Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics - call for abstracts
04/16/2008
The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics will be held from June 8 to 10, 2009, at Columbia University. The conference web site is
located at: http://www.civil.columbia.edu/biot/
We are now calling for abstracts. Please send the one-page abstracts by e-mail to (deadline: May 31, 2008).
Examples of Technical Sessions:
- Numerical Simulation of Crystal Growth (Koichi Kakimoto)
- Multiscale and Stochastic Modeling of Porous Media (X. Frank Xu)
- Strain Localization in Saturated and Partially Saturated Porous Media under Dynamic Loading (Majid T. Manzari)
- Poroelastic Mechanics of Bone Tissue (Stephen C. Cowin)
- Numerical Investigation of Coupled Problems in Continuum Biomechanics (Wolfgang Ehlers)
- Nanoporous Metals (Jeffrey W. Kysar)
- Poromechanical modeling of CO2 sequestration (Giuseppe Gambolati)
- Unsaturated Geomaterials (Ning Lu)
- Micro-Mechanics of Granular Porous Media (Mourad Zeghal)
- Thermodynamics and Information Theory (Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI, Switzerland)
- Second Frank L. DiMaggio Symposium (sessions on constitutivemodeling of geomaterials)
- Poromechanics Education (Graduate Course development, etc.)