Aalto University School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering invites applications for Assistant Professor Position in Geotechnical Engineering (Tenure track). For more details, visit the website.
Applications are invited for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Experimental Soil Mechanics, to be based within the Section of Geo-Engineering in the Faculty of Civil
Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology. More details in pdf.
A minisymposium “Multiscale Computational Approaches for Geomechanics (ID 180)” will be held on 20-25 July 2014 in Barcelona (Spain) at the joint XI World Conference on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), European Congress on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) and VI European Conference of Fluid Dynamics.
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A mini-symposium on Soil-Atmosphere Interaction will take place at the 14th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (14th IACMAG) being held 22-25 September 2014 in Kyoto, Japan.
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The session “Rock and soil mechanics” as a part of the [GT1] symposium on Materials will be organized by Cino Viggiani and Michel Bornert at ICEM16 – 16th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (Cambridge, England, July 7-11, 2014). ICEM16 will highlight novel and innovative research in Experimental Mechanics. The conference is organized by the British Society for Strain Measurement on behalf of the European Society for Experimental Mechanics.
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The presentations of the ALERT Workshop 2013 and the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 are now available online. The accompanying book of the ALERT Doctoral School 2013 can be downloaded here. Furthermore, the booklet containing the abstracts of the posters presented during the ALERT Poster Session is also available.
The Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) in Innsbruck was attended by 34 participants from the following countries: Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden. The summer school comprised also an excursion to interesting landslide sites in the Alps, guided by Dr. G. Heissel.
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The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2014 will be presented by Prof. Itai Einav from University of Sydney. The envisaged title of his talk is Geomaterials under extremes.
The ALERT Workshop 2014 will be organized from Monday, 29 September till Wednesday, 1 October in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 29)
Constitutive modelling – what’s new?
Coordinators: Roberto Nova and Claudio di Prisco
Session 2 (Tuesday, September 30)
Railway geomechanics
Coordinators: Antonis Zervos and Farhang Radjai
(a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 1)
Multiphysics coupling
Coordinators: Robert Charlier, Lorenzo Sanavia and Jean Vaunat
ALERT Doctoral School on Stochastic analysis and inverse modelling will follow the workshop.