Dear All,
as a Coordinator of LARAM School I am pleased to share this new announcement with ALERT Geomaterials community. Looking forward to welcoming you in Salerno, in September 2025.
Best regards,
Sabatino Cuomo
Continue readingGeoProc2025
8th International Conference on Coupled THMC Processes:
Geomechanics for Energy and Environmental Applications
20 – 23 October, 2025
Nicosia, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/geoproc2025/
The deadline for submitting abstracts for GeoProc2025 has been extended to 14 April 2025.
See the attached announcement.
Please submit your abstract at https://cyprusconferences.org/geoproc2025/submission/
The Third Workshop on the Future of Machine Learning in Geotechnics (3FOMLIG: Ethics and intelligences for a geotechnical Renaissance) will take place in Florence, Italy, on October 15-17, 2025 (https://fomlig2025.com/).
The deadline for extended abstract submissions is April 15, 2025.
The technical program of 3FOMLIG includes a wide variety of sessions and initiatives aimed at fostering collaboration and interaction between geotechnical students, researchers, and practitioners:
The advanced CISM Course on “Crack Initiation and Failure in Complex Structures” will be organized in Udine, Italy, on June 9-13, 2025
Website: https://cism.it/en/activities/courses/C2505/
Lecturers:
* Pedro Camanho – Universidade do Porto, Portugal
* Pietro Cornetti – Politecnico di Torino, Italy
* Aurélien Doitrand – MATEIS, INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
* Vladislav Mantič – Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
* Philipp Weissgraeber – University of Rostock, Germany
* Zohar Yosibash – Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Topics:
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the novel Finite Fracture Mechanics (FFM) technique for modeling crack and failure initiation, with practical applications to real-world problems. It is designed for post-graduate students, expert researchers, and engineers who wish to understand, apply, or develop this approach. Various theories predict failure initiation in complex structures with stress concentrations or singularities, such as holes or V-notch tips. FFM allows to identify the structure-specific intrinsic length scale and extends the concepts of traditional fracture mechanics to more general configurations with stress concentrations or singularities beyond just a crack tip with a square root singularity. FFM has been validated through numerous experimental observations, successfully predicting failure initiation in complex geometries. In recent years, it has been extended to 3D domains, geometrical and material nonlinearities, and dynamic aspects, including subsonic crack propagation. It has proven effective in assessing fractures at the micro- or nano-scale, in bio-inspired and 3D-printed materials and composites. Additionally, it has provided a physical explanation for the regularization parameter in phase-field models for fracture and established a link with traction-separation profiles of cohesive zone models. These extensions, applications, and interactions with other fracture models make FFM a cutting-edge approach in failure modeling, which will be thoroughly discussed. Practical applications and hands-on exercises will enable participants to master FFM techniques.
The proposed CISM course brings together six researchers who have extensively studied and applied FFM techniques. It will begin by addressing the framework and origin of FFM, including related experimental and theoretical aspects as well as numerical implementation. It will then focus on applications for a wide range of materials and configurations. Recent FFM extensions, including 3D applications, material nonlinearities such as plasticity or nonlinear elasticity, geometrical nonlinearities, dynamic and fatigue loadings, and FFM as an optimization problem, will be covered. The relationship of FFM to other fracture models will also be reviewed in detail.
Venue: CISM (International Centre for Mechanical Sciences), Lectures will take place in the beautiful Palazzo del Torso in the center of Udine
Format: The course is offered in hybrid format (presential and online).
If you are interested in participating to the course, please contact the course coordinators to declare your interest (mantic@us.es, aurelien.doitrand@insa-lyon.fr) and register online at https://cism.it/en/activities/courses/C2505/.
Early Bird On-Site Participation deadline: April 9, 2025
Registration deadline: May 27, 2025 (On-site places are limited and assigned on first come first served basis)
For any questions feel free to contact us!
Vladislav Mantič, Aurélien Doitrand (Coordinators)
Dear colleagues,
We are hosting and delivering a Cone Penetration Testing 2-Days practical workshop at Abertay University on 15th and 16th May. Purpose of the workshop is to provide opportunity for participants to work directly with our modern Cone Penetration Testing, collect field data and apply them to geotechnical design.
For more detailed information, please view the attached flyers here and here.
We are excited to invite you to submit an abstract for the mini-symposium “MS-18: Geomechanics and Related Applications from Micro to Macro” at the EMI 2025 International Conference (EMI 2025 IC), which will take place from July 17-19, 2025, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
The mini-symposium will cover a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:
Abstract submissions are now open and will remain open until March 10, 2025. To submit your abstract, please visit the submission portal at https://emi2025ic.civil.tsinghua.edu.cn/dist/#/login. Please make sure to select MS-18 as the MS Code when submitting your abstract.
For further details about the mini-symposium, please refer to the attached PDF. We look forward to welcoming you in Beijing!
Dear colleagues and friends,
this is a call for abstracts for the session: Clays in Geotechnics – Problems and Applications (https://icc.aipea.org/sessions-list/icc-30 ) that is organised in the field of the 18th International Clay Conference (ICC; https://icc.aipea.org/ ), 13-18 July 2025, Dublin, Ireland.
Clays and clay minerals are incredibly important in geotechnical engineering because of their unique properties which can both benefit and challenge applications such as foundation engineering, tunnelling and environmental barriers. Clay properties are influenced by pore water chemistry and soil texture, resulting in variability that can complicate tasks. On the other hand, this variability also creates exciting opportunities for tailoring materials using salts or polymers. Issues such as the impact of pollution on sediment properties and the stability of tailings dams highlight the need for sustainable mitigation strategies. Contributions on clay characterisation, modification and mitigation in geotechnical and geo-ecological applications are encouraged.
A special issue in Environmental Geotechnics journal for selected contributions is foreseen.
Deadline for abstract submission: 11th April 2025, https://icc.aipea.org/abstracts/
Conveners:
Michael Plötze (Eth Zurich, Switzerland)
Bharat Venkata Tadikonda (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
Rossella Petti and Claudia Vitone (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Opportunities for (PhD) Students in Geosciences
Applications are now open for the Student for Student Summer School (S4SSS) on “Soil as a Key Factor in Mountain Hazards” taking place at Obergurgl, near Innsbruck.
Details: https://imc2025.info/summerschool/s4sss25/focus-group/soil-as-key-factor-in-mountain-hazards/
Travel Grants: https://imc2025.info/summerschool/travel-grants/
Abstract Submission: https://imc2025.info/summerschool/submission/abstract/
Deadline for abstracts: 20.02.2025
Summer School dates: 07.09.2025 – 12.09.2025
Location: Obergurgl, Austria
Looking froward to the discussions and contributions!
(Alaq, Maria, Mehdi and Mona)
Event Details:
This session will highlight the latest advancements in computational geomechanics, with a focus on multi-physical couplings such as thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes. Key topics include:
For further details, see attached flyer.
Call for Abstracts! Session on Monitoring and Modeling of Landslides (FS 3.147) at the International Mountain Conference IMC2025 in Innsbruck!
We are looking forward to your enriching contributions to our session on landslides. Please find further details on: https://imc2025.info/imc25/sessions-n-workshops/focus-session/fs-3-147-monitoring-assessment-and-multi-scale-modeling-of-landslides-approaches-for-hazard-analysis/
Abstract submission: https://imc2025.info/imc/submission/abstract/
Deadline for abstracts: 20.02.2025
Conference date: 14.09.2025 – 18.09.2025
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
See you there for an exciting exchange,
Barbara Schneider-Muntau, Christina Rechberger, Christine Fey (Chairs)