Navier lab at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (France) is proposing a PhD on the mechanics of swelling clay faults in the context earthquakes. More details at the following link :
https://navier-lab.fr/en/ph-d-mechanics-of-swelling-clay-faults-from-molecular-simulation-to-earthquakes/
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that we will offer a session on Multiphysical processes in granular media at the 2024 Society of Engineering Science Annual Meeting, which will take place in Hangzhou (China), 20-23 Aug 2024.
We look forward to your contributions!
The description of this minisymposium is shown in the attachment, and the full session details can be found here: 2024 SES Annual Technical Meeting. Please consider submitting an abstract to our session. The deadline for abstract submission is Apr. 1st, 2024. We are looking forward to meeting you here in Hangzhou.
All the Best!
Teng Man and all the co-organizers
Minisymposium details:
Granular materials, such as those arising in industry and geophysics, displays a variety of unique phenomena, such as evolving volume compaction/dilation, jamming transition, fluid solid interactions, localized shear-banding, grain breakages, flow and contaminant transport in pore spaces, shear thickening/thinning, and granular segregation. The varied behavior of granular materials at the macroscopic, continuum scale stems from the rich physics at the microstructural scale; however, understanding the underlying microscale mechanics and physics and the connections between the particle and continuum scales remain unresolved issues of current research. Recent decades witness significant progress having been made in promoting various advanced experimental techniques, generalizing the rheological behaviors of granular flows, understanding the jamming transition physics of granular systems, and proposing multiple numerical techniques to quantitatively represent the thermal, mechanical, and chemical behaviors of granular materials.
This mini-symposium aims to highlight current state-of-the-art research in the mechanics and physics of granular systems across different scales ranging from the particle level to the continuum level and with different physical phases. We encourage submissions of abstracts with experimental, theoretical, and computational focuses. Topics of interest include advanced experimental techniques (such as particle tracking velocimetry and photoelasticimetry), visco-elasto-plasticity of granular solids, rheology and segregation of granular mixtures, contaminant transport within granular-fluid systems, as well as modeling work related to discrete-particle modeling, statistical mechanics of granular media, homogenization approaches toward continuum modeling, classical and higher-order continuum theories, finite-element modeling, multi-scale approaches, parallel computing architecture, and machine learning methods.
More information on this pdf.
A fully funded 3-year PhD student position is now open in the Geotechnical group in the School of Engineering of University of Dundee (UK).
The PhD opportunity aims to quantify the uncertainties in the geotechnical design of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) and develop improved site investigation schemes for FOWTs. The developed framework will serve as a tool to economically optimise the effectiveness of site investigation for anchor design. This will enable improved (optimised) cost and risk estimations for different anchor concepts, thereby facilitating robust design decisions.
The candidate should have a background in Civil / Geotechnical / Geological / Energy Engineering. Contact: Dr Pengpeng He, phe001@dundee.ac.uk. More information on the pdf file.
The 14th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz course 2024 will be organized by INRAE from April 22nd to 26th in Aix-en-Provence, France.
The title of the school is: “Hydro-mechanical behavior of geomaterials for civil engineering structures: Theoretical models, simulations, lab testing and risk analysis“
The content of the course will address the characterization and the modeling of the hydro-mechanical behavior of geomaterials from the microscale to the structure scale. You will find more details in the attached flyers both from scientific and practical point of view.
The school is free of registration fees and the lunches will be offered to participants. Please register BEFORE MARCH 15th accordingly: https://evento.renater.fr/survey/course-ed353-et-oz-c…-m1opux05
A web page with all the details is available at: https://recover.paca.hub.inrae.fr/zoom-sur2/oz-doctoral-course).
Title: Fluid-solid coupling simulations in nano-granular materials: application to solid bridges formation
Location: Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, Montpellier, France Link: https://www.lmgc.univ-montp2.fr/perso/katerina-ioannidou/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2023/12/PhD_solid_bridges.pdf
Delft University of Technology is seeking candidates for a new Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Uncertainty.
There is an increasing need to quantify the performance of geotechnical structures and infrastructures within a reliability-based framework, so that risks can be explicitly quantified for guiding effective mitigation measures. Of fundamental importance is the need to understand uncertainties and their impacts at the soil mechanical behaviour level and at the geotechnical site level, as an essential precursor to reducing the uncertainty in soil mechanical response as well as to understanding uncertainty propagation to the structure level.
The position is proposed to investigate soil mechanical material behaviour and geotechnical structure response, accounting for uncertainties relating to, for example, data, measurements, statistics, transformation from measured data to derived properties, and external (including environmental) loadings. The position takes into consideration the random, spatial and systematic components of uncertainty, as well as uncertainties relating to the cross-correlations of material properties, and it develops new solutions to better control and reduce the geotechnical uncertainty and risk in geotechnical assessments and construction processes.
More details can be found at link.
Last day for applications: 14 April 2024.
A fully funded 3-year PhD student position is about to open in the Geotechnics and Engineering Seismology group in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia (Italy).
The PhD opportunity is part of the project DORIAN, awarded by the Italian Ministry of University (MUR) to the DICAr@UNIPV for its excellence. The goal of this important project is to study innovative techniques to improve digital modelling of the environment to design safe, resilient, and sustainable structures and infrastructure.
More information on the pdf file.
This Researcher position has a focus on developing advanced numerical models for simulating coupled multiphysical processes in fractured geological media. The simulation tools will be applied to study a wide range of geoenergy and geoengineering problems, such as nuclear waste disposal in crystalline/argillaceous formations, underground construction in dense urban areas, and hydrogen storage in fractured rocks. The project is for two years. The researcher is also expected to seek additional funding to continue the research or for related projects. The duties for this position mainly consist of: (i) performing cutting-edge research in the above mentioned areas, (ii) presenting results in leading international conferences and journals, (iii) supporting the supervision of PhD students as well as interacting with industrial partners, and (iv) undertaking 20% teaching. The deadline for application is 15 March 2024. Please see attached pdf file for details.
https://www.spam-project.dev/workshops/2024
This workshop should be of interest to experimentalists interested in quantifying strain, especially in 3D+t. SPAM workshops are organised each year and aim at bringing support to our users while building up the community. During three days you will have the opportunity to bring your own data and analyse it with the spam core development team. This year the workshop will be held in Villar d’Arène in the French Alps. It is a remote destination in the mountains yet not that far from international airports and train stations. The price for participation will be about 500€ and includes a full pension for the three days of the workshop.
Postdoctoral positions in Computational Geomechanics are currently open at the Geotechnical Engineering Research Group, Shandong University, Jinan, China. Candidates should have graduated with a Ph.D. within the last three years and have experience in developing advanced numerical methods such as FEM, DEM or MPM, for addressing geotechnical problems. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Prof. Kai Yao by emailing yaokai@sdu.edu.cn
The salary package could be referred to https://www.en.sdu.edu.cn/info/1169/7271.htm