – is on hydraulic fracturing, combining experimental work and numerical simulations. It will be funded by the NERC CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training in Oil and Gas).
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A research position is available for a highly motivated and talented individual with experience/interest in design and development of apparatuses for material testing in a collaborative project between Chalmers and Lund funded by Vetenskapsrådet (http://www.vr.se/inenglish). The aim of the proposal is to improve the fundamental understanding of fine-grained granular matter, such as quick clay, by experimentally studying the evolution of the structure of these materials on the micro scale for several controlled mechanical loading conditions. More details in the pdf file.
A Post-doctoral opportunity is available at GeoRessources laboratory, University of Lorraine, France, in the research field of Hydrodynamics and Transport Processes. Applications are invited for a 12 months contract to work on the development of original numerical approaches for the study of particle transport in preferential flows. More details in the pdf-file.
The British Society for Strain Measurement’s (BSSM) 10th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics will offer industry and academia the opportunity to present current developments in experimental mechanics. It will take place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2015. More details at the preliminary webpage.
As part of EMI Conference 2015, Stanford, 16-19 June, the following minisymposium will be organized: Mechanics of unsaturated porous materials: From geo-materials and building materials, to food and beyond. Please see the attached file for details.
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XV Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
VI International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials
VIII South American Congress of Rock Mechanics
take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 15 to 18, 2015, see the webpage. The abstract submission will close on Thursday, 31 October 2014.
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The 2-year postdoc position is part of an EPRSC (UK Research Council) grant that has recently been awarded to the University of Sheffield on “High speed granular debris flows: new paradigms and interactions in geomechanics”. More details at the webpage.
The position involves a 12-months contract at Deltares for the “Numerical modeling of impact and vibratory driven offshore piles with MPM”. The position is part of a larger project to translate field test results of monopile installation to sites with other densities and pile diameters using the numerical MPM approach. Supervisor is prof Frits van Tol from Delft University of Technology. More details in pdf.
The MECAMAT 2015 National Workshop will take place from 26 to 30 January 2015 at Aussois. The Workshop is about materials under extreme loadings (high velocities and pressures). More informations can be found in the attached pdf documents (1, 2) and on the following web site (in french): http://mecamat2015.ec-nantes.fr