The deadline for submitting contributions to the ALERT Poster Session has been extended until September 20, 2014. The Poster Session will be held during the ALERT Workshop 2014 from September 29 to October 1 in Aussois. A booklet of abstracts (with an ISBN number) will be published too. Please submit your posters by email directly to the coordinator Donia Marzougui.
There are two research positions – Postdoc and PhD – open in the Experimental Geophysics Group at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany. More details in the pdf file.
A new Elsevier journal entitled GEOMECHANICS FOR ENERGY and the ENVIRONMENT (GETE) has been established.
The scope of the journal is designed as broad, emphasizing fundamental concepts in multi-phase geomechanics and mechanics of porous media, the experiments and analysis of novel phenomena and applications. In terms of areas of specific technologies, it encourages research manuscripts covering geomechanics for natural and enhanced geothermal energy, geological solutions in disposal, storage and retrieval of nuclear, hazardous and domestic waste, resource engineering and mining, conventional and unconventional petroleum engineering, natural gas geotechnologies, geological sequestration of carbon dioxide and methane, methane hydrate technology, and any possible new energy technologies involving geomaterials.
More information is available of the following link:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/geomechanics-for-energy-and-the-environment/
As already announced in June, the ALERT Poster Session will be held during the ALERT Workshop 2014 from September 29 to October 1 in Aussois. A booklet of abstracts (with an ISBN number) will be published too. Please submit your posters by email directly to the coordinator Donia Marzougui. The deadline is extended until September 15, 2014.
Aalto University (Finland), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering invites applications for Doctoral Student or Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Material Point Method in Geotechnical Engineering. The announcement can also be downloaded directly from http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/241/.
A workshop on electric and electromagnetic measurement methods in civil and environmental engineering will take place on the 2nd and 3rd October in Brisbane, Australia. More details in the flyer.
The Geotechnics Research Group at the University of Dundee is currently looking for 4 PhD opportunities working on the following topics:
Innovative use of Thermal Piles as heat storage to enhance Embankment Performance
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=51187&LID=2507, or see attached file 1.
ISGCUBIP: Investigation of the critical SG for cables and umbilicals during various backfilling and installation processes
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=54892&LID=2507
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2014
The use of stone columns as mitigation of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=46222&LID=2507
Enhanced mechanical strength of vegetated soil through transpiration
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=55139&LID=2507, or see attached file 2.
Deadline for applications: 25 July 2014
Monash Geomechanics group at Monash University, Australia is looking for a postdoctoral candidate. For further details, please visit: http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=525066&stp=AW&sLanguage=en.
Mini-Symposium on Mechanics of Granular Media will be organised at ESMC 2015 in Madrid, see pdf-file.
A course on hypoplasticity taught by D. Masin will take place at Charles University in Prague, 16-17. 9. 2014. The course will first introduce fundamentals of soil constitutive modeling, then basics of hypoplasticity formulation and subsequently the lectures will focus on proper calibration of two particular models: model for sands and model for clays. The course will end with discussion of examples of practical applications of hypoplastic models. More details, including the course outline and the speaker profile, can be found at
http://web.natur.cuni.cz/uhigug/masin/hypocourse