The 11th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt will be held on July 8-10, 2025 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
The call for abstracts can be downloaded here and is shown below.The program will be uploaded here after paper submissions have been completed.
New Mexico is blessed to contain amazing geologic, cultural, and scientific wonders. With two national laboratories, the Sangre de Cristo mountains, and the Chihuahuan desert in close proximity to Santa Fe, there are many options for technical and geologic field trips. SaltMech XI is planning to offer a technical field trip on July 11, after the conclusion of the conference. The tour will require a separate registration and fee, and will accommodate a maximum number of people. More information on the field trip will be posted here when available.
Please note that all presentations are subject to the Paper Submission Terms and Conditions.
Oral Presentations should be provided as a PowerPoint presentation or an Adobe Acrobat file (*.PPT, *.PPTX or *.PDF). Oral presentations are limited to 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes of discussion. In order to keep the sessions running on schedule and allow questions from the audience it is very important to keep the presentations within the allotted time. You will be cut short if your presentation exceeds the allotted time.
You can upload your talk from Monday 8.00h until the break immediately prior to the session block your presentation is scheduled for. There is no requirement for a specific template for the preparation of your presentation. For those who would prefer to use a SaltMech XI template, a *.PPT template can be downloaded here.
Depending on the number of papers submitted, the committee may choose to have some presented as posters. To support the poster presentations, we will have one or two sessions with brief PICO presentations one day in the conference. These PICO presentations consist of 4 minute mini-talks intended to attract attention for the posters on display during the various breaks. There is no requirement for a specific template for the preparation of your PICO presentation, with the exception of the strict time-limit, so please limit to 2-3 slides max. For those who would prefer to use a SaltMech XI template, a *.PPT template can be downloaded here.
Posters will be on display for the entirety of the conference and can be put up as early as 15.00h on Monday 7 July. Poster boards allow for posters of A0 portrait size. To facilitate the poster session, brief (4 min) PICO presentations by all poster presenters will be given on Wednesday 6 July – see the program. There is no requirement for a specific template for the preparation of your poster. For those who would prefer to use a SaltMech XI template, a *.PPT template can be downloaded here.