A Postdoctoral Position in Numerical Simulations of Landslides with the Material Point Method is available at the Aalto University.
For details please consult the attachment.
Postdoctoral Position at Aalto University
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USNCTAM minisymposium
The 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM). USNCTAM will be held Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 4 – 9, 2018. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the Computational Geomechanics Minisymposium (Symposium ID: 110). Continue reading
Minisymposium on Computational Geomechanics at WCCM New York
The Computational Geomechanics minisymposium (Session ID: 1701) is going to be held at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIII) in New York City from July 22-27th, 2018. The call for abstracts will be open between October 15 and December 31, 2017.
EGU 2018 abstract submission now open
Researchers are invited to submit an abstract to the interactive poster session at EGU 2018 in Vienna on
Multi-scale measurements of the Earth’s properties and imaging techniques: from laboratory to large-scale Earth phenomena
More information can be found on the corresponding website.
Photographs from the ALERT Workshop 2017
David Mašín (Charles University, Prague) has documented the atmosphere of the ALERT PhD prize ceremony (winners are Anne-Catherine Dieudonné from Université de Liège and Xiusong Shi from Technische Universität Dresden) and the special lecture (given by Prof. William G. Gray) with photographs. Thanks, David!
Temporary research position (post-doctoral) at Andra R&D Division
The Andra R&D Division is looking for a Post-Doc for Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical modeling of large-scale in situ heating experiments.
For more details see the attachment.
PhD scholarship in Micromechanical Analysis of Swelling and Compressibility of Clay
The Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) invites interested candidates for a PhD position in a research project related with the analysis of the micromechanical behaviour of soil/rock material with high clay mineral content. The position is affiliated with the Section of Geotechnics and Geology.
For more information, please see the corresponding website.
PhD position at the University Grenoble Alpes in France
The following PhD position (initially announced here: http://wp.me/p20mTt-15K) is still open:
A PhD position is available at the University Grenoble Alpes in France on “Micro-macro modelling by the method of discrete elements (DEM) of the long-term behaviour of shaft seals under hydraulic-gas loading”.
PhD position at Edinburgh Napier
The School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University is seeking a PhD student for Numerical (Geomechanical) Modelling of the Seismic/Dynamic Behaviour of Rubber/Sand Mixtures as a Ground Improvement Method.
For more information see the website.
Failure in Geomaterials – A Contemporary Treatise
It is our pleasure to announce the edition of a new Treatise that falls within the scope of the GDRI:
Failure in Geomaterials offers a unified view of material failure as an instability of deformation modes framed within the theory of bifurcation.
Authors: Richard Wan, Francois Nicot and Felix Darve Continue reading