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:

o Geometric and material nonlinearities in computational geotechnics
o Coupled, transient and dynamic geotechnical systems analysis
  (liquefaction modeling, flow through porous media)
o Dynamic geotechnical finite element models in the time or frequency
  domain
o Discrete element modeling methods
o Advanced and non-traditional plasticity models in geotechnics
o Strain localization in geotechnics
o Failure mechanics modeling for geotechnical solids
o Computational earthquake modeling
o Geotechnical applications of coupled FEM and BEM discretizations
o Large scale computer modeling in geotechnics


   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 listed below on or before December 15, 1998.

Abstracts should be submitted 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 following the instructions posted on the Web
site.


   MiniSymposium Organizer Addresses:

 Professor Stein Sture                     Professor Boris Jeremic
 Department of Civil, Environmental and    Department of Civil and
 Architectural Engineering                 Environmental Engineering
 University of Colorado,                   Clarkson University,
 Boulder, CO 80309-0428, USA               Potsdam, NY, 13699-5710, USA
 Phone:  (303) 492-7651, Fax:-7317         Phone:  (315) 268-4435, Fax:-7985
 Email: Sture@Civil.Colorado.edu           Email: Jeremic@Clarkson.edu


   Congress Program and Registration Information

   Posted at:  http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99