Prof. Enrique Romero, director of research (UPC·BarcelonaTech) and affiliated researcher (full research professor) at Geomechanics Group of CIMNE, was elected as the new Chair of TC106, the Technical Committee on Unsaturated Soils of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). His appointment has been approved by the President of ISSMGE on January 06, 2022.
Study identifies Third Law limitations in common thermoelastic models
Constitutive models can satisfy the First and Second Laws of thermodynamics while remaining incompatible with the Third. This is the central finding of a study by researchers from the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and Swansea...

