About ALERT - Geomaterials
The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology (ALERT) "Geomaterials" has been created in 1989 as a pioneering (at that time!) effort to develop a European School of Thinking in the field of the Mechanics of Geomaterials.
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alert 2008 MEETING
ALERT Workshop and Doctoral School 2008 was organized from Monday October 6th to Saturday October 11th, 2008 in Aussois.

Workshop
October 6-8, 2008, Aussois, France
Session 1: Multiphysics of multiphase materials
E. Papamichos and L. Sanavia
Session 2: Field and laboratory testing
P. Delage and M. Arroyo
Session 3: Localisation in geomaterials
J. Desrues and A. Zervos
Special ALERT Lecture 2008
Quantifying the size effect of rock-mass strength
Dr. Peter Cundall (Itasca Consulting Group, Minneapolis)

Doctoral school
October 9-11, 2008, Aussois, France
Discrete modelling in geomechanics
F. Calvetti and H. Hermann

Poster Session
The poster session for the 2008 annual ALERT Workshop was open to all scientific topics in the field of soil, rock and concrete mechanics.

alert 2007 MEETING
ALERT Workshop and Doctoral School 2007 was organized from Monday October 8th to Saturday October 13th, 2007.

The total number of participants to the Workshop was 172! We are proud to stress that almost all the members have increased the number of participants compared to 2006.
The program was very rich, collecting 22 contributions in session 1, 17 in session 2 and 19 in session 3. Thank you to all the active participants and in particular to the coordinators.

To the Doctoral School, there were 94 participants coming from Alert members and 32 other participants came from universities not belonging to Alert. The total number of participants was then 126!

The ALERT PhD Prize 2007 was granted on Tuesday October 9, 2007 to Dr. David Masin from Charles University in Prague for his PhD thesis entitled "Hypoplastic models for fine-grained soils".