The 2-year postdoc position is part of an EPRSC (UK Research Council) grant that has recently been awarded to the University of Sheffield on “High speed granular debris flows: new paradigms and interactions in geomechanics”. More details at the webpage.
The position involves a 12-months contract at Deltares for the “Numerical modeling of impact and vibratory driven offshore piles with MPM”. The position is part of a larger project to translate field test results of monopile installation to sites with other densities and pile diameters using the numerical MPM approach. Supervisor is prof Frits van Tol from Delft University of Technology. More details in pdf.
The MECAMAT 2015 National Workshop will take place from 26 to 30 January 2015 at Aussois. The Workshop is about materials under extreme loadings (high velocities and pressures). More informations can be found in the attached pdf documents (1, 2) and on the following web site (in french): http://mecamat2015.ec-nantes.fr
Like in the previous years, a collection of photographs by David Mašín documents the Workshop of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois 2014. The focus is on the PhD prize (a report will follow) and the Special lecture by Prof. Itai Einav. Thanks, David!
The invited Special Lecture during the ALERT Workshop 2015 will be presented by Prof. Hans Muhlhaus from the University of Queensland. The envisaged title of his talk is Mechanical and hydraulic instabilities in Geomechanics.
The presentations of the ALERT Doctoral School 2014 are now available online. The accompanying book of the Doctoral School can be downloaded here.
At its meeting in Aussois, September 2014, the ALERT Board of Directors approved four submitted applications for the membership in the ALERT Geomaterials association:
(associated membership)
With this decision, the number of the member institutions of ALERT Geomaterials increased to 34!
The ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2015 will be organized from Monday, 28 September till Wednesday, 30 September in Aussois, France. It will include the following sessions:
Session 1 (Monday, September 28)
From discrete methods to continuum methods: Applications, Problems and Solutions
Coordinators: Y. Dafalias, L. Sibille and E. Andò
Session 2 (Tuesday, September 29)
How should we teach geomechanics?
Coordinators: G. Viggiani and I. Herle
(a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, September 30)
Fracturing and fractured reservoirs
Coordinators: E. Papamichos, H. Lewis and G. Couples
ALERT Doctoral School on Coupled and multiphysics phenomena will follow the workshop.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for four full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty positions; all ranks will be considered. Information about the Department may be found at: http://cee.illinois.edu. More details in pdf.
The title of the ALERT Doctoral School 2015 is Coupled and multiphysics phenomena. It will take place in Aussois, October 1-3, 2015. The school organisers are Bernhard Schrefler (Università degli Studi di Padova), Lorenzo Sanavia (Università degli Studi di Padova) and Frederic Collin (Université de Liège).