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Dear Colleague,<br>
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AGU’s Spring Joint Assembly Meeting will provide a timely and unique
opportunity to meet with fellow researchers who are using ABAQUS for
Earth Science applications through a special ‘Earth and Space Science
Informatics’ session titled “ABAQUS in Geoscientific Applications”.<br>
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We invite you to submit an abstract to this session and join us for a
productive discussion about the application, issues, and concerns with
using ABAQUS for geomechanical modeling. <br>
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AGU Joint Assembly is held from May 22-25 in Acapulco, Mexico.<br>
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 1 2007.<br>
<a href="http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=334">
http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=334</a>
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To help with the planning, we would like to create a tentative list of
interested attendees in the near future. Please send an email to one of
us if you are considering attending the Joint Assembly Meeting in
Acapulco and might be submitting an abstract.<br>
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We hope to see you in Acapulco in May!<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
David Coblentz (coblentz@lanl.gov)<br>
Jolante van Wijk (jolante@lanl.gov)<br>
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Description of session:<br>
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The number of researchers using the commercial finite element
software<br>
ABAQUS (SIMULIA / ABAQUS, Inc.) for solving geoscientific problems
is<br>
steadily growing and the range of applications now spans a broad<br>
spectrum of the geosciences. In this session, we seek to bring
together<br>
scientists from such diverse fields as postglacial surface motions,<br>
fault zone and earthquake dynamics, crust-and lithosphere scale<br>
deformation, and lithosphere-mantle interactions (subduction zones)
to<br>
discuss issues associated with using ABAQUS for geoscience research.
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We anticipate a lively discussion on topics such as meshing methods,<br>
rheological models, initial and boundary conditions, and faulting
and<br>
fracture mechanics.<br>
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