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ISSMGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT
TC207 - SOIL-STRUCTURE
SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION AND RETAINING
WALLS
Date: 23 May 2011
Period covered by this report: October 2009 – May 2011
Prepared by: Vladimir Ulitsky, Michael Lisyuk
Chair: Vladimir Ulitsky
Vice-Chair and Secretary Michael Lisyuk
Terms of Reference TC207
1. To promote co-operation and expertise exchange within the
area of soil-structure interaction and retaining walls
amongst the leading research and design institutes and
universities world-wide as well as amongst the largest
contractors with the objective to enhance overall engineer-
ing and research expertise within this area.
2. To identify examples of well-documented case histories
involving soil-structure interaction.
3. To analyze the case histories using various soil-structure
interaction models and to compare the results with the real
observations.
4. To serve as an organizational support in promoting and
advancement of new calculation methods in soil-structure
interaction, as well as in development of related interactive
monitoring and application of the observational method
with possibility of adjusting design decisions during the
construction process.
5. To organize workshops and conferences on soil-structure
interaction and further inclusion of related sections into
international (regional) scientific geotechnical conferences.
To report on the results of its activities at these conferences.
6. To prepare Guidelines giving recommendations for
practitioners’ approach to soil-structure interaction and
retaining walls problems.
1. Have you distributed the Terms of Reference
to the TC members? YES
Comment: the Terms of Reference are on the Website of
TC207
2. Are any TC members not responsive? YES
If not, please name the persons not communicating so that
ISSMGE can contact their national societies.
G.A. Sultanov (Kazakhstan no replies at
all)
N. Petrovic (Croatia) (stopped
responding)
G. Horodecki (Poland) (sent only 1 mes-
sage so far)
3. Is your TC webpage on the ISSMGE website
up to date? NO
There are no Terms of Reference of TC207 on the ISSMGE
website, as of 22 May 2011. The Terms of Reference have
been approved recently.
4. Please list the conferences and workshops and other activi-
ties you have held or plan to hold.
Since October 2009 the following conferences and work-
shops have been organized:
- International Geotechnical Conference "Geotechnical
Challenges of Megacities" (GeoMos-2010). Moscow,
Russia, 7-10 June 2010.
TC207 was a co-organizer of this conference, together
with NIIOSP Research Institute (Moscow) and Georecon-
struction Engineering Co (Saint Petersburg).
There were a Plenary and 3 Technical Sessions during the
Conference:
- Construction of congested urban conditions
- Preservation of existing structures with account of their
interaction with subsoil
- Geotechnical engineering in urban conditions.
Members of TC207 participated in a Plenary session and
two technical Sessions delivering 7 presentations at the
conference (2 Invited lectures, 2 General reports and 3
oral presentations).
The meeting of TC207 was held during the conference.
Members of TC207 and invited specialists participated in
the meeting.
The main topic of the meeting was behaviour of soft soils
and its account in SSI calculations. A fruitful discussion
these issues were held by TC members and invited guests
of the meeting.
At this meeting the following decisions have been made:
- To continue work on the Guidelines on Soil-Structure
Interaction
- To start work on developing the Website of TC207
- To form three Task forces
- To organize the meeting and workshop of TC207 in
October 2011, in Dubrovnik (Croatia).
- International Seminar "Soil-Structure Interaction and
modern methods of soil testing"
Venue: State Transport University, Saint Petersburg,
Russia, 31 January 2011.
Geotechnical Centre CERMES, Ecole des Ponts
ParisTech (ENPC), Laboratory Navier, Paris, 4 February
2011.
The topics of the workshop were:
Use of modern soil models in soil-structure interaction
analyses
Soil testing according to Eurocode 7
Latest trends in Engineering Geology.
11 lectures were delivered during the seminar.
The number participants of the of seminar was 57 people.
Planned meetings, workshops and seminars of TC207
- 5-8 October 2011 Meeting of TC207 and workshop on
Soil-Structure Interaction and Retaining walls, in
Dubrovnik (Croatia).
Venue of the meeting and workshop: Valamar Dubrovnik
President Hotel.
Programme of the workshop
1. Organizational Session
Report of TC207 Activities and plans of actions of
TC207
Speakers: V. Ulitsky, M. Lisyuk
Report of leaders of 3 Task Forces
Task Force 1. C. Shashkin and C. Haberfield
Task Force 2. Yasser El-Mossallamy
Task Force 3. M. Lisyuk
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