Conferences & Symposia
IACMAG Symposium, Gandhinagar, INDIA, March 2019
This IACMAG Symposium aims to provide a forum for exchanging new experiences and discussing future developments of geomechanics and geotechnical engineering and other important. The main themes of the symposium are listed below:
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Earthquake Engineering:
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Dynamics of geomaterials; Earth embankments & dams; Bridges; Buildings
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Ground Improvement:
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Geosynthetics; Bio-treatment; Expansive soils; Soft clays
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Constitutive Modelling:
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Geomaterials; Multi-scale modelling; Micro-structural instabilities; Liquefaction; Chemical and bioeffects in geomaterials; Field/Laboratory testing
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16th IACMAG International Conference, Turin, June-July 2020
The 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (15IACMAG) will be held in Turin, Italy, 29 June - 4 July 2020. The aim of the conference is to give an up-to-date picture of the broad research field of computational geomechanics. Contributions from experts around the world will cover a wide range of research topics in geomechanics.

History of IACMAG Conferences
The first conference in what is now a series of IACMAG International Conferences was held at the Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1972. Subsequent conferences have been held ever since then on approximately a 3 to 4 year cycle. The full list of IACMAG International Conferences held to date is as follows:
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1972, Vicksburg, USA
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1976, Blacksburg, USA
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1979, Aachen, Germany
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1982, Edmonton, Canada
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1985, Nagoya, Japan
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1988, Innsbruck, Austria
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1991, Cairns, Australia
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1994, Morgantown, USA
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1997, Wuhan, China
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2001, Tucson, USA
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2005, Torino, Italy
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2008, Goa, India
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2011, Melbourne, Australia
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2014, Kyoto, Japan
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2017, Wuhan, China