EMI2014 Mini-Symposia

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.

Computational Geomechanics Minisymposium at USNCTAM 2014

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.

Session “Rock and soil mechanics” at ICEM16

The session “Rock and soil mechanics” as a part of the [GT1] symposium on Materials will be organized by Cino Viggiani and Michel Bornert at ICEM16 – 16th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (Cambridge, England, July 7-11, 2014). ICEM16 will highlight novel and innovative research in Experimental Mechanics. The conference is organized by the British Society for Strain Measurement on behalf of the European Society for Experimental Mechanics.
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ALERT Workshop 2014

The ALERT Workshop 2014 will be organized from Monday, 29 September till Wednesday, 1 October in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:

Session 1 (Monday, September 29)
Constitutive modelling – what’s new?
Coordinators: Roberto Nova and Claudio di Prisco

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

ALERT Doctoral School on Stochastic analysis and inverse modelling will follow the workshop.

Minisymposium on Multiphysics Modelling of Porous Media

Minisymposium Multiphysics Modelling of Porous Media: Geomaterials, Biomaterials and Others will take place at the Conference: WCCM XI – ECCM V
11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI)
5th. European Conference on Computational Methods (ECCM V)
6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI)
in Barcelona, July 20-25, 2014.
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