A two and a half day workshop will be held at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland for the purpose of exploring and advancing the use of Thermo-active Geotechnical systems for Near-surface Geothermal Energy as a sustainable geoengineering practice. Continue reading
As part of COMPLAS XII (XII International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications) to be held in Barcelona, Spain, 3-5 September 2013, Manuel Pastor and Frédéric Dufour are proposing a mini-symposium entitled
Numerical modelling of the failure and instabilities in geomechanics
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The XVI French-Polish Colloquium of Soil and Rock Mechanics “Multiscale Modelling in Soil and Rock Mechanics” will be held from 8th to 10th of July 2013 in Montpellier, France. The deadline for abstract submission is the 16th of November 2012. More information is provided at the web site: http://cfp2013.lmgc.univ-montp2.fr/ and in pdf.
Francesco Pesavento, Lorenzo Sanavia and Bernhard Schrefler are organizing the Minisymposium MS22 on “Multiphysics numerical modelling of geomaterials and computational strategies” at the 5th Biot conference on Poromechanics, http://biot2013.conf.tuwien.ac.at/, July 10-12, 2013, Vienna, Austria
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Enrique Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech, Spain) and Jean-Michel Pereira (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France) are organizing a mini-symposium on “Coupled processes in geomechanics. Bridging theory and experiments” (MS16) at the 5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics to be held in Vienna, Austria, July 10-12, 2013.
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The deadline for the registration of presentations for the Workshop on hypoplasticity in Dresden, 7-8 March 2013, has been extended until the end of November 2012. The titles of the presentations can be announced via the registration webpage. Only oral presentations as discussion topics are planed, without any printed proceedings.
The Laboratory of Civil Engineering of the National School of Engineering of Tunis – University Tunis El Manar organises the International Conference on Landslide Risk (ICLR13) to be held at Tabarka-Ain Drahem on March 14-16, 2013.
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The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 is Soil-structure interaction. It will take place in Aussois, October 3-5, 2013. The school organisers are Panagiotis Kotronis (EC Nantes), Claudio Tamagnini (University of Perugia) and Stephane Grange (UJF Grenoble).
A winter school on Numerical and Experimental Assessment of Landslides and Debris Flow organized and funded by the MUMOLADE network will be hosted by the COMPHYS group at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. More information on programme and full grants can be found on the winter school’s website and in the pdf file.
A session named Computational Models and Methods for Multiphysics Processes in Multiphase Porous Media (session code 103) will be organized by Lorenzo Sanavia and Claudio Tamagnini at the Vth International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering – COUPLED PROBLEMS 2013. This ECCOMAS thematic conference and IACM Special Interest Conference celebrating the 60th birthday of Professor Eugenio Oñate, will be held in Ibiza Island, Spain, June 17-19, 2013. Continue reading