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Title:
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Computational Geomechanics

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Organizers:
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Boris Jeremic
University of California, Davis
jeremic@ucdavis.edu
530.754.9248
530.752.7872

Richard Regueiro
regueiro@colorado.edu
ivil Engineering Dept
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Ronaldo Borja
borja@stanford.edu

Stein Sture
University of Colorado at Boulder
Email: stein.sture@colorado.edu
Phone number: 303-492-3034
Fax number: 303-492-7317 

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Minisymposium description:
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This minisymposium continues a successful series on computational geomechanics
that was organized for the last three USACM National Congresses. It will provide
a forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of-the-art in computational
geomechanics, emphasizing novel constitutive models and their numerical
implementation, computational methods for solving boundary value problems
involving pre-failure and failure in geomaterials, as well as practical
applications.

Contributions are solicited in the general area of computational geomechanics.
Areas of particular interests are listed below. However presentations of other
state-of-art modeling and simulation efforts are more than welcome.

Specific (non-exclusive) list of topics of interest from the general are of
geomechanics includes:

    - Geometric and material nonlinear modeling and simulations

    - Coupled (fluid-porous solid) systems modeling and simulations

    - Dynamic modeling and simulations in the time or frequency domain

    - Discrete element modeling and simulations

    - Boundary element modeling and simulations

    - Advanced and non-traditional plasticity models in geomechanics

    - Failure mechanics modeling and simulations

    - Computational earthquake modeling

    - Alternative modeling and simulations methods and their coupling

    - Large scale (parallel) computer modeling and simulations