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ALERT MANAGEMENT |
ALERT BUREAU
The ALERT Geomaterials network is managed by the ALERT bureau composed of:
- Felix Darve - President - ENSHMG, Laboratoire 3S, France - felix.darve@hmg.inpg.fr
- Claudio Di Prisco - Director - Politecnico di Milano, Deptartment of Structural Engineering, Italy - alertdirector@stru.polimi.it
- Lyesse Laloui - Vice director - EPFL, Soil Mechanics Laboratory, Switzerland - lyesse.laloui@epfl.ch
- Bruno Chareyre - Treasurer - ENSHMG, Laboratoire 3S, France -
bruno.chareyre@hmg.inpg.fr
- Andrea Galli - General Assistant - Politecnico di Milano, Deptartment of Structural Engineering, Italy - alertdirector@stru.polimi.it
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ALERT WEBSITE
The ALERT website and the ALERT poster session are managed by:
- Suzanne Chalindar-Fauriel - Deputy website editor - EPFL, Soil Mechanics Laboratory, Switzerland - suzanne.chalindar@epfl.ch
- Marta Rizzi - Deputy website editor - EPFL, Soil Mechanics Laboratory, Switzerland - marta.rizzi@epfl.ch
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ABOUT ALERT GEOMATERIALS |
About ALERT Geomaterials
The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology (ALERT) "Geomaterials" has been created in 1989 as a pioneering (at that time!) effort to develop a European School of Thinking in the field of the Mechanics of Geomaterials. The generic name "Geomaterials" is viewed as gathering together materials, whose mechanical behaviour depends on the pressure level, which can be dilatant under shearing and which are multiphase because of their porous structure. So, the "geomaterials" label brings together mainly concrete, soils and rocks.
ALERT now includes 27 Universities or Organisations, which are most active in the field of numerical modelling of geomaterials and geostructures.
Its main areas of interest are the following:
- Micromechanics and constitutive modelling for geomaterials
- Engineering,failure, strain localisation and instabilities
- Large scale computations for geomaterials and geostructures
- Integrity of geostructures and inverse analysis in geomechanics
- Environmental geomechanics and durability of geomaterials.
Since the creation of ALERT by Roberto Nova, Manuel Pastor, Ian Smith, Peter Vermeer, Olek Zienkiewicz and Félix Darve, and in parallel with the necessity of a co-ordinated research on a European level, it was obvious for all of us that there was a crucial need for a joint Graduate School in order to build firmly this European scientific group in the Mechanics of Geomaterials, in close link with the students. For that an ALERT Workshop, followed by an ALERT Graduate School, is organised
ALERT IN THE PAST
As the association is active since 1989, several activities have already been realized.
Alert statute with respect to new university members
Article 3.2 of the Alert statute represents the new requirements for new members of the ALERT association. |
ALERT MEMBERS |
The 27 Universities, members of ALERT, with the names of their local co-ordinators are given below :
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University of Bristol , Department of Civil Engineering
BS81TA BRISTOL, UNITED KINGDOM
David MUIR WOOD *
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Centro de Estudios y Experimentacion de Obras Publicas, Sector de Ingenieria Computacional CETA
Alfonso XII, 3 - 28014, MADRID, SPAIN
Manuel PASTOR *
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Delft University of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering
Stevinweg 1- 2628 CN - DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS
Michael HICKS *
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Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Laboratoire de Génie Civil de Nantes Saint-Nazaire
1 rue de la Noë 44072 NANTES, FRANCE
Pierre-Yves HICHER *
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Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mécanique des Sols
6,8 Av. Blaise Pascal 77455 MARNE LA VALLEE, FRANCE
Pierre DELAGE *
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Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie
61, av. du Président Wilson 94235 CACHAN, FRANCE
Jean SICARD *
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National Technical University of Athens, Department of Mechanics
5 Heroes of Polytechnion Av. - 15773 ATHENES, GREECE
Ioannis VARDOULAKIS *
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Département de Génie Civil
GCB Ecublens, CH-1015, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
Laurent VULLIET *
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Innsbruck University, Institute of Geotechnical and Tunnel Engineering
Technikerstrasse 13 - 6020 INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA
Dimitrios KOLYMBAS *
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Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS, Laboratoire Sols Solides Structures
BP 53 - 38041 GRENOBLE Cedex 9, FRANCE
Cino VIGGIANI *
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Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - 20133, MILANO, ITALY
Roberto NOVA *
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Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, School of Civil Engineering
Gran Capitan s/n, Edificio D-2, 08034, BARCELONA, SPAIN
Antonio GENS *
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Universita di Padova, Dipartimento di Costruzioni e Trasporti, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica, Marittima e Geotecnica
Via Marzolo, 9 - 35131, PADOVA, ITALY
Lorenzo SANAVIA *
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Université de Liège, Centre Liègeois des Géomatériaux, bât. C2
Quai Banning, 6 - B 4000, LIEGE, BELGIQUE
Robert CHARLIER *
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Hans HERMANN *
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Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 TORINO, ITALY
Renato LANCELLOTTA
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Mechanics of Materials
THESSALONIKI, GREECE
Euripides PAPAMICHOS
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University of Strathclyde, Department of Civil Engineering, Infrastructure Research
Group (Geotechnics and Structures)
GLASCOW, SCOTLAND
Minna KARSTUNEN *
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University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, Mechanics of Cohesive Geomaterials-LML
LILLE, FRANCE
Jian-Fu SHAO
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Technische Universität Dresden
DRESDEN, GERMANY
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Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Petroleum Engineering
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Gary D. Couples
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University of Toronto, Department of Civil Engineering, Engineering Geoscience
Group
TORONTO, CANADA
Giovanni GRASSELLI *
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University of Stuttgart
STUTTGART, GERMANY
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CEMAGREF
GRENOBLE, FRANCE
François NICOT
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Chair for Foundation Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics
BOCHUM, GERMANY
Tom SCHANZ and Holger STEEB
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Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Laboratoire de Génie Civil
TUNIS, TUNISIA
Hedi HASSIS
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