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TC212 - DEEP FOUNDATIONS
DEEP FOUNDATIONS
Chair: R. Katzenbach
TERMS OF REFERENCE
The objectives of TC212 - Deep Foundations are:
To promote co-operation and exchange of information on
design principles of piles, pile groups, energy piles, piles in
liquefied soil, Combined Pile Raft Foundations (CPRFs),
downdrag in piles, defect detection in bored piles by non-
destructive test, pile manufacturing process, pile stiffness
and on fundamental soil mechanical understanding of
installation methods of piles and related safety issues.
To finalise and disseminate the International Guidelines for
Combined Pile-Raft Foundations (CPRFs), Energy Pile,
Piles in Liquefied Soil etc. to be published by ISSMGE.
To compile and disseminate case studies of static and
dynamic tests on instrumented piles to get insights about the
influence of the pile installation process in terms of soil-
equipment-material interactions and its resulting influence
on the load-bearing behaviour of piles and to use the tests
for a benchmark for design methodologies.
To form 5 to 6 Task Forces on the areas of utmost
importance as detailed above.
TC213 - SCOUR AND EROSION
SCOUR AND EROSION
Chair: M. Heibaum
TC name was changed to "Scour and Erosion" instead of
"Geotechnics of soil erosion"
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Exchange information on scour and erosion processes from
the geotechnical point of view.
Improve the mutual understanding of geotechnical and
hydraulic approaches to scour and erosion.
Organize bi-
annual
international conferences on scour and
erosion
Promote the improvement of calculation methods of scour
and erosion processes.
Provide relevant information on the web to the geotechnical
and hydraulic community.
Discussion and presentations of proposals of ICSE-7 2014
(Taipei?)
TC214 - SOFT SOILS
FOUNDATION ENGINEERING IN DIFFICULT SOFT SOIL
CONDITIONS
Chair: J.L. Rangel
TERMS OF REFERENCE
The objectives of Committee TC214 are:
a)
To foster cooperation and exchange of information on
engineering characterization of difficult soft soil sites,
focusing on the definition of representative soil profiles and
static and dynamic properties to be considered in foundation
design.
b)
To elaborate recommendations for in situ and laboratory
testing related to extreme soft soil conditions.
c)
To contribute to the advancement of design method and
technology issues related to foundations in soft soils taking
into account factors that are commonly significant in those
soils such as regional subsidence and seismic amplification.
d)
To prepare proposals for monitoring schemes as well as for
pile testing, in cases of foundation in extreme soft soil and/
or earthquake conditions.
e)
To collect and publish well-documented case histories
regarding analysis, design, construction and behaviour of
foundations and earth structures built on soft soils.
Major TC214 activities during the 2010-2014 period will
include creating a website, organizing symposiums, workshops
and/or conferences, and participation of members in technical
meetings (papers, presentations, keynotes, etc.), according to
the following program:
To develop and to update a website where information
regarding all activities, scientific papers and publications
and membership of the TC-214 could be consulted (June,
2010).
Co-sponsoring of the International Symposium on
Tunneling and Shaft Construction to be held in Mexico City,
Feb. 20-23, 2010
(www.smig.org.mx). Themes discussed in
this symposium will be related to tunnelling in soft soils in
urban areas, including effects of regional subsidence,
seismic loading, etc. (done).
To organize a workshop as part of 8
th
International
symposium on land subsidence to be held in Querétaro-
México, Oct. 17 to 22, 2010
(www.eisols2010.com). This
workshop will deal with Geotechnical Engineering in areas
affected by subsidence and soil fracturing. Papers will be
published in a special edition of the Mexican Geographic
Association Bulletin, which is an indexed publication. (in
progress, Oct, 2010)
To participate in the 7
th
International symposium
"Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in soft
grounds"
(www.tc28-rome.org), May 16-18, 2011 (Contact
established with TC204).
To organize a TC214 workshop in 2012.
To prepare a technical document on contributions of design
methods and technology issues related to foundations in soft
soils taking into account regional subsidence and seismic
amplifications (2013).
To collect well documented case histories regarding
analysis, design, construction and behaviour of foundations
and earth structures built in difficult soft soils conditions
(2014).
To review and evaluate new techniques and computer
software that have been developed for site characterization
and design of foundations in difficult soft soil conditions.
Foster cooperation with technical committees: in-situ testing
(TC102), numerical methods (TC103), physical modelling
(TC104), earthquake (TC203), ground improvement (TC211),
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