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ISSMGE Council Meeting, Paris, France, September, 2013
and 9 delegates from Taiwan are sharing and exchanging
experiences on techniques and educations.
5.
The 15
th
Conference on Current Researches in
Geotechnical Engineering in Taiwan. September 11-13, 2013,
Yunlin, Taiwan. Profs. CH Juang, James K. Mitchell, F.
Tatsuoka, Prof. Robert Y. Liang, Prof. CC Huang, Dr. HS
Hsieh and Dr. Barry Chen will deliver keynote lectures.
3.2
Geotechnical Seminars:
2012.02.29/ ISSMGE VP Asia Lecture delivered at TKU,
Taipei, Taiwan by Prof. Askar Zhussupbekov
Lecture 1: Geotechnical Issues of Megaprojects in
Problematical Soil Ground of Kazakhstan
Lecture 2: Geotechnical and Structural Experiences of
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station Disaster (Ukraine, 1986)
2012.05.09/ Lecture: Contributions of Field Case Histories to
Geotechnical Earthquake
Engineering delivered at NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan by Prof.
I.M. Idriss
2012.06.20/ 7 lectures were delivered on Advanced FEM
Analysis on Underground Engineering Works by different
CTGS society members at NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan.
2012.06.21/ 2 lectures were delivered on Bored Pile
Construction and Analysis by Dr. Steven Dapp, and Dr. H.S.
Hsieh at NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan
2012.10.19/ Seminar lectures on Unsaturated Soils held at
NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan
2012.11.23
/
2 lectures delivered by Prof. C.Y. Chin on
Reliability Based Design and Prof. Malcolm Bolton on
Performance-Based Design in Geotechnical Engineering-
2012 Rankine Lecture.
Memorandum of understanding (MOU): TAF (Taiwan) ~
2012.03.17
Newsletter publications: Vol. 15 No.3, Vol. 16 No.1~2 (in
Chinese)
Site reconnaissance (geology tours): Fei-Tsuei Dam Field
Trip (75 persons)
3.3
Journal Award (2012 Spring CTGS Convention):
•
Distinguished Paper - Reliability-Based Robust and
Optimal Design of Shallow Foundations in Cohesionless Soil
in the Face of Uncertainty – by C.H. Juang, L. Wang, S.
Atamturktur and Z. Luo
•
Best Paper – Failure Mechanism of Granular Soil Slopes
under High Intensity Rainfalls – by R.H. Chen, K.J. Kuo and
W.N. Chien
•
Best Paper – Secondary Compression Behavior in One-
Dimensional Consolidation Tests – by T. Takeda, M.
Sugiyama, M. Akaishi and H.W. Chang
•
Best Paper – CWT Techniques for Low-Strain Intensity
Testing of Deep Drilled Shafts – by S.H. Ni, W.M. Isenhower
and Y.H. Huang
3.4
CTGS Award (2012 Spring CTGS convention):
•
Technical Award - CECI
、
Sinotech Engr.
、
DRTS, TCG
•
PhD Thesis Award - Dr. S.H. Wu at NTUST and Dr. C.C.
Liao at NCKU
• MS Thesis Award – Mr. CY Chen at NCTU, Mr. Y.B. Lu at
NCU, Mr. H.H. Juang at NTU
3.5
National Conferences, Seminars, Workshops:
•
2011 Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Taiwan 450
participants
•
2013 Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Taiwan 600
participants
3.6
Periodical journals (2011.10-2013.02):
•
Journal of GeoEngineering (in English, EI), Vol. 6 No.4,
Vol. 7 No. 1~4 (23 papers)
•
Sino-Geotechnics (in Chinese), Vol. 130, Vol.131~134
(65 papers)
3.7
Delegates:
•
Prof. K.H. Yang, NTUST, 7AYGEC, Tokushima U.,
Japan.
•
Dr. C.C. Lu, Sinotech Consulting Inc. 5iYGEC’13
(see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Visiting of CTGS, Taiwan,China,2011
4
HONG KONG
4.1
Hosting ATC/TC:
One-day Seminar on “The Observation
Method and Its Applicability to Hong Kong” (4 Feb 2012 -
jointly organized by HKGES, HKIE-GD, AGS and TC206)
4.2
International Conferences, Seminars:
Joint Workshop of
ISSMGE TC101-TC105 on “Experimental Micromechanics
for Geomaterials” on 23-24 May 2013 at the University of
Hong Kong.
4.3
Local Conferences, Seminars, Workshops:
•
Half-day seminar on “Initiatives and Geotechnical Issues
on Land Supply for Future Development” on 24 March 2012
•
Annual Seminar on “Geotechnical Aspects of Tunneling
for Infrastructure Development” on 25 May 2012
•
Reprise of the 52
nd
Rankine Lecture was held on 30
November 2012 at HKUST. The lecture was organised jointly
by HKGES, HKIE-GD and HKUST.
•
Half-day workshop on “Ground Improvement and Slope
Engineering” was held on 8 Dec 2012. The workshop was
jointly organised by HKGES, HKIE-GD and the Indonesian
Society of Geotechnical Engineering.
•
Annual Seminar on “Geotechnical Aspects of Tunneling
for Housing Supply and Development” on 31 May 2013
(see Figure 3).
Figure 3. The 14
th
Asian Regional Conference on Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Hong Kong,
China, 2011.
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