The Geomechanics and Porous Media Research Team at the University of Pau & Pays Adour is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to work on the CRYSTAL project: Combined neutRon and x-raY imaging for the characterization of in Situ crysTallisation-induced crAcking in the context of cuLtural heritage preservation. For more details on the project, the job description and the application procedure, please see the attached pdf.
The abstracts submission for the ISDMM 2017 is now open on the symposium website: http://inl.cnrs.fr/isdmm2017.
The ISDMM 2017 will be held in Lyon from June 26th to June 29th 2017 and the deadline for abstract submission has been fixed to April 15th, 2017.
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A carbon storage session is going to be held at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris. The conference will take place from August 13-18 and the abstract deadline is April 1st (just before midnight CET). The organisers would very much appreciate your input in the conference and of course also in their session, for which all details are provided below! Continue reading
We would like to draw your attention to the following international intensive course on:
NATURAL HAZARDS & PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES
to be held in Chambéry (France), 12-23 June 2017. Continue reading
Following from successful PhD conferences in Nancy, France and Delft, the Netherlands, we are looking forward to the third in the series to be held in Lisbon, Portugal from the 26th to 30th June 2017. Continue reading
A PhD position is available at Imperial College London. The PhD project title is “Fundamental analysis of the influence of structure on clay behaviour”.
Please see a detailed description in the attachment.
A fully funded PhD scholarship, to commence as soon as possible, is available at the University of Liverpool, UK. The project is concerned with the numerical modelling of large deformation problems in geomechanics.
For further details, please see: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84781
A PhD position is available at the Geosciences Department of MINES ParisTech. The topic is the thermo-mechanical behaviour of rock salt in the context of underground energy storage.
You can find attached a description of the position in English and French.
Irstea (Aix-en-Provence, France) is currently seeking a PhD candidate for the thesis “Multiscale modeling of unsaturated cohesive soils – Application to the failure of hydraulic structures”.
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Two postdoc positions are offered at Laboratoire Navier (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech), France. The first position focuses on bifurcation analysis applied to instability of clays under thermal stimulation. The second position is about discrete element modeling of clays. Continue reading