benjy marks

Grain Days 2022! Registrations closing soon. Doctoral School: PhD students and colleagues, learn new tools and skills from ⁦@IEinav⁩, Giang Nguyen and Antoinette Tordesillas; visit the ⁦@ausynchrotron⁩, meet new friends (all nearly for free!!!) anagram.org.au/grain-days-2022

Is there some way to complain about ARC expert reviewers? Got this lovely jewel in a recent application "...it is concerning that some top 10 publications include topics in education, rather than research outputs relevant to the project". I guess I can only research one thing...

What's the best way to parallel park your car? theconversation.com/whats-the-best… via @ConversationEDU

*Grain Days 2021 - 29-30 Nov* Let us learn (a bit) about how to deal and analyse granular systems and about the amazing research by our graduate researchers. anagram.org.au/grain-days-2021

Probably the most important piece of research done this century: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

Read about a brand new "Granular Thermometer": rdcu.be/cfFaP Thanks @benjymarks @scigem for producing the graphical abstract below:

Have you ever done triaxial testing and wondered how to correct for the effects of the membrane? The latest paper at opengeomechanics.org by Andrzej Niemunis and Lukas Knittel proposes a simple procedure for "Removal of the membrane penetration error from triaxial data"

At opengeomechanics.org you can read the latest paper by Kateryna Oliynyk and Claudio Tamagnini about a new "Finite deformation hyperplasticity theory for crushable, cemented granular materials"

The latest paper in Open Geomechanics describes "A simple method for the determination of sensitivity to density changes in sand liquefaction" by Bozana Bacic and Ivo Herle at TU Dresden. Read it open access here: opengeomechanics.centre-mersenne.org/articles/OGEO_…

@cosmicpudding @Sydney_Uni @Sydney_Science I'm really looking forward to it! Will be great to share the things we're doing here and hear about the future!

Woo @benjymarks! Looking forward to hearing all about your experiences with the Immersive Learning Lab 👍 #TFOM @Sydney_Uni @Sydney_Science

@OGeomechanics @MatteoCiantia @RealJoseAbell Personally I think all of these rankings are a cancer on science and should be banned as soon as possible. Experts know what quality papers and journals are without needing to check JCR.

@MatteoCiantia @RealJoseAbell We can't get indexed by Scopus for a while, we are only around one year old, but a growing number of excellent papers being published! They're all available on Google scholar

As soon as I see mere mortals get something published here, will try my luck too! I am used to #rejection but quality here is #interstellar!!!

Done some earth shattering research you want to share with the world? Publish it #OpenSource at opengeomechanics.org, where it is free to read and publish.

@Eng_IT_Sydney @lewislehe It's currently just a random walk, but by the time students get at it, it will be modelling based on the city the students build

@lewislehe @benjymarks has created this for teaching purposes.

Dr Benjy Marks from the School of Civil Engineering has built an interactive city environment out of #LEGO in order to project real-time simulations of traffic 🚘 , pollution 💨 and water flow 💦. #usydonline

Ever wanted to listen inside a sample as it is being pulled apart? The latest paper from Robert A. Caulk at opengeomechanics.org presents a new, open source method which you can try out yourself that couples image analysis, a discrete element model and the acoustic emissions.

Why reviewers are anonymous when they can see the authors' names? Is there a particular reason for this? It would make sense to remove all the names in a manuscript before sending it to reviewers.

@Peyman_Ayoubi We at Open Geomechanics agree completely! We use a double blind peer review for all papers (reviewers and authors both don't know each other's names) and we also publish those reviews alongside the paper. See opengeomechanics.org for examples.

Do you have some groundbreaking research in testing rocks to failure? Share your work #OpenSource at opengeomechanics.org, where it is free to read and free to publish. We now have three excellent papers published already, and more coming soon! #geomechanics

Head to opengeomechanics.org to read the latest work by Fabian Schranz, Wolfgang Fellin and Dimitrios Kolymbas on "Comparative performance of some constitutive models in stress rotation". @IGT_Fellin @IGT_Kolymbas

In the latest publication in Open Geomechanics, Prof Guy Houlsby introduces "Frictional Plasticity in a Convex Analytical Setting", where he develops a new mathematical terminology to describe plasticity. You can find this paper and more at opengeomechanics.org.