DFI-EFFC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEEP FOUNDATIONS & GROUND IMPROVEMENT

Urbanization and Infrastructure Development: Future Challenges

ROME, ITALY ~ JUNE 6-8, 2018

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the European Federation of Foundation Contractors (EFFC) are organizing our next International Conference on 6-8 June 2018 in Rome, Italy.  The conference is being presented to discuss the future challenges our industry faces in relation to urbanization and infrastructure development.

Through the conference presentations and discussions, we aim to explore the worldwide industry’s challenges presented by owners and owners’ representatives (consultants and construction managers) who are associated with building the infrastructure systems that meet modern demands.

The enclosed Conference Introduction and Call for Abstracts documents further explain the full scope of the planned conference content and the forum we are looking to provide for all members of our geotechnical construction community.

Theresa Engler – DFI Executive Director (tengler@dfi.org)

Massimo Grisolia – Conference Chair (massimo.grisolia@uniroma1.it)

Dear TC203 Committee members: Please see below information about the GEESD V conference in Austin in June 2018.  We hope you will submit an abstract and join us in Austin in 2018.  Please feel free to forward this information to local geotechnical societies within your countries.

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics 2018 (GEESD V)

Austin, Texas 

June 10-13, 2018

Abstracts Due: May 24, 2017

On behalf of the Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Committee of the Geo-Institute (G-I) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), we would like to cordially invite you to attend the 5th Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (GEESD V), which will be held June 10–13, 2018 in Austin, TX.  GEESD V 2018 builds upon the success of past events in Sacramento CA (2008), Seattle WA (1998), Park City UT (1988), and Pasadena CA (1978).

GEESD V 2018 will feature a wide range of knowledge-enhancing keynote speakers, technical sessions, and short courses focused on the following topics:

• Ground motions and site response
• Seismic hazard assessment
• Recent Advances in In Situ Site Characterization
• Liquefaction: Triggering, Consequences, and Mitigation
• Recent Advances in Numerical Modeling
• Recent Advances in Physical Modeling
• Laboratory Testing
• Seismic Slope Stability and Landslides
• Induced Seismicity
• Regional Scale Assessment of GeoHazards
• Applications of Remote Sensing

The deadline for abstract submission is May 24, 2017.  Please visit www.geesd2018.org for more information and to access the abstract submission system.

Invitation for abstract submission: deadline is approaching (November 14)

Dear colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit to a minisymposium which we organize on recent developments in unsaturated soil and unsaturated porous media mechanics. It will be held during/at InterPore 2017 (Rotterdam, May 8-11, 2017).

We intend to attract researchers from porous media community, active on multi-phase geo-materials, as well as researchers from soil physics, geotechnical engineering and so forth. Hence, it will bring about many fruitful inter- and intra- community and interdisciplinary discussions.

We hope you and/your colleagues can submit to this session.

our session is titled

MS1.5 Constitutive framework for unsaturated porous media: experimental challenges and modeling opportunities

Please select it when you submit your abstract.

Abstract submission information is available at the following link:

https://www.interpore.org/116-event-booking/9th-international-conference-on-porous-media-annual-meeting/318-abstract-uploading-16

Please copy and paste the link into your internet browser, if the link does not work.

For further information on session topics and objectives, please see the brief description after this email.

Last but not the least, the deadline for abstract submission is November 21 and only a short abstract is needed. You are more than welcome to circulate this announcement among your interested colleagues and co-workers.

With kind regards,

Ehsan

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On behalf of the mini-symposium co-organizers (in alphabetical order):

Francesca Casini (Universita’ degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy),

Siavash Ghabezloo (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France)

Tom Schanz (Ruhr Universität, Bochum)

Jean Vaunat (UPC, Spain),

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Title of MS: Constitutive framework for unsaturated porous media: experimental challenges and modeling opportunities

Session topics and objectives:

Due to multiphase, and multi-physics nature of unsaturated porous media, establishing a constitutive framework for them is not an easy task. The internal structure of the porous media can play a major role and furthermore, the presence of various phases and interfaces among phases greatly influences the macroscopic behavior of such media [1-5]. Such intricate interaction among phases, and interfaces which depend on the internal structure of the porous media would not be easily captured without resorting to advanced experimental techniques and theoretical and numerical modeling tools. This mini-symposium invites researchers working on different unsaturated porous media such as soils and rocks, building materials, gas and oil reservoirs to actively participate.

Main themes are inclusive of but not limited to the followings: a. The hydro-mechanical coupling: investigation from nano and micro to macro scale (i.e., the relationship between capillary pressure-saturation curve (soil water retention curve) and mechanical response: theoretical, and experimental study at the macroscale as well as the micro/nano scale b. The effect of physicochemical characteristics of the porous medium on its hydro-mechanical behavior  c. Micro-mechanical modelling of unsaturated porous media d. Retention in unsaturated porous materials (unsaturated soils, unsaturated frozen soils, reservoir rocks (carbonate, chalk), methane hydrate, papers, building materials, pampers, …)  e. Modeling reactive transport and its hydro-geo-mechanical consequences in projects such as CO2 sequestration  f. The role of unsaturated poro-mechanics in mitigating geo-hazards such as rainfall induced landslides g. Modeling the relationships between phases and interfaces  h. Unsaturated particulate mechanics for road (subbase and base) materials

References: 1. Baille, W., Tripathy, S., & Schanz, T. (2014). Effective stress in clays of various mineralogy. Vadose Zone Journal, 13(5). 2. Casini, F., Vaunat, J., Romero, E., & Desideri, A. (2012). Consequences on water retention properties of double-porosity features in a compacted silt. Acta Geotechnica, 7(2), 139-150. 3. Lu, N., Khalili, N., Nikooee, E., & Hassanizadeh, S. M. (2014). Principle of effective stress in variably saturated porous media. Vadose Zone Journal, 13(5). 4. Nikooee, E., Habibagahi, G., Hassanizadeh, S. M., & Ghahramani, A. (2013). Effective stress in unsaturated soils: A thermodynamic approach based on the interfacial energy and hydromechanical coupling. Transport in porous media, 96(2), 369-396. 5. Schrefler, B. A. (2002). Mechanics and thermodynamics of saturated/unsaturated porous materials and quantitative solutions. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 55(4), 351-388.

Il prossimo 5 Dicembre, il Politecnico di Torino e l’ordine degli Ingegneri di Torino, ha organizzato un workshop sulla geotermia e le geostrutture energetiche . E’ un’iniziativa nata nell’ambito della COST Action GABI, che riunisce ricercatori di tutta Europa esperti nel settore. Nel workshop sarà anche inclusa una visita tecnica all’impianto geotermico del grattacielo di Intesa San Paolo qui a Torino. Ulteriori informazioni sono riportate nel bollettino allegato o al seguente link:

http://www.symposium.it/eventi/2016/workshop-exploiting-the-energy-below-us

Il 31 luglio scade il termine per la sottomissione online degli abstracts per la : 3^rd International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (PBD-III) che si terrà a Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), il 16-19 luglio 2017. La Conferenza è organizzata sotto l’auspicio della International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering dal Technical Committee TC203 (Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Associated Problems).

International Workshop on “Mechanics and transport properties of fractured/intact rocks”

The topic of mechanical, hydraulic and thermal properties of intact as well as fractured rocks has attracted renewed attention of many prominent researchers in geomechanics world-wide.  This seems to be primarily due to environmental issues, shift of source of energy from hydro-carbons to nuclear and other forms of renewable energy.  In view of the these activities, an International Workshop will be organized, the scope of which will include the numerical/analytical as well as experimental research related to the main theme (i.e. assessment of mechanical and transport properties of fractured/intact rocks), with applications in the above mentioned areas of geological disposal of nuclear waste, carbon dioxide sequestration, petroleum engineering, etc.

http://rockmech-krakow.com/

15th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (15th IACMAG) on October 19-23, 2017 in Wuhan, China.

IACMAG