Author Archives: Ed Medley
Announcement: 2nd International Workshop on Complex Formations
Keep in touch with the many folk now working in bimrocks and bimsoils – visit Turin in May for the 2nd International Workshop on Complex Formations, co-sponsored by the Polytechnic University of Turin and Italian Geotechnical Association. I am presenting … Continue reading
Getting back to work again
After far too many years of sloth, it is time to update the bimrocks site. Update? More like give the site a thorough cleaning, retrofit, remodel… Why now? A colleague in Iran suggested gently that the site needed some overhaul. … Continue reading
On First Encountering Melange
This tale has been told before (at my website edmedley.com) but it is not a bad story and can bear re-telling.. My life and career lurched abruptly in early 1989, when I first encountered a melange.
Scale Independence – Aha! Moment
I had an Aha! moment this afternoon while trawling through my draft posts for edmedley.com I came across the title Soul-Soaring (Fract)Elation for an unwritten draft, the provenance of the title being from the Q&A session after one of my Jahns … Continue reading