Next Meeting

Workshop

The next ALERT Geomaterials Workshop will take place from September 27th to September 29th, 2027. The topics of the Sessions are:

  • Visionary Paths in Geomechanics — A Tribute to Félix Darve, organized by Luc Sibille & François Nicot
    About… This session is organized in tribute to Professor Félix Darve. His career has been marked by a consistent willingness to explore research directions that were considered unconventional at the time, several of which have since helped shape modern geomechanics. By bringing together researchers working in various directions, this session aims to retrace Félix’s exceptionally rich academic career, and to highlight not only specific scientific advances, but also a research approach that raises new questions and pushes the boundaries of established consensus through new ideas and tools.
  • Soil improvement using living species, biopolymers and waste product reuse: modern challenges from coupled processes to engineering applications, organized by Enrique Romero, Grainne El Mountassir, Jelke Dijkstra, Rafaele Cardoso & Claudia Vitone
    About… The session therefore welcomes state-of-the-art contributions addressing soil improvement solutions across diverse perspectives. Special emphasis will be given to studies that link microscale processes underpinning treatment effectiveness with engineering-scale applications making use of living soil systems, biopolymers, biological fibres and biological waste products and to multidisciplinary approaches capable of advancing the sustainable future of soil improvement. The session will also provide an opportunity to stimulate discussion within the ALERT Geomaterials community on some of the key topics at the heart of the new TC223 on Biogeotechnics.
  • Learning from the field. The art of measuring and testing in situ, organized by
    Anna Ramon-Tarragona & Jean Vaunat
    About… The workshop will encourage participants to share their experiences based on different methodologies for obtaining information from the field: from traditional procedures widely adopted in practice, to modern methods and techniques gaining significant traction. In addition, the session will welcome contributions dealing with recorded field properties, measured environmental variables (for example temperature, degree of saturation and suction, chemical concentrations, …) and the correlations between them. The presentations will include investigations regarding a broad range of topics, with non-exhaustive examples such as real-time field analysis and back-analysis, advanced monitoring, measurements by means of fibre optic sensing, the use of telematic emissions, satellite image movement detection, drone surveys of field surfaces, and correlations between environmental variables (e.g., temperature with surface water content, …). Contributions describing any other monitoring tools, data processing and numerical approaches are also highly encouraged.

Poster & Lightning Poster Sessions


Doctoral School

The next ALERT Geomaterials Doctoral School will take place from September 30 to October 2, 2027. The theme of the Doctoral School is: “Coupled Processes in Geotechnical Engineering” and is organized by Angela Casarella, Catherine O’Sullivan, Pishun Tantivangphaisal.

Registration

Registrations are open between June 15th and September 12th. Click here to register!
During this period, registered attendees can request an invitation letter here.

Program

Tentative program

Transport

To be announced.

We look forward to seeing you soon, ALERT Geomaterials!