A research position is available in the Geotechnics Section at Imperial College London. The position is funded by the UK EPSRC. The research project will involve coupled particle-fluid simulation of internal erosion. Full details are available via the website of Dr. Catherine O’Sullivan (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/cath.osullivan).
A PhD position at Newcastle University is available in Civil Engineering on Discrete Element Method modelling of non-spherical particles: application to geomaterials, process and mining engineering. More details in the pdf file.
GeoProc deadline for abstract submission is now extended to: November 20, 2016. This extension is final.
A minisymposium on recent developments in unsaturated soil and unsaturated porous media mechanics will be held during/at InterPore 2017 (Rotterdam, May 8-11, 2017). The session is entitled MS1.5 Constitutive framework for unsaturated porous media: experimental challenges and modeling opportunities. Abstract submission information is available at the following link: https://www.interpore.org/116-event-booking/9th-international-conference-on-porous-media-annual-meeting/318-abstract-uploading-16. The extended deadline is November 21.
The presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2016 are now available online. The accompanying book of the Doctoral School can be downloaded here.
The presentations of the ALERT workshop 2016 are now available online.
A PhD Position is available in Geotechnical Engineering at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. More details in the pdf file.
The geotechnical engineering group of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Northwestern University is seeking PhD applicants for new doctoral positions starting in the Fall 2017. Successful candidates should have a master’s degree in civil engineering, geomechanics, applied mechanics or related disciplines and a strong background in continuum mechanics, numerical modelling and geotechnical engineering.
Interested candidates should contact Prof. James Hambleton (jphambleton at northwestern.edu), Prof. Giuseppe Buscarnera (g-buscarnera at northwestern.edu) or Prof. Richard Finno (r-finno at northwestern.edu). The deadline for applications is December 31 2016. Further information can be found at http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/admission/application-deadlines.html.
As an opportunity to present and discuss advances in the computational simulation of large deformation problems, a mini-symposium will be organized at the Interpore 2017 conference, 8-11 May 2017 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The conference works on the basis of submitted abstracts only (no papers) and then oral/poster presentations in a series of mini-symposiums. All participants will have the opportunity to orally present their work (15 mins for oral contributions or 3 mins for poster presenters, in addition to their poster). Abstract submission is now open until November 14th.
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The Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) behaviour of soils occupies a central role in many coupled processes in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, such as geo-energy, nuclear waste disposal, thermo-active structures and atmospheric interaction of earthworks. In order to provide a forum for academics and practitioners in these areas to exchange their research on thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils, a mini-symposium on the topic is being organised as part of the Interpore 2017 conference, to be held 8-11 May 2017 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This mini-symposium is an opportunity to present experimental research, field work and computational studies focussing both on fundamental aspects of THM behaviour and its application to engineering problems.
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