6th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course on Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics

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6th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics will be held in ETS de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos in Madrid (Spain) from 2nd to 6th June 2014. The main goal of this course is to provide PhD students with a sound knowledge of Computational Geomechanics. The course will include lectures at four levels:
(1) Basic: providing the fundamentals of the numerical techniques used
(2) Advanced and research: the students will learn special techniques to deal with non linear problems, dynamics, integration of constitutive equations. We aim to present current research within ALERT in this field.
(3) Applications to practical cases
(4) Practical. We believe that practise is fundamental when learning a computational technique. Therefore, we will provide a group of sessions where the students, with the help of instructors will practise with the finite element code GeHoMadrid.

Detail for the course you can find in the poster and the document on the 6thALERT OZ course.

Due to pedagogic reasons, the number of participant is limited to 25. The deadline for the registration is 2nd May 2014. Please use the registration form.

ALERT Workshop 2014 – Call for abstracts

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As announced already in October 2013, ALERT Workshop 2014 (25th Edition) will be held in Aussois from September 29 to October 1, 2014. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf).

Since time for the presentations is limited, only a part of the submitted abstracts can be chosen for the oral presentations. Therefore, we invite you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. The presentation can also be submitted as a poster. The deadline for the abstract submission is April 30, 2014. For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact directly the coordinators of the workshop sessions.

PhD position at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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The Geomechanics & Geotechnical Engineering research group at Chalmers, led by Prof. Minna Karstunen, is looking for a motivated and talented individual for the position of PhD researcher in a Chalmers-NCC joint industry research project on geothermal foundations on soft clays funded by FORMAS (http://www.formas.se/en/) and SBUF (http://www.sbuf.se/). Continue reading →

EMI2014 Mini-Symposia

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McMaster University is hosting the 2014 Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, Aug. 5-8, 2014. Two Mini-Symposia are being planned by the Granular Materials Technical Committee of the EMI: (1) Advances in Soil and Granular Mechanics with Applications to Natural Hazards and (2) Experimental and Numerical Methods in Multiscale Granular Mechanics. More details in the attached pdf flyer.