Dear all,

The registrations are now open for the Workshop “Exploring Dynamic Properties of Earth and Planetary Materials Using Neutrons and X-Ray Methods” which will take place on the ILL/ESRF campus from May 21-23, 2024. Additional details and the provisional program can be found in the attached document.

The registration is open and completely free, as it is supported by the sponsors of the program. You can register before April the 15th at this link https://workshops.ill.fr/event/432/ .

Kind Regards and Happy Easter Holidays.
Alessandro Tengattini,
On behalf of the organising committee 

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the forthcoming SIMP-SGI Congress (Bari, Italy, 3-5 September 2024) and to submit your abstracts to the following session:

T30. The science of clays and zeolites: from genesis to sustainable applications

Clay and zeolites minerals can contribute to achieve the ambitious goals of the European Green Deal, representing a clear response to global challenges related to broad fields of applications for industry, environment, hydrogeological risk and more. These minerals are of great interest for geosciences. Clays are the most diffuse sediments on the Earth crust, and they have a fundamental role in understanding paleoclimate, sedimentary environments, and diagenetic processes. Moreover, as zeolites, they represent a useful tool providing information on hydrothermal system and very low-grade metamorphism. Thanks to their extreme sensitivity, clays and zeolites find application in high-value technological uses by exploiting ion exchange and selective adsorption of organic molecules such as the sequestration of undesirable substances (included that of emerging concern) from aqueous, solid, and gaseous phases. Furthermore, they represent important sources of raw materials in several industrial productions as ceramic and construction materials. This session is open to studies highlighting the important contribution of these minerals in geoscience, their crystal chemistry and genesis, as well as their applications in wastewater treatment, environmental remediation and soil reclamation, landslides studies, hydrogeological risk, in the production of ceramic and more.

Share: https://www.geoscienze.org/bari2024/

The deadline for abstract submission is 26 April 2024, 19:00 CET.

Hoping to see you in Bari!

More information on the pdf file.

Advances in the field of soil-structure interaction are impacting design, retrofitting and protection of civil engineering structures against natural hazards. CompDSSI is an in-person International Workshop devoted to new-generation numerical approaches for the dynamic analysis of soil-structure systems of strong practical relevance, investigating critical issues and high-fidelity methods applicable from local to regional scale. A meeting point to share knowledge, in which researchers and designers of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering will promote solutions for a safer and more efficient urban fabric.

More information on the contents and attendance modalities can be found in the flyer and full programme attached.

Website: https://compdssi.altervista.org/

The Organising Committee

Dr. Davide Noè Gorini (Sapienza University of Rome)

Prof. Pedro Arduino (University of Washington)

Dr. Domenico Gallese (ARUP)

OpenSees is an evolving numerical framework for advanced assessment of civil engineering structures against natural hazards, in which soil-structure interaction can be simulated through multiple levels of complexity. We will explore soil-structure modelling in OpenSees, focussing on critical issues of the implementation. The development of nonlinear dynamic analyses is the main goal of this path. To this end, new-generation approaches for assessing the dynamic performance of soil-structure systems will be described and techniques to implement new features in OpenSees will be discussed, of interest for both Users and Developers. The discussion will be extended to the use of tools for regional analysis and artificial intelligence-based assessment. Several example applications will be provided, supported by hands-on experience and working groups.

More information on the contents and attendance modalities can be found in the flyer and full programme attached.

Website: https://compdssi.altervista.org/

The Organising Committee

Dr. Davide Noè Gorini (Sapienza University of Rome)

Prof. Pedro Arduino (University of Washington)

Prof. Guido Camata (University of Chieti-Pescara)

Dr. Domenico Gallese (ARUP)

Dr. Massimo Petracca (ASDEA Software Technology)

This symposium, the annual event of the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR), aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, and students to exchange and share their experiences and research results.
The topics will span from landslides to tsunamis, including earthquake-related disasters and human-related activities towards a common goal to reduce geo-disasters.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that we will offer a session on Multiphysical processes in granular media at the 2024 Society of Engineering Science Annual Meeting, which will take place in Hangzhou (China), 20-23 Aug 2024.

We look forward to your contributions!

The description of this minisymposium is shown in the attachment, and the full session details can be found here: 2024 SES Annual Technical Meeting. Please consider submitting an abstract to our session. The deadline for abstract submission is Apr. 1st, 2024. We are looking forward to meeting you here in Hangzhou.

All the Best!
Teng Man and all the co-organizers  

Minisymposium details:
Granular materials, such as those arising in industry and geophysics, displays a variety of unique phenomena, such as evolving volume compaction/dilation, jamming transition, fluid solid interactions, localized shear-banding, grain breakages, flow and contaminant transport in pore spaces, shear thickening/thinning, and granular segregation. The varied behavior of granular materials at the macroscopic, continuum scale stems from the rich physics at the microstructural scale; however, understanding the underlying microscale mechanics and physics and the connections between the particle and continuum scales remain unresolved issues of current research. Recent decades witness significant progress having been made in promoting various advanced experimental techniques, generalizing the rheological behaviors of granular flows, understanding the jamming transition physics of granular systems, and proposing multiple numerical techniques to quantitatively represent the thermal, mechanical, and chemical behaviors of granular materials.

This mini-symposium aims to highlight current state-of-the-art research in the mechanics and physics of granular systems across different scales ranging from the particle level to the continuum level and with different physical phases. We encourage submissions of abstracts with experimental, theoretical, and computational focuses. Topics of interest include advanced experimental techniques (such as particle tracking velocimetry and photoelasticimetry), visco-elasto-plasticity of granular solids, rheology and segregation of granular mixtures, contaminant transport within granular-fluid systems, as well as modeling work related to discrete-particle modeling, statistical mechanics of granular media, homogenization approaches toward continuum modeling, classical and higher-order continuum theories, finite-element modeling, multi-scale approaches, parallel computing architecture, and machine learning methods.

More information on this pdf.

https://www.spam-project.dev/workshops/2024

This workshop should be of interest to experimentalists interested in quantifying strain, especially in 3D+t. SPAM workshops are organised each year and aim at bringing support to our users while building up the community. During three days you will have the opportunity to bring your own data and analyse it with the spam core development team. This year the workshop will be held in Villar d’Arène in the French Alps. It is a remote destination in the mountains yet not that far from international airports and train stations. The price for participation will be about 500€ and includes a full pension for the three days of the workshop.

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Mini-symposium (MS11 – Titled «  Mechanics of Multiphase-Multiscale Granular and Particulate Systems ») at the upcoming ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute – 2024 International Conference that will take place in Vienna on the premises of the TU Wien on September 11-13, 2024. 

All details of the EMI 2024 IC can be found on the following website: https://www.emi2024ic.com

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work and participate to this important event, you can find in the attached flyer all the details of our Mini-symposium (MS11).

Abstracts can be submitted on the website of the conference before March 30, 2024

https://www.emi2024ic.com/programme/abstract-submission/

Registration can be made here: https://www.emi2024ic.com/registration/

We would be grateful if you could distribute this announcement to anyone who might be interested.

Looking forward to meeting you in Vienna!

Best regards, Pierre-Yves, François and Mahdia