We invite you to submit a contribution to the special issue on “Bio-inspired Geotechnics” in the Acta Geotechnica journal, for which Julian Tao (ASU) and Alejandro Martinez (UC Davis) will serve as guest editors. This special issue will accept original research papers, short communications, and review papers on experimental, numerical, and analytical investigations.

The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2022; however, early submissions will be reviewed as they are submitted.

Attached, you can find the call for papers for this special issue. 

See attached file for further details.

We are pleased to announce the first call to access facilities within the framework of EXCITE Transnational Access programme.

The first call will be open for proposals from 1^st of December 2021 until the 28^th of February 2022. In this first round, the EXCITE TNA programme will provide coordinated access to 24 imaging facilities in nine countries to researchers of any level.

The call information is now available here and applicants can submit their proposals using the online application procedure. Proposal selection will be carried out on the basis of the technical feasibility, and scientific quality of the proposals, this latter carried out by a panel of EM and X-ray microscopy experts, external to EXCITE.

All the necessary information on how to apply, eligibility, list of available installations, and proposal templates will be available on the EXCITE website (https://excite-network.eu/excite-tna-call-open/).

The organising committee of the “Computational Modelling for Future Research in Geoenvironmental Sciences” (CMFRGS) webinar series invites you to the 6th webinar entitled “ Computational modeling of geophysical and environmental processes: introduction to the lattice Boltzmann method and the Palabos library” presented by A/Prof Jonas Latt from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Webinar 6 is scheduled to be hosted at 9:00 am (CET), 9th December 2021 with registration for this webinar closing at 24:00 (CET), 6th December 2021.

Please forward this invitation to your colleagues who may be interested in attending.

You may find further info and register (free but mandatory) here: https://www.m2clab.com/cmfrgs-webinars as well as on this flyer.

Dr Maziar Gholami Korzani, A/Prof Sergio Galindo Torres
CMFRGS organising committee

The organising committee of the “Computational Modelling for Future Research in Geoenvironmental Sciences” (CMFRGS) webinar series invites you to the 5th webinar entitled “SPH applications in geotechnical engineering and applied geology” presented by Dr Chong Peng from the University of Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria.

Webinar 5 is scheduled to be hosted at 9:00 am (CET), 8th November 2021 with registration for this webinar closing at 24:00 (CET), 5th November 2021.

You may find further info and register (free but mandatory) here: https://www.m2clab.com/cmfrgs-webinars as well as on this flyer.

Dr Maziar Gholami Korzani, A/Prof Sergio Galindo Torres
CMFRGS organising committee

In the framework of Research Training Group GRK 2462 “Processes in Natural and Technical Particle- Fluid-Systems“ (PintPFS), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), researchers from the fields of civil engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering and materials sciences investigate natural and technical Particle-Fluid-Systems in an interdisciplinary approach. GRK 2462 is formed by eight professors from Hamburg University of Technology leading the PhD research projects of eight junior scientists. In this international conference the Research Training Group brings together all associated scientists and external guest scientists to present and discuss research results of the first 3 year period. While the junior scientists give insights into their research work at TUHH, the international guest scientists will present on the corresponding state of the art in their related fields of research. Interested colleagues from research and industry are cordially invited to join the workshop.

Link to the Conference Website: https://www.tuhh.de/grk2462/pintpfs-conference.html

More information in this flyer.

The organising committee of the “Computational Modelling for Future Research in Geoenvironmental Sciences” (CMFRGS) webinar series invites you to the 4th webinar entitled “Implicit Material Point Method for geomechanics applications” presented by Dr Antonia Larese from the University of Padua, Italy.

Webinar 4 is scheduled to be hosted at 9:00 am (CEST), 19th October 2021 with registration for this webinar closing at 24:00 (CEST), 16th October 2021.

You may find further info and register (free but mandatory) here: https://www.m2clab.com/cmfrgs-webinars and on this flyer.

Dr Maziar Gholami Korzani on behalf of the organizing committee

On behalf of the organisers, Budi Zhao (UCD) and Zhongxuan Yang (ZJU), we are delighted to invite you to Energy Geotechnics Webinar Series (weekly or biweekly from Sep to Dec, 2021). 

The webinar aims to promote Energy Geotechnics research and will cover the following topics:

• Offshore foundation
• Carbon geological storage
• Shallow/deep geothermal
• Nuclear waste disposal
• Methane hydrate

Our three speakers in October are (more details on posters):
Prof. Carlos Santamarina on Energy: A Geo-Centered Perspective (10 am, CEST, 4th Oct, Monday): Tencent Meeting Link – https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/hghXpYo1dtSo?rs=25
Prof. Holger Ott on Carbon Geological Storage (10 am, CEST, 8th Oct, Friday): Tencent Meeting Link – https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/ogu2z0Mai22j?rs=25
Prof. Kenichi Soga on Shallow Geothermal Energy at Multi-Scale (6 am, CEST, 19th Oct, Tuesday): Microsoft Teams Link – https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjExYmZlNGItZTUyNy00Njc3LThkMTUtYjI1NDg1MWU0MDU4@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%222b897507-ee8c-4575-830b-4f8267c3d307%22,%22Oid%22:%2268b939f1-d53e-460f-90a3-c00501759557%22%7D

Posters in PDF

Prof. Carlos Santamarina – Prof. Holger Ott – Prof. Kenichi Soga

The Transport Research Centre is organising the International Young Professionals Workshop on Road-Rail Infrastructure (Hybrid), 26th November 2021, Sydney, as we are now taking Registrations (https://events.humanitix.com/trc).

The workshop will showcase the recent advances in the field of Transport Infrastructure with special reference to ground engineering and the utilisation of novel construction materials. Research students and young professionals will present a range of emerging themes focused on the advancement of rail geotechnology and pavement engineering, including topics covering soil-structure interaction, embankment and substructure design, track construction materials, ground improvement and moving load dynamics.

We invite you all to check the Programme at our website https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/transport-research-centre/events/international-young-professionals-workshop.

For further information, please contact christine.smith-1@uts.edu.au.