In association with the Joint Technical Committee on Natural Slopes and Landslides (JTC1) and the Federation of International Geo-engineering Societies: ISSMGE,ISRM and IAEG (FedIGS), the Colombian Geotechnical Society-CGS cordially invites the international geotechnical community to participate in the XIII International Symposium on Landslides-XIII ISL, which will be held from June 15 to 19 – 2020 in the city of Cartagena-Colombia.

http://www.scg.org.co/xiii-isl/index.html

All abstracts, draft manuscripts and final manuscripts shall be submitted to the Conference staff through the ISSMGE’s Conference Review Platform whose address is:

https://www.issmge.org/publications/review-platform/conferences/isl2020

People interested in submitting documents for the Conference should visit the website listed above and register. The account credentials should be used to access the platform for subsequent submittals.

First-time submittals should be performed in two steps. Firstly, the authors should provide a text of their abstract. Secondly, after acceptance, authors should submit a PDF copy of their manuscript before the papers submission deadline.

Manuscript deadline: November 11, 2019.

A session on Instabilities and multi-physical processes in geomaterials (Session ID: 81743) is going to be held at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting on 9-13 December 2019 in San Francisco. Abstract submissions are open and the deadline for all submissions is Wednesday, 31 July at 23:59 EDT.

https://www2.agu.org/fall-meeting

We look forward to receiving your abstract.

Session Description:
There is an increasing understanding in the scientific community that multi-physical mechanisms are present and fundamental to understand the behavior of Geomaterials at natural conditions. When at depth for example, high temperatures and pressures can activate different coupled mechanisms at the origin of instabilities like strain localization, fracture, etc. In addition, the high velocities reached during seismic slips also involve various mechanisms that are difficult to observe and understand. Finally, operational Geomechanics for energy extraction and storage are increasingly facing challenges that require multi-physical considerations to be solved. Examples include unconventional energy production, Geothermal, CO2 storage and nuclear waste disposal, with particular emphasis required in studying the interaction of a fluid with Geomaterials in chemically active conditions. In this session we aim at convening contributions dealing with all (numerical, theoretical, experimental, in-situ) aspects of geomaterials, emphasizing the role of multi-physical effects in the response and stability of Geomaterials.

Hadrien Rattez, Duke University
Manolis Veveakis, Duke University

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to consider submitting an abstract to the AGU Fall Meeting 2019 (San Francisco, 9th to 13th December 2019), Section: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Session 76447:

“Climate Effects on Desiccation Cracking of Soils”

Dear colleagues,

With 47 oral presentations, 32 poster presentations and 8 keynote lectures on rock fracturing and fault activation experiments and models the programme of the 13th EURO-Conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics – The Guéguen Conference on 2-6 September 2019 in Potsdam is nearly finalized. 

Registration is still open until 15 July 2019, but we highly appreciate early registrations. If you are interested in participating at this conference please register here: https://events.gfz-potsdam.de/euro-2019/registration/

More details on the conference and the programme can be found on the website: https://events.gfz-potsdam.de/euro-2019/

If you have questions, please contact us at: euro-2019@gfz-potsdam.de

With best regards,

Hannes Hofmann, 
on behalf of the EURO-Conference 2019 organizing committee

The Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, has prepared a new 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 16-18 September 2019 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.

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/course2019.html
For registration please contact Milan.Jirasek@fsv.cvut.cz .