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ISSMGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT
TC103 - NUMERICAL METHODS
NUMERICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS
Date: 20 May 2011
Period covered by this report: October 2009 – May 2011
Prepared by: Jidong Zhao and K.T. Chau
Chair: K.T. Chau
Vice-Chair: Richard Wan
Secretary: Jidong Zhao
1. Have you distributed the Terms of Reference
to the TC members? YES
2. Are any TC members not responsive? YES
Yes, we have found that TC members from the following
countries not responsive of our emails: Italy, Belgium,
Argentina and Netherlands.
3. Is your TC webpage on the ISSMGE website
up to date? YES
4. Please list the conferences and workshops and other activi-
ties you have held or plan to hold.
TC103 special sessions and/or mini-symposiums have been
planned in the following conferences
- 9 th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degrada-
tion in Geomaterials (IWBDG 2011), May 23-26 2011,
Porquerolles, France (Task leaders: Prof. François Nicot,
Prof K.T. Chau and Dr. Jidong Zhao)
- The 14 th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics
and Geotechnical Engineering (14 th ARC 2011), May 23-
27, 2011, Hong Kong, China (Task leaders: Dr. Jonny
Cheuk, Dr. S.W. Lee and Prof Akira Murakami)
- 11th International Symposium on Landslides/2nd North
American Symposium on Landslides, June 3-8 2012,
Banff, Alberta, Canada (Task leaders: Prof. Richard Wan
and Prof François Nicot)
- 3 rd International Symposium on Computational Geo-
mechanics (ComGeo III), 2013 (Task leaders: Prof
François Nicot and Prof. Richard Wan)
- 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering: Academia & Practice of Geo-
technical Engineering, Sept 1-5 2013, Paris, France (Task
leaders: Prof K.T. Chau and Dr. Jidong Zhao)
- International Conference on Advances in Geotechnical
Engineering to be held in Perth, Australia, 7th -9th Novem-
ber, 2011 (Task leaders: Dr. Mohamed Shahin and Mr.
Ting Zhang)
5. Please list the work task(s) you assigned to TC members
and comment on progress and future plans. Include, where
relevant, target deadline and deliverable(s)
Work task Responsible/deadline/deliverable Progress Future plans
Dr. Johnny Cheuk,
Dr. S.W. Lee & Prof.
Akira Murakami
Organizing special TC sessions at
the 14th ARC (23-27 May 2011,
Hong Kong)
The organizing has been progress-
ing well with two special sessions
being arranged in the conference.
A special report will be sum-
marized for the special sessions
and be included in our news-
letter.
Prof. François Nicot,
Prof K.T. Chau & Dr.
Jidong Zhao
Organizing special TC103 sessions
at the upcoming 9th IWBDG confer-
ence (23-26 May 2011, France)
A total of four special sessions
under the name of TC103 have
been set up in the workshop.
A report will be summarized. A
possible special journal issue
will be planned for selected
papers in the sessions.
Prof. Richard Wan &
Prof. François Nicot
Special sessions in the > 11th Inter-
national Symposium on Landslides/
2nd North American Symposium on
Landslides (June 3-8, 2012, Canada)
The organizing has been progress-
ing well.
A report will be summarized. A
possible special journal issue
will be planned for selected
papers in the sessions.
Prof. Antonio Gens TC103 liaison officer for the Inter-
national Journal of Geotechnical
Case Histories (IJGCH)
Prof Gens has kindly agreed to act
this role.
Prof. Gens will help us with this
for the term of this TC.
Dr. Jidong Zhao TC103 Newsletter One issue has been sent off and
more are coming.
To make it more regular.
Prof K.T. Chau and
Dr. Jidong Zhao
First TC103 committee meeting at
the 9th IWBDG conference
The meeting has been planned and
members have been encouraged to
attend.
To discuss TC future plans and
events.
Please list the members of the TC, their function, e-mail address and country
Name Function e-mail address Country
K.T. Chau Chair Hong Kong
Richard Wan Vice-chair Canada
Jidong Zhao Secretary Hong Kong
Francois Nicot Member of Executive France
Akira Murakami Member of Executive Japan
Poul Lade Member of Executive USA
Radoslaw Michalowski Member of Executive USA
Fusao Oka Member of Executive Japan
Sebastiano Rampello Member of Executive Italy
Lidija Zdravkovic Member of Executive UK
Alexander Puzrin Member of Executive Switzerland
Lars Andresen Member Norway
R. Baimakhan Member Kazakhstan
Dipanjan Basu Member USA
Georgios Belokas Member Greece
Daniel Borin Member UK
Robert Charlier Member Belgium
Johnny Cheuk Member Hong Kong
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