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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
music and closing technical excursion – construction of city
road tunnels in Brno.
More details and photos are in ISSMGE Bulletin Vol. 4,
Issue 4.
21st EYGEC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, September
4th – 7th, 2011
Organizing committee chaired by Mandy Korff from
Deltares collected 53 papers coming from 30 national societies.
Except of representatives of the ISSMGE – Profs. J.L. Briaud
and I. Vaníček, organizers invited also other specialists – Prof.
L. Caldeira from Portugal and Dr. T. Chapman from UK - to
present keynote lectures and to lead discussion when young
colleagues presented their papers. For the publication the same
system was proposed as for Brno conference. More information
can be found o
22nd EYGEC, Sweden, Gothenburg, 2012
Stefan Aronsson, President of the Swedish Geotechnical
Society, when visiting 20th EYGEC in Brno, declared his
intention to arrange another one in Sweden in 2012. This fact
speaks about respected significance of such activities in Europe.
The conference was organized by the Swedish Geotechnical
Society with Ms. Victoria Svahn doing a great job as the
chairwoman. A great acknowledgement should be given to the
whole organizing committee for their effort in organizing this
conference. 52 delegates from 26 different countries were
represented. Apart from the 52 delegates the conference was
attended by Swedish specialists, the leaders of eight different
sessions - Site investigation and laboratory testing, Design
parameters and modelling, Shallow and deep foundations, Deep
excavations and retaining structures, Tunnelling and
underground structures, Slope stability and landslides,
Infrastructure projects, and Ground improvement. The
conference also offered three keynote lectures presented by
Professor Ivan Vaníček (Vice President of ISSMGE Europe,
Czech Technical University), Professor Stefan Larsson (Royal
Institute of Technology) and Professor Minna Karstunen
(Chalmers University of Technology). Apart from the very
interesting presentations and lectures, the delegates also joined
together in appreciated social activities in the Gothenburg area.
The conference papers have been published in the proceedings
which, for example, can be found through the website of the
Swedish Geotechnical Society .
23rd European Young Geotechnical Engineers
Conference will be held in Spain, Barcelona in 2014.
Candidate for the next in 2015 is UK, which would like to
combine the European Conference in Edinburgh with EYGEC
in close vicinity.
Signal of interest is coming also from Romania. It means
that these conferences are very well established and there is a
great effort, not only to arrange such activities, but also to
attend them, as the selection of candidates from some countries
have to be arranged.
5th International Young Geotechnical Engineer
Conference
According to the accepted rules, the International YGEC will
be arranged in Paris, France, on the occasion of International
conference SMGE , 2013. Each European society had chance to
nominate 2 regular candidates on this conference.
3.5 European Regional Technical Committees
After International conference in Alexandria all existing
European Regional Technical Committees declared their wish
to continue in their work:
- ERTC 10 – Evaluation of Eurocode 7 – UK + Ireland
– Andrew Bond, Trevor Orr;
- ERTC 12 Geotechnical Evaluation and Application of
the Seismic Eurocode 8 – Italy – Michele Maugeri;
- ERTC 7 – Numerical methods in geotechnical
engineering - Spain – Cesar Sagaseta;
- ERTC 3 - Piles – Belgium – Noel Huybrecht
(Maurice Bottiau);
- ERTC 16 – Education and Training –
Romania(Greece) – Iacint Manoliu (Marina
Pantazidou).
All ERTC accepted invitation to join European conference in
Athens and common workshops were arranged on this occasion.
A special position has ERTC 7 which is responsible for the
European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnics
(NUMGE). The last one was arranged in Trondheim, Norway in
2010 and the next one (8NUMGE2014) will be arranged in the
Netherlands, in Delft in 2014, chaired by Prof. M. Hicks, from
Delft University. The Preliminary Announcement brochure was
distributed in September 2011. Website:
For a great significance of the Regional TC the new ones
were proposed to establish in Europe, as:
- Geothermal energy
- Utilization of large volume waste in geotechnical
applications
- Ageing of earth structures in transport engineering
- Land subsidence
Up to now the first one – Geothermal Energy - was
established, chaired by Prof. R.Katzenbach from Darmstadt
University, Germany. First meeting was arranged there during
summer holidays in 2012. As typical problem of these TC is
financial one, how to pay for all activities which are proposed
for, the main idea is to propose this new ERTC in agreement
with research activity supported from EU. Cooperation with
ELGIP platform is also proposed. Meanwhile the colleagues
working on the proposal of COST project decided to establish
ERTC Land subsidence and colleagues from Deltares, the
Netherlands expressed their wish to take care about this ERTC.
The discussion about two other proposals is still going on; main
problem is connected with leaders of these ERTC.
3.6 International Technical Committees activities in Europe
TC´s on the international level were newly rearranged, with
new numbers, see ISSMGE Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 4,
December 2010. Technical Oversight Committee established
by ISSMGE president (chaired by Dr. S.Lacasse) presented 29
Technical Committees from which 15 have host country in
Europe. As the report for ISSMGE Council Meeting in Paris
about TC activities will be independent, only brief overview of
TC´s activities in Europe is presented even when they create
one of the most important activities in this region:
- 2010
- 5th Int. Conf. Unsaturated Soils –Barcelona, Spain;
- Inter. Conference Geotechnical Challenges in Megacities –
GeoMos2010-Moscow, Russia, 5 different TC.
- 7th Int. Conf. on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Zurich,
Switzerland
- TC40 Workshop on Failures, Disputes, Causes and Solutions
in Geotechnics; Budapest, Hungary
-2011
- 7th Int. Symp. Underground Construction in Soft Ground;
Roma, Italy
- 2nd Int. Symp. On Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo II);
Dubrovnik, Croatia;
- Railway Geotechnical Engineering; Paris, France;
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