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Chongqing International Summer School

- registration until 15th April

the Chongqing University, School of Civil Engineering, are planning an International Summer School for international bachelor and master students of Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering. If you are interested in participating, please send us a freely formulated application before the 15th April, 2025.

Guest lecture

Dr. Shengjie Rui, Marie Curie Research Fellow at NGI

Dr. Shengjie Rui will visit IGT on the 19th November, and give a lecture on "Mooring line & anchor-seabed interaction for floating wind turbines". Warmly welcome!

Guest professor

Peter Wriggers, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Prof. Wriggers will visit IGT in October 2024, and give a lecture on Granular media modeled by flexible polyhedra using the virtual element method. You are warmly welcome to participate.

Prof. Xiaohui Chen

University of Leeds

Prof. Xiaohui Chen from the University of Leeds, School of Civil Engineering, will visit IGT in May 2024, and give a lecture on Advances in Soils/Water Modelling & AI. You are warmly welcome to participate.

“Climate cHangE Resistant DanUBe rIver eMbankments” (CHERUBIM)

The goals of this new project are to develop new insights, approaches and technologies that support the needs of end-users to make the Danube river embankments more resilient to the increasing threat of natural hazards due to the effect of climate change and to strengthen the transnational cooperation among Central European institutions to form a strong academic network to foster technological developments in this field.

An Introduction to SPH

by Dr. Chong Peng

Finite Element Method suffers from mesh deformation for problems with large deformation. Poor accuracy and loss of convergencc are the consequences. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics is a meshless method and has gained popularity in the simulation of problems with large deformation. Dr. Peng offers an online introduction to SPH in three parts, from the fundamentals to advanced topics around this fascinating numerical tool.

Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, Stanford University -

"Bridging nanoindentation and triaxial creep tests on a shale"

Prof. Borja from the Stanford University visits the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering in September. You are warmly welcome to join his lecture "Bridging nanoindentation and triaxial creep tests on a shale" on Tuesday, September 12.

Prof. Qing Zhang, Prof. Xin Gu

Peridynamics for Desiccation Curling and Cracking Simulation

You are warmly invited to take part in a lecture by Prof. Dr. Qing Zhang and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xin Gu from the Hohai University, Nanjing, P.R. China on Monday, 26th June, at 10:30 am in SR-02, Guttenberghaus.

Prof. Julian Tao

Guest professor at IGT

The research focus of Prof. Junliang (Julian) Tao from the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University is Bio-inspired Geotechnics. He will offer a short course on this topic at IGT with an emphasis on geotechnical engineering applications. You are warmly welcome to participate in his lectures on December 9 and 12.

Prof. Olena Ivanik, Kyiv, Ukraine -

An integrated approach to landslide hazard assessment at the regional and local scale

Prof. Dr. Olena Ivanik is the head of the Department of General and Historical Geology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. She is visiting the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering from July to September. Her research stay is funded by the JESH scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). We cordially invite you to her lecture on 30 August.

Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, Stanford University -

"Failure in rocks: From breakage mechanics to phase-field modeling"

Prof. Borja from the Stanford University visits the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering in June. You are warmly welcome to join his lecture on Failure in Rocks on Tuesday, June 7.

Acta Geotechnica

3rd rank in "Engineering Geological"

The journal impact factors for the year 2019 have just been released by Thomson Reuters. Acta Geotechnica, with an Impact Factor of 4.35, reached the 3rd rank among the 39 journals in the world in the category "Engineering Geological".

4ICITG cum 5IWMTG

24-26 Nov 2021, Furama Riverfront Singapore

The 4th International Conference on Information Technology in Geo-Engineering (4ICITG) aims to address the latest developments in applications of information technologies and artificial intelligence to geo-engineering.

Our guest researchers 2020

Our guest researchers, grant holders and interns currently enrich our institute from their home offices.

Welcome to join our lectures via Zoom

All lectures of the Institute of Geotechnics are held online via Zoom. The lecture times remain unchanged. If you have any questions, please contact us via our institute e-mail address "geotech", in order to reach us without delay.

IGT Secretariat

- available online

From the 24th of March to the 3rd of April, the secretariat is available online from 9 am to 1 pm. Since we work from home, you may contact us by e-mail.

International Symposium on SPH and other particle-based continuum methods and their applications in geomechanics,

11.-13. September 2019

This workshop will bring together scientists, software developers and engineers to take stock of the state-of-the-art of meshfree methods, assess their potential for geomechanics problems and look into future development.

Prof. Dr. G. R. Liu (University of Cincinnatti):

Computational Methods - indispensable tools for engineering analysis and design

Prof. G.R. Liu, Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar at the University of Cincinnati, visited the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering on the 5th April, 2019 and gave a talk. This talk provided a valuable overview of computational methods and its applications to the analysis and design of engineering systems.

Seminar 26.01.2019:

SPH and its versatile applications in geotechnics and engineering

You are warmly welcome to participate in the seminar "SPH and its versatile applications in geotechnics and engineering" held by Dr. Chong PENG in Guttenberghaus on Saturday 26.01.2019.

Olena Ivanik

Guest professor at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering

Prof. Dr. Olena Ivanik (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev) visited our institute as a guest professor from the 19th to the 22nd November, 2018.

China - Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering

From the 13th-16th of August, 2018, the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering will host the "China - Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering". The conference chairmen are Prof. Wei Wu, IGT, and Prof. Hai-Sui Yu, Leeds, UK. Save the date!

XVI European Danube Conference for Geotechnics

From 7th to 9th of June 2018, the Macedonian Association for Geotechnics organize the XVI European Danube Conference for Geotechnics in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The general theme of the conference is "Geotechnical Hazards and Risks: Experiences and Practices".

Guest Professor Diana Salciarini

University of Perugia

The Institute of Geotechnical Engineering (IGT) warmly invites you to a lecture by Prof. Diana Salciarini from University of Perugia on "Soil Structure Interaction under Dynamic Loading Conditions".

Guest professor Feng Zhang:

Unified description of Toyoura sand and its application in repeated liquefaction of sandy ground

The Institute of Geotechnical Engineering (IGT) warmly invites you to a lecture by Prof. Feng Zhang from the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT) on April 24, 2017 at 4 pm.

China-excursion 2017

In October-November 2017 the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering will arrange the next China-excursion. If you are interested in participating in the excursion, please contact the secretariat of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering as soon as possible.

Pouyan Abbasi Maedeh

- visiting researcher from University of Kharazmi, Iran

During his research stay at IGT, Mr. Abbasi Maedeh completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Ali Ghanbari from University of Kharazmi, Iran, and Prof. Wu. His worked is related to soil structure interaction, fluid structure interaction and dynamic behavior of vessels.

GEO-RAMP Partner visiting IGT

Prof. Gabriel Rodriguez Roca (right), Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Bolivien, participated in the "Soil Bioengineering Methods for Slopes"-Symposium. Gustavo S. Navarta (in the middle) spent two months at IGT in the frame of the EU-project GEO-RAMP.

Prof. Phoon K.K.

National University of Singapore

Prof. Phoon from the NUS Singapore visited us in October in order to plan future cooperation. Prof. Phoon is distinguished Professor and vice provost at NUS.

Dr. Miguel Cabrera

EGU "Outstanding Student Poster and PICO" award 2016

Dr. Miguel Angel Cabrera has been awarded with one of the EGU "Outstanding Student Poster and PICO"-awards 2016 for his poster "Monodisperse granular flows in viscous dispersions in a centrifugal acceleration field". After his promotion at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering this year, Dr. Cabrera was offered a tenure track position as assistant professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Columbia.

Dr. Miguel Cabrera

EGU "Outstanding Student Poster and PICO" award 2016

Dr. Miguel Angel Cabrera has been awarded with one of the EGU "Outstanding Student Poster and PICO"-awards 2016 for his poster “Monodisperse granular flows in viscous dispersions in a centrifugal acceleration field”. After his promotion at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering this year, Dr. Cabrera was offered a tenure track position as assistant professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Columbia.

Presentation of our colleagues

The colleagues at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering give a short presentation of their area of research.

ERASMUS guest professors from Skopje at IGT

Assis. Prof. Aleksandra Bogdanovic and Assis. Prof. Kemal Edip visited us from 3rd - 9th May, 2016.

IGT delegation in Beijing, China

@ High Filled Engineering International Sub Forum

Barbara Switala, Rick Veenhof, and Miguel Cabrera from the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering visited the Beihang University in Beijing, China, and contributed to the “High Filled Engineering International Sub Forum” (14.11.2015 to 15.11.2015).

Excursion to MO.S.E. Venice

In October 2014 the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering organized a field trip to the MO.S.E. Project in Venice.

"Advanced Soil Mechanics" with Guest Professor Claudio Tamagnini

Perugia, Italy

From 11th-17th June, 2014, Prof. Claudio Tamagnini, professor at Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, visits the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, and gives a series of lectures on the topic "Advanced Soil Mechanics". The lectures are given in english.

Guest professor Ronaldo I. Borja, Stanford University:

PERSISTENT SHEAR BAND IN UNSATURATED POROUS MATERIALS

On March 28, 2014 Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, professor at Stanford University and long-term project partner of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, will hold a lecture on the topic "Persistent Shear Band in Unsaturated Porous Materials".

China-excursion 2013

Beijing - Chengdu - Wuhan

In October 2013 the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering organized a field trip to China for the third time.