A short course entitled “Propagation of Mechanical Waves in Deformable Solids and Meta-Materials” is organized in Pavia (Italy) on September 5-9, 2022.
The course will be held in presence.
A limited number of PhD students and post-docs who are not supported by their own academic institutions can apply to student residences in Pavia which offer lodging at a particularly convenient rate.
Details can be found on the attached flyer and at the web site http://mech-waves-course.unipv.it/.
You will join our collaborative team to develop safety envelopes for partially saturated granular materials under cyclic loading using a hydro-mechanical geotechnical model.
You will focus primarily on numerically modelling of partially saturated cyclic granular response as a function of geotechnical inputs (e.g. particle size distribution, moisture content, density, saturation ratio) and input energy. The role will involve interpreting the results from the numerical model to develop a generalised model or safety envelope to enable prediction of liquefaction of a range of partially saturated granular materials under a range of cyclic loading. The role may also involve some adaptation and extension of the finite element code.
It is essential you have a PhD or equivalent professional qualifications and experience in computational modelling of partially saturated soil mechanics and cyclic loading as relevant to the project eg. civil engineering, geotechnical engineering a long with a background in partially saturated and cyclic geotechnical numerical modelling. In addition, you will have constitutive modelling and programming skills. Experience using Abaqus FEA and GiD post processor software and programming in Fortran and Python is preferable.
This research project is inter-disciplinary, and you will work with team members who have expertise in geomaterials, ship science and GIS data integration. The project forms part of an international, cross-sector, multi-disciplinary project funded by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation ‘Solid Bulk Cargo Liquefaction: Strategies for Effective Controls.’
You will be based at the new National Infrastructure Laboratory on the University’s Boldrewood Innovation Campus, and you will be embedded within professional networks addressing the challenges of onshore and offshore infrastructure and decarbonisation as part of the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute (SMMI) and the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC).
We can offer an attractive research environment on our new Boldrewood campus, the latest facilities and access to a variety of staff development opportunities.
Please go to https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1762822EF for more information and to apply for the this position.
Job description
Within the Computing Centre for Geotechnical Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering of Zhejiang University (QS Ranking 2022: 45th) located at Hangzhou, China, we are looking for 5 highly motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Fellows.
Application
For your application, you are welcome to choose one or more positions. Please send your application to Dr Chaofa ZHAO, chaofa.zhao@zju.edu.cn. The application deadline is May 31, 2022.
For any questions, please feel free to contact Dr Chaofa ZHAO, chaofa.zhao@zju.edu.cn.
More information on this pdf file.
We are seeking a candidate to strengthen our research in Engineering for Climate Resilience or in Engineering for Net Zero. This includes transforming UK infrastructure and networks to be resilient to climate change; or developing innovative engineering approaches and technologies that will enhance our capability to meet the challenge of decarbonising the built environment.
More information on this poster.
Dear all,
A thesis subject is available at Centrale Nantes on modeling of costal erosion:
https://theses.doctorat-bretagneloire.fr/spi/cde-theses-2022/modelisation-de-lerosion-des-littoraux-f-1?key=frnZjC8tKk2gTxR9JmCt7XNNnxGDpmkZkSf3zfNcgDgj9HNHtMXbg3x5
Interested candidate should postulate on the website of Université Bretagne Loire as indicated in the link above.
Do not hesitate to contact me, as responsible of this thesis subject, for any additional information required.
Best regards,
Giulio Sciarra
We are opening a PhD position in Geomechanics and Seismology at Université de Lorraine, GeoRessources laboratory, France.
The main objective of the phD project is to explore the relation between earthquake magnitude, fault properties and the capacity of a fracture rock mass to accumulate elastic strain during the seismic cycle. THe PhD candidate will work on both numerical and physical modeling.
We are looking forward to receiving applications from highly-motivated candidates with a Master’s degree in geology, geo-mechanics, civil engineering (or equivalent fields). The position is funded for 3 years. Applications should consist of a CV, a resume and 1 or 2 recommandation letters.
The full PhD proposal is on this pdf file, and the announcement can be found on our laboratory website: http://georessources.univ-lorraine.fr/content/propositions-de-sujets-de-these
The call expires on the 8th of April 2022
Interested candidates can write to: marianne.conin@univ-lorraine.fr and yann.gunzburger@univ-lorraine.fr
The deadline for the application to the Ioannis Vardoulakis PhD Prize 2022 has been extended to the 17th of April 2022.
More information on the prize on this page.
Open Geomechanics is an online peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the research topics in geomechanics. It is free to publish and free to read. The peer reviews are double blind – not only the reviewers are anonymous for the authors but also vice versa. Further more, the reviews are being published together with the (accepted) papers which guarantees a full transparency of the whole process and brings an informative insight into the discussion between the authors and the reviewers.
Initially, a number of papers for Open Geomechanics came from personal invitations to the potential authors. Nevertheless, the journal wants to be a platform for the whole geomechanics community around the world. We would like to invite you to submit your contributions. You will appreciate the free access to your research results commented by the experienced peers.
Editorial Board of Open Geomechanics
The Geotechnics Research Group at Chalmers University of Technology is looking for PhD students and post-docs in computational geomechanics.
Deadline for applications is April 30, 2022. Please note that all applications need to be sent via Chalmers web-portal.
More information on each position on the websites cited below :
Postdoc in multiphysics modelling of geostructures in FEniCSx: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=10328
Postdoc in computational geomechanics: micromechanics of natural clays: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=10329
We offer a 4-year PhD researcher position within the bilateral cooperation FWO research project “Mechanisms of rockmass instability in co-mining of deep mineral and geothermal energy considering spatio-temporal distribution of stress and temperature”, in collaboration with the Central South University (China).
The PhD researcher will develop the Bayesian Evidential Learning (BEL) framework in order to predict the temperature and mechanical stress fields using Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) coupled models constrained to direct (borehole) and indirect (passive and active seismic data) data under large geological uncertainty. The approach will be first developed with synthetic cases, then validated on a laboratory analog, and finally tested in real field conditions.
The PhD student will be based and enrolled at the Department of Geology at Ghent University, and several short research stays at TU Delft are planned. The PhD supervisors will be Prof. Thomas Hermans at Ghent University (UGent), Prof. Longjun Dong (CSU) and Prof. Anne-Catherine Dieudonné and Prof. Alexandros Daniilidis (TU Delft).
Tentative start date: 1 July 2022. The position is initially for one year, but it will be extended to a maximum of four years after positive evaluation. More information about PhD studies at Ghent University can be found here: https://www.ugent.be/en/research/doctoralresearch.
Application to be submitted electronically in a single PDF file, by e-mail, to Prof. Thomas Hermans (thomas.hermans@ugent.be).
Application should include a CV, a motivation letter and an overview of study results (transcript of records), as well as the contact details of two reference persons.
All applications will be assessed after the deadline and shortlisted candidates will be contacted for a remote interview, which will likely take place in the second half of April.
If no candidate is selected, a new application round will be organized.
More information on this website.