The ALERT Summerschool (Olek Zienkiewicz Course) 2013 entitled Geology and Mechanics will be organized by Prof. Dimitrios Kolymbas and held in Innsbruck, 16-20 September 2013.
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ALERT Workshop 2013
ALERT Workshop 2013 will be organized from Monday September 30th till Wednesday October 2nd in Aussois.
Workshop sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 30)
Geomechanics of slopes
Coordinators: Claudio di Prisco and Leonardo Cascini
Session 2 (Tuesday, October 1)
Contact problems in geomechanics
Coordinators: Euripides Papamichos and Jean Sulem
(this will be only a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 2)
Degradation in geomaterials
Coordinators: Ali Daouadji, Christophe Dano and Erich Bauer
ALERT Doctoral School on Soil-structure interaction will follow the workshop.
ALERT Poster Session 2012
During the ALERT Workshop a poster session always takes place. The posters presented this year as well as a booklet containing their short abstracts are now available online and can be downloaded here.
ALERT Doctoral School 2013
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 is Soil-structure interaction. It will take place in Aussois, October 3-5, 2013. The school organisers are Panagiotis Kotronis (EC Nantes), Claudio Tamagnini (University of Perugia) and Stephane Grange (UJF Grenoble).
New members of ALERT Geomaterials
At its meeting in Aussois, October 2012, the ALERT Board of Directors approved three submitted applications for the ALERT membership:
- Charles University in Prague represented by David Mašín
- University of Southampton represented by Antonis Zervos
- Technical University of Bari represented by Federica Cotecchia
With this decision, the number of the member institutions of ALERT Geomaterials increased to 30!
ALERT Special lecture 2013
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2013 will be presented by Prof. Ronaldo Borja from Stanford University. The title of his talk is Triggering a shear band in heterogeneous porous media.
Free Download of the ALERT Doctoral School book
The book with lecture notes from the ALERT Doctoral School 2012 on Advanced experimental techniques in geomechanics, edited by G. Viggiani, S.A. Hall and E. Romero, is available for free download.
Photo Competition during the ALERT Doctoral School 2012
The pictures taken by the students for the photo competition during the ALERT Doctoral School 2012 are now available online. The competiton was initiated by Carlos Santamarina and its results were presented in a stimulating atmosphere by Eddy Ando. The subject of the competition was reserch motivation.
ALERT PhD Prize Winners
The ALERT PhD Prize 2012 was awarded to Thomas Blanc from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for his PhD thesis entitled “The Runge-Kutta Taylor-SPH, A new improved model for soil dynamics problems” (abstract), and to Mohammad Monfared from École des Ponts – Paris Tech for his PhD thesis entitled “Temperature-damage-permeability coupling in clayey soils and rocks” (abstract). See more details and the winners from the previous years.
Impressions from the annual meeting of ALERT Geomaterials
The annual meeting of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois is over. A collection of impressions photographed by David Mašín can be found on his webpage. More news from the meeting will follow soon.