The University of Trento (Italy) invites applications for a PhD position funded by the EU wihtin an ITN scheme in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Geomechanics group. The proposed research will focus on the development and validation of novel constitutive and numerical models for analysing soil-structure interaction under extreme loading conditions.
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The University of Dundee (UoD) is looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with centrifuge modelling experience to work on the EPSRC-funded project “Climate-change effects on the performance of bioengineered clay fill embankments”. The project is in association with Network Rail and Highways England, the two government agencies who manage transport assets and infrastructure in most of the UK.
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Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, likes to invite you to an international workshop on “effective stress in multiphase geomaterials”. Details can be found in the pdf file.
Advanced course on Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation (LID 2016) will be taught by Milan Jirásek in Prague, Czech Republic, 19-23 September 2016.
This course provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, with special attention to the objective description of highly localized deformation modes such as cracks or shear bands. It is one of the RILEM educational courses. The course is intended for graduate students at the doctoral level, but it can be equally useful to motivated master students, post-doctoral researchers, or senior researchers who are not specialists in this field.
For details see http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2016.html
For registration please contact Milan.Jirasek@fsv.cvut.cz .
The University of Sydney (Australia) invites applications for the appointment of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Level B) in the School of Civil Engineering. The position will support the research and leadership of the Sydney Centre in Geomechanics and Mining Materials (SciGEM). More details at the webpage.
The 3rd International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures will be held in Lund, Sweden, 26th – 30th June 2017.
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The next Powders and Grains conference is organized by Franck Radjai in Montpellier. The Powders and Grains is an influential conference in which participate every four years many researchers from different disciplines including in particular geomaterials community from all over the world. The next conference will take place in Montpellier from 3 to 7 July, 2017. The website of the event is open for abstract submission (until 5 June, 2016). Please find herewith the call for abstracts and flyer of the conference.
Two PhD positions are available at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in collaboration with Stanford University (US) on (1) developing technologies for sealing leaky wells and (2) Investigation of multiphase fluid flow within heterogeneous sandstones using high resolution X-Ray CT scanning. For more details please see attached pdf1 and pdf2.
A PhD position on hydromechanical modeling of claystone behavior is available at INERIS (French Centre for Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection) in Nancy, France in collaboration with GeoRessources laboratory (University of Lorraine) and ANDRA (French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management).
For more details see the attached pdf file.
A full time position for a researcher with interests in granular physics, geomechanics, continuum mechanics, computer modelling and the discrete element methods (DEM) is available at the University of Twente (Netherlands), to work on DEM modelling of wave propagation in granular materials. Continue reading