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The following specific activities are proposed to fulfil the
above aims.
Objective 1:
Disseminate knowledge and practice within the TC’s subject
area to the membership of the ISSMGE:
Organize specialty conferences, symposiums and workshops.
IS-Cambridge at Cambridge scheduled in 2014
(Soga)
Methane hydrate workshops
(Hyodo/Cho/Santamarina/Soga)
Bio-soil interaction workshops
(Soga/Santamarina)
Homogenisation workshop
(Einav)
Encourage preparation of keynote lectures, state-of-the-art
lectures including new technology, general reports for
conferences organized by the International Society, regional
conferences and conferences organized by Member
societies.
Collaborate with the organizing committee of the Paris
Conference to develop sessions focusing on TC105
activities
(Viggiani)
Develop ideas for broad participation of ISSMGE individual
members through, for example, prediction events, surveys,
or other means.
Webpage creation
(Hyodo/McDowell)
Objective 2
To establish guidelines and technical recommendations within
the TC’s subject area:
Develop DEM textbook
(Nakata/Jiang/McDowell)
Round robin test on DEM codes
(Viggiani)
Develop a state-of-art report on homogenization techniques
(Einov/Soga)
Develop education materials to promote macro-micro soil
mechanics ideas
(Coop/Bardet)
Objective 3
Assist with technical programs of international and regional
conferences organized by the ISSMGE: Promote to present the
findings of the TC in main sessions and discussion sessions.
Paris Conference
(Viggiani)
Other regional conferences
Interaction with other TCs
(Hyodo)
Objective 4
Interact with industry and overlapping organizations working in
areas related to the TC’s specialist area:
ASCE Granular Materials committee
(Gutierrez)
ALERT (Europe)
(Viggiani)
GM3 (UK)
(McDowell)
National research group - Korean Geotechnical Society
(Cho)
National research group - Chinese Geotechnical Society
(Jiang)
National research group - Japanese Geotechnical Society
(Hyodo)
TC106 - UNSATURATED SOILS
UNSATURATED SOILS
Chair: E. Alonso
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Objective 1:
Disseminate knowledge and practice in the area of mechanics
of unsaturated soils including as examples, expansive,
collapsible, residual, arid, and compacted soils:
1.
Organize specialty conferences, symposiums and
workshops.
2.
Promote TC106-sponsored sessions on unsaturated soils at
ISSMGE sponsored international and regional conferences
on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, and to
support special geotechnical and geoenvironmental
conferences on unsaturated soils.
3.
Encourage preparation of keynote lectures, state-of-the-art
lectures including new technology, general reports for
conferences organized by the International Society, regional
conferences and conferences organized by Member
societies.
4.
Promote benchmark exercises to establish the capabilities of
current
theoretical
frameworks
and
prediction
methodologies in unsaturated soil mechanics.
Objective 2:
To establish guidelines and technical recommendations in the
field of unsaturated soils:
5.
Promote the exchange of information about testing of
unsaturated soils for geotechnical and geoenvironmental
purposes
Objective 3:
Assist with technical programs of international and regional
conferences organized by the ISSMGE:
6.
Promote the presentation of findings of the TC in main
sessions and discussion sessions.
Objective 4:
Interact with industry and overlapping organizations working in
areas related to the TC’s specialist area:
7.
Cooperate actively with other TCs whose field of activity
involves important questions related to unsaturated soils:
TC208 Stability of Natural Slopes; TC210 Dams and
Embankments; and TC215 Environmental Geotechnics.
TC107 - LATERITIC SOILS
LATERITES AND LATERITIC SOILS
Chair: K. Ampadu
TERMS OF REFERENCE
The key function of the technical committee as I see it, is to
assemble and put into useable form, the existing knowledge and
best practices in laterites and lateritic soils and to use all
available means to disseminate these knowledge and best
practices to ISSMGE membership.
This document summarizes in a more specific form the
objectives, strategies and implementation plans of the technical
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