Three new ISRM Suggested Methods were published at the ISRM website on deformation and failure under true triaxial compression, Lugeon testing and in Situ acoustic emission monitoring.

The fifth and final part of Rock Mechanics Principles, a video course by Professor Jian Zhao from Monash University is available from the ISRM website.

The 30th online lecture was delivered by Dr. Gen-Hua Shi. The lecture title is "Contact Theory and Algorithms for Discontinuous Computations" and is now online.

The new date of the ISRM International Symposium 2020 - EUROCK 2020 is 12-14 October in Trondheim, Norway, at the originally planned venue.

We plan to keep this until the end of July, during the difficult times most of our colleagues are living due the Covid-19 pandemic.

The 29th online lecture "Rockburst support in shallow-dipping tabular stopes at great depth" by Prof. François Malan is online.