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4.2
Toronto Meeting
A meeting of the Pan-American committee was organized in
Toronto during the 14th Pan-American Conference.
An important topic of this meeting was the presentation and
discussion of a new “Agreement for the Pan-American
Committee meeting”. This document was approved and is now
available on the ISSMGE website.
4.3
Cancun Meeting
To promote a wider participation of ISSMGE members in the
15th Pan-American Conference to be held in Buenos Aires in
2015, a special meeting of the Pan-American committee was
organized in Cancun, Mexico during the 26th SMIG National
meeting (November 14-16, 2012). This meeting, held on
November 14, was attended by delegates from several Member
Societies of the continent, namely: CGS (Canada), SAIG
(Argentina), SSG (El Salvador), ABMS (Brazil) and SCG
(Chile).
5
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
Category
TC #
TC Official
Name
TC Short
Name
Host
Country
TC Chair
Members Nominated
by TOC (4)
TOC
Liaison
Fundamentals
TC 102
Ground Property
Characterization from
in-situ tests
In-Situ Testing USA
P. Mayne
F. Schnaid (Brazil)
An-Bin Huang (Taiwan)
Tom Lunne (Norway)
John Powell (UK)
A. Wissa
Applications
TC 206
Interactive
Geotechnical design
Interactive
Design
Canada K. Been
Albert Ho (Hong Kong)
Dennis Becker (Canada)
G. Scarpetti (Italy)
Alain Pecker (France)
D. Jamiol-
kowski
TC 208
Stability of Natural
Slopes
Landslides
Canada J. Fannin
Lee, Seung Rae (S-Korea)
F. Nadim (Norway)
H.N. Wong (Hong Kong)
Denis Demers (Canada)
Hongsung
TC 209
Offshore Geotechnics Offshore
USA
P. Jeanjean
Chu, Yun Wook (S-Korea)
P.Watson (Australia)
K.H. Andersen (Norway)
R. Gilbert (USA)
S. Lacasse
TC 214
Foundation
Engineering for
Difficult Soft Soil
Conditions
Soft Soils
Mexico J.L. Rangel
Fritz Nowacki (Norway)
B. Indraratna (Australia)
J.P. Magnan (France)
Sherif Wissa
All committees have been working satisfactorily as described in
their reports to the Technical Oversight Committee TOC. Direct
information flow from TCs chairs to the North America V.P.
should be considered essential for a better coordination of their
activities in collaboration with the TOC.
ISSMGE TC 214 organized two successful workshops, one
of them during the “8th International Symposium on Land
Subsidence” on October 17th 2010 in Querétaro, Mexico. A
second workshop on “Extreme Soil Mechanics” was held on
May 23th, 2013 in D.F., Mexico, with participation of very
important international and national geotechnical engineers (D.
Hight, F. Mooser, J. J. Schmitter, E. Ovando, G. Auvinet, E.
Santoyo, W. Paniagua, J. L. Rangel, among others).
Acknowledgment is due to Dr. Patricia Lopez Acosta for her
assistance in the preparation of regional reports during this
period.
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