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aforementioned major themes as well as the guideline
provided by the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC):
Objective 1:
Disseminate knowledge and practice to the member of ISSMGE
on employing advanced numerical methods to facilitate deeper
understanding of fundamental behaviour of geomaterials and to
help solving difficult problems that are of practical importance.
In doing so, TC103 will
 Organize or co-organize relevant workshops/symposiums/
conferences to encourage the exchange of ideas and advances
in computational geomechanics among academics and
practitioners. Specifically, the following conferences/
workshops have been tentatively identified as the occasions
that special sessions and/or mini-symposiums will be
planned under the name of ISSMGE TC103:
 9th International Workshop on Bifurcation and
Degradation in Geomaterials (IWBDG 2011), May 23-26
2011, Porquerolles, France (Task leader: Prof. François
Nicot)
 The 14th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics
and Geotechnical Engineering (14th ARC 2011), May 23-
27 2011, Hong Kong, China (Task leader: Dr. Jonny
Cheuk)
 11th International Symposium on Landslides/2nd North
American Symposium on Landslides, June 3-8 2012,
Banff, Alberta, Canada (Task leaders: Prof. Richard Wan/
Prof François Nicot)
 3rd International Symposium on Computational
Geomechanics (ComGeo III), 2013 (Task leaders: Prof
François Nicot/Prof. Richard Wan)
 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering: Academia & Practice of
Geotechnical Engineering, Sept 1-5 2013, Paris, France
 Encourage preparation of keynote lectures, introductory
lectures from TC103 on latest developments and new trends
on numerical methods with an emphasis on geomechanics.
In particular,
 We shall encourage all our members to take every chance
to promote the use of advanced computational methods
for geotechnical applications at international and regional
conferences and workshops
 Most executive members as well members recommended
from regional societies of TC103 are reputable experts in
their specific research areas within a broad field of
computational geomechanics. We are confident that
many of them will be invited from time to time by
various international/regional conferences to deliver
keynote lectures, to teach for various workshop/summer
schools and to provide various technical inputs on
practical problems. These activities will be clearly
documented in our newsletter as well as annual report.
 Meanwhile, TC103 will also recommend appropriate
candidates from among our TC members to give these
speeches on occasions that we deem suitable, especially
those events organized by the overlapping organization
as will be listed in Objective 3.
 TC103 will also organize special issue publications in
some prestigious journals on thematic topics.
 Develop various schemes to draw the active participation
of broad ISSMGE members. Typical examples of these
include online survey of typical software packages used
for their research/work, challenging problems/difficulties
they have encountered or are facing in their daily work of
numerical analysis. Benchmark test competitions will
also be planned for all interested members to participate
to test the performance of their own packing/numerical
schemes on solving the same problem.
Objective 2:
 TC103 will endeavour to provide full support for various
international/regional conferences relevant to ISSMGE, to
help on organizing special sessions, calling for papers,
recommending keynote speakers, offering help on reviewing
papers, and on seeking suitable sponsors. All members of
TC103 will be highly encouraged to contribute to these
events and to present their latest research developments on
numerical modelling in geomechanics. Specifically, we
tentatively propose the following thematic sessions be
organized at the various conferences.
 A TC103 special session on "The Behavior of Material
Instabilities at Various Scales for Geomaterials" at the 9 th
IWBDG (2010) (Task leader: Prof. François Nicot)
 Two parallel sessions for the upcoming 14th ARC-SMGE
(2010)-Hong Kong: one on recent progress in computational
geomechanics and the other on the current practice and
issues of numerical methods for engineering. (Task leader:
Dr. Jonny Cheuk)
 Session (to be confirmed) for the 11th International
Symposium on Landslides/2nd North American Symposium
on Landslides, 2012, Canada (Task leader: Prof. Richard
Wan/ Prof. François Nicot)
 A special session in 3rd International Symposium on
Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo III), 2013 (Task
leaders: Prof François Nicot /Prof. Richard Wan)
 TC103 Mini-symposium on "Challenges and Opportunities
in Computational Geomechanics" for the 18th ISSMGE
Conference (2013), France
 TC103 will also organize special issues of thematic
publications in such journals as Int. J. Analy. Numer. Meth.
Geom., Soils and Foundations and Computers and
Geotechnics, as well as the ISSMGE International Journal of
Geoengineering Case Histories if deemed as appropriate.
Contribution to these special issues will be based on
invitation and/or in connection with some of the above
special conference sessions.
Objective 3:
TC103 will actively seek every opportunity to interact with
geotechnical industry as well as other organization/society
relevant to computational geomechanics. Specifically:
 We shall encourage all regional societies to recommend
experienced practicing engineering to join our technical
committee. We shall also encourage them to organize
various sessions with practice-oriented topics and discussion
sessions with academics involved. For example, in Hong
Kong area, we shall call for members from the Hong Kong
Institute of Engineers (HKIE) to join our TC, through whom
we shall regularly circulate conference/workshop/seminar
information to major consulting firms such as Ove Arup,
AECOM, Scott Wilson, governmental offices such as GEO
and contractors.
 TC103 tentatively identities the following technical
committees of ISSMGE and other societies as potential
overlapping working bodies to interact with:
 TC105 Geomechanics from Micro to Macro of ISSMGE:
the wide-spreading use of Discrete Element Method for
TC105 could offer invaluable information for constitutive
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