Announcement and Call for Abstracts



MiniSymposium on Geotechnical Applications


To be held at

the Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics;

Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 1999, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA


Symposium Organizers: Stein Sture and Boris Jeremic


This MiniSymposium will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art computational geotechnics. Papers on novel computational methods developments and practical applications are welcome. This session will consists of both invited as well as as contributed papers.

Contributions are solicited in the following areas (but not restricted to):

Submission Instructions:

If you are interested in contributing to this MiniSymposium, please submit a one-page abstract of up to 400 words by e-mail to one of the organizers (Sture@Civil.Colorado.edu, Jeremic@Clarkson.edu) on or before December 15, 1998.

Please submit abstracts in plain ASCII text format.

If the abstract is co-authored it must identify the e-mail of the corresponding author. All subsequent correspondence will take place by e-mail.

Abstracts deemed to fit the scope and objectives of the Symposium will be communicated to the Congress organizers by January 15, 1999, and notification of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the corresponding author.

A final version for inclusion in the printed book of Abstracts may be submitted before May 15, 1999. This final form is to be sent directly to the Congress e-mail address usnccm99@colorado.edu following the instructions posted on the Web site.

MiniSymposium Organizer Addresses:

Professor Stein Sture

Department of Civil, Environmental and

Architectural Engineering

University of Colorado,

Boulder, CO 80309-0428, USA

Phone: (303) 492-7651, Fax:-7317

e-mail:Sture@Civil.Colorado.edu

WWW:civil.colorado.edu/Faculty/Sture.html

Professor Boris Jeremic

Department of Civil and

Environmental Engineering

Clarkson University,

Potsdam, NY 13699-5710, USA

Phone: (315) 268-4435, Fax:-7985

e-mail:Jeremic@Clarkson.edu

WWW:sokocalo.cee.clarkson.edu/~jeremic

Congress Program and Registration Information Posted at:

http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99