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

CMS-9872945，Emir Macari，佐治亚理工学院这项国际旅行补助金的目的是支持美国岩土工程研究人员代表团参加1998年9月14-16日在比利时卢凡拉诺夫的天主教大学举行的Biot孔隙力学会议。该会议将成为一个交流可变形多孔材料信息和经验的国际论坛，这些材料在地质力学、材料科学、地球物理、声学和生物力学中的应用。相关主题包括：热力学和本构模型、扩散-变形耦合过程、波传播和动力学。实验、数字和理论方面的贡献同样受到欢迎。美国代表团将受益于能够与其他学科和世界各地的研究人员互动，他们正在研究类似的问题。在会议结束时，美国代表团将为颗粒力学未来的研究制定一个适用于岩土地震工程的建议行动方案：该方案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.