A webinar on “A multiscale approach for the characterization of bio-chemo-mechanical processes in contaminated marine sediments” will be held online the 9th of July 2021 from 15:30 to 16:30.
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: Teams link.
Please see this file for further details.
Dear ALERT Geomaterials community,
I hope you are all keeping well!
This is a wee reminder that the abstract submission for the 14th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics has been extended to the 4th of July 2021.
To submit your abstract, please follow the instructions:
https://www.euroconference2021.org/Submit
Moreover, the registration has now opened and you can register until the 20th of August 2021. You can find more info on our website: https://www.euroconference2021.org/.
We are looking forward to meeting you virtually on the 30th of August!
Best wishes,
Elma (on behalf of the organising committee).
Dear ALERT community,
As sanitary conditions are improving, certainly thanks to the vaccination, we are confident that it will be possible to meet again in September 2021 in Aussois.
However, it cannot be ruled out that travel restrictions will still be in place at that time, particularly from outside the EU. The conditions for entering France will depend on your country of departure and your vaccination status (https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/coming-to-france/coronavirus-advice-for-foreign-nationals-in-france/#sommaire_1 ).
Therefore, for the first time in the history of ALERT, the decision was taken to organize the workshop and the doctoral school in hybrid mode in 2021. It means it will be possible to attend these events while being present in Aussois or remotely. This way, we hope to meet the expectations of both those eager to meet and those unwilling to travel.
In the coming weeks, you will be able to register and choosing one of these two options (which can be modified if necessary).
Keep staying safe, long life to ALERT-Geomaterials!
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
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 10th 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:
| Laboratory Testing |
| Field Investigations |
| Constitutive Modeling |
| Modeling and Simulation |
| Micromechanics and Microstructures |
| Geology of Salt Formations |
| Salt Caverns, Cavern Abandonment and Long-term Integrity |
| Geological and Geotechnical Barriers |
| Geological Storage of Energy (methane, compressed air, hydrogen) and Hazardous Waste |
| Mining |
Abstract submission is now open, with the submission deadline on Friday the 6th 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