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• Support the Ministry of Public Works for Post-Graduate
Course on Slope Stability.
• Symposium on “Security Recommendations for
Excavations”, during June, 2011.
• Course on “Slope Stability in Soils and Rocks”, held in
the Salvadorian Association of Engineers and
Architects, in August, 2011.
• Roundtable: “Recommendations for the Regulation of
Foundations and Slope Stability in El Salvador”, during
October, 2011
• Lecture
Series
on
Geotechnical
Engineering
Experiences in the 2009-2011 period, in December,
2011.
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Paraguayan Geotechnical Society - Sociedad Paraguaya
de Geotecnia (SPG)
The Paraguayan Geotechnical Society (SPG) is immersed in an
important internal change. First making a depuration of it list of
members and working hard with the new generations of
geotechnical engineers in order to transmit to them the govern
of the SPG, which change the authorities in next December.
SPG had a significant history in the ISSMGE South
American Region, they organize the Panamerican Conference in
Foz de Iguacu, together with Argentina and Brazil, and held the
First Meeting of Presidents of Geotechnicals Societies of
Mercosur, during 2003 in Asunción. SPG organize many
Conferences and Seminars in the Sub Region, and Professor
Bosio Ciancio was ISSMGE Vice President for South America
for the period 2001-2005. Currently the president is Cesar
Lopez Bosio who participate actively during the Meetings in
Gramado.
Through a series of lectures the SPG take advantage of the
start of construction of “Waterfront Avenue” in Asuncion, and
present to the entire engineering community the newest
technology that is being used.
During the next month, continued with the lectures,
addressing topics such as, among others:
• "The Formation of Asuncion Bay"
• " Dispersive Soils”
• "Occurrence of soft rock in the Metropolitan Area of
Asunción “
• " Waterfront Avenue in Asuncion”
Geotechnical Society of Paraguay is working closely with
the National Secretary for Emergencies, looking technical
responses to floods in coastal cities along the Paraguay River.
The SPG prepares a Handbook of Procedures for the
Conservation of Retaining Walls of these coastal cities. Also the
SPG are in treaties with the local Committee on Large Dams
and the Paraguayan Association of Structures, in order to
organize together Symposiums, Courses and Seminars. The first
meeting is scheduled after Easter recess.
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Peruvian Geotechnical Society - Sociedad Peruana de
Geotecnia (SPG)
The SPG, historically, was a very active society, hosting the
Pan-American Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, in the
year 1979, but in recent years was some stagnation in their
activities.
At the end of 2010 the inevitable generational change in our
societies, brought about a new Directive Committee for the
years 2011-2012.
Currently the SPG is presided by Cesar Torres Chung, with
the Vicepresidence of Professor Arnaldo Carrillo Gil, and
Patricia de los Rios as Secretary.
The first activity of this new Committee was the
organization of the ISSMGE Touring Lecture in Lima, Perú. On
6 and 7 January was held the "International Seminar on
Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Unsaturated Soils".
The event was organized by the ISSMGE (International Society
for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering) and SPG
(Peruvian Geotechnical Society). The agenda was as follows:
Unsatured Soils – January, 06, 2011.
• Jean Louis Briaud (USA) – President ISSMGE:
“Unsaturated soils: some fundamentals and some
applications”
• Victor Rinaldi (Argentina) : “Effect of the structure and
partial saturation in the deformational behavior of soils"
• Nasser Khalili, (Australia): “application of effective
principle to mechanics of unsaturated soils”
Earthquake Geotechnics: - January, 07, 2011.
• Roberto Terzariol (Argentina) - V.P South America
ISSMGE: “Aspects of earthquake resistant of shallow
and deep foundations, and retaining walls - new criteria
and standards in argentina 2010”.
• Jorge E. Alva Hurtado (Perú) & Zenon Aguilar Bardales
(Perú): “Advances in the geotechnical earthquake
engineering study of the 2007 Peruvian earthquake”
• Susumu Yasuda (Japón): “Damage to structures due to
soil liquefaction”
• Pedro Seco e Pinto (Portugal) – Past President
ISSMGE: “Eurocode 8 – design of structures for
earthquakes resistance-geotechnical aspects”
Among the most important outreach activities developed by
the Society in Peru, are the so called “Geotechnical Thursdays”,
held at the Council of Engineers of Peru. That conferences are
devoted by recognized technical consultants, which are active
members of the Society and discuss various topics of interest for
the public.
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Venezuela Geotechnical Society - Sociedad Vvenezolana
de Geotecnia (SVG)
The SVG is an historic Society in our region. This Society held
for two times the Pan American Conference, once in Caracas
(1967) and the second in Isla Margarita (2007), and provided
one of the Vice President of the region (Prof, Hiedra Lopez).
In March, 2011 SVG change its authorities. The new
president is Prof. Abraham Benarroch, who replace Prof. Jose
Amundaray. During 2010, Jose Amundaray was the
representative of SVG to the Regional meetings held in
Gramado, Brazil.
The Venezuelan Society inaugurated its new headquarters
bigger and more comfortable than the previous one, with a new
library, and improve the web page of the Society.
They are involved in a series of courses for the associated
and engineers in general in order to improve the industry in
geotechnical issues.
This year Caracas, held the XIX Venezuelan Seminar on
Geotechnics, in October, 28-30, 2010. The Seminar´s central
issue was the study and solutions of practical cases. The event
had 210 attendants, with 25 papers and 2 main lectures in honor
to Gustavo Perez Guerra and Juan Francisco Lupini, given by
Prof. N. Rodriguez and I. Contreras both from Venezuela.
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