Advanced course on Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation taught by Milan Jirásek will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 15-19 September 2014. This course provides an overview of modeling approaches used in the mechanics of inelastic materials and structures, with special attention to the objective description of highly localized deformation modes such as cracks or shear bands.
International Conference in Geotechnical Engineering will be organised by the Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society in August 2015. The second bulletin of the conference is attached. The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 29th June.
The biannual course in Soil Modelling at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway) will take place in the period September 8th to 12th 2014. Link to bulletin: http://www.ntnu.no/documents/10380/0/Course+in+soil+modelling/3a1a221d-ddbe-4fbd-acbf-cdc2f93ec2e2
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The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the Sessions 2 and 3 of the ALERT Workshop 2014 (25th Edition) has been extended up to May 31, 2014! Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf). The submission of the abstracts for the Session 1 is closed!
Session 2 (Tuesday, September 30)
Railway geomechanics
Coordinators: Antonis Zervos and Farhang Radjai
(a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 1)
Multiphysics coupling
Coordinators: Robert Charlier, Lorenzo Sanavia and Jean Vaunat
The presentation can also be submitted as a poster.
5th “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Rockfall Protection” – RocExs 2014 – will take place from 29th to 31st May 2014 in Lecco (Italy)!
RocExs 2014 is organized on behalf of the Rockfall Expert Network (RocExs.NET) by Politecnico di Milano and Università di Milano – Bicocca, with the support of Rockfall Defence, and is hosted at the new Lecco Campus of Politecnico di Milano.
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The international conference on “Modeling Granular Media Across Scales” will be held from 9 to 11 July 2014 in Montpellier, France. This conference is jointly organized by MIT (Cambridge, USA) and the MiDi Network (Montpellier, France). The deadline for abstract submission is May 4, 2014. For a detailed description of the conference goals, invited speakers, venue and registration, visit the website of the conference at cgp-gateway.org/MGMAS2014 or see the Flyer-MGMAS2014.
6th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics will be held in ETS de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos in Madrid (Spain) from 2nd to 6th June 2014. The main goal of this course is to provide PhD students with a sound knowledge of Computational Geomechanics. The course will include lectures at four levels:
(1) Basic: providing the fundamentals of the numerical techniques used
(2) Advanced and research: the students will learn special techniques to deal with non linear problems, dynamics, integration of constitutive equations. We aim to present current research within ALERT in this field.
(3) Applications to practical cases
(4) Practical. We believe that practise is fundamental when learning a computational technique. Therefore, we will provide a group of sessions where the students, with the help of instructors will practise with the finite element code GeHoMadrid.
Detail for the course you can find in the poster and the document on the 6thALERT OZ course.
Due to pedagogic reasons, the number of participant is limited to 25. The deadline for the registration is 2nd May 2014. Please use the registration form.
McMaster University is hosting the 2014 Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, Aug. 5-8, 2014. Two Mini-Symposia are being planned by the Granular Materials Technical Committee of the EMI: (1) Advances in Soil and Granular Mechanics with Applications to Natural Hazards and (2) Experimental and Numerical Methods in Multiscale Granular Mechanics. More details in the attached pdf flyer.
A workshop on Wave Propagation and Soil Stiffness: Particle-Continuum Duality will be held on 20-21 March 2014 in Bristol, UK. See also http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/events/2013/98.html and pdf.
Abstracts are invited for the upcoming Computational Geomechanics mini-symposium in the 17th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, to be held at Michigan State University from June 15-20th, 2014. The scope of the symposium is listed in http://www.usnctam2014.org/minisymposium/computational-geomechanics
Deadline for abstract submission is on 12/1/2013.