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ISSMGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT
TC106 - UNSATURATED SOILS
UNSATURATED SOILS
Date: May 31, 2011
Period covered by this report: October 2009 – May 2011
Prepared by: E. Alonso, P. Delage and G. Miller
Chair: Eduardo Alonso
Vice-Chair: Pierre Delage
Secretary: Gerald Miller
1. Have you distributed the Terms of Reference
to the TC members? NO
This is posted on the web page. We will send it out as an
attachment with our next communication to the committee
(early June).
2. Are any TC members not responsive?
Not sure about this. Generally communication is one-way
for most members, unless they are actively planning an
event. We are in the process of reviewing the membership
list as mentioned below. This will become more apparent in
future months.
3. Is your TC webpage on the ISSMGE website
up to date? NO
A couple of corrections are required for the membership list.
Note: the attached membership list is up to date (corrections
are shown in yellow). There was one name on the member
list that was a TOC selection that we were unsure of. The
name was "R. Rajardo" and no affiliation or contact infor-
mation was given. Earlier documents indicated "R.
Rajardo" was a member of SEAGS and from Singapore.
We assumed this was supposed to be "H. Rahardjo" from
Singapore (in yellow below). Please let us know if this is
correct. If not please send the complete contact information.
4. Please list the conferences and workshops and other activi-
ties you have held or plan to hold.
A list of TC106 activities can be found in our December
2009 committee report for the period 2005-2009. Some of
our more recently completed activities include:
- 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering, September 2009, in
Alexandria, Egypt. TC6 organized a workshop titled
"Applications of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in
Geotechnical Engineering". The workshop included pre-
sentations by nine distinguished TC6 committee members
focusing on case histories and practical applications.
- International Symposium on Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
and Deep Geological Nuclear Waste Disposal (UNSAT-
WASTE 2009), Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Issues, August 2009, in Shanghai, China
- 4 th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils (AP-
UNSAT), November 2009, in Newcastle, Australia
- 5 th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils
(UNSAT 2010), September 2010, in Barcelona, Spain
Upcoming events include:
- 5 th AP-UNSAT (Asian-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated
Soils), November 14-16, 2011 in Pattaya, Thailand
(
- 2 nd E-UNSAT (European Conference on Unsaturated
Soils), June 20-22, 2012 in Napoli, Italy
( )
- 1 st PanAm UNSAT (Pan-American Conference on Un-
saturated Soils) – In the planning stages.
- 6 th UNSAT 2014 (International Conference on Unsaturated
Soils) - July 2014 – Brisbane, Australia.
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
Generally, we don’t assign and manage specific tasks to
this amount of detail. Members generally volunteer to
complete specific activities (e.g. conference planning) and
we assist to ensure successful outcomes. Most members
are active in unsaturated soil research and good ambassa-
dors in the promotion of unsaturated soil research and
practice in their own countries and abroad. Our main
activities include promotion of unsaturated soil mechanics
through conferences and publications. Our members have
a history of developing and hosting successful conferences
including the recurring international UNSAT series (just
held the 5th in Barcelona, 6th to be held in Brisbane,
Australia), European E-UNSAT series (1st in Durham in
2008, 2nd in Napoli in 2012) and the AP-UNSAT series
(most recent was in Newcastle, Australia in 2009, 5th will
be held in 2011 in Pattaya, Thailand). A new series will be
launched in the near future, the Pan-American UNSAT
series. We are also active at regional and international
conferences and our members are often featured speakers
at such events. For examples, at the last ISSMGE confer-
ence in Alexandria in 2009, we offered a successful work-
shop on unsaturated soil mechanics featuring high profile
members of our committee. There is no shortage of indi-
vidual members who volunteer for these activities – in fact
for most of recurring conferences member representatives
from various countries submit proposals to our committee
requiring an internal vote to finalize venue selection.
Please list the members of the TC, their function, e-mail
address and country
First Name Last Name Function E-mail Country
Eduardo Alonso Chair Spain
Pierre Delage Vice chair France
Gerald Miller Secretary USA
Antonio Gens Member Spain
Cristina Jommi Member Italy
David Toll Member UK
Simon Wheeler Member UK
D.G. Fredlund Member Canada
Seung-Rae Lee Member Korea
Harianto Rahardjo Member Singapore
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