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Seminario telematico – Dr. S. Guglielmi – 22 luglio 2021 (Politecnico di Bari)
Il prossimo giovedì 22 luglio, dalle 15:30 alle 16:30, la Dr. Simona Guglielmi, assegnista di ricerca presso l’Università di Napoli “Federico II”, terrà un seminario telematico dal titolo: “Microstructural changes underlying the compression behaviour of clays of different sensitivity“.
L’evento è organizzato dal gruppo di ricerca di Geotecnica del DICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, e si terrà sulla piattaforma Microsoft Teams.
Non è necessario registrarsi, per partecipare è sufficiente cliccare sul link riportato in basso nella locandina: Guglielmi_2021_webinar
MSL-2021 – Promemoria – Invito alla partecipazione gratuita – online dal 7 al 9 giugno 2021
Carissimi, vi ricordiamo che il Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides inizia lunedì prossimo. Si terrà online e l’iscrizione è gratuita, basta compilare l’apposito modulo.
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Il primo Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides, intitolato “Slope Stability Problems in Stiff Clays and Flysch Formations“, avrebbe dovuto svolgersi a Napoli, nel centro Congressi dell’Ateneo Federico II. A causa della pandemia l’evento si terrà online dal 7 al 9 giugno 2021 e sarà totalmente gratuito; per partecipare basterà compilare un modulo come indicato nella brochure allegata.
Ulteriori informazioni alla pagina web del simposio:
https://medsymplandslides.wixsite.com/msl2021
Allegato: Brochure_finale_MSL2021
MSL-2021 – Invito alla partecipazione gratuita – online dal 7 al 9 giugno 2021
Il primo Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides, intitolato “Slope Stability Problems in Stiff Clays and Flysch Formations“, avrebbe dovuto svolgersi a Napoli, nel centro Congressi dell’Ateneo Federico II. A causa della pandemia l’evento si terrà online dal 7 al 9 giugno 2021 e sarà totalmente gratuito; per partecipare basterà compilare un modulo come indicato nella brochure allegata.
Ulteriori informazioni alla pagina web del simposio:
https://medsymplandslides.wixsite.com/msl2021
Allegato: Brochure_finale_MSL2021
Borsa di dottorato presso University of Strathclyde, Glasgow – UK
Title: Micromechanics of cracking of clay subjected to air drying and/or gas breakthrough
Duration: 3 years
Start date: from 01/10/2020 to 31/12/2020
Stipend: £1270/month
Eligibility: Applications from UK/EU applicants only, First Class Honours (or equivalent)
Where: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Supervisors: Dr Matteo Pedrotti (https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/pedrottimatteomr/) and Professor Alessandro Tarantino (https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/tarantinoalessandroprof/)
Contact: matteo.pedrotti@strath.ac.uk
Project summary
This 3-year PhD at the University of Strathclyde will focus on investigating the mechanisms at the micro/particle scale underpinning the process of crack formation in clay associated with air drying and/or exposure of the clay interface to gas at high pressure.
The research will mainly be experimentally-based and the PhD candidate will make use of state of the art technologies for the investigation of the clay microstructure including X-Ray Computed Tomography, Environmental Scanning Microscopy, and Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry.
Despite 100 years of research on the macro-mechanical behaviour of clay, we are still largely ignoring underlying mechanisms at the particle scale. Clay micromechanics involves the understanding of the configuration of elements (particles) and the forces controlling the kinematics of such elements. Clay micromechanics (including the evolution of particle configuration in clays when subjected to mechanical loading) has rarely been investigated explicitly and is a young and rapidly growing discipline in the field of soil mechanics.
Besides joining a vibrant geotechnical community at Strathclyde, the candidate will join the International Research Centre For Clay Micromechanics (https://www.irccm.net ) which will provide the opportunity for international collaborations and to spend a period abroad in one of the partner universities (i.e. Chalmers University of Technology – Sweden, University of Twente – The Netherlands, Université Grenoble Alpes – France, University of Brasilia – Brazil, Politecnico di Bari – Italy, Technical University of Denmark – Denmark) .
Industrial contacts will be mainly focused, but not only, towards the Carbon Storage and Sequestration sector.
The First Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides – MSL 2021 – Naples, 7-9 June 2021
Il primo Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides, intitolato “Slope Stability Problems in Stiff Clays and Flysch Formations“, si terrà a Napoli dal 7 al 9 giugno 2021. La scadenza per l’invio dei sommari è fissata al primo giugno 2020. Gli atti del simposio saranno pubblicati sulla raccolta open access “Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering” di Springer Nature.
Landslides represent a relevant problem for most of the countries overlooking the Mediterranean. This trivial consideration should prompt researchers, professionals, and stakeholders in this region to form closer relationships and engage themselves in a continuous exchange of data and ideas to find common strategies of landslide risk mitigation.
A common problem concerns the stability of slopes in hard fissured soils, weak rocks and flysch deposits, which are widespread all over the region, posing major problems to the development of these areas.
It is evident that the behaviour of such a wide and complex class of materials, spreading across large areas in this corner of the world, cannot be interpreted simply through the basic laws of the Soil or Rock Mechanics. With the goal in mind of urging people living on the Mediterranean to join their efforts, we decided to organize a Mediterranean Symposium on Landslides (MSL) in Napoli in June, 2021 hoping that this initiative will be the first of a series of similar periodic events.
Symposium website: https://medsymplandslides.wixsite.com/msl2021
Borsa di Dottorato presso University of Strathclyde (UK) e University of Chalmers (Svezia)
Il Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering dell’Università di Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) e il Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering dell’Università di Chalmers (Svezia) selezionano candidati per un dottorato sul tema ‘Clay micromechanics: from experimental evidence at the nano/micro scale to particle-scale modelling via Discrete Element Method’.
Durata: 3 anni
Borsa: £1230/mese
Data di inizio: quanto prima possibile ma, in ogni caso, non oltre il 30 settembre 2019.
Si richiede un voto di laurea non inferiore a 104/110 (possibilmente 110/110). Per ulteriori informazioni contattare il Prof. Alessandro Tarantino (alessandro.tarantino@strath.ac.uk).
Case-study webinar by Prof. Carlo Viggiani
ISSMGE Technical Committee 306 ‘Geo-engineering Education’ is going to produce a series of case-study webinars for educational purposes, i.e. educational material to be used directly by geotechnical instructors for their undergraduate students.
