2nd International Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy will be held in Brussels (Belgium) on 3-5 November 2015, under the auspices of EAGE. More details in pdf.

A new Elsevier journal entitled GEOMECHANICS FOR ENERGY and the ENVIRONMENT (GETE) has been established.
The scope of the journal is designed as broad, emphasizing fundamental concepts in multi-phase geomechanics and mechanics of porous media, the experiments and analysis of novel phenomena and applications. In terms of areas of specific technologies, it encourages research manuscripts covering geomechanics for natural and enhanced geothermal energy, geological solutions in disposal, storage and retrieval of nuclear, hazardous and domestic waste, resource engineering and mining, conventional and unconventional petroleum engineering, natural gas geotechnologies, geological sequestration of carbon dioxide and methane, methane hydrate technology, and any possible new energy technologies involving geomaterials.

More information is available of the following link:

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/geomechanics-for-energy-and-the-environment/

A workshop on electric and electromagnetic measurement methods in civil and environmental engineering will take place on the 2nd and 3rd October in Brisbane, Australia. More details in the flyer.

Mini-Symposium on Mechanics of Granular Media will be organised at ESMC 2015 in Madrid, see pdf-file.

A course on hypoplasticity taught by D. Masin will take place at Charles University in Prague, 16-17. 9. 2014. The course will first introduce fundamentals of soil constitutive modeling, then basics of hypoplasticity formulation and subsequently the lectures will focus on proper calibration of two particular models: model for sands and model for clays. The course will end with discussion of examples of practical applications of hypoplastic models. More details, including the course outline and the speaker profile, can be found at
http://web.natur.cuni.cz/uhigug/masin/hypocourse

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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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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