[Geoqus] Geoscientific Abaqus workshop

[Oliver Heidbach]

Dear colleagues,

in our last circular e-mail about two weeks ago we proposed to organize a technical workshop on Abaqus users for geotechnical application in Karlsruhe in spring/summer 2004. Since the response was very small (only two e-mails apart of the ones from Karlsruhe and Bochum) we would like to start an open discussion to figure out if there is a) no interest on the suggested topics or b) the number of geoscientific Abaqus users is just to small and we should address the workshop to a broader audience (e.g. as the one which was organized in 2001 from the Karlsruhe Stress Group (check under conferences at the URL http://www-wsm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/research/research_frame.html.

The key point of our proposed workshop is not to gather only specialists, but also beginners. It will also provide enough time for the presentation of the scientific results of the geodynamic models, but with an emphasis on the technical background of the model approach. We also plan to set up enough PC's with Abaqus/Patran/Hypermesh for practical work and testing.

We really would appreciate to hear your opinion and to get your comments. You can do this either in an open manner, addressing you mail to the user group, or send an individual e-mail to one of us. It would be nice if everybody could drop at least a short message if there is interest/time in such workshop or not. That would help us to decide whether we'll put more effort into it or not.

We are looking forward to a fruitful and open discussion,

best regards
Oliver and Kasper

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Dr. Oliver Heidbach

Geophysical Institute - University Karlsruhe
World Stress Map Project

Hertzstrasse 16
D-76187 Karlsruhe

phone:  +49-721-608 4609
fax:    +49-721-711 73

e-mail: oliver.heidbach at gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de
URL:    http://www.world-stress-map.org
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