1st International Conference on Energy Geotechnics – ICEG 2016 will be hosted at Kiel University (Germany) in August 29th -31 th, 2016. The details of the conference are provided in the conference webpage preview: www.ICEG-2016.de.
The 2nd International Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy will take place 13-15 October 2015 in Celle (Germany). The deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 10th.
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The 7th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on “Unsaturated Soil Mechanics: From Fundamentals to Applications” will be held at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences (Spain) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) from the 25th to the 29th May 2015. The deadline for the registration is 3rd May 2015. Please use the registration form.
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The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) invites applications for a research position in the area of Geomechanics. We look for expertise in geomechanical numerical modeling and soil/rock mechanics, and experience modeling fluid flow in conjunction with large deformations. For more details, please see attached pdf.
A PhD position is available at Irstea Grenoble (France) in partnership with the School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney. The project deals with jump patterns formed in granular flows down inclines – Laboratory tests and/or DEM simulations. More details in the PDF file.
International Conference on Creep and Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials will take place in Göteborg, Sweden, 24-25 August, 2015. More details in the pdf file.
A post-doc position is available in the 3sr lab, UJF, Grenoble, France. The subject concerns the characterization of water distribution evolution within a specimen of sapphire spheres with x-ray tomography during hydraulic loading – Experiment and comparison with DEM modeling. More details in pdf file.
Following on from a mini-symposium on Soil-Atmosphere Interaction at the IACMAG (http://www.iacmag.net/#!conferences/c1f4i) conference, a themed issue of Environmental Geotechnics is being planned.
In spite of soil-atmosphere interaction providing the boundary condition to many surface and near surface geotechnical infrastructure, detailed knowledge and modelling of the processes remain rather poor, and still deserve new research and development. Contributions are being sought on aspects of Soil-Atmosphere Interaction such as wetting/drying, unsaturated transport, soil desiccation, vegetation, freeze/thaw, and on any engineering application influenced by such processes.
Abstract submission has been extended to be open until 15th April 2015, with full papers anticipated to be submitted by June. Please see the attached advert for submission details.
The ALERT Newsletter 2015 summing up the events and highlights within the framework of ALERT activities is available online now. The newsletters of recent years can be found in the archive.
A Ph-D position is available at IRSTEA (Grenoble) on Discrete-element modelling of the mechanical behaviour of non-woven geotextiles subjected to puncturing loading. More details in the pdf file.