Mechanics of Particular Materials - An International Travel Grant for the Biot Conference

CMS-9872945，Emir Macari，格鲁吉亚技术本国际旅行资助的目的是支持美国岩土工程研究人员代表团参加将在比利时新鲁汶天主教大学举行的毕奥孔隙力学会议，会议将作为一个国际论坛，交流关于可变形多孔材料的信息和经验，以及在地质力学中的应用，材料科学、生物物理学、声学和生物力学。相关主题包括：热力学和本构模型，耦合扩散变形过程，波传播和动力学。美国代表团特别感兴趣的主题包括固结和沉降过程、孔隙塑性和孔隙粘弹性、部分饱和多孔材料、微观-宏观关系和均匀化过程、断裂多孔介质、热-湿-化学-机械耦合。同样欢迎实验、数值和理论方面的贡献。美国代表团将受益于能够与来自其他学科和世界各地的研究人员进行互动，他们正在研究类似的问题。在会议结束时，美国代表团将制定一个适用于岩土地震工程的颗粒力学未来研究的建议行动方案：这将通过互联网广泛分发给该领域的美国研究人员。

CMS-9872945, Emir Macari, Georgia TechThe objective of this International Travel Grant is to support a U.S. delegation of researchers in geotechnical engineering to the Biot Conference on Poromechanics, to be held at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 14-16 September 1998.The conference will serve as an international forum to exchange information and experience on deformable porous materials, with applications in geomechanics, material sciences, geophysics, acoustics and biomechanics. Related topics include: thermodynamics and constitutive modeling, coupled diffusion-deformation processes, wave propagation and dynamics. Topics of particular interest to the US delegation include consolidation and subsidence processes, poroplasticity and poroviscoelasticity, partially saturated porous materials, micro-macro relations and homogenization procedures, fractured porous media, thermo-hygro-chemo-mechanical couplings. Experimental, numerical and theoretical contributions are equally welcome.The U.S. delegation will benefit by being able to interact with researchers from other disciplines and from around the world, who are working on similar issues. At the conclusion of the meeting, the U.S. delegation will develop a recommended course of action for future research in particulate mechanics as it applies to geotechnical earthquake engineering: this will be widely distributed via the Internet to US researchers in the field.