Next Meeting

Workshop

The next ALERT Geomaterials Workshop will take place from September 28th to September 30th, 2026. The topics of the Sessions are:

  • In honor of T. Hueckel’s 80th anniversary: Thermo-chemo-mechanical couplings in geomaterials, organized by Matteo Ciantia, Manolis Veveakis & Frederic Collin
    About… This workshop celebrates the 80th anniversary of Tomasz Hueckel by highlighting advances in the understanding of thermo-chemo-mechanical couplings in geomaterials. Over the past decades, coupled processes involving temperature, chemical reactions, fluid flow, and mechanical deformation have emerged as central to the behavior of soils and rocks in natural and engineered systems. From nuclear waste repositories and geothermal reservoirs to energy storage and carbon sequestration, the predictive modeling of geomaterials requires a rigorous multiphysics framework integrating experimental observations, constitutive theory, and numerical simulation. Bringing together leading researchers and early-career scientists, the workshop aims to review foundational contributions, discuss current challenges, and identify future directions in the study of coupled processes in geomaterials.
  • The mechanics of interfaces, organized by David Frost, Raul Fuentes & Cyrille Couture
    About… Material interfaces and transition zones are ubiquitous in natural, engineering and laboratory settings. More than just a shift in the material properties, interfaces can act as structures with their own mechanical, hydraulic, or even chemical characteristics across different length scales. Exploring the less-understood behaviors of these interfaces can open new directions and design opportunities in geomechanics, and we are here to talk about it!
    This half-day session aims to bring fresh perspectives to the community on various manifestations of continuum and/or discrete interfaces in our fields.
  • Geomechanics for Natural Hazards, organized by Sabatino Cuomo, Diego Manzanal & Nadia Benahmed
    About… The topics will span from slope instabilities, landslides and flows of debris/soil-water/ice mixtures up to failure of tailing dams and flow propagation problems. All such gravity-driven movements have been receiving increased attention in the contexts of risk assessment, early-warning systems, land-use and urban planning maps, also thanks to larger amount and quality of field evidence. However, issues like the incrementally non-linear behaviour of soil, hydro-mechanical coupling, weathering process, rate- and thermal effects come very often into the picture. In other words, geomechanics is fully needed to robustly address these so-called natural hazards.
    The Workshop aims at establishing a link between scientists coming from both communities of ALERT Geomaterials and LARAM School. Contributions about classical small-strain approaches for cohesive soils, and more novel large-displacements approaches for slope failures evolving into flows, are both expected and welcome.

Submit your abstract here.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2026
For any inquiries regarding your participation or further information about the sessions, please contact the respective session coordinators directly.

Poster & Lightning Poster Sessions

The ALERT Geomaterials Lighting Poster Sessions will take place during the Workshop. Submit your abstract here until 15 May 2026

Doctoral School

The next ALERT Geomaterials Doctoral School will take place from October 1st to October 3rd, 2026. The theme of the Doctoral School is: “Experimental Geomechanics for beginners” and is organized by Eleni Gerolymatou, Miguel Cabrera & Alessandro Tengattini, Alessandro Tarantino, Nadia Benahmed, Jelke Dijkstra.

Program

To be announced.

Registration

To be announced.

Transport

To be announced.

We look forward to seeing you soon, ALERT Geomaterials!