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ISSMGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT
TC105 - GEO-MECHANICS
GEO-MECHANICS FROM MICRO TO MACRO
Date:-14 June 2011
Period covered by this report: October 2009 – May 2011
Prepared by: -MASAYUKI HYODO
Chair: Malcolm D. Bolton (until October 2010),
Masayuki Hyodo (from October 2010)
Vice-Chair: Mingjing Jiang (from October 2010)
Secretary: Masayuki Hyodo (until October 2010),
Kenichi Soga (from October 2010)
1. Have you distributed the Terms of Reference
to the TC members? YES
2. Are any TC members not responsive? YES
3. Is your TC webpage on the ISSMGE website
up to date? NO
If not, please describe the target date for the revision.
Target date: July 31, 2011
4. Please list the conferences and workshops and other activi-
ties you have held or plan to hold.
January 2010: A short course on DEM theory and practice.
(Organisers: Japan National Committee for TC35).
- 12-14 October 2010: IS-Shanghai, International Sympo-
sium on Geomechanics and Geotechnics from Micro to
Macro, Tongji University, Shanghai China, (Organiser:
Professor Mingjing Jiang)
- May and June 2010: Geotechnique Special Issue(s)
Mechanics at Grain Scale (Editorial Chair Dr. B. Baudet).
Eighteen full papers and selected papers were presented
for discussion at IS-Shanhai.
- 14-15 December 2010: 7 th UK Travelling Workshop,
Cambridge. (Organiser Prof. M.D. Bolton)
5. Please list the work ask(s) you assigned to TC members and
comment on progress and future plans. Include, where rele-
vant, target deadline and deliverable(s).
Work task Responsible/deadline/
deliverable
Progress Future plans
IS-Cambridge Soga/2014 As a goal for the current TC105,
this symposium will be held in
2014
Methane Hydrate Workshop Hyodo/Soga/Santamarina The first workshop was held
in Georgia Tech in Dec. 2010
The workshop will be held once a
year.
Bio-soil interaction workshop Soga/2011 Will be held in September
2011 at Cambridge
Homogenisation workshop Einav/2012 Einav will visit Cambridge in late
2011 to discuss about the progress
TC105 session at Paris Conference Viggiani/2013 During 13th ICSMFE Paris, TC
session will be held
Webpage creation McDowell/Hyodo
Develop DEM textbook Nakata/Jiang/McDowell
Round robin test on DEM code Viggiani
Development State of
art report on homogenization
techniques
Einov/Soga
Develop education materials to
promote macro-micro soil
mechanics
Coop/Bardet
ASCE Granular Material Commit-
tee
Guttierez
ALERT (Europ) Viggiani
GM3 (UK) McDowell
National research committee
(Japan)
Hyodo/Nakata
National research committee
(China)
Jiang
National research committee
(Korea)
Cho
Please list the members of the TC, their function, e-mail address and country
Name Function e-mail address Country
Masayuki Hyodo Chair Japan
Mingjing Jiang Vice-chair China
Kenichi Soga Secretary UK
Carlos Santamarina Executive member USA
Marte Gutierrez Executive member USA
Mathew Coop Executive member Hong Kong
Glenn McDowell Executive member UK
Beatrice Baudet Executive member Hong Kong
Cino Viggiani Executive member France
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