The video of Prof. Hans Mühlhaus giving the Special lecture at the annual meeting in Aussois 2015 is now available online. The lecture was entitled Mechanical and hydraulic instabilities in Geomechanics.
The Bureau of ALERT Geomaterials has decided to fund the ALERT PhD Prize 2016. Starting this year, the PhD prize will be entitled Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize to commemorate Prof. Vardoulakis and his contributions to research and teaching in the field of Geomechanics.
The participation to the prize is open to all the PhD students coming from institutions belonging to ALERT, that have discussed their PhD thesis in 2015. The deadline for the applications is May 31, 2016. The application procedure was changed and has to be done completely online via the application form.
The rules and further details are to be found on the Alert website:
https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-phd-prize/
The ALERT Newsletter 2016 summing up the events and highlights within the framework of ALERT activities is available online now. The newsletters of recent years can be found in the archive.
As announced already in October 2015, the ALERT Workshop 2016 (27th Edition) will be held in Aussois from October 3 to October 5, 2016. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf). If you wish to publish your presentation after the Workshop on the ALERT website, do not forget to agree by ticking the corresponding box in the abstract form.
Since time for the presentations is limited, only a part of the submitted abstracts can be chosen for the oral presentations. Therefore, we invite you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. The presentation can also be submitted as a poster. The abstracts of the posters will be published in a separate booklet (ISSN registered).
The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2016. For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact the coordinators of the workshop sessions directly.
The presentations of the ALERT workshop 2015 are now available online.
The invited ALERT Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2016 will be presented by Prof. Takashi Matsushima from University of Tsukuba, Japan. The envisaged title of his talk is Planetary geomechanics.
The presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2015 on Coupled and Multiphysics Phenomena are now available online. This year’s Doctoral School in Aussois was organised by Bernhard Schrefler, Lorenzo Sanavia and Frédéric Collin. The accompanying book of the Doctoral School can be downloaded here.
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2016 is Modelling of instabilities and bifurcation in Geomechanics. It will take place in Aussois, October 6-8, 2016. The school organisers are J. Sulem (ENPC Paris), I. Stefanou (ENPC Paris), E. Papamichos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), M. Veveakis (UNSW Sydney).
The ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2016 will be organized from Monday, 3 October till Wednesday, 5 October in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, October 3)
New trends in micromechanical approaches of Particulate Materials – experiments and modelling aspects
Coordinators: M. Karstunen, N. Benahmed, M. Hattab
Session 2 (Tuesday, October 4)
Mechanics of multiphase porous media in modelling cementitious materials: from early ages to durability issues
Coordinators: F. Pesavento, M. Briffaut, L. Sanavia
(a half-day workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 5)
Geomechanics of faults, with applications spanning from earthquake nucleation to landslides
Coordinators: M. Veveakis, I. Stefanou, K. Regenauer-Lieb, J. Sulem
ALERT Doctoral School on Modelling of instabilities and bifurcation in Geomechanics will follow the workshop.
David Mašín (Charles University, Prague) was so kind again and documented with a few photographs the atmosphere around the ALERT PhD Prize ceremony (winner: Anna Ramon Tarragona from UPC Barcelona) and of the ALERT Special Lecture delivered by Professor Hans Mühlhaus (University of Queensland).