Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the MS221 organizers in the EMI2020 conference, it is my pleasure to invite you to the Mini-symposium titled “Mechanics and Physics of Granular Materials” at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference 2020, Columbia University – New-York. The Mini-symposium is organized by the Granular Materials Committee of the EMI in the forthcoming EMI2020 conference. The website of the conference is: https://www.emi-conference.org/ 

Please find in the attached flyer all the details of the Mini-symposium.

Please submit your abstract electronically before January 15, 2020 following the instructions given in the Flyer.

You can register at: https://submissions.emi2020.org/ 
and submit your abstract to MS 221 : Mechanics and Physics of Granular Materials .
The conference will be held on May 26-28, 2020.

We are looking forward to seeing in Columbia University, New-York!

Best regards,
Mahdia Hattab

Dear Colleagues,

The CONCREEP 11+ international conference will be held at Northwestern University from the 15th to 17th of July 2020. Join us to learn about the latest cutting-edge research on creep and deterioration of concrete, rock, and soil. Note that this edition of the conference is extending the research scope from concrete to geomaterials in general, so any work related to the time-behaviour of geomaterial is welcome.

The program is organised around 5 tracks:

• Long-term material deterioration and healing
• Multiphysics and transport phenomena
• Time-dependent behavior at multiple length and time scales
• Large scale effects and in situ monitoring of time-dependent deformation
• Experimental characterization of creep and shrinkage

Please check the website https://www.concreep.org/concreep11 for further information and abstract submission (open until the 15^th of January 2020).

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,

Thomas Poulet

January 22 to 24, 2020 Liège (BELGIUM)

The EURAD School is organized within the framework of EURAD, the European Joint Programme on Radioactive Waste Management (grant agreement No 847593). Its objectives are to develop and consolidate relevant knowledge for the safe start of operation of the first geological disposal facilities for spent fuel, HLW, and other long-lived radioactive waste, and to support optimization linked with the step-wise implementation of disposal.

Geomechanics plays a significant role in the understanding of the relevant thermo-hydro-mechanical couplings taking place around the disposal. The objective of the course is therefore to provide the state-of-the-art knowledge on basic concepts related to the thermo-hydro-mechanical (multi-physical) couplings, the physical impacts of thermal loading, and the mechanistic understanding of gas migration.

The course is organized for people from institutions active in EURAD. However, learners from outside EURAD can also register, including staff members from agencies as well as young researchers, involved or interested in the geomechanics field.  The attendance will be limited to 80 people.

Programme of the doctoral school in .pdf.

Link for more infomation and to registrate: https://academy.sckcen.be/en/Customised_trainings/Calendar/EURAD-Doctoral-School-Gas–Hitec-WPs–Multiphysical-Couplings-in-Geomechanics-a-focus-on-thermal-effect-and-gas-transfer-impact-on-the-behaviour-of-geomaterials-20200122-20200124-86fafd9efc05ea1180ceecf4bbc6e827

Dear Colleagues,

The 4^th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics takes place from March 15^th to 17^th in Luleå in the North of Sweden. Abstract Submission for full paper or extended Abstract is open till December 8^th. Contributions are due end of January.

Please check the website www.ltu.se/ecpmg for further information and registration. We are looking forward to host you in Luleå.

Jan Laue

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to a special session on Rock and Soil mechanics that will take place during the ICEM19 (https://icem19.org/).

This session (https://icem19.org/en/programme/special-sessions) focuses on advances in experimental rock and soil mechanics. Special emphasis will be placed on the application of non-conventional experimental methods that can describe natural or lab-induced deformation processes within the tested materials, yielding experimental results that may advance existing constitutive models.

We encourage you to submit your abstract following the link: https://icem19.org/en/programme/application-docs

The deadline for the abstract submission is on the 30^th of November.

We are welcoming abstracts for a special session during the 18^th International Probabilistic Workshop, to be held in Guimarães, Portugal on September 23-25 2020.  This special session strives to highlight recent advances in geotechnical reliability and thereby to further advance the uptake of reliability methods in practical applications.

More information can be found in the attached pdf (link).  Please visit the workshop website for the latest updates on submission deadlines (https://ipw2020.com/).

We look forward to your contributions and meeting you at the workshop.

Best regards,

Timo Schweckendiek, Deltares & TU Delft  

Bram van den Eijnden, TU Delft

A short course entitled “Introduction to the Geotechnical PFEM in Kratos” is being held at UPC in January 2020.

Barcelona, 21, 22 and 23rd January 2020.

See description.

There is increasing interest in the MPM (and its variants, such as GIMP, CPDI1, CPDI2, etc.) as a means of modelling problems in which very large deformations occur, e.g. in the study of landslides. The purpose of this mini-symposium is to provide a forum for presenting advances in the method, e.g. improving the accuracy (including convergence and benchmark problems), dealing with numerical issues, modelling of coupled problems, computational efficiency and applications to real world problems. Abstracts will be accepted until at least the end of November (https://sites.durham.ac.uk/emi2020-ic/abstracts-submission/).

Will Coombs, Durham University | Phil Vardon, TU Delft  | Mario Martinelli, Deltares

For more information, please see the attached pdf [linfk to pdf]

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to a special session on Rock and Soil mechanics that will take place during the ICEM19 (https://icem19.org/).

This session focuses on advances in experimental rock and soil mechanics. Special emphasis will be placed on the application of non-conventional experimental methods that can describe natural or lab-induced deformation processes within the tested materials, yielding experimental results that may advance existing constitutive models.

We encourage you to submit your abstract following the link: https://icem19.org/en/programme/application-docs

The deadline for the abstract submission is on the 31^st of October 2019.

Please send us a copy of the submitted abstract so as to track better the submissions to our session (Elma Charalampidou: ec10@hw.ac.uk, Sadegh Nadimi: Sadegh.Nadimi-Shahraki@newcastle.ac.uk).

Best wishes,

Sadegh and Elma

The Laboratory of Soil Mechanics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (LMS- EPFL) is pleased to announce The 3^rd edition of the Winter School dedicated to Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment.

The event will be held from 21^st to 23^rd of January 2020 in Villars-sur-Ollon in the heart of the Vaud Alps (Switzerland).