ALERT Workshop 2026
28^th  – 30^th September 2026, Aussois, France

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DAY 1, MONDAY, 28^th September
In honor of T. Hueckel’s 80th anniversary: Thermo-chemo-mechanical couplings in geomaterials
Coordinators: Manolis VEVEAKIS, Matteo CIANTIA and François COLLIN

• Environmental Geomechanics for Subsurface Energy Engineering (Keynote lecture by Manman HU)
• Neutron and X-Ray Imaging for the Investigation of Coupled Multiphysics Processes (Alessandro TENGATTINI and Stefano DAL PONT)
• Integration of microscale chemical debonding into underground reservoir modelling (Alexandre SAC-MORANE, Maria OLARTE-GARZON, Fanyu WU, Philipp BRAUN, Jean-Michel PEREIRA, Manman HU, Manolis VEVEAKIS and Hadrien RATTEZ)
• Advancing Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Modelling of swelling clays within a double structure framework (Han Ming LAI, Lidija ZDRAVKOVIC, David M. POTTS and Matthew KIRBY)
• Reactive transport and chemo-mechanical behaviour of carbonate–clay caprock for CO₂ storage applications (Guido MUSSO, Vincenzo Sergio VESPO, Gabriele DELLA VECCHIA)
• Geomechanics of carbon mineralization in rocks with reaction-driven volume expansion (Keynote lecture by Giuseppe BUSCARNERA)
• Multiphysics modelling of hydro-thermal cracks in multiphase porous materials (Zechao CHEN, Ziad SAHLAB, Laura DE LORENZIS, Lyesse LALOUI and Lorenzo SANAVIA)
• Investigating the microscopic hydro-mechanical behaviour of Callovo-Oxfordian claystone using NMR Relaxometry (Gerges ABBOUD, Rahima SIDI-BOULENOUAR, Benjamin MAILLET, Philipp BRAUN, Michel BORNERT, Patrick AIMEDIEU, Minh-Ngoc VU, Jean TALANDIER, Rémi DE LA VAISSIERE and Anh-Minh TANG)
• Ab-Initio Micro-Scale Derivation of Fluid-Solid Mechanical Interactions (Gary COUPLES)
• DEM modeling of flash heating in fault gouges (Rafael RANGEL and Hongyang CHENG)

DAY 2, TUESDAY, 29^th September
The mechanics of interfaces
Coordinators: David FROST, Raul FUENTES and Cyrille COUTURE

• Fractured Rocks: Properties, Processes and Engineering Implications (Keynote Lecture by J. Carlos SANTAMARINA)
• Bedding Planes as First-Order Interfaces in Flexural-Slip Deformations (Helen LEWIS and Gary COUPLES)
• Velocity Dependence in Marble during Single-Asperity Sliding (Adriane CLERC, Guilhem MOLLON, Amandine FERRIEUX, Lionel LAFARGE and Aurélien SAULOT)
• Frozen Soil–Structure Interfaces Beyond Mohr–Coulomb: Toward Rate-Dependent Damage Modelling (Faranak SAHRAGARD, Mehdi POURAGHA and Mohammad RAYHANI)
• Exploring Crystallization Pressure Across Scales: Molecular Simulations and Microfluidic Experiments (Bilal Mahmoud HAWCHAR, Tulio HONORIO, Matthieu VANDAMME, Florian OSSELIN, Jean-Michel PEREIRA, Lionel MERCURY and Laurent BROCHARD)
• ALERT Special Lecture 2026: Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling of Coupled Processes in Granular Media (Professor Jidong ZHAO)

DAY 3, WEDNESDAY, 30^th September
Geomechanics for Natural Hazards
Coordinators: Stefania CUOMO, Diego MANZANAL and Nabil BENAHMED

• Beyond modelling of landslide propagation (Keynote lecture by Manuel PASTOR)
• A sliding-consolidation model for rainfall-induced creeping landslides motion (Fabio ROLLO, Giuseppe BUSCARNEA and Angelo AMOROSI)
• Why are slow landslides slow? Grain-scale viscosity as a self-regulating mechanism in basal shear zones (Alfredo TABOADA, Saeid NEZAMABADI and Farhang RADJAÏ)
• A mechanical model to reproduce complex compaction patterns in the deformation of snow (Mathilde BONNETIER, Lars BLATNY, Guillaume CHAMBON, Johan GAUME and Maurine MONTAGNAT)
• DEM analysis of dry granular flow impact on rigid obstacles (Matteo ZERBI, Francesco CALVETTI and Claudio DI PRISCO)
• Assessing Liquefaction Susceptibility of Materials for Engineered Slopes (Zekeriya Metehan KARSLIOGLU)
• A Unified Computational Continuum Framework for Natural Hazards (Keynote lecture by Ha BUI)
• Physics-informed machine learning for granular flows (Konstantinos KARAPIPERIS)
• Experimental and Numerical Assessment of CO₂ Effects on Discontinuities in Geological Storage Reservoirs (Cecilia Belén LASKOWSKI ORLANDI, Diego MANZANAL, Mauro MUÑIZ-MENÉNDEZ, Manuel PASTOR and Miguel MARTÍN)
• Deciphering the physics of rockfall fragmentation: A FBM-DEM framework for predicting run-out and hazard footprints (Álvaro VERGARA and Raul FUENTES)