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ISSMGE Council Meeting, Paris, France, September, 2013
The report about activity of Asian Geotechnical Societies in ISSMGE
Askar Zhussupbekov
Vice-President of ISSMGE for Asia
.
ABSTRACT: This paper included of report of activity of Asian Geotechnical Societies in ISSMGE (2009-2013),
especially since 2011 till 2013 after Council Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
KEYWORDS: society, conference, symposium, seminar, workshop.
1
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Active Asian Geotechnical Societies, which organized several
international conferences, symposiums, workshops, seminars,
etc. are: Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong,
SEAGS, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Singapore,
Iraq, Lebanon, China, CTGS, Syria, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka,
Tajikistan. Thailand, Kyrgyzstan had some activity and will
organize conferences of end of year. In the following slides
you can find the present activity of Asian Geotechnical
Societies
1.1
The distribution of Asian geotechnical societies
(see Figure 1)
Figure 1.
The Asian Region of ISSMGE includes 23 Asian
geotechnical societies
2
CHINESE INSTITUTION OF SOIL MECHANICS
AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING –CHINA
CIVIL ENGINEERING SOCIETY (CISMGE
)
2.1
International Conference, seminars:
1.International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering for
High-speed Transportation Infrastructure. May 2012,
Hangzhou China, 80 participants
2.Constitutive modeling of Geomaterials – Advance and New
Application (IS-Model2012), October 2012, Beijing China,
90 participants
3.International Symposium on Earthquake-induced
Landslides, November 2012, Kiryu, Japan. 70 participants
4.2012 Forum on Urban Geoenvironment & Sustainable
Development, Hong Kong China, December 2012, 120
participants
5.Geosynthetics 2013, April 2013. Long beach USA.
Participants (NA)
Memorandum of understanding (MOU): CISMGE has MOU
with JGS (2006), ASCE (2009)
Hosting ISSMGE TC: TC-210 Dams and Embankments
(Chairman Dr. XuZeping, China Institute of Water Resources
& Hydropower Research).
Holding annual symposiums,
workshops, seminars, shot courses
2.2
National Conferences, Seminars, Workshops:
•
2011Fall the 11
th
National Conference on Soil Mechanics
and Geotechnical Engineering, Lanzhou China. 1199
participants
•
2011Fallthe 10
th
National Conference on Pile foundation,
Kaifeng China. 559 participants
•
2011 Fall the 3
rd
National Conference on Environmental
Geotechnics and Geosynthetics, China. Shanghai 240
participants
•
2012 Spring the 15
th
Huang Wen Xi Lecture, Nanjing
China, 500 participants
•
2012 Spring National Symposium on Ground Improvement
of Dredger Fill,Wuhan, China. 200 participants
•
2012 Fall The first Geotechnical Forum for Young
Engineers, Beijing, China. 50 participants
•
2012 Fall the First National Conference on Multi-field
Interaction and Environmental Geotechnics, Hanghzou,
China, 170 participants
•
2013 Spring the 16
th
Huang Wen Xi Lecture, Beijing China,
500 participants
•
2013 Spring The 4
th
Symposium on Geosynthetics for Soil
Reinforcement
2.3
The periodical journals (2011-2013):
•
Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (in Chinese) –
12 times per year (200 papers published)
•
Chinese Journal of Earthquake Engineering(in Chinese), 6
times per year (15 papers published)
3
CHINESE TAIPEI GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY
3.1
International Conference, seminars:
1.
Symposium in Honor of Prof. Jose M. Roesset (Texas
A&M U). October 17, 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan. 10 papers
from Prof. Roesset and former students were collected and
presented at NTUST at this event.
2.
The 5
th
Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop on Geotechnical
Hazards from Large earthquakes and Heavy Rainfall (5
th
ATC3). November 12~15, 2012 delivered at National Cheng
Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
3.
Engineering Numerical Analysis and BEM Taiwan 2013.
March 20, 2013 delivered at National Chung-Hsing U., Prof.
Steven L. Crouch (U. of Minnesota) as the Keynote.
4.
Organizing 1
st
Taiwan-Kazakhstan Joint Workshop in
Geotechnical Engineering. May 27, 2013 to be delivered in
TKU Taipei campus. 19 papers to be presented. 12 delegates
from Kazakh Geotechnical Society, 3 delegates from Japan
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