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committee on laterites and lateritic soils. These are based on the
generalized objectives and terms of reference of technical
committees given by The Technical Oversight Committee in
the "Guidelines for Technical Committees".
OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES
IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
It is noted that the Technical Committee on Laterites and lateric
soils is a new committee and therefore does not have any past
records on the committee’s work as a guide. The geographic
distribution of laterites and lateritic soils in the tropics also
coincides with countries with relatively lower income levels.
This implies that some members of the committee may have
some difficulty with travelling for Conferences as part of TC-
107 work. The committee therefore has to be innovative in how
it conducts its work.
Examination of the four objectives and strategies above shows
that TC107’s first task is to assemble what information exists
on laterites and lateritic soils. I propose a Task Force for this
activity as shown below. The composition of the task force
should have a Brazilian member to bring on board material in
Spanish and Portuguese while the French speaking members
bring on board literature in French. The second task of
dissemination will be executed by the Dissemination Task
Force. The 15
th
Regional Conference in Maputo in July 2011
will be used as the first physical meeting of TC-107 and the
Dissemination Task Force will organize this meeting. The
organizers of the Conference are scheduling Dr. Gidigasu to
make a presentation on "
Towards developing paving materials
acceptance specifications for lateritic and saprolitic soils
". The
overall terms of reference of the Task Forces are shown below,
but the target output shows what needs to be achieved by July
2011.
TC201 - DYKES AND LEVEES
GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF DYKES AND LEVEES,
SHORE PROTECTION AND LAND RECLAMATION
Chair: M.A. Van
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Discussion state of the art and developing the science and
engineering in order to increase fundamental understanding
and modelling of strength, deformation and erosion
behaviour of soils and failure processes of dikes, dunes,
(underwater) dams, reclaimed land, man-made islands and
ports in river and coastal zone.
Contributions to the international congresses of the society
to increase the quality of design by including experience,
such as large scale tests, case histories, failures,
measurements, simulations and artificial knowledge
Encouraging international collaboration of experts in
multidisciplinary developments of new techniques for
constructing and maintaining safe and reliable protection
works
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