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th
International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
- 9
th
Int. Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in
Geomaterials, Porquerolles, France;
- 3
rd
Int. Symp. on Geotechnical Safety and Risk; Munich,
Germany;
- 11
th
Int. Conf. on Computational Plasticity, Barcelona, Spain;
- TC207 Workshop on Soil-structure Interaction and Retaining
Walls, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- 2012
- TC 203 – 2
nd
Int. Conf. on Performance-Based Design in
Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering; Taormina, Italy
- Int. Conf. on Geotechnical Eng. Education; Galway, Ireland,
- 6
th
Int. Conf. on Scour and Erosion; Paris, France
- TC 211 – Int. Symp. Ground Improvement; Brussels, Belgium
- 2
nd
Europ. Conf. on Unsaturated Soils – E-UNSAT2012 –
Napoli, Italy
- 7th International Conference on Offshore Site Investigation
and Geotechnics: Integrated Geotechnologies, Present and
Future
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London, United Kingdom, TC209.
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2013
- Second International Symposium on Geotechnical
Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic
Sites. Napoli, Italy, TC 301.
- TC215 ISSMGE - International Symposium on "Coupled
Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics (CPEG) - from
theoretical and experimental research to practical applications".
Torino, Italy, TC 215.
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CONCLUSION
When looking back and summarizing the most important
activities in Europe it is nearly unbelievable how many
activities were done by National Societies and by individual
members under the umbrella of ISSMGE. Positive statement is
that:
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Number of societies is going up;
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Differences between individual parts of Europe are
decreasing;
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There is a great interest from the side of young
geotechnical engineers;
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Enthusiasm to work mostly as volunteers in different
TC or ERTC is very high and has growing tendency.
On the other side we have still many steps in front of us
mainly connected with our effort to increase the prestige of our
profession. Nevertheless even there some very positive steps
forward were done. We have to speak on different levels about
our activities to receive a higher recognition. We have to speak
about the risk with which our profession is connected. We need
to speak about risk sharing as this sharing, or cooperation with
different partners which are involved in the design and
performance of geotechnical structures will help us to decrease
the risk with positive impact on our profession.
At the end of this report please allow me to express my deep
thanks for the chance to work and discuss with so many
professional colleagues. Many thanks for your support and help,
for your new ideas, which I had a chance to learn from you. It
was really a great experience for me. I will try to pass all these
experiences on new elected Vice-President of ISSMGE for
Europe – on Prof. Antonio Gens. I believe that you will support
him as well as me in his work and I wish him a great success.
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