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Who we are

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What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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Embedded content from other websites

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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

No one.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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Large Scale Testing Colloquium 2026 – Call for Abstracts

Abstract submission for the 1st Scientific Colloquium – Large Scale Testing is now open!
This new event brings together researchers, industry professionals, and early-career scholars to discuss advances in experimental geomechanics. The focus is on large-scale laboratory testing methods needed for coarse materials such as rockfill, gravels, and fibrous soils; materials whose behaviour cannot be fully captured with conventional small laboratory setups. The colloquium aims to strengthen collaboration between research and practice.
We invite you to contribute and share your recent findings, innovative approaches, and case studies with the community.

– Large-scale laboratory testing (e.g. triaxial, compression, shear tests)
– Specimen preparation and other techniques
– Automation and digitalization & Constitutive modelling
– Engineering case studies on design and performance

Abstract Submission at https://indico.kit.edu/event/5322/abstracts/ (Deadline: 28.02.2026)

For further information, see the attached [PDF].

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