The sixth session of the International Webinar on Rock Mechanics will be held on Thursday, July 1 at 5:00 pm (Paris time) by videoconference (see attached invitation).
This series of webinars is a collaboration of the young members groups CFMR_jeunes (France), AGI (Italy), SEMR (Spain), CTES-YM CHILE, Ingeokring (Netherlands) and SPEG (Peru).

The upcoming session is organized by the CFMR_jeunes group and will contain two presentations:
– Feedback from some injections carried out in a mixed soft rock and soil formation – Aï-Na BLAISE (Tractebel).
– Experimental and numerical investigations on rock salt macroscopic behavior in the context of underground storage – Mejda AZABOU (Storengy).

Participation is free and should be confirmed via the following form:
https://lnkd.in/dwVQXne

We would be pleased to have you with us!

On 25 June 2021, Prof. Kyle Rollins (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah) will present his work on “Ground Improvement for Earthquake Engineering” during a webinar. Those interested will find the link in this flyer.

25 June 2021 – 10.00-12.00 CET “Ground Improvement for Earthquake
Engineering”.

The Center of Excellence on Subsurface Mechanics and Geo-Energy at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras is delighted to present a summer webinar series titled Advances in Subsurface Mechanics for Energy and Environment – 2021 (ASMEE – 2021). The webinar series will be held on Fridays in the months of July – September 2021.

The webinars will host leading researchers from academia and industry to discuss pioneering research in the broad area of subsurface mechanics. The choice of topics is diverse and is expected to include experimental and computational geomechanics, multiphase flow and reactive transport modeling, subsurface characterisation, geochemistry, and their applications in oil & gas and geothermal energy industries.

The talks are open to all; however, registration is mandatory. Details of each presentation will be sent one week prior to all registered participants. More information on upcoming webinars and registration can be found here: https://civil.iitm.ac.in/pcoe/smge/. 
For any clarifications, please contact the organizers at the following email: smge@civil.iitm.ac.in

Advanced course on Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation (LID 2021),
taught by Milan Jirásek in Prague, Czech Republic, 6-10 September 2021.

This course provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, with special attention to objective description of highly localized deformation modes such as cracks or shear bands. It is one of the RILEM educational courses. 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 http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2021.html
For registration please contact Milan.Jirasek@fsv.cvut.cz .

OOFEM course in Prague, Czech Republic, 13-15 September 2021

Moreover, the Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, has prepared a training course for Ph.D. students, engineers interested in simulation and researchers who wish to quickly acquire the knowledge and practical skills necessary to employ OOFEM (an object-oriented open-source software package for solid mechanics, with extensions to fluid mechanics and transport problems). Participants will learn how to create, analyze and post-process models. Moreover, they will understand the OOFEM code structure and they will learn how to implement custom material models, elements, boundary conditions, or solvers.

The course takes place in Prague on 13-15 September 2021 and it will be delivered by a team of skilled OOFEM developers. No prior knowledge of OOFEM is required; however, a basic knowledge of C++ is highly recommended.For details see http://www.oofem.org/en/courses
Registration can be done by filling an online form.
Questions should be addressed to oofem@fsv.cvut.cz.

The organising committee of the “Computational Modelling for Future Research in Geoenvironmental Sciences” (CMFRGS) webinar series invites you to its 1st webinar on “Discrete Element Method” presented by A/Prof Sergio Galindo Torres.

Webinar 1 is scheduled to be hosted at 9:00 am (CEST), 14th July 2021 with registration for this webinar closing at 24:00, 11th July 2021 (CEST).

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

Attached flyer.

Dr Maziar Gholami Korzani on behalf of the organizing committee

Dear Colleagues,
on Friday 25 June 2021, at 15:30 CET, Dr. Nunzio Losacco, Research Fellow at Politecnico di Bari, will be delivering the following webinar:
“Numerical modelling of mechanised tunnelling: from simplified to detailed approaches”

The webinar is organised by the Geotechnical Research Group of DICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, and will be held on Microsoft Teams.
No registration is required, participants can join the event by clicking on the following link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjJjOGRjODItNGJiMC00YmY0LWEzYmItZTA5MTU4MDA1ODlm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%225b406aab-a1f1-4f13-a7aa-dd573da3d332%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22666815db-736a-4f9c-9ba1-db1bb4921368%22%7d
Please see the attached file for further details.

Dear  colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the 10^th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X) will take place on July 6 – 8, 2022 at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The conference will be hosted by the Experimental Rock Deformation group, the Structural Geology and Electron Microscopy group and the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, at the Faculty of Geosciences. 

The SaltMech X website can be found at: http://www.saltmech.com/ .

Launched in 1981, the SaltMech Conferences series serves to exchange research findings and practical experiences regarding the mechanical behavior of rock salt in the context of safe use in mining, energy storage and waste disposal. Therefore, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Abstract submission is now open, with the submission deadline on Friday the 6^th of August 2021. Check to website for more information on future important dates and procedures, the venue, accommodation and travel. We aim to have SaltMech X as a fully on-site conference, though we will keep an eye on potential travel restrictions and may make adjustments accordingly.

We hope you will consider attending and contributing to SaltMech X!

Kind regards,
 
The Local Organising Committee of SaltMech X
Dr. Suzanne Hangx, Dr. André Niemeijer, Dr. Matteo Gazzani, Prof. Chris Spiers, Prof. Hans de Bresser and Prof. Martyn Drur

2 webinars will be held in June through University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) by Prof. Kyle Rollins (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah) on liquefaction and ground improvement.

11 June 2021 – 10.00-12.00 CET “Liquefaction and Lateral Spread”

25 June 2021 – 10.00-12.00 CET “Ground Improvement for Earthquake
Engineering”

See the flyer for more information.

The organising committee of Advancements in Geotechnical Engineering: From Research to Practice (AGERP) Lecture Series is pleased to invite you to the 4th lecture of the 2nd edition of AGERP Lecture Series (AGERP’21). The fourth lecture will be on ‘In-situ Testing in Geotechnical Engineering’. This Lecture will be jointly delivered by Professor Emeritus Peter K. Robertson (Gregg Drilling LLC, USA) and Eng. Diego Marchetti (Marchetti DMT, Italy).

Lecture 4 is scheduled to be hosted on 11th June 2021 (Australian Eastern Standard Time-AEST) with registration for this lecture closing at 00:00, 10th June 2021 (AEST).

You may find further info. and register (free but mandatory) here: https://www.age-rp.com/

Dr. Partha Mishra and Professor Sarat Das, Convenor, AGERP Lecture Series

A series of webinars and a short PhD course will be delivered online by Manolis Veveakis (Duke University) as he will be visiting in June the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Milan.

You can join the webinar on MS Teams. Please find attached the relevant flyer and program.