Read about IGCS´ numerous activites with German and Indian researchers, workshops and Winter School in Chennai at IIT Madras in the newly published IGCS Bulletin Vol. 4 (2). An interesting feature is published by Mr Felix Jacobs, Prof. Martin Ziegler, Chair of Geotechnical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University and Prof. K. Rajagopal, Chair of Geotechnical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, IIT Madras, on Finite Element modelling of the interface behaviour between soil and geogrid in large scale biaxial compression tests.
Category: Archive
IGCS Bulletin 12
It gives us great pleasure in bringing out the first Bulletin in 2015 with the IGCS Bulletin Vol. 4 (1)! Read about IGCS´ numerous activites in 2014, pilot projects, project works and impressions of German Master Students researching at IIT Madras.
An interesting feature by Dr. G. Hoermann (Kiel University) and Dr. Franziska Steinbruch (IGCS Professor at IITM) on the topic “Towards Integrated Water Management of Pallikaranai Wetland in Chennai City, India” is presented, showing a kind of archetypical case of landuse conflicts related to rapid urban growth.
IGCS Bulletin 11
The IGCS Bulletin Vol. 3 (4) can be downloaded here. Read about IGCS´ workshop on “Isotopes in our environment – from climate change analysis to contaminant tracking”, latest development of DST-IGCS projects and DFG funded workshop on Sustainable Tourism.
The Bulletin also features “Improving tools for sustainability research: the simulation quality of the Pennaiyar catchment” by G. Hoermann (Kiel), A. Strehmel (Kiel) and P. Fiener (Augsburg).