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With the ultimate goal of developing innovative mitigation techniques, the international geotechnical engineering community has made substantial efforts to gain deeper insights on geotechnical hazards. For the state of practice to advance, academics need to join forces with practitioners.The Winter School aims to bring these two groups together, to…

MPM2019The the MPM2019 Organising Committee would like to remind you of the2nd International Conference on the “Material Point Method for Modelling Soil–Water–Structure Interaction” (www.MPM2019.eu) organised by the Anura3D MPM Research Community on 8–10 January 2019 at the University of Cambridge (UK).The deadline for submitting the first draft of…

The first seminar of term was given by Dr Matthieu Vandamme (Laboratoire Navier (ENPC, CNRS, IFSTTAR), Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees) in Darwin College. Matthieu discussed the success and difficulties of using molecular simulations to predict evolutions of properties of clays with moisture, and how they compare with experiments on thin cla…

The first seminar of term was given by Professor Cino Viggiani (Universite Grenoble Alpes) in Darwin College. Cino discussed how x-ray micro tomography imaging can be used to look at what actually happens when a granular material deforms and eventually fails, both at a particle and continuum scale.   The second seminar of term was given by Dr Stuar…

The 2017/18 academic year began with a special event on Knowledge Development and Transfer in Geotechnical Engineering, with Nick O’Riordan (Arup) and Professor Malcolm Bolton (University of Cambridge) as speakers. An interesting and informative discussion followed, chaired by Professor Giulia Viggiani (University of Cambridge).In mid October, a ne…

The new 2017–18 committee has been elected (list of officers).The minutes of the annual general meeting and the expenses for 2016-17 are now available.

All members of the society are invited to attend the Cambridge University Geotechnical Society Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM will summarise the past year's activities, discuss any improvements and new ideas, and elect the new committee. It is is an opportunity for all members to help shape the future of the Society.Date: 31st May 2017Time: …

The new 2016-17 committee has been elected (list of officers). The minutes of the annual general meeting and the expenses for 2015-16 are now available. 

18/04/16 WORKSHOP: RECENT ADVANCES IN TUNNELLING INDUCED DAMAGE TO MASONRY STRUCTURES Prof. Lord Mair and Dr DeJong are organising a workshop on Tunnelling on 18th April 2016 at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.

Dr Burali d'Arzzo will be given an ICE talk on Wednesday 10th February 2016 on 'silent' piling techniques. The talk will be given at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Lecture Room 6. More information is available on the ICE website.

The CU Geotechnical Society has a new logo!Congratulations to James Fern who won the logo competition and many thanks to all of you who have participated. Your contribution was very much appreciated.

We need your artistic skills to create a logo for the CU Geotechnical SocietyA logo competition for the CU Geotechnical Socitey is now open! Please send any of your creations to Orestis (oa245) by Friday 4th September 2015.