"ALERT includes 23 European Universities or Organisations, which are most active in the field of numerical modelling of geomaterials and geostructures. Its main areas of interest are the following:

• micromechanics and constitutive modelling for geomaterials
• engineering,failure, strain localisation and instabilities,
• large scale computations for geomaterials and geostructures,
• integrity of geostructures and inverse analysis in geomechanics,
• environmental geomechanics and durability of geomaterials. "