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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
5.2 21th European Young Geotechnical Engineers
Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
In 2010 Dutch National Committee ISSMGE declared their
intention to organize in 2011 next 21st EYGEC in Rotterdam,
September 4th – 7th, 2011. In published bulletin No. 1 they
specified Proposed program of the conference, Excursions – e.g.
Maasvlake 2 Harbour Expansion and Railway tunnel Delft;
Conference topics, Important dates, Accommodation,
Conference fee etc. Up to now the Organizing committee
chaired by Mandy Korff from Deltares collected 53 papers
coming from nearly 30 national societies. Except of
representatives of ISSMGE – Prof. J.L. Briaud and Ivan
Vaníček, organizers invited also other specialists – Prof. L.
Caldeira from Portugal and Dr. T. Chapman from UK - to
present keynote lectures and to lead discussion when young
colleagues will present their papers. For publication the same
system will be used as for Brno conference. More information
can be found on
5.3 22nd European Young Geotechnical Engineers
Conference, Sweden, 2012
Stefan Aronsson, President of the Swedish Geotechnical
Society, when visiting 20th EYGEC in Brno, declared his
intention to arrange another one in Sweden in 2012. This fact
speaks about respected significance of such activities in Europe.
According to the accepted rules, the International YGEC
will be arranged in Paris, France, on the occasion of
International conference SMGE, 2013. Each European society
can nominate 2 candidates on this conference.
6 EUROPEAN REGIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
After International conference in Alexandria all existing
European Regional Technical Committees declared their wish
to continue in work:
- ERTC 10 – Evaluation of Eurocode 7 – UK + Ireland –
Andrew Bond, Trevor Orr, -
- ERTC 12 Geotechnical Evaluation and Application of
the Seismic Eurocode 8 – Italy – Michele Maugeri
- ERTC 7 – Numerical methods in geotechnical
engineering - Spain – Cesar Sagaseta –
- ERTC 3 - Piles – Belgium – Noel Huybrecht (Maurice
Bottiau)
- ERTC 16 – Education and Training – Romania – Iacint
Manoliu (Marina Pantazidou)
In 2010 ERTC 10 arranged Workshop in Italy – Pavia, and
ETC 7 in Trondheim, Norway - 7th European Conference on
Numerical Methods in Geotechnics (NUMGE2010).
In 2011 all ERTC are planning to have shared workshops on the
occasion of the European conference in Athens.
New ERTC
For a great significance of the Regional TC the new ones are
proposed to establish in Europe. The proposals are for:
- Geothermal Energy
- Utilization of large volume waste in Geotechnical
applications
- Ageing of Earth Structures in Transport Engineering
National societies will be informed about this intention and
their interest will have the final impact on their establishment.
The idea is to propose this new ERTC with some research
activitity which is also supported from EU.
7 INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE
TC´s on the international level were newly rearranged, with new
numbers, see ISSMGE Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 4, December
2010. Technical Oversight Committee established by ISSMGE
president presented 29 Technical Committees from which 15
have host country in Europe. Brief summary of TC´s activities
in Europe are as follows:
2010 - 5th Int. Conf. Unsaturated Soils –Barcelona, Spain;
- Inter. Conference Geotechnical Challenges in
Megacities – GeoMos2010-Moscow, Russia;
- 7th Int. Conf. on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics,
Zurich, Switzerland;
- TC40 Workshop on Failures, Disputes, Causes and
Solutions in Geotechnics; Budapest, Hungary;
2011 - 7th Int. Symp. Underground Construction in Soft
Ground; Roma, Italy;
- 2nd Int. Symp. On Computational Geomechanics
(ComGeo II); Dubrovnik, Croatia;
- Railway Geotechnical Engineering; Paris, France;
- 9th Int. Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in
Geomaterials, Porquerolles, France;
- 3rd Int. Symp. on Geotechnical Safety and Risk;
Munich, Germany;
- 11th Int. Conf. on Computational Plasticity –
COMPLASXI, Barcelona, Spain;
- TC207 Workshop on Soil-structure Interaction and
Retaining Walls, Dubrovnik, Croatia;
2012 TC 203 – 2nd Int. Conf. on Performance-Based Design
in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering; Taormina,
Italy
- Int. Conf. on Geotechnical Eng. Education; Galway,
Ireland;
- 6th Int. Conf. on Scour and Erosion; Paris, France
- TC 211 – Int. Symp. Ground Improvement; Brussels,
Belgium;
- 2nd Europ. Conf. on Unsaturated Soils – E-
UNSAT2012 – Napoli, Italy.
8 ACTIVITIES ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL
Many important activities are arranged on the level of
individual National Societies, giving a great chance to all
members of the National Committee to be directly involved in
ISSMGE operation. It is not my intention to give the overview
of detailed activities of each National Society just to show on
selected examples how wide these activities.
Smaller countries are trying to invite and to open proposed
action also to the foreign colleagues and to declare their activity
multilingual. The examples are:
- Symposium on Landslides – Iasi, Romania, 2009;
- Symposium on Landslides and Geo-environment – Tirana,
Albania, 2011;
- Baltic Piling Days, Tallinn, Estonia, 2012
Most of the other countries are arranging their national
conferences a rather opened, so it means that some other foreign
languages can be used, e.g. English, German, Russian, French
etc. Two examples are selected for:
- 31st Baugrundtagung – Munich, Germany , November
2010 – on the occasion of the 60 anniversary of the
DGGT – German Geotechnical Society – more than
1000 attendees and enormous number of exhibitors;
- 32nd Foundation Days – Stockholm, Sweden, March
2011 – with 650 participants and 60 exhibitors. Small
notes to Nordic countries which cooperate very closely -
Nordic Board Meeting was held in Helsinki (the 25th of
March, 2011) connected with celebration of 60
anniversary of Finland Geotechnical Society. Next 16th
Nordic Geotechnical Meeting will be held in May (9-
12) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012.
Such activity in most cases is connected with declaration of
the best paper (work) of the young geotechnical engineers.
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