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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
• Session 1: Ground characterization and new
development in soil mechanics, (chairman Prof. I.
Manoliu from Romania, discussion leader Dr. B.
Schuppener from Germany),
• Session 2: Case studies using Eurocode 7, (chairman
Prof. R. Szepeshazi from Hungary, discussion leader
Prof. N. Vogt from Germany),
• Session 3: Specific problems for environmental
consideration, (chairman Dr. A. Petrovšek from
Slovenia, discussion leader Prof. K.J. Witt from
Germany),
• Session 4: Design methods for geotechnical structures,
(chairman Prof. M. Fross from Austria, discussion
leader Dr. B. Simpson from England),
• Session 5: Monitoring and supervision of geotechnical
considerations, (chairman Prof. A.B. Ponomaryov from
Russia, discussion leader Dr. M. Vaníček from Czech
Republic),
• Session 6: Numerical and physical models in
geotechnical design, (chairman Prof. Z. Lechowicz from
Poland, discussion leader Prof. L. Martak from Austria),
and
• Session 7: Interactive design and other problems in
geotechnical practice, (chairman Prof. M. Nussbaumer
from Germany, discussion leader Ing. J. Frankovská
from Slovakia).
Despite to the world wide economical crises and thanks to
prestigious reputation of the conference the conference was
again attended by many world leaders of the geotechnical
engineering: Prof. J.L. Briaud from USA (President of
ISSMGE), Prof. P. Pinto from Portugal (former President of
ISSMGE), Prof. I. Vaníček from Czech Republic (Vice
President of ISSMGE for Europe), Prof. R. Frank from France
(former Vice President of ISSMGE for Europe), Prof. H. Brandl
from Austria and many others.
The conference was attended by 245 participants from 38
countries of the world. Their papers were published in the
proceedings of the main lectures and abstracts. The full papers
were published in an electronic form on CD. The proceedings
contain 175 papers of which 68 were presented orally in one of
the conference sessions.
The end of the Danube conference is traditionally dedicated
to the technical excursions. The first excursion visited
construction sites with ongoing geotechnical constructions in
the streets of the city, Bratislava. The second excursion went
outside of Bratislava, to the nearby Čunovo and Gabčíkovo
Dam, the largest dam on the Danube River.
According to the feed-back reactions from participants and
ISSMGE representative, the conference was successful. The
organizing committee (Prof. P. Turček – chairman, Ing. J.
Frankovská, Prof. J. Hulla and Dr. M. Ondrášik, all from
Department of Geotechnics of Faculty of Civil Engineering of
University of Technology in Bratislava) expresses their sincere
thanks to all persons and sponsors who helped organize the
conference.
More details are in ISSMGE Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 4.
During this Danube Conference the meeting of the European
Member societies of Danube Region was held. Members
accepted
- the proposal of Prof. Brandl from Austria to arrange
next 15th Danube Conference in Vienna on the occasion
of the 50anniversaries of these conferences;
- the proposal of Prof. Maximovic from Serbia to arrange
another Danube conference in Belgrade, Serbia in 2018.
4.2 Baltic Sea Geotechnical Conferences
After the success of XI Baltic Sea Conference in Gdansk,
September 15-18 where all countries from this region as
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark,
Poland, Norway and Germany actively participated, and voted
for the place of another. Therefore next XII Baltic Sea
Conference will be arranged in Germany. Rostock, 31 May–2
June 2012: “Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Region”
Bulletin No. 1 was published specifying main items as The
goal and the scope of the conference, Conference format, Venue
and accommodation, Registration fees, Conference topics and
Important dates, etc.
Congress Website:
Supplemented information can be obtained directly from the
German Geotechnical Society:
5 EUROPEAN YOUNG GEOTECHNICAL
CONFERENCES
5.1 20th European Young Geotechnical Engineers
Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, 2010
From May 30 to June 1, 2010, the Brno University of
Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of
Geotechnics, hosted the 20th European Young Geotechnical
Conference co-organized by the Czech and Slovak Committee
for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. Mr. Jiří
Boštík and Mrs. Věra Glisníkova were most important persons
of the Organizing committee.
The conference was attended by 48 geotechnical engineers
of age up to 35 from 28 European countries nominated by their
respective National Societies for Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering.
The papers were published in the conference proceedings
“GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 20, View of Young
European Geotechnical Engineers, Brno 2010“ with ISBN 978-
80-7204-686-7.
The Conference started on Sunday 30th May 2010 with
evening Brno sightseeing and with common dinner for all
EYGEC delegates in the historical centre of the town. During
Monday 31st May 2010 and Tuesday 1st June 2010, 48 lectures
of 10 minutes (including 2 minutes of discussion) were
presented by the EYGEC participants. Presentations of the
conference delegates were classified into three main sessions:
1. Ground Investigation
2. Geomechanics
3. Geotechnics
3.1. Foundation Engineering,
3.2. Earth Structures,
3.3. Underground Structures
3.4 Environmental Geotechnics
According to the guidelines the sessions were “chaired by
friendly, professional engineers” – John Atkinson (Emeritus
Professor of Soil Mechanics, City University London), Jean-
Louis Briaud (President of ISSMGE, Texas A&M University,
USA) and Ivan Vaníček (Vice President ISSMGE for Europe,
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic).
Besides delegate’s presentations, four keynote lectures were
delivered. John Atkinson delivered his lecture on “How to do
research”. Jean-Louis Briaud talked about “ISSMGE, research,
and education”. Jiří Műhl (Technical Director of Foundation
Engineering Inc., Prague, Czech Republic) and Jan Šperger
(Foundation Engineering Inc., Prague, Czech Republic)
presented “Modern foundation technologies”. Finally, Miloš
Polenka (GEOtest Brno, Inc., Czech Republic) delivered his
lecture on “The removal of rocky environment and groundwater
contamination – GEOtest Brno case studies”.
The days of hard work were accompanied by more relaxing
evening programmes: the sightseeing, dinner with live dulcimer
music and closing technical excursion – construction of city
road tunnels in Brno.
More details and photos are in ISSMGE Bulletin Vol. 4,
Issue 4.
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