

Recent advancement in geotechnical reliability-based
design and analysis (organiser: J Ching, Yu Wang, & JR
Chen) – 15 papers
Monte Carlo Methods and Engineering Applications
(organizer: Yu Wang & Ivan Au) – number of papers not
known yet
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Collaborate with TC205/ETC10 to develop reliability solu-
tions for ETC10 examples
( http://www.eurocode7.com/etc10/ )(Liaisons: J Ching from TC304 and T Orr from TC205)
Future activities
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TC304 Workshop in conjunction with the 2
nd
National
Symposium on risk management and Insurance Research in
civil Engineering in Beijing, 2012 (proposed by Hongwei)
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TC304 Geotechnical symposium on "difficulties and chal-
lenges in landslide risk mitigation and management in hilly
areas, particularly in Himalayas" India, 2012 (proposed by
Kishor)
Meetings
-
1
st
TC304 meeting from 14 Oct to 22 Oct 2010 – for execu-
tive group only (BY EMAIL)
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2
nd
TC304 meeting from 10 Nov to 17 Nov 2010 (by email)
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3
rd
TC304 meeting, 14
th
Asian Regional Conference on Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 25 May 2011
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4
th
TC304 meeting, 3
rd
International Symposium on Geo-
technical Safety and Risk, 3 June 2011
-
Joint Committee Meeting between Geo-Institute Technical
Committee on Risk Assessment and Management (GI-RAM)
and ISSMGE TC304, 26 June 2011.
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(
Work task
Responsible/deadline/deliverable
Progress
Future plans
Task Force 1:
Interaction with industry
and education (coordi-
nated by Farrokh Nadim)
1. Email list of upcoming conferences and ask
members for short course proposals (Farrokh
Nadim)
2. Develop of a 2-day geotechnical risk
management course (Martin van Staveren)
3. Gather teaching resources (Mark Jaksa)
4. Coordinate a short course with CISM
(Vaughan Griffiths)
5. Compile a list of short courses in near future
for posting on TC304 website (Jianye Ching)
Work has started (Farrokh)
Topics and course materi-
als (slides and book) are
ready to use for 2-day
"Professional Geotechnical
Risk Management Course"
(Martin van Staveren)
The list will be dis-
cussed in the meeting
planned in Atlanta on 26
June and finalized
shortly afterwards
(Farrokh)
Making course models
country-specific with
interested members and
give the course in mem-
ber countries are con-
nected to conferences (in
2012) (Martin van
Staveren)
Task Force 2:
Compilation of guide-
lines and other technical
resources (coordinated by
Vaughan Griffiths)
1. Collect relevant guidelines and risk-related
international resources from industry,
government and academe for TC304 website
(Vaughan Griffiths):
Recommended reading list
General reading list
2. Bibliography database (Vaughan Griffiths)
Bibliography list under
compilation.
Status of list would be
discussed during Atlanta
meeting, 26 June.
Task Force 3:
Coordination with
broader risk community
(Coordinated by Martin
van Staveren)
1. Translate practice guide on geotechnical risk
management published by Deltares in Dutch
to English for dissemination (Martin van
Staveren)
2. Translate the generic risk management
principles of ISO-31000 into practical geo-
principles (Martin van Staveren, Lars Olsson)
Awaiting approval for
budget allocation for the
translation
Is ongoing in the Dutch
GeoImpuls Failure Cost
Reduction Program
Translating the guide in
English for dissemina-
tion in the geotechnical
community (as soon as
budget is provided)
Publication of the geo-
principles and the ex-
periences with using
them in a journal or
conference paper (by
2012)
Task Force 4:
Communication/dissemi-
nation (Coordinated by
Jianye Ching)
1. Set up TC304 website and circulate URL to
members (Jianye Ching)
2. Establish benchmark "tutorial" examples
(Jianye Ching)
TC304 website is hosted at
Webpage:
http://jyching.
twbbs.org/issmge/tc304.ht
m
Work with ETC10 on
"tutorial" examples
Task Force 5:
Conference coordination
(Coordinated by Ken Ho)
1. Special GEOSNet/TC304 session at 17
th
Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference,
May 10-13, 2010 (Jianye Ching, KK Phoon)
2. Collaborate with TC302 (Forensic Geo-
technical Engineering) on International
Symposium on Forensic Geotechnical Engi-
neering, 14-15 Dec 2010, Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
3. Special TC304 session at 14
th
Asian Regional
Conference, 23–27 May 2011 (Limin Zhang,
Events #1-#4 completed.
Events #5-#7 ongoing.
Future events being
considered #8-#9
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