The journal Géotechnique is hosting an event on the 27^th October 2023 at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London to celebrate its 75^th anniversary (https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/page/ice-news/geot75). We wish to gather the geotechnical community to cherish Géotechnique’s past research and look forward, to future fundamental and applied research.

The day is organised around three main themes:

• Theme 1 – Soil micromechanics: from surface physics and chemistry to macro engineering applications
• Theme 2 – Bio-assisted geotechnics: effective strategy in a Net Zero Carbon World?
• Theme 3 – Artificial Intelligence in geotechnics: virtual dream or practical reality?

Each theme session will include:

• Introductory Lecture offering a multidisciplinary perspective of the research theme (Lecturers are Prof Carlos Santamarina, Prof Glyn Bengough, and Prof Darren Wilkinson)
• Géotechnique Research Lecture to cherish the past and look forward to the future (Lecturers are Prof Catherine O’Sullivan, Prof Jason DeJong and Prof Antonio Correia)
• Discussion
• Poster session (10 posters per theme)

The event programme is available here.
Tickets are available here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/geotechnique-75th-anniversary-2368059

GeoShanghai is a series of international conferences on geotechnical engineering held in Shanghai quadrennially. The conference was inaugurated in 2006 and was successfully held in 2010, 2014 and 2018, with more than 1600 participants in total. Since the last conference, the geotechnical community have witnessed many advances both in fundamental understandings and engineering practices. To demonstrate the latest developments and promote collaborations in geotechnical engineering and related fields, we launch the 5th GeoShanghai International Conference to be held in May 2024. We sincerely invite you to join in this long-anticipated grand event!

Shanghai is a unique cosmopolitan city where traditional Chinese culture has been blended seamlessly into those from all over the world. The geotechnical and underground engineering in Shanghai is under rapid development (e.g., deep excavation of more than 80 m for drainage tunnel). We look forward to welcoming you in Shanghai!

Abstract due: August 31, 2023
Full paper due: October 15, 2023
Acceptance of full paper: December 15, 2023
Final full paper due: January 15, 2024

Website: http://www.geo-shanghai.org

Contacts: 

Mingliang Zhou, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Geotechnical Engineering, College of Civil Engineering,
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Tel: +86-13918955481
Email: geoshanghai@tongji.edu.cn

Yu Qian, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208
Office: (803)777-8184
Email: yuqian@sc.edu

The Yade DEM open-source software development team is excited to announce the Yade Short Course on “Tackling Challenging DEM Problems”, a satellite event to the DEM9 conference, where you will have the opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills in discrete element modeling.

This hands-on course will provide in-depth tutorials on pore-scale networks, fluid & thermal couplings, and non-spherical particles, and it will take place over the three days preceding the DEM9 conference, during 15-17 September 2023 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany.

Below is an overview of the syllabus:

Day 1: Introduction

• Introduction to DEM, Yade, and Python
• Hands-on installation and Python scripts

Day 2: Fluid & Thermal couplings

• Theory on grain-fluid mixtures, long and short-range effects, and pore-scale triangulation
• Hands-on session: Building a poroelastic script
• Brief machine learning exercise: Training a deep surrogate

Day 3: Non-spherical particles

• Clumps, potential blocks, potential particles
• Hands-on session: Exploring particle-shape effects

Registration for the course is now open, and we encourage you to secure your spot as soon as possible. The registration fees are as follows:

Academic Participants:

• DEM9 Participant: €300
• Non-DEM9 Participant: €500

Industry Participants:

• DEM9 Participant: €900
• Non-DEM9 Participant: €1,100

To register, please fill out the Registration Form before the deadline on September 7th, 2023. If you have any questions or require further information, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at yadeshortcourse@gmail.com and to review the attached PDF Flyer.

Advanced course on Modeling of Localized Inelastic Deformation (LID 2023) ,taught by Milan Jirásek in Prague, Czech Republic, 4-8 September 2023.

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/course2023.html
For registration please contact Milan.Jirasek@cvut.cz

In this workshop, internationally recognized and young colleagues will be gathered to provide an insight into their research on the topic of Offshore Geotechnics. This workshop is part of the SINO-GERMAN Mobility Programme, whose objective is to develop, validate and compare constitutive models and numerical methods for driven piles from installation to long-term serviceability. The project is a joint project with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the RUB University Bochum, Germany and the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. In the name of the joint project it is my pleasure to invite you for a fruitful workshop.

All important information can be found in the attached flyer. In addition, please have a look at https://www.ibf.kit.edu/english/index.php. For further questions please contact: institut@ibf.kit.edu