A postdoc position on DEM modelling of the failure of dry stone retaining walls is proposed in LTDS, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France. Fore more details, see the attached pdf file.
This call is closed!
A position of Senior Research Assistant/Research Fellow in Numerical Modelling of Landslides is open at University of Southampton – Infrastructure Research Group.
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A PhD position on “Hydromechanical behaviour of a compacted clay cover layer in the very long term” is openend at the “Laboratoire d’Energétique et de Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée” of the University of Lorraine (France). The PhD is described in the attached file.
Aalto University (Finland), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering invites applications for Professor Position in Rock Mechanics. Please find the announcement attached. This announcement could also be downloaded directly from http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/132/
PhD position on Modeling the chemistry/transfer coupling of radionuclides in cement-based materials in presence of high nitrate concentrations is open at Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Ingénieur pour l’Environnement (LaSIE) located at La Rochelle (south‐west coast of France). More details in the attached pdf-file.
ALERT Doctoral School 2014 will be held on the 2nd-4th October 2014 in Aussois, France. It is entitled “Stochastic Analysis and Inverse Modelling” and coordinated by M.A. Hicks and C. Jommi (TU Delft). The preliminary programme can be found below:
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The Bureau of ALERT Geomaterials has decided to fund the ALERT PhD Prize 2014. The participation to the prize is open to all the PhD students coming from institutions belonging to ALERT, that have discussed their PhD thesis before December 31, 2013. The deadline for sending the dossiers is May 31, 2014.
The rules and further details are to be found on the Alert website:
https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-phd-prize/
5th “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Rockfall Protection” – RocExs 2014 – will take place from 29th to 31st May 2014 in Lecco (Italy)!
RocExs 2014 is organized on behalf of the Rockfall Expert Network (RocExs.NET) by Politecnico di Milano and Università di Milano – Bicocca, with the support of Rockfall Defence, and is hosted at the new Lecco Campus of Politecnico di Milano.
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The University of Edinburgh (UK), in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), is seeking a full time PhD researcher with research interests in mechanics of soils and granular media, particle technology and computational mechanics to work on “Behaviour of dense granular systems: predicting flow regimes for bulk material handling”, within the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network T-MAPPP – Training in Multiscale Analysis of multi-Phase Particulate Processes (http://www.t-mappp.eu). See the attached pdf file or http://www.t-mappp.eu/esr-11.html for more details.
The international conference on “Modeling Granular Media Across Scales” will be held from 9 to 11 July 2014 in Montpellier, France. This conference is jointly organized by MIT (Cambridge, USA) and the MiDi Network (Montpellier, France). The deadline for abstract submission is May 4, 2014. For a detailed description of the conference goals, invited speakers, venue and registration, visit the website of the conference at cgp-gateway.org/MGMAS2014 or see the Flyer-MGMAS2014.