The presentations of the ALERT Workshop 2013 and the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 are now available online. The accompanying book of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 can be downloaded here. Furthermore, the booklet containing the abstracts of the posters presented during the ALERT Poster Session is also available.
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.
The Workshop and Doctoral School of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois 2013 is over. Like in the previous year, a collection of photographs by David Mašín can be found on his webpage. More news from the meeting will follow soon.
As already announced in June, the ALERT Poster Session will be held during the ALERT Workshop 2013 from September 30 to October 2 in Aussois. Please submit your posters by email directly to the coordinator Donia Marzougui. The deadline will be September 22, 2013.
The registration for the ALERT Poster Session 2013, held during the ALERT Workshop, is open now! The 7th ALERT poster session will be organized by Donia Marzougui (3SR – Grenoble INP). All posters will be included in a booklet with ISBN, which will be made available on ALERT’s website after the Workshop. Those who have submitted an abstract and a poster to the organizers of the Workshop sessions, please send your posters to Donia, too!
The registration for the ALERT Workshop and School 2013 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. In case of the registration of ALERT members, the corresponding representative of the ALERT institution will receive the registration data too.
The deadline for the registration is the September 15th! The accomodation in Aussois will be processed in the order of the registrations (see the hints in the registration form).
Hints on how to get to Aussois!
The preliminary programme for the ALERT workshop 2012 is avalable now!
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2013 will be presented by Prof. Ronaldo Borja from Stanford University. The title of his talk is Triggering a shear band in heterogeneous porous media.
The video of the ALERT Special Lecture 2012 with Carlos Santamarina has been published online!
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the ALERT Workshop 2013 has been extended up to May 31!
Workshop sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 30)
Geomechanics of slopes
Coordinators: Claudio di Prisco and Leonardo Cascini
Session 2 (Tuesday, October 1)
Contact problems in geomechanics
Coordinators: Euripides Papamichos and Jean Sulem
(this will be only a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 2)
Degradation in geomaterials
Coordinators: Ali Daouadji, Christophe Dano and Erich Bauer
As announced already in October 2012, ALERT Workshop 2013 (24th Edition) will be held in Aussois from September 30 to October 2, 2013. Please don’t forget to submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, pdf).
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 presentation can also be submitted as a poster. The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2013 . For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the organizers of the sessions.