This six day advanced course presents recent theoretical and numerical advances in dynamic fracture mechanics, focusing on sub , inter , and super-shear rupture in dry and fluid saturated media. Emphasis is placed on mode I tensile fracture, mode II shear rupture, forerunning (mother–daughter crack mechanisms), and the role of poroelastic coupling in accelerating rupture beyond classical wave speed limits.
The course integrates theory, experiments, numerical modeling,
and geophysical relevance.

Advanced School coordinated by:
Bernhard A. Schrefler, University of Padua, Italy
Jianfu Shao, Université de Lille, France

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am pleased to invite you to the 2nd International Workshop on Space Geotechnics, Regolith, and Granular Materials (IWSGRGM 2027), taking place April 19–23, 2027, at San Diego State University.
We encourage you to submit an extended abstract and share this invitation with your colleagues and students.
Abstract deadline: October 15, 2026
Details and submission instructions: iwsgrgm.sdsu.edu

The workshop Call for Abstracts is attached. We hope you will join us in San Diego.
Best regards,
Mahdia
On behalf of the IWSGRGM 2027 Organizing Committee:

Marta Miletić — San Diego State University, USA
Ramesh B. Malla — University of Connecticut, USA
Douglas D. Cortes — New Mexico State University, USA
Mahdia Hattab — Université de Lorraine, France
Pooneh Maghoul — Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Robert P. Mueller — NASA Kennedy Space Center, Swamp Works, USA

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

The 3rd Sino-German Offshore Geotechnics Workshop will take place on 1–2 September 2026 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Jointly organised by Ruhr University Bochum, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University, the workshop will focus on:

“From installation to long-term serviceability of offshore wind turbine foundations.”

The programme includes six invited lectures by internationally recognised researchers, complemented by presentations from German and Chinese international research institutions.

Topics include monopile installation, cyclic and seismic loading, long-term foundation behaviour, advanced numerical methods, offshore foundations in weak rocks, novel anchoring systems and the prediction of long-term deformations.

The workshop will also feature an optional laboratory tour.

Registration fee: €75
Bachelor’s and Master’s students: free of charge

Further information and registration: https://eveeno.com/219699020

We look forward to welcome you to Bochum!

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

We are honored to welcome you to the 4th ICPE (ICPE2027), the first International Conference on Press-in Engineering to be held in Europe at Boskalis Meeting & Event Center Papendrecht, The Netherlands on 2-4 June 2027 . This event will be held in the Netherlands in June 2027, during IPA’s 20th anniversary year—a milestone that reflects two decades of progress and global collaboration in advancing press-in engineering.

The theme of ICPE2027, “Press-in Engineering for Resilient, Sustainable and Culturally Sensitive Infrastructure The conference will feature keynote lectures by leading experts, technical sessions on diverse topics, and a site visit or facility tour showcasing pioneering applications in the Netherlands.

We are pleased to invite researchers, engineers, and practitioners from around the world to submit abstracts for ICPE2027 Please Please submit your abstract at the following link by 31 August 2026.
https://www.editorialmanager.com/journal-ipa/default2.aspx

This traditional course taught by Milan Jirasek is now offered in a new format, namely in two parts that can be attended independently.

The first part (Sep 10-12) provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, in particular in plasticity and damage mechanics, with brief comments on fracture mechanics. The second part (Sep 14-16) focuses on the objective description of highly localized deformation modes such as cracks or shear bands, using regularized models (e.g., nonlocal, gradient-enriched, phase-field, micromorphic).

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 https://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2026.html

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

The conference will take place in Amsterdam from 30Nov to 2Dec 2026.

The meeting broadly showcases advances across all engineering applications of porous materials. It will place a particular focus on wetting physics across scales, from local interfacial mechanisms to effective wettability in complex systems. The symposium will highlight recent experimental, computational, and theoretical developments, and will connect pore-scale insights to macroscopic applications ranging from CO₂/H₂ storage, groundwater and geothermal systems, to batteries, coatings, filtration, microfluidics, and bio-inspired materials.

We invite you to find more information and submit your abstract at https://www.iswpm26.org. Abstract submission closes on the 1st of August, in two weeks!

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to share that my book, With a grain of salt – from discrete to continuum granular mechanics, is now complete and freely available online.
The book is intended for undergraduate students seeking an introduction to the mechanics of granular materials, with a perspective that extends beyond the topics typically covered in standard university curricula. It is also aimed at graduate and PhD students pursuing research in this field, as well as researchers who may wish to broaden their expertise beyond their primary area—for example, soil mechanists interested in granular flows or fluid mechanists dealing with static granular assemblies. You can access and download the complete book free of charge at:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21159463
My hope is that it will serve both as a textbook and as a reference for students, researchers, and anyone interested in the mechanics and physics of granular materials.
With best regards, Diego Berzi