ASCE/EMD Committee on Poromechanics
2004 Annual
Meeting
Minutes
Time: Sunday, June 13, 2004, 7 pm–9:30 pm
Location: Room 103 Gore Hall,
Attendant List:
Members: Alex Cheng (Chair), Younane Abousleiman (Vice Chair), Majid
T. Manzari, Orlando Maeso (representing Jose Dominguez), Hoe Ling, Jacques
Huyghe, Serge Shapiro, Vic Kaliakin, Sergei Lopatnikov, Olivier Coussy,
Kanthasamy Muraleetharan, Dinesh R. Katti, Christian Hellmich
Non-Members: Robert Zimmerman (invited to join committee)
Lunch Meeting Attendant List: Dmitry Garagash,
Jim Berryman, Jin Ooi
Present at Conference: Emir Macari, Stein Sture, Yunping Xi
Agenda:
1.
Chair’s Comment (Cheng)
The Poromechanics Committee
is in its second year of existence, established on October 1, 2003. Currently
there are 31 committee members. 13 members attended the committee meeting.
Three members couldn’t make the meeting time, but met with the committee chair
on a separate lunch meeting the next day. There were another 3 members present
at the conference. Hence with 19 members in the conference, the participation
rate was very good.
By have a keynote lecture by
Huyghe and the Biot Lecture by Cowin, the
Poromechanics committee received good exposure in this conference.
2.
JEM Associate Editor Report (Cheng)
The annual report was distributed
and the editorial statistics was commented. The progress of the special issue
Porodynamics honoring Frenkel was reported.
3.
Biot Conference (Abousleiman)
Younane Abousleiman, the Biot
conference chair, reported the progress of the organization of the conference.
The Poromechanics Committee fully supports this conference.
4.
Organization of Poromechanics Sessions
8 sessions are organized in
the EM 2004 conference. The 2005 conference at LSU is one week following the
Biot conference. The session organization might be affected due to the
activities in the Biot conference. The following members offered organizing
special sessions in 2005:
The chair will send email to
other members to solicit special session organization.
5. Adjournment