The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2012 will be closeed on the 15th September! Any changes in the registration after the deadline must be communicated directly to the Centre Paul Langevin in Aussois.
Contributions for the poster session are still wellcome!
As already announced, the Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2012 will be presented by Carlos Santamarina. The title of the lecture will be GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION.
Abstract:
The behavior of granular materials, such as soils and fractured rocks, is determined by their discrete nature. Analogous to all other particulate materials, their properties depend on environmental parameters, such as confinement and fluid characteristics; furthermore, interparticle forces govern mechanical properties, interconnected porosity defines flow and affects diffusion characteristics, and multiphase conditions give rise to a wealth of coupled phenomena. Small-strain, electromagnetic and thermal measurements provide complementary soil and fractured rock information. Geophysical methods combine the science of granular materials, the physics of waves and thermal phenomena, signal processing and inverse problem solving to create exceptional tools for characterization and process monitoring in the laboratory and in the field. Engineering applications in site investigation, foundation engineering, geoenvironmental process monitoring, and energy-related tasks demonstrate the power and versatility of these geophysical tools.
The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2012 is open now! You can register using the form at https://alertgeomaterials.eu/forms/registration.html . After filling the form and pressing the button “Register”, a window will open with your invoice. Please print it for your records! You will also get an email with the registration data afterwards.
The preliminary programme for the workshop is available. The title of the Doctoral School is Advanced experimental techniques in geomechanics and the coordinators are Cino Viggiani, Steve Hall and Enrique Romero, see the preliminary programme.
The deadline for the registration is the September 15th!
Hints on how to get to Aussois!
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the ALERT Workshop 2012 has been extended up to May 31!
A nice poster was prepared by Lyesse Laloui and Helen Lewis who organize the session Geomechanics for Energy Production during the next ALERT Workshop in Aussois.
The presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2011 are now available online.
As announced in December 2011, ALERT Workshop 2012 (23 rdEdition) will be held in Aussois on October 1 to 3, 2012. Please don’t forget to submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form.
Since time for the presentations is limited, only part of the abstracts submitted will be chosen for oral presentations. Therefore, we invite you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2012 . For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the organizers of the sessions.
ALERT Workshop 2012 will be organized from Monday October 1st till Wednesday October 3rd and Doctoral School from Thursday October 4th till Saturday 6th in Aussois.
Workshop sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, October 1st)
Micromechanics and critical steady states in geomaterials
Coordinators: Yannis Dafalias and Bruno Chareyre
Session 2 (Tuesday, October 2nd)
Geomechanics of underground structures
Coordinators: Claudio Tamagnini and David Mašín
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 3rd)
Geomechanics for energy production
Coordinators: Lyesse Laloui and Helen Lewis
The title of the Doctoral School is Advanced experimental techniques in geomechanics and the coordinators are Cino Viggiani, Steve Hall and Enrique Romero.