Come
to lab 3SR
(building E)
Discrete Mechanics of Geomaterials
3rd Alert Olek Zienkiewicz Course
June 27th-July 1st
3SR, Grenoble, France
ALERT-Geomaterials organizes since 2009 Local Doctoral Courses, which are all dedicated to the memory of Prof. Olek Zienkiewicz, one of the founders of ALERT. These courses are mainly designed for postgraduate students, but they are open also to researchers and practitioners.
This year, the ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz course will take place at the University of Grenoble (France) and will deal with the discrete mechanics of geomaterials.
The fundamental understanding of the behavior of geomaterials begins by recognizing their particulate nature and its immediate implications: the interplay between particle characteristics, inter-particle arrangement and interconnected porosity, inherently non-linear inelastic contact phenomena, and particle forces.
The course will consist of lectures and practical sessions, providing the participants with an overview of state-of-the-art research on this subject. Including theoretical aspects, numerical methods, and advanced experimental techniques.
It includes lectures in plenary sessions and practical training in parallel sessions.
The lectures will be given in the morning, each day. The practical courses will be organized in parallel sessions in the afternoon, with an experimental session for one half of the group and a numerical session for the other half. Each participant will attend two experimental and two numerical sessions.
Bruno Chareyre, Cino Viggiani
