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Conférence Advisory Committee/ Comité consultatif du congrès

Prof. Drh.c. M.B.Jamiolkowski, Chairman/ Président Prof. Dr Ir W. F. Van Impe Prof. S.Gulhati Prof. Dr-Ing. W.Wittke Prof. Dr-Ing. E.h. M. NuBbaumer DrR.H.G.Parry

Conference Advisory Board/ Organising Committee Bureau consultatif du congrès/ Comité d'organisation

Prof. Dr-Ing. W.Wittke, Chairman/ Président Dr-Ing. H.PDücker Prof. Dr-Ing. R. Floss Dipl.-Ing. K.D.Eschenburg Prof. Dr-Ing. Dr h.c. G.Gudehus Prof. Dr-Ing. Dr rer.pol. E. Heitkamp Prof. Dr Ir W. E Van Impe Prof. Drh.c. M.B.Jamiolkowski Dr-Ing. W. Leichnitz Dipl.-Ing. K.Lohrberg Prof. Dr R. Morgenstern Prof. Dr-Ing. E.h. M. Nußbaumer DrR. H.G.Parry Prof. H.G.Poulos Dipl.-Ing. D.Rappert Dr-Ing. J. Rappert Prof. Dr-Ing. W. Rodatz Dr-Ing. O. Franz Prof. Dipl.-Ing. D. Schröder Prof. Dr-Ing. Dr-Ing.E.h. U.Smoltczyk Dipl.-Ing. R.Thiel

XVII Conference program Programme du congrès

Time Table of the Scientific Conference Programme

Time Monday Tuesday Time Monday, September 8, 1997 8.9.97 9.9.97 09.30 - 11.30 h Opening Ceremony 8.00 8.00 Hall 2 8.30 8.30 ■ Musical opening of the ceremony performed by the 9.00 9.00 "Finkwarder Speeldeel", a renowned north German 9.30 Plenary Session 3 9.30 folkloristic group, acting at the same time as em­ Hall 2 10.00 10.00 bassadors for the city of Hamburg. Clad in their Opening Ceremony colourful national costumes, the singers and dancers 10.30 Hall 2 10.30 thrill their audience with their enchanting musical 11.00 11.00 performances. Discussion Session 11.30 11.30 1.1 2.1 3.1 ■ Welcome address by the Chairman of the Conference 12.00 Hall 4 6 2 12.00 "Terzaghi Oration" Advisory Board and Chairman of the DGGT, Prof. W ittke 12.30 12.30 Hall 2 Invited Lecture 1 13.00 Hall 2 13.00 ■ Address by the "Präses der Behörde für Wissenschaft 13.30 13.30 und Forschung" of the Free and Hanseatic City of 14.00 14.00 Hamburg, Senator Prof. Dr. Hajen 14.30 14.30 Plenary Session 1 ■ Address by the President of the "Hauptverband 15.00 15.00 Hall 2 Discussion Session der Deutschen Bauindustrie", Dr. Franz 15.30 15.30 1.2 2.2 3.2 16.00 Hall 4 6 2 16.00 ■ Welcome address, presentation of the Kevin-Nash Medal 16.30 16.30 and Award by the ISSMFE President, Prof. Jamiolkowski Plenary Session 2 17.00 17.00 Discussion Session Hall 2 ■ "Images of Hamburg", a slide presentation 17.30 1.3 2.3 7.1 17.30 18.00 Hall 4 2 6 18.00 12.00- 13.00h "Terzaghi Oration" 18.30 18.30 Hall 2 "Geotechnical Aspects of the 1995 Kobe Earth quake" 19.00 19.00 Chairman: Prof. Jamiolkowski (Italy) Welcome Reception Lecturer: Prof. Ishihara (Japan) 19.30 19.30 20.00 20.00 Foyer Hall 2 14.30 - 16.00 h Plenary Session 1 20.30 20.30 Hall 2 "Soil Testing and Ground Property Characterization” 21.00 21.00 Chairman: Dr. Valenzuela (Chile) Lecturer: Prof. Tatsuoka (Japan) Panelists: Dr. Jardine (UK) Tune Wednesday Thursday Time 10.9.97 11.9.97 Prof. Gens (Spain) Prof. Stokoe (USA) 8.00 8.00 830 8.30 16.30 - 18-00 h Plenary Session 2 Hall 2 "Recent Developments in Foundation Technique s" 9.00 9.00 Chairman: Prof. Smoltczyk (Germany) Plenary Session 4 9.30 Plenary Session 6 9.30 Lecturer: Prof. van Impe (Belgium) Hall 2 10.00 Hall 2 10.00 Panelists: Dr. Gwizdala (Poland) Prof. Duncan (USA) 10.30 10.30 Prof. Gudehus (Germany) 11.00 11.00 "Heritage" Lecture Plenary Session 5 11.30 Hall 2 11 3 0 19.00 - 21.00 h Welcome Reception Hall 2 12.00 1200 Foyer Hall 2 12.30 12.30 Invited Lecture 2 "Momentous" Lecture 13.00 Hall 2 Hall 2 13.00 13.30 13.30 Tuesday, September 9, 1997 14.00 14.00 09.00 - 10-30 h Plenary Session 3 14.30 14.30 Hall 2 "Retaining Structures and Eicavated Slopes" 15.00 15.00 Chairman: Dr. Martak (Austria) Discussion Session Discussion Session Lecturer: Prof. NuBbaumer (Germany) 15.30 15.30 4.1 4.2 5.1 6.1 6.2 6.3 Panelists: Dr, Cruden (Canada) 16.00 Hall 6 4 2 Hall 2 4 6 16.00 Prof. Komornik (Israel) 16.30 16.30 Dr. Martak (Austria) 17.00 17.00 Discussion Session 11.00 12.30 h Discussion Session 1.1 17.30 Final Ceremony 17.30 4.3 5.2 7.2 Hall 4 ' Recent Developments in Laboratory Stress-S train Testing Hall 2 18.00 Hall 4 2 6 18.00 in Geomaterials" Chairman: Prof. Ladd (USA) 18.30 18.30 Discussion Leader: Prof. Dobry (USA) 19.00 Reception by the Senate of 19.00 Panelists: Prof. Di Benedetto (France) 19.30 the Free and Hanseatic City 19.30 Prof. Graham (Canada) of Hamburg 20.00 20.00 Prof. Shibuya (Japan) Dr. Lo Presti (Italy) 20.30 Closing Banquet 20.30 21.00 21.00

XIX 11.00 • 12.30 h Discussion Session 2.1 12.30 • 13.30 h Invited Lecture 2 Hall 6 'Soil Structure Interaction for Shallow Foundations under Hall 2 "Underexcavation of Mexico City's Metropolitan Cath edral Static Dynamic Loadings" and Sagrario Church" Chairman: Prof. Togrol (Turky) Chairman: Dr. Milligan (Canada) Discussion Leader: Prof. Gazetas (Greece) Lecturer: Prof. Tamez (Mexico) Panelists: Prof. Rodatz (Germany) Dr. Pecker (France) 15.00 • 16.30 h Discussion Session 4.1 Dr. Steedman (UK) Hall 6 "Subsidence as related to various Tunnelling Prof. Anagnosti (Yugoslavia) Techniques" Chairman: Prof. Fujita (Japan) 11.00 • 12.30 h Discussion Session 3.1 Discussion Leader: Prof. Burland (UK) Hall 2 "Design, Construction and Performance of Anchored W alls Panelists: Dipl.-lng. Becker (Germany) and Strutted Excavations" Prof. Som (India) Chairman: Prof. van Weele (Netherlands) Prof. Perri (Venezuela) Discussion Leader: Mr. Karlsrud, M. Sc. (Norway) Prof. Zaretzky (Russia) Panelists: Prof. Whittle (USA) Dr. Malone (S.E. Asia) 15.00 • 16.30 h Discussion Session 4.2 Prof. MecSi (Hungary) Hall 4 "Performance and Monitoring of Underground W orks" Dr. Stocker (Germany) Chairman: Prof. Eisenstein (Canada) Discussion Leader: Prof. Sakurai (Japan) 12.30 • 13.30 h Invited Lecture 1 Panelists: Dr. Di Biaggio (Norway) Hall 2 "Geotechnical Aspects of the Great Belt Project and of the Prof. Ulrichs (Germany) Oeresund Projects" Prof. Shen (S.E. Asia) Chairman: Prof. Wittke (Germany) Dr. Viggiani (Italy) Lecturer : Prof. Krebs-Ovesen (Denmark) 15.00 • 16.30 h Discussion Session 5.1 15.00 • 16.30 h Discussion Session 1.2 Hall 2 "Deep-in-Place Mixing Methods including Jet-Groutin g" Hall 4 "Ground Property Characterization by means of in-Situ Chairman: Prof. Dembicki (Poland) Tests” Discussion Leader: Dr. Terashi (Japan) Chairwoman: Dr. Lacasse (Norway) Panelists: Prof. Anagnostopoulos (Greece) Discussion Leader: Prof. Robertson (Canada) Prof. M icucci (Argentina) Panelists: Dr. Schnaid (Brazil) Prof. W elsh (USA) Prof. Mayne (USA) Dr. Greenwood (UK) Dr. Fahey (Australia) Dr. Berrill (New Zealand) 17.00 • 18.30 h Discussion Session 4.3 Hall 4 "Soil Improvement for Tunnel W orks" Chairman: Prol. Stefanolf (Bulgaria) 15.00 • 16.30 h Diseussion Session 2.2 Discussion Leader: Dr. Steiner (Switzerland) Hall 6 "Design and Performance of Piled Rafts" Panelists: Prof. Stille (Sweden) Chairman: Prof. Hansbo (Sweden) Dipl.-lng. Seitz (Germany) Discussion Leader: Prof. Katzenbach (Germany) Dr. Kusakabe (Japan) Panelists: Prof. Randolph (Australia) Prof. Hou (China) Dr. Mets (Estonia) Prof. Kulhawy (USA) 17.00 - 18.30 h Discussion Session 5.2 Prof. Viggiani (Italy) Hall 2 "Use of Geosynthetics and Geotextiles in Geotechnic al Engineering" 15.00 • 16.30 h Discussion Session 3.2 Chairman: Dr. Gourc (France) Hall 2 "Large Excavations and Dewatering in Urban Environm ents” Discussion Leader: Prof. Floss (Germany) Chairman: Mr. Ervin (Australia) Panelists: Prof. Raymond (Canada) Discussion Leader: Prof. Barends (Netherlands) Mr. Rathmayer M.Sc. (Finland) Panelists: Dr. Carter (Australia) Dr. G.V. Rao (India) Dr. Chin (S.E. Asia) Prof. Holtz (USA) Dr. Bonnard (Switzerland) Dipl.-lng. Kirsch (Germany) 17.00 ■ 18.30 h W orkshop 7.2 Hall 6 "Professional Practice" 1 7.00 • 18.30 h Discussion Session 1.3 Chairman: Prof. Bogossian (Brazil) Hall 4 "Interplay between Physical and Numerical Models as Discussion Leader: Dr. Thorburn (UK) applied in Engineering Practice" Panelists: Prof. Escario (Spain) Chairman: Prof. Ilyichev (Russia) Dr. VardS (Argentina) Discussion Leader: Dr. Corte (France) Prof. NufSbaumer (Germany) Panelists: Dr. Taylor (UK) Prol. Iwasaki (Japan) Dr. Fioravante (Italy) Dr. V.V.S. Rao (India) Dr. Leung (S.E. Asia) Dr. Ajaz (Pakistan) Mr. van der Poel (Netherlands)

17.00 • 18.30 h Discussion Session 2.3 Hall 2 "Lim it States Coneept in Design of Foundations and Retaining Structures" Thursday, September 11, 1997 Chairman: Prof. Steenfelt (Denmark) Discussion Leader: Dr. Simpson (UK) 09.00 • 10.30 h Plenary Session 6 Panelists: Dr. Schneider (Switzerland) Hall 2 "W aste Disposal and Contaminated Sites" Mr. Day M.Sc. (South Africa) Chairman: Prof. Jessberger (Germany) Prof. Soriano (Spain) Lecturer: Prof. Daniel (USA) Dr. Frank (France) Panelists: Dr. Harden (Sweden) Dr. Stroh (Germany) 17.00 • 18.30 h W orkshop 7.1 Prof. Kamon (Japan) Hall 6 "Education in Geotechnical Engineering" Chairman: Prof. Oliveira (Portugal) 11.00 - 12.00 h "Heritage" Lecture Discussion Leader: Prof. Poulos (Australia) Hall 2 "State of the Art and Development of Geotechnical Panelists: Dr. Baguelin (France) Engineering in Germany" Prof. Gulhati (India) Chairman: Prof. van Impe (Belgium) Prof. El-Ghamrawy (Egypt) Lecturer : Prof. Wittke (Germany) Prof. Forster (Germany) Prof. Leroueil (Canada) 12.30 • 13.30 h "Momentous" Session Hall 2 Chairman: Prof. Morgenstern (Canada) Panelists: Prof. Brandl (Austria) Prof. 0 Neill (USA) W ednesday, September 10, 1997 Prof. Za-Chieh Moh (S.E. Asia) Prof. Hoeg (Norway) 09.00 - 10.30 h Plenary Session 4 Hall 2 "Underground W orks in Urban Environment" 15.00 - 16.30 h Discussion Session 6.1 Chairman: Prol. Kovari (Switzerland) Hall 2 "Pollutants Containment via Passive Barriers" Lecturer: Dr. Mair (UK) Chairman: Prof. Manoliu (Romania) Panelists: Prof. Barla (Italy) Discussion Leader: Dr. Manassero (Italy) Dipl.-lng. Stephan (Germany) Panelists: Dr. Shackleford (USA) Dr. Negro Junior (Brazil) Dr. Loxham (Netherlands) Dr. Santos (Spam) 11.00 • 12.30 h Plenary Session 5 Dr. Rappert (Germany) Hall 2 "Soil Improvement and Reinforcement" Chairman: Prof. Mitchell (USA) Lecturer: Prof. Schlosser (France) Panelists: Dr. Hanzawa (Japan) Prof. Juran (USA) Prof. Massarsch (Schweden)

xx 15.00 - 16.30 h Discussion Session 6.2 Hall 4 "Active Pollutant Control and Remediation of Contam inated Sites" Chairman: Dr. Mawlawi (Syria) Discussion Leader: Dr. Orr (Rep. Ireland) Panelists: Dr. Grubb (USA) Dr. Baumann (Denmark) Dr. Street (UK) Dr. Rowe (Canada)

15.00 16.30 h Discussion Session 6.3 Hall 6 "Dredging Sludge and Tailings Impoundments'" Chairman: Prof. Blight (South Africa) Discussion Leader: Prof. Troncoso (Chile) Panelists: Dr. Carrier (USA) Prof. De Mello (Brazil) Prof*W olski (Poland) Prof. Vaughan (UK)

17.00 10.30 h Final Ceremony Hall 2 ■ Closing and farewell address President 1SSMFE Prof. Jam iolkowski ■ Address incoming President ■ Presentations - XVth ICSMFE 2001, Istanbul, Prof. Togrol, Turkey - Illrd ICEG 1998, Lisbon, Dr. Seco e Pinto, Portug al - GEO ENG 2000, Melbourne, Mr. Ervin, Australia ■ Farewell Address, Chairman Conference Advisory Bo ard and Chairman of the DGGT, Prof. W ittke

XXI Sessions of the Technical Committees Séances des Commissions techniques

Sunday, September 7, 1997 TC-15 9.30 - 16.00 h Radisson SAS hotel, Hall Rostock Tuesday, September 9, 1997 TC-2 19.00 -21.00 h Hall 15 CCH TC-5 13.30 - 15.00 h Hall 13 CCH TC-6 18.00 - 21.00 h Hall 13 CCH TC-7 16.00 - 17.30 h Hall 14 CCH TC-8 17.30 - 19.00 h Hall 15 CCH TC-16 18.00 - 21.00 h Hall 14 CCH TC-17 15.30 -17.30 h Hall 15 CCH TC-22 16.30 - 18.00 h Hall 13 CCH TC-30 18.00 - 20.00 h Hall 11 CCH Wednesday, September 10, 1997 TC-4 18.00 - 21.30 h Radisson SAS hotel. Hall Lübeck TC-11 17.00 - 19.00 h Hall 13 CCH TC-13 14.00 - 17.00 h Hall 13 CCH TC-20 10.00 - 12.00 h Hall 14 CCH TC-24 18.00 - 21.00 h Hall 11 CCH TC-25 13.30 - 15.00 h Hall 14 CCH TC-28 19.00 - 21.00 h Hall 14 CCH JTC-18 1 7.00- 19.00 h Hall 14 CCH ERTC-1 15.00- 17.00 h Hall 14 CCH PCSMFE 19.00 - 21.00 h Hall 13 CCH Thursday , September 11, 1997 TC-29 14.00 - 16.00 h Hall 11 CCH

XXII The Opening Ceremony Cérémonie d’ouverture

From the left/ à partir de la gauche: Senator “ Präses der Gehörde für Wissenschaft und Forschung” o f the Free and Hanseatic City o f Hamburg/ de la ville libre et hanséatique de Hambourg Prof. Wittke, Chairman o f the German Society for Geotechnical Engineering and o f the Conference Advisory Board/ Organising Committee/ Président de la Société Géotechnique Allemande et du Bureau consultatif du congrès/ Comité d’organisation Mrs Wittke

Front row from the right/ premier rang, à partir de la droite: Prof. Wittke, Senator Hajen, Dr Franz, Prof. Jamiolkowski, Prof. Heitkamp, Prof. Van Impe, Dr Diicker, Prof. Nußbaumer

XXV The President o f the ISSM FE, Prof. Jamiolkowski giving his address Le Président de la SIM STF, Prof. Jamiolkowski dormant son allocution

Prof. Balasubramaniam receiving the Kevin-Nash Medal by Prof. Jamiolkowski Prof. Balasubramaniam reçoit la médaille Kevin-Nash des mains du Prof. Jamiolkowski

XXVI Musical opening by the folkloristic group “Finkwarder Speeldeel” Ouverture musicale par le groupe folklorique “ Finkwarder Speeldeel”

Prof. Wittke giving his welcome address and later on the Heritage Lecture Prof. Wittke prononçant son allocution de bienvenue et plus tard sa conférence du patrimoine

XXVII The Welcome Reception Réception de bienvenue

Prof. Wittke addressing the participants Prof. Wittke pendant une conférence devant l’assemblée

The “Good Ghosts” o f the ISSM FE, the Secretary General, Dr Parry and his secretary, Mrs Cobb and friends Les “ bons génies” de la SIM STF, le secrétaire général, Dr Parry et sa secrétaire, Mme Cobb et amis

XXVIII The Main Sessions Séances plénières

The main lecture hall Le grand amphithéâtre

ISSM G E President elect/ Le futur président de la SIM SG Prof. Ishihara giving the Terzaghi Oration “Geotechnical aspects o f the 1995 Kobe Earthquake” Prof. Ishihara prononçant l’hom mage à Terzaghi “ A spects géotechniques du tremblement de terre de K obé de 1995”

XXIX Kreb s-Ovese

Prof. Krebs-O vesen, Invited Lecturer/ Conférencier invité “Geotechnical aspects o f the Storebælt Project” “ A spects géotechniques du projet Storebælt”

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Prof. Tatsuoka

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Prof. Tatsuoka, Them e Lecturer, Plenary Session 1/ C onférencier du thème, Séance plénière 1 “ So il testing and ground property characterization” “ Essais de sols et caractérisation des propriétés d es sols”

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Prof. Van Impe, Them e Lecturer, Plenary Session 2/ C onférencier du thème, Séance plénière 2 “ Recent developments in foundation techniques” “ Développem ents récents des techniques de fondation ”

Prof. NuBbaumer, Them e Lecturer, Plenary Session 3/ Conférencier du thème, Séance plénière 3 “ Retaining structures and excavated slopes” “Soutènem ents et talus de déblais”

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6th ■ 12th September 1997

D r M air, Them e Lecturer, Plenary Session 4/ Conférencier du thèm e, Séance plénière 4 “ Bored tunnelling in the urban environm ent” “Tunnels forés dans un environnement urbain”

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Prof. Schlosser, Them e Lecturer, Plenary Session 5/ Conférencier du thèm e, Séance plénière 5 “A m élioration et renforcem ent des sols” “Soil improvement and reinforcem ent”

XXXII Prof. Daniel, Them e Lecturer, Plenary Session 61 Conférencier du thème, Séance plénière 6 “Critical issues for w aste containm ent in landfills and contam inated sites” “Problèm es critiques posés par le confinem ent des d échets dans les décharges et les sites contam inés”

Prof. Juran

A typical panel o f a Plenary Session, here Plenary Session 5 La tribune typique d ’une séance plénière, ici la séance n° 5

XXXIII Final Ceremony, Outgoing board members receiving documents of appreciation by the outgoing ISSMFE President Prof. Jamiolkowski Cérémonie de clôture, distribution des diplômes aux membres sortants du bureau par le professeur Jamiolkowski, président sortant de la SIMSTF

Prof. Morgenstern - Past President/ Ancien Président

Prof. Balasubramaniam - Vice President South East Asia/ Vice President pour I’Asie du Sud-Est

XXXIV Mr Ervin - Vice President Australasia/ Vice Président pour 1’Australasie

Prof. Van Impe - Vice Président Europe/ Vice Président pour l’Europe

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Mr. Valenzuela - Vice President South America/ Vice Président pour l’Amérique du Sud

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Dr Höeg

XXXVI Farewell to the outgoing board Adieu au bureau sortant

The outgoing President giving the ‘ISSMFE-hammer’ to the President elect, Prof. Ishihara Le Président sortant donnant le marteau de la SIM STF au futur Président, le Prof. Ishihara

XXXVII A stand of the poster sessions with author Un panneau à une session de posters avec un auteur

PHUIPP houmann

Technical exhibition Exposition technique

XXXVIII The reception by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the City Hall Réception par le Sénat de la ville libre et hanséatique de Hambourg à l’hôtel de ville

Dr Dücker, the representative o f the Senate giving his address Dr Dücker, le représentant du Senat prononçant son allocution

XXXIX Listening to the address of Dr Diicker On écoute l’allocution du Dr Diicker

Front row/ premier rang: Dr Diicker, Prof. Wittke, Mrs Wittke, Gen. Thiel

XL The Closing Banquet in the Chamber of Commerce Banquet de cloture a la Chambre de Commerce

The older and... Les plus anciens et

The younger generation o f geotechnical engineers and accompanying persons La jeune génération d'ingénieurs géotechniciens et les personnes accompagnantes

XLI Address to the opening ceremony Allocution à la cérémonie d’ouverture

W. Wittke - Chairman German Geotechnical Society Président de la Société Géotechnique Allemande

Senator, Ladies and Gentlem en, dear Guests and Colleagues!

A fter the folkloric introduction, w hich greatly imp ressed me, and for w hich I cordially thank the "Fin kenwärder Speeldel", may I cor­ dially w elcome you to the free and hanseatic city o f Hamburg in my capacity as Chairman o f the German Society for Geotechnical En­ gineering and as Chairman o f the Conference Advisory Board o f the XlV th International Conference on So il M echanics and Foundation Engineering. I really do appreciate that you have accepted our invitation to come to this w orld-open north German harbour city in order to attend the Conference. I also hope to meet your expectations concerning the scientific results o f this Conference as w ell as those con­ cerning Germany in its role as host o f the Conferen ce. You w ill have ample opportunity to get acquainted w ith this country w ithin the framew ork o f the post-conference tours if you have not already done so prior to this event.

1 especially w elcome the representative o f the free and hanseatic city o f Hamburg, the Head o f the Bureau for Science and Research, Senator Professor Hajen.

Ladies and Gentlem en, may I explain that a north Ge rman city-state - besides Hamburg, this also goes for Bremen - enjoys the status o f a federal state and that a senator in a city-state ranks equal w ith a m inister o f a federal state.

W elcom e, Senator, we are honoured to have you with us and w e are looking forward to your address.

I cordially w elcome

Prof. Jam iolkow ski,

President o f the "International Society for Soil M e chanics and Foundation Engineering" and the vice-presidents o f the ISSM FE:

• for Europe Prof. van Impe • for North America Dr. Milligan • for South America Mr. Valenzuela • for Africa Prof. El-Ghamraw y • for Asia Prof. Balasubramaniam • for Australia Mr. Ervin and the other members o f the ISSM FE-board as well as the former presidents:

• Prof. Peck (1969 - 1973) and • Prof. M orgenstem (1989 - 1994)

Prof. Kerisel, president from 1973 - 1977, will be w ith us on Thursday, the 11th o f September 97.

I also cordially w elcom e Prof. Osterberg who took p art in the 1st IC SM FE in 1936 and Prof. M eyerhof, N ova Scotia, who is a honorary member o f our society.

1 w elcome the members o f the board o f the D GGT und especially the president o f the association o f the German construction industry, Dr. Franz, towards whom I want to express my special thanks for his indefatigable support o f the confe rence, this in his capacity as a member o f the board o f the D GGT as well as in the aforementioned function. Thank you, Dr. Franz, you w ill address this audience and we are looking forw ard to it.

Ladies and Gentlem en, it is a great honour for us to host this conference for you. In spite o f the costs and the w ork involved, it has been a pleasure to organise this event.

W hen, in its day, we applied to host this conferenc e, w e did so thinking that the time w as ripe to hav e such a conference in a German-speaking country. It was here that Soil M ech anics and Foundation Engineering originated as an independent technical field. In addition, after the iron curtain came down in Europ e, our colleagues in central and east Europe as w ell as those from the former Soviet Union now have the chance to freely participate. W e, as Germans, feel that we have a special obligatio n tow ards our colleagues and I appreciate very much that I can w elcom e so many participants coming from those states. W e also know that your material possibilities are still insufficient and, in individual cases, w e have tried to improve this situation.

2035 I also greatly appreciate the fact that so many participants have found their w ay to Hamburg, com ing from Europe and from the far east, from across the A tlantic and from the sou thern hemisphere. Naturally, I also w elcom e those that had the shortest distance to cover, namely our compatriots. I fully understand that the limited possibility o f speaking our native language has somewhat made it dif­ ficult for you to decide to attend this conference, and, in some cases, it may have also induced some colleagues not to attend it. By moving a motion during the ISSM FE-council meeting, w e have tried to improve this situation by applying to also permit the language o f the hosting country o f the respective Society's Con ference. Ladies and Gentlem en, I already mentioned that our field o f engineering has been greatly shaped in the German-speaking coun­ tries. Based on this fact, w e have taken the liberty to present you w ith the booklet "Guidelines for Soil Engineering Research", dating from 1937, w hich cements this fact. I hope that as many o f you as possible can read this booklet or at least can make use o f the ample literary list o f references. W hen reading this booklet m yself, I w as surprised to find how up-to-date this 60-year-old guideline still is. You will probably com e to the same conclusion.

1 160 colleagues and 75 exhibitors com ing from all over the world w ill participate in this conference. A lthough the participation o f this conference is not com pletely up to our expectations, it is w ell attended. Possibly the w ide spectrum o f conferences offered w orld-wide plus the fact that the’’present situation o f the co nstruction industry leaves much to be desired, at least here in Europe, has had a dampen­ ing effect. The conference programme reflects all fields o f Soil M echanics and Foundation Engineering and surely is attractive. M ay 1 ex­ press my gratitude to you, Professor Jam iolkow ski, for having drawn up this programme w ith the support o f the vice president Europe, Prof. van Impe and Dr. Parry, and for having manned it w ith the "Persons on the Stage". It w as a pleasure to co-operate w ith you.

Ladies and Gentlem en, let me briefly explain to you how we here in Germany handle the subject o f Geote chnical Engineering and es­ pecially Soil M echanics and Foundation Engineering. Here only a short organisatorial aspect. Later on, I w ill explain in detail our heri­ tage in the "Heritage Lecture".

The "German Society for Geotechnical Engineering" d isposes o f 6 different special chapters:

• Soil Mechanics • Foundation Engineering • Rock Mechanics • Engineering Geology • Geosynthetics in Geotechnics • Sanitary Landfills and W aste Disposals

M embers o f these special chapters are simultaneously members o f the corresponding international societies (ISSM FE, ISRM , IA EG, IGS).

The DGGT disposes o f 39 working groups. These group s elaborate recommendations and guidelines for the state-of-the-art top­ ics o f our special technical field. They also co-op erate w ith the drafting o f national and internation al norms. You surely noticed the list o f recommendations contained in your conference documents. The "German Society for Geotechnical Engineering" (D GGT) hosts the national biennial convention "Baugrundtagung", cover­ ing the entire field o f Geotechnical Engineering. T his convention has meanw hile developed into a great specialized event in Germany. In 1996 in Berlin we were able to w elcom e 1 500 partic ipants and 60 exhibitors. The special chapters o f the D G G T also host biennially their own symposia, w hich have become well known beyond the German borders. Our society has more than 1 500 personal members, p lus corporate members com ing from consulting firms, construction com­ panies and the authorities. This im plies that next to the United States w e are the second-largest memb er society o f the ISSM FE.

I w ish you all very pleasant days here in Hamburg w ith lots o f technical information but, m ost o f all, lots o f personal encounters to in­ tensify our w orld-w ide relationship.

Senator Hajen, may I ask you now to address the aud ience in the name o f the free and hanseatic city o f Hamburg.

?036 Address to the opening ceremony Allocution à la cérémonie d’ouverture

Leonhard Hajen - Scientific Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City o f Hamburg, Germany Sénateur Scientifique de la Ville Libre et Hanséatique de Hambourg

Ladies and Gentlemen!

I really appreciate to be able to welcome you on behalf of the Senate o f the free- and hanseatic city o f Hamburg.

Hamburg is a popular place for venues for international conventions. When considering the topics and programmes o f your Conference, our city is really destined as a place for the exchange o f thoughts by researchers and practitioners in the area of soil mechanics and foundation engineering. This so, as you here, in the centre o f Hamburg, are surrounded by buildings, the construction o f which has been a real challenge for centuries for construction planners and executioners alike and which, to this day, remain to be a challenge for maintenance by you. As examples for historical buildings, to name but a few, there is the "Hamburg Speicherstadt" (Hamburg warehouse centre) and the Hamburg town hall, which has been built more than a hundred years ago, erected on thousands o f oak piles. The rest o f the centre o f Hamburg had to be made "construction-ready" by means o f fills, locks and pier walls.

This is why I do hope that - in spite o f the full programme that you are having - you will have the possibility to take part in excursions. Besides the beauty o f the city, you will also get to know Hamburg's world openess.

Also today, a city that is situated near or within waters, offers challenges o f a special kind for researchers, practitioners and constructors, working in the field o f geotechnical engineering. There is no need to go from Hamburg to Berlin's Potsdamer Platz to visit the "construction site o f this century" - the Elbtunnel and the site of the fourth pipe are right in front o f your doorstep.

The Hamburgers have baptised their unique shield tunneling machine "Trude" - an abbreviation for deep underneath the Elbe river".

In any case, the project Elbtunnel is a succesful liaison between research and practise. After long years o f planning, trials are presently being carried out to shed some light into the darkness by means o f seismic sound waves, i.e., to sound the depth o f rock segments right in front o f the shield tunneling machine. When dealing with this project, we can't work according to the old miner's rule that "it 's pitch black in front o f the pick hammer". Although we are dealing here with a new method, learning by doing for such a project is only applicable within a very limited range and we depend all the more on designs and calculations.

We people here in the north are living behind dikes. People living in this region always knew that their lives depended on the stability of dikes. Science and research have opened up boundless possibilities to the technicians, but we should go on being humble in the face o f the powers o f nature. To be able to recognise these and to be able to master them is the challenge the technicians are facing.

In the truest meaning o f its sense, your work is o f fundamental importance for the living-together o f people. In the field o f sanitary landfills and waste disposals it is your work that makes life worthwhile again in certain areas.

I wish you all very pleasant days here in Hamburg, especially so a lot o f interesting conversations and lectures as well as incentives from the specific field o f the surroundings o f our city which might serve you for your future tasks o f research and practise.

2037 Address to the opening ceremony Allocution à la cérémonie d’ouverture

Otmar Franz - President of the Central Bureau of the German Construction Industry Président du Bureau Central du Bâtiment Allemand

Dear Professor W ittke, dear Senator H ajen, dear Pro fessor Jam iolkow ski, ladies and Gentlem en!

On behalf o f the Board o f the Central Bureau o f the Germ an Construction Industry I w ish you all the ve ry best for the "XlV th International Conference on Soil M echanics and Foun dation Engineering".

I really appreciate that this convention is being h eld in Germ any in spite of, or perhaps because of, the challenges the Germ an construction industry is facing at the moment. The Germ an construction industry is presently struggling w ith econom ical and structural problem s, but, w hat is far m ore important are the chances that the future holds, especially so for foundation enginee ring.

The Germ an reunification and the opening-up o f the east, the opening-up tow ards Central- and Eastern E urope totally changed the form er situation.

Starting on the 1st o f January' 1999, the European integration w ill be irreversible by creating the ec onom ic- and monetary union (EM U). W e may and w e have to assume that the countries o f the European Union w ill create a functioning intern al European market. A s long as European history exists, Germ any had been surrounde d by enem ies and had been involved in w ars; now it is situated w ithin neighbouring countries w ith w hich it m aintains a closely-knit friendship. The volume o f goods exchanged betw een the se countries w ill greatly increase. The existing infrastructure for such an increase is totally insufficient. How w ill you be able to go from Stockholm to Rom e, from Paris to W arshaw , from London to Prague w ithout passing thro ugh Europe's m ost important transit country?

Given the fact that public spending w orks on a shoe string budget now plus the exorbitant sums needed f or the infrastructure and especially so for the infrastructure o f the eastern- and w este rn links, innovations w ill be o f paramount importan ce. This does not only go for German innovations, but also for other European countries and other continents.

The fourth Elbe tunnel tube here in Hamburg has already been mentioned. A s the Federal M inister for Traffic, M r. W issm ann, already stressed ten days ago on the occasion o f the inaugu ration o f the shield tunneling installation, this p roject signifies an outstanding exam ple for the innovative construction industry. The tunne lling o f the river Elbe w ill be carried out by usin g the largest shield tunneling m achine w orldw ide in operation, w ith a diam eter o f 14,20m , its w eight being 2 300 tons. The daily drifting perform ance is 6m , clearing 900 m 3 o f sands, local muddy sands, m arl, clay and coarse gravel. The shield tunneling m achine drifts underneath the Elbe in a depth o f up to 24m . It must bear a w ater pressure o f up to 50m w ater co lum n. It is easy to be seen how many w orkers w ould have been needed thirty, fifty or even a hundred years ago to be able to carry out su ch an enorm ous task.

On the other hand, this highly necessary project co uld not have been financed from public spending sin ce the total costs o f this tube amount to more than 880 m illion German marks. By creating a concession m odel, it was made possible to obtain the financing by a private bank consortium . The private pre-financing has been carried out based on an innovative financial model.

This is only a sm all exam ple. During the technical excursions you w ill have the opportunity to visit m any innovative projects and the lectures and w orkshops w ill give you very interesting incentives.

The Germ an construction industry expects a new impe tus from this congress to m aster forthcom ing new ta sks. Our thanks go out to those who largely contributed to achieving this goal.

I w ish you all and ourselves very interestering day s here in Hamburg, greeting you w ith a

Good Luck!

2039 Welcome address Allocution de bienvenue

M.B.Jamiolkowski - President o f ISSMFE, and Professor at the Technical University o f Torino, Italy Président de la SIMSTF et professeur à /’Université Polytechnique de Turin

Mr. Chairman, participants in the Conference, accom panying per­ 1. The organization o f Conferences and Symposia, the most significant sons, dear friends and Colleagues. o f which are: I have accepted with great pleasure Prof. W ittke's invitation to de­ — International Conferences on SM FE: this present venue is the X IV liver a W elcome Address at this X IV IC SM FE Opening Session. event. Since January 1994 when, at the X III IC SM FE in N ew Delhi, the — Regional Conferences on SM FE, each devoted to the status o f our present Board took over its office the time has flo w n by and we are discipline in the five continents. now ready to pass the office to the President Elect and to the new Board. Since 1994 our Society has been organizing on a bi-year basis the The actual Board w as given in trust a vigorous, lively Society that International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG). The in the same healthy condition is to be transferred to our successors. first venue w as held in Edmonton (Canada) and the second in Osaka (Japan). The third one is scheduled for September 1998 in Lisbon The present ISSM FE status can be summarised as follows: (Portugal), after which IC EG ’ s will be held on a fo ur-year basis, in the 1. Our Society with its 70 M ember Societies and almost seventeen thou­ mid-term betw een the tw o subsequent IC SM G E’s.

sand Members, is the largest Learned Society operating in the field o f Recently, the ISSM FE Board has acknow ledged the IC EG ’s to have geomechanics. the same importance as our International Conferences, giving them the 2. Recently, a worthy initiative has been undertaken jointly by the French same statute and organization rules. This clearly show s the meaning that and the Belgium M ember Societies to promote the creation o f the the Board and the Council ascribe to the contribution o f our Society in African Transnational Society o f Geotechnique (Comité Transnational the field o f environmental engineering. This multidisciplinary area o f great de Geotechnique d’Afrique) involving tw elve French speaking coun­ social and political relevance opens immense prospect for geotechnical tries. This move will, hopefully, stimulate the participation o f other engineers both in practice and in research African countries in the ISSM FE activities. A t present, only nine out — In addition to the above venues, generally multi-thematic, Interna­ o f the 52 A frican countries are affiliated with ISSMFE. tional Conferences and Symposia devoted to subjects o f more con­ fined topics are also held. Usually, they are organized by Interna­ 3. At the ISSM FE Council Meeting held before this C onference, the tional or Regional Technical Committees or by National Member So­ name o f our Society was changed, with a unanimous vote, into Inter­ cieties and are sponsored by ISSM G E. national Society for Soil M echanics and Geotechnical Engineering (So ciété International de Mechanique des Soils et de Geotechnique): How ever, despite such positive outlook, the incoming President and ISSM G E. This new name combines our glorious heritage (Soil Me­ Board will need all your support and w isdom in reco nsidering the future chanics) with a more accurate view o f our present p rofessional ac­ o f Conferences and Symposia that our Society organises or sponsors. tivities, and optimises a number o f conflicting requirements such as: Basically the key problems related to the organization o f our venues can — reflecting the role that the members play in the world o f modem engi­ be summarized as follow s: neering disciplines; — The frequent overlapping o f venues causes a w aste o f synergies — incorporating new areas o f our activity e.g. environmental geotechnique; W ith this respect there is an urgent need for a better co-ordination — giving due consideration to our Sister Societies [ISRM , IA EG and within ISSM G E and Sister Societies (IA EGE, ISRM ). their area ofinterest (otherw ise, an obvious choice would have been — It is high time the format and the effectiveness o f our International and International Society for Geotechnical Engineering)]; Regional Conferences be changed. — preventing the springing up o f new International Societies, Associa­ — New rules and procedures should,be established fo r the granting o f tions, etc., filling the voids left by our previous name. ISSM G E sponsorship to Conferences and Symposia organized by others. I have therefore an optimistic outlook on the future o f our Society. One o f the problems that the new Board and the President Elect Moreover, the problem o f the costing connected to the participation should examine with this respect is that many M ember Societies differ­ in o ur Co nferences is, in my opinion, the real burning question, especially entiate their National from International M embers w ith only the latter as far as young engineers and delegates from develo ping countries are ones associated with ISSM G E. This problem might pro duce some dis­ concerned. parities in the duties but no t in the rights o f the tw o categories and might, The initiative o f holding Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference in future, restrict the grow th o f our Society. I believe that this question (YG EC ) has been continued and has grow n stronger during this Board s’ should be carefully examined and in some way regulated by the incoming term. This successful ISSM FE undertaking, organized on Regional ba­ Board. sis, has already been held in all the five ISSM G E Regions. In Europe the Aside from that, we have all the chances to grow if w e can seize YG EC is being organized every year. the new development course conforming to the progressing o f engineer­ Eligible to participate in each YG EC are one or tw o young research­ ing areas within our competence. ers designated by each National M ember Society and belonging to a given region. At each YG EC three to four senior researchers selected A s a Learned Society our main duties have been so far the following: by the regional Vice-President in co-operation with the organizing Com­

2041 mittee also take part. Their ro le is to act as tuto rs to stimulate the discus­ and o f their role is worthwhile to be continued. Co -operation with them sion and the exchange o f experience among young geo technical engi­ can bring our activities closer to the needs o f the International Commu­ neers after the presentations o f their researches. nity and can be o f help in many o f our technical and educational activi­ The YG EC ’s have become an effective way o f exchanging experi­ ties. How ever, the problem is to find new forms o f interaction with the ence among young ISSM G E Members and also an opportunity to intro­ C M ’s, making the active participation in the ISSM G E’s activities more duce them to our International Community attractive. W ithin this framew ork, the feasibility ofthe following initia­ This initiative is to be continued and, if appropriate, even expanded. tives might be explored: On request, ISSM G E is ready to support financially the YG EC’s 1. The participation o f a C M ’s representative in the Board and Council organization in each region with a donation o f up to 2000 GBP. M eetings as an observer. 2. Lectures and courses in developing countries delivered jointly by 2. Another important ISSM G E activity worth being mentioned and fos­ senior ISSM G E Members and C M ’s representatives and supported tered is related to our International Technical Com mittees (TC). by CM ’s fund. At present, w e have 28 TC ’s. W ith respect to the situation inher­ 3. Special Sessions and Discussion Sessions at International and Re­ ited from the previous Board the follow ing changes have been intro­ gional Conferences to be organized and run by a gro up o f CMs. duced: Our Society has restored and undertaken on a large scale the Model — Three new TC ’s have been established: Library (M L) initiative. This time, thanks also to the courtesy o f the F rench TC 29: Stress-Strain Testing o f Geomaterials in Laboratory, Member Society, to a number ofUniversities and Acad emic Institutions TC 30: Coastal Geotechnical Engineering, all around the w orld, both an English and a French version, have been TC 31: Education in Geotechnical Engineering. donated. — Moreover, the following merging operations between existing Com­ mittees have been made; TC 3 (Arid Soils) and TC 6 (Expansive Soils have been merged into Table 1: ISSM FE model library, English version, year 1995 TC 6 Unsaturated Soils, (25 sets have been donated) TC 16 (Penetration Testing) and TC 27 (Pressuremeter Testing) have 1 - Foundam entals of Soil Behaviour, f.K. Mitchell, 2ndedit. been merged into TC 16 Ground Property Characterization from In 2 - Soil M echanics,R.F. C raig, 5,h edit. Situ Tests. — Finally, TC 18 (Pile Driving) has been transformed into Pile Founda­ 3 - Soil M echanics, Solutions M anual, R.F. C raig, 5 th edit. tion, w idening its task substantially. 4 - Soil M echanics in Engineering Practice, K. Terzaghi, R. Peck and G. M esri The ISSM G E TC activities cover almost all the strategic areas o f the Foundation Design and Construction, modem geotechnical engineering. M ost o f them have been very active 5 - M.J. Tomlinson, 6 th edit.______during the last four years organizing meetings, special symposia and pre­ paring technical reports. Such activities have resulted in relevant benefits 6 - Piling Engineering, W.K.G. Fleming, A.}. Weltman, to the research, the design and the construction within our field. M.F. Randolph and W.K. Elson, 2nd edit._____ I trust that the incoming President and Board, after looking into the 7 - M ohr Circles, Stress Paths and Geotechnics, p resent T C ’ s situation w ill ju d g e that m o st o f them should be continued. R.H.G. P arry______

Obviously, updated terms o f reference will be required to project the 8 - W aste Containm ent System s, W aste Stabilization and ISSM G E TC tasks to the year 2001. Land fills, H.D. Sharma and S.P. Lewis Our Society recognises the importance o f an effective and friendly co-operation with the Sister Societies: International A ssociation for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IA EG ) and International Table 2: ISSM FE model library, French version, year 1995 Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM ). (25 sets have been donated) The outgoing Board, on October 1995, promoted a meeting among 1 - Elem énts de M echanique des Sols, F. Schlosser the Presidents and the Secretaries General o f the three Sister Societies, which w as held in Cambridge (UK). During the meeting, the following 2 - A ide-M ém oire d'H ydraulique Souterraine, M . Cassan deliberations w ere taken: 1. A meeting o f the three Presidents should be held every tw o years. 3 - Fondations et Soutènem ents, auteurs m ultiples 2. A yearly meeting o f the Secretaries General is to be organized. 4 - Introduction à la Géotechnique,B. H o ltz and W . Kovacs 3. The three Sister Societies have decided to organize, jointly, an Inter­ national Conference on Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 5 - M anuel Canadien de Géotechnique, Société Canadien G EO -2000 which will be held in Melbourne in November o f the year d'Ingeniérié des Fondations

2000 . 4. The importance o f co-ordinating dates and topics o f the main Con­ ferences organized by the Sisters Societies has been recognized. The way and rules to pursue this objective have to be set at the next Table 3: Recipients* o f ISSM FE model library meeting o f the Presidents and Secretaries General. FRENCH VERSION ENGLISH VERSION 5. The co-operation among the three Societies has been determined,

and, for the time being, will involve the possibility for each Society to A lgeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, appoint its ow n representative who will participate, as a liaison of­ Central A frika Republic, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, ficer, in the other tw o Societies TC ’s activities. Cam erún, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Estonia, India, Kazakistan, Guinea, M adagascar, M ali, Lithuania, N epal, N igeria, A nother important initiative, undertaken by the previous Board and M arocco, M auritius Isl., Paraguay, Peru, Rom ania, continued by the outgoing one, is the recruitment o f corporate Members Senegal, Tchad, Togo, Tunisia, Russia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, (CM ) and their interaction with ISSM G E. At present our Society has 25 Congo (Zaire). Sudan CM ’s w hose contributions have raised funds o f 18,000 GBP, used to support activities related to the extraordinary bud get, particularly for the *To some countries more than one set has been donated YG EC ’s and the Model Library.

Certainly, the consolidation and the expansion o f the number o f CM ’s

2042 The compositions o f the English and French versions o f the M L’s are - Explore all the means to reduce, or at least keep constant, the present given in tables 1 and 2, respectively, while table 3 reports the list o f costs o f running our Society. recipients. The ceremony o f donation consisted in handing the set o f - Raise, possibly selectively and moderately the ISSM GE Member books and a special plaque to the recipient. A representative o f ISSM FE Societies fee. W ith this respect, it should be noted that the present was present. Figs. 1 and 2 respectively, show the facsimiles o f the Eng­ fee has been set in 1992. lish and the French M L plaques. I trust that the M L initiative is pursued, keeping its composition con­ - Attract more Corporate Members whose funds are o f great help in tinuously updated. supporting the Society activity related to the extraordinary budget. In the last years ISSM FE has shown a particular attention to the youth and to topics strictly interrelated with them, such as the education A t the conclusion o f my talk I apologize for any excessive red tape in geotechnical engineering. This has resulted in the creation and the sub­ involved, I did not mean to be too official. Nevertheless, I once more sequent activities o f the TC -31, chaired by Prof. H. Poulos, who has want to point out that ISSM G E, while approaching the third millennium co-operated closely with the task force on educatio n set up by the out­ is a healthy, Learned Society that must strive against a number o f prob­ going Board. This important activity is reflected in the fact that, at every lems on w hose solution might strongly depend our destiny important venue o f our Society, special w orkshops o r discussion ses­ A t this point it is my duty and great pleasure to express my heartfelt sions have been organized covering problems such as objectives, pre­ thanks and sincere appreciation to the Members o f the outgoing Board requisites, undergraduate and graduate curricula, p ost-graduate pro­ and to the Secretary General for the effective w ork we did together, grammes and professional training in the area o f geotechnical engineer­ always performed in a friendly atmosphere and my best w ishes for a ing. successful and rewarding w ork to the President Elect and the incoming I hope that at the incoming venues like regional co nferences, ICEG Board during the term 1997-2001 III in Lisbon, X V IC SM G E in Istanbul and G EO -2000 in Melbourne To you all I wish an enjoyable Conference and a lov ely time in the the initiative will also be undertaken to influence in a positive manner the fascinating city o f Hamburg. evolution o f geotechnical engineering education. A nother initiative undertaken by the outgoing Board w ithin this field is the feasibility o f setting up a Soil M echanics Heritage Museum as a tes­ INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SOIL MECHANICS timony o f our legacy and aimed at fostering the interest o f students and AND FOUNDATION ENGINEERING young geotechnical engineers in our discipline. The objective o f this initiative brought to the Board by Prof. W. Van Impe is to collect laboratory, field and educational apparatuses used in ISSMFE ^ SIMSTF the past in soil mechanics. The incoming President and Board will have the task to confirm the positive attitude o f the IS SM G E with respect to MODEL LIBRARY the Heritage Museum and to define the initial and running costs as well as to select the host country. 1996 Coming to the end o f my presentation I would like to express my RECIPIENT NAME : optimistic view about the future development o f our Society W e are requested to make Geotechnical Engineering continuously progressing, to be able to meet the new demands o f the third millennium global Soci­ Donation of these books has been made possible through ety. Such a goal will require from ISSM GE a comprehensive and funds accruing from ISSMFE Corporate member continuos fulfilment o fthe following objectives: subscriptions and the generosity of the publisher 1. Divulgate the know ledge in geotechnical engineering and reduce the gap betw een research and applications. CORPORATE MEMBERS NAMES:______2. M ake every possible effort for a better involvement o f growing coun­ tries in the ISSM G E activities. PUBLISHERS NAMES: 3. Intensify the co-operation with Sister Societies, pursuing a possible, future merging. Fig. 1: Plaque o f English version o f the model library

Overall, w e must do our best to become more beneficial and attrac­ tive to the components o f a globalized society Such activities, as well as other new ones that our Society may un­ SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE DE MÉCANIQUE DES SOLS dertake in the future, require a good image, organization, co-operation ET DES TRAVAUX DE FONDATION and the support o f all our M ember Societies, in addition to funds, which is the next issue I will address. ISSMFE ( SIMSTF The ISSM G E financial situation appears at present satisfactory and may be summarized as follow s, referring to the ISSM FE 1996 budget: - ordinary budget, surplus 27,200 GBP BIBLIOTHEQUE DE GEOTECHNIQUE - extraordinary budget, deficit 4,600 GBP 1996 - accumulated surplus 382,104 GBP. OFFERTE à RÉCIPIENDAIRE : How ever, in future such situation can w orsen in relation to the planned expansion o fthe ISSM G E activities, especially those related to the ex­ traordinary budget, i.e. ISSM G E news, YG EC ’s, Model Library, etc. La donation de ces livres a été possible grâce aux fonds which are essential to the Geotechnical Community and to the image o f recueillis avec les souscriptions des membres bienfaiteurs our Society. Other possible causes for a downtrend in the accumulated de la ISSMFE et grâce à la générosité de l'éditeur surplus can arise from a decrease o f the income fro m Conferences (ICSM GE, ICEG) and currency fluctuation keeping in mind that fees MEMBRES BIENFAITEURS:______are paid in SFR. while expenses are in GBP. ÉDITEURS: In order to counterbalance such a possible adverse financial scenario the follow ing steps can be undertaken: Fig. 2: Plaque o f French version o f the model library

2043 Closing and farewell address Discours de clôture et d’adieu

Walter Wittke - Chairman of the German Geotechnical Society Président de la Société Géotechnique Allemande

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Now we have come to the end of our Conference. We have been having eventful days which offered an excellent programme, marked by a high scientific standard.

We will be having the reception by the Senate of the free and hanseatic city of Hamburg at the town hall and the closing banquet at the chamber-of-commerce. I am very much looking forward to both events.

We will also have the excursion to Berlin and to the river Rhine as well as the ones here in Hamburg. These will round-off and phase-out our successful Conference.

Prof. Jamiolkowski, let me give my thanks to you for the excellent programme of this Conference which you, with the support of Prof. van Impe and Dr. Parry, created and which was manned by you with excellent "Persons on the Stage".

I also want to give my thanks to you, gentlemen, who have accepted the invitation to act as invited lecturers, chairmen, theme lecturers, discussion leaders and panellists and who have greatly helped to shape this Conference. You have plainly succeeded in presenting our entire specific scientific field of engineering and in deepening it by discussions. We all, who work in the field of research, lecture and as practitioners shall profit from the results.

And let me give my thanks to all of you who participated in this Conference by contributing with your discussions and who came the long way to Hamburg.

I give my thanks to the organisers of this event, this especially so to CPO Hanser Service. Your team has done an excellent performance, Mr. Hanser.

My thanks go out to the Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH) for the disposal of these facilities in which we were completely at our ease.

Let me also say "thank you" to the students, coming from the technical university of our colleague, Prof. Rodatz in Brunswick, for giving such an admirable support in their diverse functions. They have done an excellent job and I do hope that they, too, will have profited from the knowledge gained during this Conference for their future employments.

And I especially want to thank the interpreters, headed by the chief-interpreter, Mrs Braunstein. Just like many of my colleagues, I had the opportunity to verify the excellency of the simultaneous translations of the lectures and discussion sessions. Thank you, ladies and gen­ tlemen, in your interpreter's cabins.

And, last but not least, I should like to cordially thank the General Secretary of our Society, Mr. Thiel, and the ladies and gentlemen of the DGGT-offices for the efficient preparation of the Conference. Mr. Thiel is a retired General of the German Army. Thanks a lot, Mr. Thiel.

Ladies and gentlemen, with these last words I will close this Conference. I wish you all very pleasant days and experiences here in Germany and, after that, a nice trip home! Thank you very much!

2619 Minutes of the Council Meeting of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering held in The Nile Hilton Hotel, Cairo, Egypt Procès verbal de la réunion du conseil de la Société Internationale de Mécanique des Sols et des Travaux de Fondation tenue à l’hôtel Hilton du Nil au Caire

10 December, 1995 0830 - 1230 hrs 1400 - 1800 hrs PRESENT : Prof M Jamiolkowski _ ISSMFE President Prof M K El-Ghamrawy - ISSMFE Vice-President Africa Mr M C Ervin - ISSMFE Vice-President Australasia Prof W F Van Impe - ISSMFE Vice-President Europe Prof L Valenzuela - ISSMFE Vice-President South America Mr V Milligan - ISSMFE Vice-President North America Prof T Kimura - Board Member Prof F Schlosser - Board Member Dr R H G Parry - Secretary General ISSMFE Prof S Sakurai _ President ISRM Prof P Marinos - President IAEG Mr R Termaat - Chairman ISSMFE TCI5 on Peat

Member Society Voting Member Non-Voting Member Argentina Prof Luis A P Valenzuela* Australia Prof Mark Randolph Austria Prof E Dembicki* Bangladesh Belgium Prof W F Van Impe* Bolivia Brazil Dr Sussumu Niyama Prof Marcus P Pacheco Bulgaria Prof W F Van Impe* Canada Mr John L Seychuk Chile Prof Luis A P Valenzuela* China Dr Sung Wan Hong* Colombia Prof Luis A P Valenzuela* Costa Rica Croatia Prof F Schlosser* Czech & Slovak R's Prof Ivan Vanicek Denmark Prof Jergen Steenfelt Ecuador Prof Luis A P Valenzuela* Egypt Prof F M El-Nahhas Prof A H El-Ramli Estonia Finland Mr Hans Rathmayer France M. Michel Londez M. Samuel Amar Germany Prof W F Van Impe* Ghana Greece Dr S Cavounidis Hungary Dr J6zsef Mecsi Iceland Prof Jorgen Steenfelt* India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Mr Carl Redel Dr Arnon Harash Italy Prof W F Van Impe* Japan Prof Osamu Kusakabe Kenya Korea R Dr Sung Wan Hong Dr Sooil Kim Latvia Lithuania Mexico Ing Guillermo Springall Morocco Mr Ejjaaouani Nepal Netherlands Mr Beetstra Mr F B J Barends New Zealand Mr Max Ervin* Nigeria Norway Mr Hans Rathmayer*

2651 Pakistan Dr Ooi Teik Aun* Paraguay Dr Sussumu Niyama* Peru Poland Prof E Dembicki Portugal Prof C Dagamar Romania Prof Ion Stanculescu Prof Iacint Manoliu Russia Slovenia Mr Janko Logar Mr Bojan Majes South Africa Dr K Schwartz S E Asia Dr Ooi Teik Aun Spain Prof S Uriel Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Mr Bo Berggren Switzerland Dr Ergun Togrol* Syria Tunisia Turkey Dr Ergun Togrol Mr ufuk Ergun U K Dr Hugh St John USA Dr Ronald E Smith Mr Harvey E Wahls Venezuela Dr Sussumu Niyama * Vietnam Prof Tsutomu Kimura* Yugoslavia Z imbabwe * denotes Proxy Vote APOLOGIES: Prof N R Morgenstern Past President ISSMFE Prof A S Balasubramaniam ISSMFE Vice-President Asia Dr Kaare Höeg Board Member Prof M Fukuoka ISSMFE Past President Prof N Krebs Ovesen Danish Geotechnical Institute Mr Hans L Jessberger Chairman TC5 on Environmental Geotechnics Mr D W Hight Chairman TC24 on Soil Sampling Mr R Jewell Chairman TC26 on Calcareous Sediments Dr Sam Thorburn Chairman TC20 on Professional Practice

INTRODUCTION REGIONAL REPORTS BY VICE-PRESIDENTS

1. The President opened the meeting at 8.45 am and 4. Brief summaries of their Regional Reports were given by welcomed Member Society delegates and invited the Vice-Presidents (Appendix 2A-F). participants. He welcomed particularly the presence o f 5. Mr Valenzuela reported that South America now had 10 Professor P Marinos, President of IAEG, and Professor Member Societies of ISSMFE, 9 of which also Sakurai, President of ISRM. represented ISRM. It was likely that Uruguay would also be applying for membership soon. The 10th Panam QUORUM Conference in Guadalahara had been a success and the Regional Council Meeting held in Guadalahara had 2. A roll call at the start of the meeting showed 26 voting decided that the 11th Panam Conference should be held delegates to be present and 19 proxy votes. As 50 in Brazil with support from Argentina and Paraguay. Member Societies were entitled to vote the requirem ent South America had two Regional Technical Committees, under statute 12K that one-third, that is 17 voting on Landslides, hosted by Colombia, and on Weak delegates, should be present for general business w as Rocks, in which Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay were met. The meeting was not quorate for voting on changes active members. It had been agreed by nine of the South of statutes, as statute 12K requires that at least two-thirds American Member Societies to revive the Regional of Member Societies entitled to vote should have Journal "Solos y Rochas", to be produced in Brazil in delegates present. By-law 121 states that proxy votes Spanish, Portuguese and English. cannot be counted towards a quorum. 6. Although North America had only three Member MEMBERSHIP Societies, Dr Milligan pointed out that these represented 4600 members of ISSMFE, a number which he expected 3. The Secretary General reported that the membership of to increase in the future. The 1st International Congress ISSMFE on 31 August 1995 (Appendix 1) was 16,667 on Environmental Geotechnics held in Edmonton in in 68 Member Societies, which compared with 16,743 1994 had been successful, but with slightly members in 65 Member Societies reported to the Council disappointing attendance, which had also been the case Meeting held in New Delhi, 4 January 1994. Since that with an ASCE sponsored conference on a similar topic date Yugoslavia has renewed its membership with 29 held in New Orleans. Geotechnical News was providing members, Sri Lanka and Nepal have joined as new the means of growing interchange within the region and, Member Societies with 34 and 15 members respectively. in particular, there would be increasing input by M exico Kazakhstan has submitted papers applying for in the future. Dr Milligan confirmed that the 10th Panam membership and enquiries have been received from Conference in Guadalahara had confirmed that the 10th Azerbaijan. Four Member Societies are at least 4 years Panam Conference in Guadalahara had been a warm and in arrears with their payments: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria fruitful occasion and that 1997 would be a special year and the Sudan. ISSMFE now has 18 Corporate for the Canadian Geotechnical Society, which would be Members who are paying annually and 7 who who have celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its annual paid for 5 years (Appendix 1). In February 1995 a letter conference. was sent out by the President to 52 international companies and organisations inviting them to become 7. Professor Van Impe reported that Europe now had nearly Corporate Members of ISSMFE. 7300 members of ISSMFE in 29 Member Societies, and

2652 5 Corporate Members. He expressed concern at the Professor Steenfeld also asked how the RCAC would be number of symposia and similar events being held each financed and what was the exact role of the RCAC. The year, many on closely related topics, with environm ental President pointed out that while he was against including geotechnics and unsaturated soils proving particularly a member from the previous Conference Organising popular. He thought the success of the YGEC in Ghent Committee, continuity would be assured by the outgoing in 1995 had been due in part to the concentration on a Vice-President. He said the role of the RCAC would be single topic. The next European YGEC, in 1996, would similar to that of the CAC for International Conferences be in Turkey, there were eight European Technical as defined under By-law 14A.1. In order to keep costs Committees with a total membership of about 120. to a minimum the Secretary General said much of the Some of these ETCs had meetings on the occasion of the work of each RCAC should be done by correspondence, XI ECSMFE held in Copenhagen in 1995. The 3rd although there should be at least one meeting, if International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics possible, financed by the Organsing Committee. would be held in Portugal in 1998. 13. A vote taken on the motion following this discussion 8. Mr Ervin said that the two Member Societies in the gave the following result: Australasian Region represented 650 members, some o f whom were also active in other Pacific Countries. Both Yes 32 the Australian and New Zealand Member Societies were N o 8 also affiliated with IAWF and ISRM. The 7th ANZ Abstentions 0 Geomechanics Conference would be held in Adelaide in July 1996, with the theme "Geomechanics in a Changing Thus, the motion was carried. World". There would be one session on environmental geomechanics. The 2nd Australian YGEC was held in VENUE OF XV ICSMFE 2001 Auckland 29 Nov - 2 Dec, 1995. Mr Ervin advised that the New Zealand Geomechancs Society would be 14. Invitations to host the XV ICSMFE to be held in 2001 changing its name to the New Zealand Geotechnical were presented by Australia, Japan and Turkey. A secret Society. vote was then taken to decide the venue, with the following results: 9. As Professor Balasubramaniam was unable to be present at the meeting a brief summary of his report was given 1st Vote 2nd Vote by Professor Kimura, who reported that Nepal and Sri A ustralia 15 22 Lanka had recently become Member Societies of Japan 8 ISSMFE, making a total now of 14 Member Societies in Turkey 22 23 the Asian Region. An application for membership had been submitted by Kazakhstan, which had two observers The XV ICSMFE will therefore be held in Istanbul in at the present Council Meeting. Offers to host the XI 2001. Asian Regional Conference in 1999 had been received from Indonesia and Korea, and delegates to the Regional 15. The President congratulated Turkey and commented on Council Meeting in Beijing had voted in favour of the high standard of all three presentations, and hoped Korea. The Third Asian YGEC will be held in that Australia and Japan would try again for the 2005 Singapore in 1997, with Japan contributing one-third to ICSMFE. the costs. At present there were four Asian Regional Technical Committees all hosted by Japan. 16. The President also informed the meeting that the three Sister Societies, IAEG, ISRM and ISSMFE, were 10. Professor El-Ghamrawy emphasised the fact that o f the planning to hold a joint Congress, covering topics o f 52 countries in Africa, only 9 were members of common interest, to mark the year 2000. Invitations to ISSMFE, and of these only 3 or 4 were active. The host this event would be sent to Australia, France, major problems in Africa were finance and Germany, Japan, the Nordic countries, UK and USA, communications. The Model Library and visits by but he thought it might be appropriate to give priority to leading geotechnical engineers would be helpful. With Australia if they wished to hold it. the assistance of M. Gambin, he was making a particular effort to attract more francophone countries to becom e 17. Professor Togrol thanked the meeting for its decision members of ISSMFE. The French Language Model and issued a warm invitation to visit Istanbul in 2001. Library being compiled by Professor Schlosser would help in this. As yet there were no African Regional REPORT ON XIV ICSMFE, HAMBURG, 1997 Technical Committees, but there were plans to set up a Technical Committee on Heritage. 18. A written report on the XIV ICSMFE was submitted to the meeting by Professor Wittke, Chairman of the REGIONAL CONFERENCES Organising Committee (Appendix 3). Details of the technical programme for the XIV ICSMFE to be held in 11. Stressing the growing importance of Regional Hamburg, 11-16 September 1997 were presented by the Conferences and the need to strengthen their President. There would be 6 Plenary Sessions, viz: organisational arrangements, the President put the following motion to the meeting: a. Soil Testing and Ground Property Characterisation. "Regional Conference Advisory Committees (RCAC) Theme Lecturer - Professor Tatsuoka. should be set up for future Regional Conferences, consisting of the Vice-President in offices at the tim e o f b. Recent Developments in Foundation Techniques. awarding the conference (i.e. the outgoing Vice- Theme Lecturer - Professor Van Impe. President), the Vice-President in office at the tim e o f the conference (i.e. the incoming Vice-President), the c. Retaining Structures and Excavated Slopes. Secretary General and two members of the Conference Theme Lecturer - Professor Nussbaumer. Organising Committee. The incoming Vice-President will join RCAC as soon as the name of the person is d. Underground Works in Urban Environment. known. For the Pan American Conferences both Theme Lecturer - Dr Mair. incoming Vice-Presidents will become members of the RCAC, in addition to the outgoing Vice-Presidents". e. Soil Improvement and Reinforcement. Theme Lecturer - Professor Schlosser. 12. In discussion on this motion Professor Togrol suggested that someone from the Organising Committee of the f. Waste disposal and Contaminated Sites. previous Regional Conference should be on the RCAC. Theme Lecturer - Professor Daniel. An opinion Professor Steenfelt said he shared.

2653 The six plenary sessions would generate 16 discussion Landslides is involved with the Landslides Conference in sessions, each of which would have a discussion leader Trondheim in 1996 and TC19 on Preservation of and 4 panelists. Two workshops would be held, on Historic Sites is planning a Symposium in Naples in Education and on Professional Practice, and the 1996. TC22 on Indurated Soils and Soft Rocks is programme would include a Momentous Session chaired planning a Symposium to be held in France or Italy. by Professor Morgemstern, with contributions by Dr TC23 on Limit State Design held a Symposium in Hoeg, Professor O'Neill, Dr Za-Chieh Moh and a Copenhagen in 1993 as well as participating in the XI German engineer to be named. The Terzaghi Oration ECSMFE in Copenhagen 1995 and in the XIV ICSMFE would be given by Professor Kenji Ishihara on in Hamburg in 1997. TC26 on Calcareous Sediments is Geotechnical Aspects of the Kobe Earthquake, and the planning a 2nd Symposium on Calcareous Soils. TC28 Heritage Lecture would be given by Professor W Wittke on Underground Construction in Soft Ground is co­ on Developments in Geotechnical Engineering in sponsoring a Special Symposium in the UK in April Germany. Invited lectures would be given by Professor 1996 and will be strongly involved in the XIV ICSMFE . Neils Krebs Ovesen and Dr Tamez. It was expected that TC29 on Stress-Strain Testing of Geomaterials in the the fee for early registration would be about US$600, Laboratory held an important Symposium in Sapporo in and US$720 for late registration. 1994 and, with BGS, is planning a Symposium in Print to be published in Geotechnique. TC30 on Coastal REPORT ON 2ND ICEG, OSAKA, 1996 Geotechnical Engineering is planning a 2nd Geocoast Conference, the first having been held in Yokohama in 19. The written report prepared by Professor Kamon 1992. TC31 on Education in Geotechnical Engineering (Appendix 4) was summarised by Professor Kusakabe, was strongly involved in a session in the XI ECSMFE in who said that a CAC meeting, chaired by Professor Van Copenhagen and will also be strongly involved in a Impe had been held in Kyoto on 23 April 1995. The Special Workshop in Education to be held during the four-day programme comprising 9 technical sessions XIV ICSMFE in Hamburg in 1997. was set out in Table 3, and all invited speakers listed in Table 4 had accepted to speak. As shown in Table 1, 23. Mr Valenzuela said that TC7 on Tailings Dams was co ­ 296 abstracts had been received from 38 countries, o f sponsoring with ICOLD a Tailings Dam Symposium in which 276 had been accepted. So far 110 full papers Santiago in October 1996, and would also be making had been received. The Proceedings would be published contributions to the 2nd ICEG in Osaka in 1996 and to by Balkema in 3 volumes. Bulletin 2 would be available the XIV ICSMFE in Hamburg 1997. Professor Van in April 1996. The registration fee will be US$450 and Impe said that TCI8 on Pile Foundations with Dr target attendance was 400 to 500 delegates. Karlsrud, in cooperation with ETC, would be holding a workshop in March/April 1996. Referring to TC31 on 20. The President explained that in view of the need to m ake Education in Geotechnical Engineering Professor urgent decisions regarding the holding of the early Manoliu said that a Session in Education had been held at ICEGs and establishing the series, the Board had the Danube Conference in Romania, in which 20 decided on the venues of the 1st ICEG in Edmonton in countries had participated. The activities of TCI5 on 1994 and Osaka in 1996. It had also, on the previous Peat and Organic Soils was summarised by Dr Beetstra: day and by secret vote, selected Portugal as the venue for A meeting of the committee had been held on the the 3rd ICEG in 1998. The other countries offering to occasion of the XI ECSMFE in Copenhagen in 1995 and host the 3rd ICEG had been Austria, Finland and another meeting was scheduled in Delft in March 1996. France. However, it was the Board's view that the A Special Conference would be held in Japan in 1998 importance of the ICEG series was such that it should be and work was proceeding on a manual for construction in future treated in the same manner as the long on organic soils. established ICSMFE series. He thought that there would be a transition to 4 years between these conferences, 24. Replying to a comment by ProfessorSteenfeltthat som e rather than the present two years and, in reply to a query TC reports had not been very informative, the President by Dr Togrol, said it was not certain, but likely, that the said that all Member Societies had received a booklet 4th ICEG would be held in 2002. He then presented to with Terms of Reference and Membership for all the meeting the motion: Technical Committees. A special synthesising report "Statutes 14A-D and By-laws 14A.1, 14A.3, 14B.1-2 will be prepared for the next Council Meeting. He and 14D.1-5 governing International Conferences will mentioned in addition that all Member Societies had also apply to the series of International Congresses on received from him a letter seeking a more rational Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG)". approach to assist the incoming President in setting up There was no discussion on this motion. It was carried Technical Committees, the principal points of which with no votes against and no abstentions. were that, 6 months before the next International Conference, Member Societies should TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ACTIVITY (a) if they were hosting a TC, indicate if they wished to continue with this 21. In view of the fact that there were now 29 Technical (b) submit new names they wished to have added as Committees, which played a very important part in members to the existing Technical Committees and ISSMFE activities, with many of them involved for (c) submit any proposals they may have for new example in the programme for the XIV ICSFME in Technical Committees, or for merging existing Hamburg, the President said he would have to confine Technical Committees. himself to some brief comments on a limited number o f them. Short written reports had been received from a 25. The President added that in the meeting with the number of the TC Chairmen. Presidents and Secretaries General of IAEG and ISRM in Cambridge on 20 October 1995 it was agreed that 22. He observed that TC2 on Centrifuge now had a well where there were similar or parallel Technical established series of international conferences. TC 4 on Committees/ Commissions of the other Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering is participating in Society/Societies. special symposia and workshops, as well as Eurocode 8. TC5 on Environmental Geotechnics has a special COMMUNICATIONS strategical role and is involved in an important Plenary Session at the XIV ICSMFE. TC8 on Frost is planning 26. In presenting his report on Communications (Appendix a Special Symposium at Lulea in Sweden. TC10 on 5), Mr Ervin said that the President had charged his T ask Geophysical Site Characterisation, in cooperation w ith Force with 3 matters for consideration: TC I6 on Ground Poperty Characterisation from In-Situ Tests and TC24 on Soil Sampling, is planning for the (a) Setting up a Database of Databases International Conference on Site Characterisation from In-Situ Tests to be held in Atlanta, 1998. TC11 on

2654 (b) Examine existing Information Retrieval Systems and common database for the three Societies. Professor explore possibility of access by ISSMFE on Jamiolkowski had explained at the meeting that there Favourable terms was a strong feeling in ISSMFE that it should change its name to the International Society for Soil Mechanics and (c) General communications. Geotechnical Engineering, retaining Soil Mechanics in the name to try and avoid a clash with the Sister 27. He informed the meeting that ISSMFE had loaned Societies. This name change was necessary to reflect US$5000 to the Geotechnical Engineering International fully the activities of the members of ISSMFE. Resource Centre (GE-IRC) based at AIT in Bangkok to Professor Sakurai expressed a strong concern about the develop a database of databases. The loan would be effect this name would have on the membership of repaid from the profits from the sales of the list o f ISRM. A proposal by Professor Jamiolkowski that the three Sister Societies should jointly sponsor a major databases. Although their present list of 40 databases conference in the year 2000 was warmly accepted and was incomplete, it had been agreed by the Board that this procedures for deciding upon a venue were resolved. It list, with some additions, should now be made available was concluded that the Secretaries General should m eet in diskette or hard copy form. It should be possible to about every two years and that there should be a produce a brochure to distribute to all Member Societies combined meeting of the Presidents and Secretaries in about 6 months. General in 1998. Procedure for cross participation in Technical Committees or Commissions between the three 28. Discussions were taking place with the Swedish Societies were agreed. Geotechnical Institute regarding the possibility of a special arrangement for ISSMFE Members to access the NAME OF SOCIETY SGI-Line Information Resource System. This system, which appeared to be the most comprehensive available, has 42000 entries in electronic form and 40000 in card 34. Introducing this item the President explained that the form. ISSMFE could put in seed money, for example to previous Board had recommended in its meeting in transfer the card entries to electronic form, and ISSM FE Athens in 1993 that the present Board should give consideration to changing the name of the Society to sponsored publications could be made available free o f reflect better the wide ranging activities of the mem bers. charge to SGI. Access could be by CD-ROM or The present Board at its meeting in Edmonton in 1994 possibly through the Internet. Members would be kept concluded that, having regard to the need to avoid a clash informed through ISSMFE News of progress with these with ISRM and IAEG, the new name should be the discussions and a full report would be submitted at the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Council Meeting in Hamburg in 1997. Geotechnical Engineering. This name preserved the heritage of the Society by including the term Soil 29. Mr Ervin said he recommended that ISSMFE News Mechanics, while reflecting the present scientific and should continue in its present form for the immediate professional activities of the members in the term future. Eventually consideration might be given to Geotechnical Engineering. ISSMFE having a Homepage on the Internet. 35. In summary the President said that the proposed nam e: EDUCATION (a) reflected the present activities of ISSMFE members (b) allowed the incorporation of new areas of activity (c) 30. In summarising his report on the work of the Task Force gave due consideration to the interests of the Sister on Education (Appendix 6) Professor Van Impe said Societies and (d) should prevent a proliferation of new close cooperation was being maintained with TC31 on International Societies to fill voids left by the present Education in Geotechnical Engineering, chaired by name of ISSMFE. Professor Poulos. Meetings of workshops in Education had been held in 1995 at the XI ECSMFE in 36. In response to a letter sent by the President to all Member Copenhagen and at the 10th Danube Conference in Societies, 42 Member Societies had given a positive Romania. A questionnaire sent around to Universities in reply to the proposed new name, and another 10 had Europe had provided a considerable amount of supported it, although preferring the name International information which he had tabulated. He could provide Society for Geotechnical Engineering. There were no this information on request. The Task Force and TC31 replies opposing the proposed name. would be responsible for an important Session on Education to be held at the XIV ICSMFE in Hamburg in 37. Mr Seychuck asked what assurance there was if 1997. ISSMFE adopted the proposed name that another Society would not adopt the name International Society for PUBLICATIONS Geotechnical Engineering. The President replied that the proposed name took account of the interests of our Sister 31. Dr Milligan explained that although the previous T ask Societies and that it was necessary to rely on goodw ill Force had recommended that ISSMFE should set up a between Societies. cooperative arrangement with a publisher, the present Task Force did not agree with this. However, the 38. The President of ISRM, Professor Sakurai, said he possible alternatives would be investigated further and a opposed the proposal because the inclusion of the report prepared for the Council Meeting in Hamburg in general term "Geotechnical Engineering" in the new 1997. name could cause inconvenience to the other Sister Societies. If the new name was adopted the scope of the TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER activities of the Society should be made clear in the statutes so as not to cause any such inconvenience. 32. Although there had ben no further work on this recently, Professor Kimura said that he hoped it would be 39. While recognising that the proposed new name was a possible to revise, in time for the 1997 Council Meeting, compromise the President of IAEG, Professor Marinos the list of donors and possible recipients prepared by the said that the Council of IAEG had resolved that previous Task Force of Professor Ishihara and Professor "Geotechnical Engineering" was an umbrella term. He Sm oltczyk. felt that its inclusion in the new name could lead to som e confusion. RELATIONS WITH IAEG AND ISRM 40. Support for the new name was expressed by Professor 33. The Secretary General reported that a meeting o f the Togrol who felt it could lead to closer cooperation Presidents and Secretaries General of IAEG, ISRM and between the Sister Societies. ISSMFE had been held in Cambridge on 20 October 1995. It was decided not to pursue further at this stage a

2655 41. Dr Milligan strongly endorsed the views of the President AUDITED ACCOUNTS 1993/94 of ISSMFE and expressed a heartfelt feeling that there could eventually be a single Society incorporating all the 47. The audited ISSMFE accounts for 1993/94 (Appendix 7) interests of the Sister Societies. The proposed nam e were presented by the Secretary General, together w ith change could be a step in that direction. No change of his reports on these accounts. Comparison of receipts name at this time would be a negative step. and expenditures with budgeted amounts were also given (Appendix 7). As the Board had asked that the Budget 42. Although a motion was put to the meeting proposing that should be divided into Ordinary (administrative) item s the new name should be adopted, the subsequent vote and Extraordinary (other) items, he had also made this taken on this was invalid as the meeting was not quorate separation in comparing accounts and budget items for for changing the statutes, which a change of name 1994. required. As 50 Member Societies were entitled to vote, a quorate meeting (Statute 12K) required two-thirds o f 48. The accounts were audited by Coopers and Lybrand, this number, that is 34 Member Societies to have Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors. delegates present, as proxy votes do not count towards a quorum (By-law 12K.I). Only 27 Member Societies 49. The ISSMFE Budget for 1995-7 (Appendix 8) was had delegates present at the meeting. summarised by Professor Van Impe. It was divided into an Ordinary Budget and Extraordinary Budget. In the MODEL LIBRARY Ordinary Budget income and expenditure were expected to be maintained at about present levels. In the 43. The Secretary General reported that a small task force Extraordinary Budget the Corporate Members with Professor John Burland as co-ordinator was set up subscription of £4000 allowed for the fact that som e by the President to select suitable books to form a m odel Corporate Members had already paid for 5 years. It was library for sending to undergraduate teaching expected that the present Model Library scheme would establishments in developing countries. After be completed in 1996, so no expenditure for this item consideration of books suggested by the task force, the was shown in 1997. Conference income of £30000 Board selected the following books to make up the shown for 1997 was in anticipation of revenue from the Model Library: XIV ICSMFE in Hamburg and the 2nd ICEG in Osaka. A substantial payment of £10000 was allowed for Foundation Design and Construction (6th Edition) by producing a List of Members in 1997. It was expected MJ Tomlinson, publ. Longman, Scientific and that the combined surplus for the Ordinary Budget and Technical. Extraordinary Budget would be maintained approximately level over the period 1995-7. In reply to a Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice by Terzaghi and question by Mr Ervin, Professor Van Impe said that a Peck (New Edition prepared by Peck and Mesri). reduction of £7500 had been made for office costs as it was not expected that the ISSMFE Secretariat would Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour by JK Mitchell (2nd have to pay office rental costs over the budget period. Edition), publ. Wiley Interscience. SECRETARIAT Waste Containment Systems, Waste Stabilization and Landfills' Design Construction by Sharma and Lewis, 50. The President informed the meeting that Dr Parry had publ. Wiley Interscience. expressed a wish to retire from the post of Secretary General of ISSMFE at a convenient time a few months Soil Mechanics (5th Edition) by RF Craig, publ. after the XIV ICSMFE in Hamburg to be held in Chapman and Hall. September 1997. The British Geotechnical Society, in cooperation with the Institution of Civil Engineers, w ere Piling Engineering by Fleming, Weltman, Randolph and preparing a proposal for the Secretariat to continue in the Elson, publ. Blackie Academic & Professional. UK after Dr Parry retired. However, it was open to other Member Societies to submit proposals to host the Mohr Circles, Stress Paths and Geotechnics by R H G Secretariat if they wished to do so. Any proposals Parry publ. E and FN Spon. which are submitted will be discussed at the ISSMFE Board Meeting to be held in Santiago in October 1996, 44. The publishers and authors had been contacted to obtain and these discussions should lead to the present Board 25 copies of each of these books at a favourable price. preparing a recommendation on the future of the The reduction offered ranged from 15% off the full retail Secretariat to be passed on to the incoming President, price to free copies of the books. Most of the books who will take office immediately following the XIV were now to hand. ICSMFE in Hamburg in September 1997. The decision on the future of the Secretariat will be made by the 45. Vice-Presidents had been asked to obtain names o f incoming President in consultation with the new Board. suitable undergraduate teaching institutions in developing countries in their Regions which would be suitable VOTE OFTHANKS recipients for the model library. The Secretary General invited any delegates who knew of suitable recipients to 51. A vote of thanks to the Egyptian Society, and to give these names to the Vice-President of their Region. Professor El-Ramli and Professor El-Ghamrawy in It is proposed that the books should be handed over in a particular, for their kind hospitality, proposed by small ceremony to the recipients by a senior member o f Professor Togrol, was greeted with warm acclamation. the Member Society. Thanking delegates for their attendance, the President then closed the meeting. MERCER LECTURE

46. The Secretary General informed the meeting that the next series of Mercer Lectures would be given by Professor Fumio Tatsuoka. One of the presentations of the lecture would be given on the occasion of the Euro Geo Conference in Maastricht between 30 September and 20 October 1996. He did not know the venues or dates of the other two presentations.

2656 APPENDIX 1

ISSMFE MEMBERSHIP TABLE - 30th AUGUST, 1995

Societies Members Africa Asia Australasia Argentina 93 93 Australia 385 385 A ustria 74 74 B angladesh 55 55 B elgium 78 78 B olivia 13 13 Brazil 228 228 B ulgaria 52 52 C anada 889 889 C hile 35 35 C olom bia 32 32 Costa Rica 58 58 C roatia 43 43 Czech & Slovak Republics 43 43 D enm ark 275 275 E cuador 32 32 E gypt 20 20 E stonia 30 30 Finland 240 240 France 746 746 Germanv 1517 1517 G hana 33 33 G reece 139 139 H ungary 84 84 Iceland 10 10 India 430 430 Indonesia 70 70 Iran 58 58 Ireland 45 45 Israel 74 74 Italv 428 428 Japan 1206 1206 K enva 21 21 Korean R 84 84 L atvia 31 31 Lithuania 40 40 M exico 180 180 M orocco 12 12 N epal 15 15 Netherlands 325 325 New Zealand 220 220 N igeria 58 58 N orw av 340 340 Pakistan 80 80 Paraguav 17 17 Peru 25 25 Poland 128 128 Portugal 108 108 R om ania 53 53 R ussia 356 356 S lovenia 31 31 South Africa 660 660 S E Asia 406 406 Spain 230 230 Sri L anka 34 34 Sudan 25 25 Sw eden 517 517 Switzerland 264 264 Svria 12 12 T unisia 30 30 T urkev 57 57 UK 963 963 U SA 3537 3537 Venezuela 37 37 V ietnam 18 18 Y ugoslavia 29 29 Zimbabwe 103 103 Total 16667 962 2648 605 7276 4606 570

2657 ISSMFE CORPORATE MEMBERS Costa Rica is the only national group of Centro America and a very active one. This group is also acting as a center for the 24 Members - 30th August, 1995 activity of neighboring centro american countries.

Agra Earth & Environmental Ltd, CANADA Ecuador rejoined the ISSMFE in 1989 and in February 1994 Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH, GERMANY completed the payment of the due fees. At present is a fully China Engineering Consultants, Inc., TAIWAN active group. China Harbour Engineering Company (Hong Kong), H K Concrete Engineering Products Berhad, MALAYSIA Uruguay is not an ISSMFE member. Although the Dredging International N.V., BELGIUM geotechnical activity is rather limited, the President of ISSMFE Entrecanales y Tavora, S.A., SPAIN and this Vice President have contacted Prof. Alvaro Gutierrez Fujita Corporation Technical Research Institute, JA PAN of the Geotechnical Department of the National University of GEI Consultants, Inc., USA Uruguay, in order to induce the formation of a national group. Geo-Research Institute, JAPAN Golder Asociates Inc., USA 2. Regional Meetings with the Vice President Harza Engineering Company, USA Keller Group Limited, UK This Vice President has tried to meet most of the presidents or Kiso-Jiban Consultants Co., Ltd., JAPAN representatives of the national groups since he was elected. Klohn-Crippen Consultants Ltd, CANADA L & M Geotechnic Pte Ltd, SINGAPORE A letter asking for specific suggestions for the activities of the Monenco AGRA Inc., CANADA region and for the present Vice President's program w as sent Pilecon Engineering BHD, MALAYSIA to all South American societies early in July, 1994. Protekt, UKRAINE Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc., TAIWAN After the XIIIICSM FE at New Delhi in January 1994, w hen Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners Ltd., UK this Vice President was able to meet representatives of Brasil STS Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd, THAILAND and Colombia there have been other opportunities to m eet Terre Armee Internationale, FRANCE some of the national groups of South America. Tokyu Construction Co., Ltd., JAPAN Following an invitation of this Vice President, the officials of the national groups of ISSMFE of Brasil, Chile, Colom bia, Paraguay and Venezuela as well as representatives o f APPENDIX 2A Argentina, Peru and Costa Rica had a meeting in Santiago, Chile, in May 1994. Present at this meeting were also D r REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTH AND Oscar Varde, Vice President of South America for ISR M and CENTRO AMERICAN REGION 1994-1995 past Vice President for South America of the ISSMFE. In this meeting the work program proposed by the Vice President was L VALENZUELA discussed in detail.

1. ISSMFE Membership Brasil organized in November 1994 its National Conference on Soil and Rock Mechanics in the town of Foz de Iguazu, The South and Centro American region includes 10 countries which is on the border with Paraguay and Argentina. T his registered as national groups of the ISSMFE: event represented a very good opportunity to congreg ate at least representatives of the countries of the southern part o f the IAEG Members* ISSMFE ISRM region.

Argentina 93 Yes Yes N o This conference was attended by the Presidents and V ice Bolivia 13 Yes No No Presidents for the region of both the ISSMFE and ISR M . A B rasil 228 Yes Yes N o meeting of the President and Vice President of ISSM F E w as Chile 35 Yes Yes Yes held with representatives of Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay Colom bia 32 Yes Yes Yes and Uruguay. Costa Rica 58 Yes Yes No E cuador 32 Yes Yes N o The President had the opportunity to discuss the problem of Paraguay 12 Yes Yes Yes the future name of the Society and the Vice President presented Peru 25 Yes Yes N o a preliminary proposal for a regional geotechnical journal as Venezuela 37 Yes Yes No well as a review of due tasks with regard to Education and Technology Transfer in the region. *up to 21st April, 1995. After the conference, the President, Prof M. Jamiolkow ski, The total of 565 members for the region represents only and this Vice President travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3,32% of the world total of 16,998. to attend a meeting with the Argentinean Society. Prof. Jamiolkowski delivered a lecture and had the opportunity to It should be noticed that the majority of the national groups discuss several matters of ISSMFE as well as the present low encompass the activities of the ISSMFE and ISRM and level of activity of this national group. sometimes also of the IAEG. Some of the national groups have adopted the generic name of Geotechnical Society (Chile, The Vice President had the opportunity to meet the President Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Venezuela). of ABMS (Brasil) also in March 1994 and July 1995 for the occasion of the 2nd Latin American Conference for Y oung Bolivia used to be an active national group some years ago (up Geotechnical Engineers in Rio de Janeiro. In this last meeting to 1985). This Vice President as well as the President o f a possible arrangement for the regional geotechnical jou rn al ISSMFE and Vice President W. Van Impe have dedicated was discussed as well as the problem with the number o f some effort in order to motivate the activities of this group, pages allocated for the next ICSMFE in Hamburg. including meetings and contacts with Mr Mario Terceros o f Santa Cruz, Prof. Gabriel Gutierrez of Cochabamba and M r 3. Regional Technical Committees Carlos Aban from La Paz. The common technical activities in the region have been Brasil is at present registering 228 members, being the larger organized in a formal way through the Regional Technical group of South America but only the 21st worldwide, but the Committees. Brazilian Soil and Rock Mechanics Group (ABMS) has m ore than 1000 members. Brasil has agreed with the President and In the meeting in Santiago, in May 1994, it was confirmed the Vice President of ISSMFE to make a special effort to double continuation of the South American Technical Committee on the ISSMFE membership in one year. Mass Movements or Landslides. Colombia was nominated to

2658 establish more precise terms of reference and a detailed 6. International Symposium on Dams, Chile, 1996 program of activities. In this opportunity Brasil o ffered to host the following Regional Symposium on Landslides. Another important event for the region will be the International Symposium on Seismic and Environmental Aspects of D am s These matters and others were discussed during the S econd Design - Earth, Concrete and Tailings Dams to be held in South American Symposium on Landslides (announced as a Santiago, Chile, October 15-18, 1996 for the occasion o f the Pan-American Symposium) that was held in Guayaquil, in 1996 Board Meeting of ISSMFE and the 64th ICOLD Annual August 1994. This event organized by the national group o f M eeting. Ecuador received an international attendance from m ost o f the countries of South America and also from North America, The Symposium is organized by Technical Committee N o. 7 Europe and Asia. on Tailings Dams of the ISSMFE, the Chilean Geotechnical Society and the Chilean National Committee of ICOLD. Some of the tasks to be performed by this committee is to complete the work presented in the IX Pan American 7. Activities by the National Groups Conference in 1991, in Vina del Mar, Santiago, regarding the general characterization of landslides phenomena in the region. Argentina

Also following an idea discussed during the same Conference, The Vice President met Mr Angel O. Lopez, at that tim e the Venezuelan Geotechnical Society has organized a South President of the "Argentinean Society for Soil Mechanics" American Course on Landslides for October 1995. During the (SAMS) in Buenos Aires in June 21, 1994. Dr Oscar V arde, same meeting in Santiago, in May 1994, it was also decided to Past President of ISSMFE and presently Vice President o f the participate in the South American Committee on Weak Rocks, region for the IRMS was also present. The objective o f the a committee already supported by ISRM and IAEG. meeting was to analyze the low level of activity in this national Argentina, Brasil and Paraguay are active members o f this group, since their last national conference in Mendoza in 1991. regional committee. The Vice President offered the support of the Board to future Dr Lorenz Dobereiner, now President of Technical Com m ittee initiatives of this group. No 22 of ISSMFE also attended this meeting as well as a second meeting that was held in November 1994 in Foz de In November 1994 the President of ISSMFE and the Vice Iguacu, Brasil, for the occasion of the Brazilian Conference on President met the Board of the Argentinean group and also a Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. number of its members, trying to encourage more active participation of this society that was quite active some years 4. Newsletter and Journal ago.

There is no newsletter for the region. The Vice President has Since June 8, the Argentinean Society for Soil Mechanics have sent a newletter (Vice President Notice) in August 1994 and a a new composition of its Executive Committee, composed as second one in August 1995. follows: President, Eng. Eugenio Mendiguren; Vice President, Eng. Angel Lopez; Secretary, Eng. Jorge Bonifazi. In the 80’s and up to 1986 a South American Geotechnical Journal was published under the responsibility of the national The SAMS is at present studying a general reorganization o f group of Venezuela. This journal stopped because of financial the society and also organizing a series of workshops that will difficulties and also because of insufficient support from the be held on September, at the National Technological other national group of the region. University.

At present an alternative based in the Brazilian Solos e Rochas Bolivia is under analysis and the subject should be discusse d in Guadalajara in October this year. The Vice President has tried to encourage the developm ent o f the geotechnical activity in this country that has been silent at 5. X Panamerican Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico 1995 the ISSMFE since 1985. This effort has resulted in a positive answer from Mr Mario Terceros from Santa Cruz who This Conference is the most important event in the region. attended the International Symposium of Rock Mechanics in The Panamerican Conference will be held in Guadalajara, Santiago, May 1994 and also the Brazilian Conference on Soil Mexico, from October 29 to November 3. and Rock Mechanics in Foz de Iguacu in November 1994 where he also met the President of ISSMFE. Professor Norbert Morgenstem of Canada will be delivering Prof. Van Impe, Vice President for Europe has also been in the Third Casagrande Lecture on "Managing Risk in contact with Prof. Gabriel Gutierrez from Cochabamba. Geotechnical Engineering". In April, 1995, a communication was received by this V ice The seven official themes of the Conference are: "Engineering President from the Bolivian Association of Geotechn ical Properties of Regional Soils: Volcanic; Residual, G ranular and Engineering (ABIG) stating that this group, founded in 1975 Soft Clays"; "Geotechical Engineering for Environmen tal and member of ISSMFE since 1981, was again fully active Control"; "Geotechnical Design and Construction; and seriously interested in normalizing their situation w ith Instrumentation and Behaviour"; "Foundations"; ISSMFE. "Embankment Dams"; "Forensic Engineering"; "Geotechnical and Seismic Zonation". Some significant effort is still needed in order to normalize the relationship between the Bolivian group or groups and A total of 152 papers were presented up to April, distributed ISSMFE. This Vice President should visit them late this year by countries as follows: or early next year. Argentina 3 Bolivia 1 Brasil Brasil 25 Canada 11 C olom bia 10 C osta R ica 3 The "Association Brasileira de Mecanica dos Solos" or A BM S Chile 10 E cuador 1 is by far the most active national group in South A m erica. M exico 51 Paraguay 2 Peru 5 U SA 30 ABMS continues with the publication of their 8 pages m onthly bulletin and the journal Solos e Rochas. During this Conference a meeting of the South American groups will be held on Monday 29 and a Panamerican Recent special publications by ABMS included: Committee meeting on Tuesday 30. Solos do Interior de Sao Paulo, 399 pages, proceedings o f ABMS/USP Symposium, December 8-10, 1993 /

2659 INFOGEO'94, 196 pages, proceedings of the "Simposio de In this event the CGA presented the Code for Trench Informatica em Geotecnia" March 21-22, 1994 / Engenharia de Excavation of Costa Rica, during the workshop on Tuneis de Pequeno Diametro, 57 pages, March 17, 1994 / "Geotechnical Risk Associated to Trench Excavation". GEOAMBIETAL '94, 146 pages, "Seminario sobre Geotecnia de Aterro para Disposicao de Residuos" - April 7-8, 1994 / Chile 2nd Simposium "Solos Nao Saturados", April 4-5, 1994. In this first semester of 1994, the main activity o f C hilean During these lat six months ABMS organized the follow ing Geotechnical Society (SOCHIGE), the national group o f the technical meetings: ISSMFE, ISRM and IAEG in Chile, was related to the organization of the fully successful 1994 Internatio n a l - "Residuos Solidos Urbanos e Industiais" - 8 conferences, Symposium on Rock Mechanics and IV South American July, 1994 Congress on Rock Mechanics, held in Santiago, May 10-14 - "Intercao Bloco-Estaca-Solo: Novo Conceito em Projeto de that year, with the general subject of "Integral Approach to Fundacoes" - May, 1994 Applied Rock Mechanics". - "Investigates In Situ Usando o Dilatometro, o Pressiom etro e o Piezocone" - May, 1994 Prior to this Symposium, SOCHIGE organized a 3 day Short - "Ecos do ICSMFE em New Delhi" - February, 1994 Course in Rock Mechanics presented by Prof. Evert H oek. A - "Solos Reforcados com Inclusoes Planas: Mecanismo de one day workshop on Rockburst was also part of this Interacao" - November, 1993 successful program. - "Projeto, Dimensionamento e Execucao de Estrucuras Jet Grouting em Contencoes e Fundacoes" - November, 1993 SOCHIGE was also host for a meeting of the representatives of most of the national groups of ISSMFE for the region. ABMS also organized the following symposium and conferences: Ths Chilean Geotechnical Society created a Committee on Foundations Regulations in 1993. His function is to check the 3rd Symposium Underground Excavations - August, 1994 local regulations in all those points that have relation with - B rasilia Foundations and Excavations. This Committee is working Symposium: Technology, Humanism and a future in close relation with the Ministry of Public Housing. homage to the 80 years of Prof. Milton Vargas - September, 1994 - Sao Paulo The following lectures were organized in this period: Soil of Sao Paulo Littoral - December, 1994 - Sao Paulo COBRAMSEF / X Brazilian Conference for Soil "Influence of Regional Geological Aspects in Geotechnical Mechanics and Foundation Engineering / ler Brazilian Problems", by Rafael Sancio, Venezuela, May, 1994. / "Ecos Symposium for Rock Mechanics - November, 1994 de la India" by Jorge Troncoso and Eugenio Retamal, July TURB - Symposium of Urban Tunnels - March, 1995 1994. / "Pathology de Foundations" by Dr Angel Uriel II Latin American Conference for Young Geotechnical (España), July 1994 / "Design and Construction of R etained Engineers - July, 1995 Rio de Janeiro. Earth Damp" by Dr William Neely (USA), September, 1994 / "Seismic Instrumentation on Tailings Dams" by Eng. L uis de This Vice President had several working meetings with the Paive (USA), November 1994 / "Estimated cost of Ko on president of ABMS, Mr Sussumu Niyama, one in Sao Paulo Soils on Consolidated Soils" by Dr Vinod Garga (Canada), in March 1994, another one in Santiago in May of the sam e M ay, 1995. year to discuss with other national groups a possible w ork program for the region and future regional meetings. A third SOCHIGE at present is organizing the International meeting was held in Foz de Iguacu in November 1994 and the Symposium on Tailing Dams, that will be held in Santiago, last one in Rio de Janeiro, July 1995, to discuss a proposal for between October 15 to 18, 1996. this event has been c o ­ the regional journal. sponsored by the National Group of ICOLD. At the sam e tim e it will host the 1996 ISSMFE Board Meeting, and the 1996 C olom bia ICOLD Executive Meeting.

The "Colombian Geotechnical Society" organized the V SOCHIGE is also organizing with IDIEM-University of Chile, Colombian Geotechnical Conference, that was held in the 1st National Seminar of Historical Cases on Geotechnical Medellin, June 29 to July 1, 1994. The theme of this Engineering, this event will be held in Santiago at the end of symposium was Geotechnica y Medio Ambiente". A special 1995. conference was delivered by Eng. Tomas Shuk on "Natural S lopes". Ecuador

This society has organized different activities through several The most important activity of the "Ecuadorean Society for commissions, like Engineering, Geology, Seismic and Soil and Rock Mechanics" (SEMSIR) has been the Dynamic Soil Mechanics, with a series of related technical organization of the South American Symposium on Landslides conferences. that was held in Guayaquil, 1-5 August, 1994.

The SCG has representation in the Seismic Risk National This important regional event had the support of the S outh Commission and Cartography of Threat and Risk, in w hich American Committee on Mass Movements. the society participate actively. The attendance included delegates and specialists from Brasil, C osta R ica Colombia, Cost Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, España, Francia y Suiza. In order to embrace a wider field in the area of geotechnics, the Costa Rica Association for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Other activities organized by SEMSIR were: Engineering, have changed its name by: Costa Rica Geotechnical Association. Conference "Castled Properties in the Tailings Construction" / Edition of a VHS video "Josefina Natural Disaster at south­ The CGA has edited the first version of a Code for east of Ecuador". Foundations, which has been the culmination of a large effort by several members of this Association. The Code was For the period 1996-1997, SEMSIR has programmed the presented to the authorities in Novembr 1994. following activities:

During the VI National Geotechnical Symposium, which w as 1st Symposium on Environment Geotechnical, Guayaquil held in November 1994, the CGA realized the 1st Centro 1996 / National Conference of Soil Dynamic / Symposium on American Meeting of Geotechnic Engineers, with participation Tunnels and Soft Soils, 1997 / III Ecuatorean Conference for of all the Centro American Area. Soil Mechanics.

2660 Paraguay APPENDIX 2B

The Paraguayan Geotechnical Society was present in the South V. Milligan American Conference on Rock Mehcanics, that was held in May, 1994 in Santiago de Chile. REPORT ON NORTH AMERICAN ACTIVITIES 1994-95 This Society formed the Subcommittee on Soft Rock like a group dependent from the Paraguayan Geotechnical Society. Since the last meeting of Council in January, 1994 (N ew The Paraguayan group is working quite actively in the South Delhi, India), and the report by Professor JK Mitch e ll, American Committee on Weak Rocks. activities within the Region involving almost 5,000 m em bers have continued to be extensive and varied. News on During 1994 the SPG organized the following events: geotechnical conferences held within the Region, on special "Pantallas Ancladas de Hormigon armado" by Dr Milton A siss awards and publications and other events in USA and in Kanji and Tsuginori Yassuda, April 1994 / "Muros de Canada continue to be reported and described in Geotechnical Contencion, control de erosion y Defensas Costeras" by N ew s, published quarterly and distributed to all US and Fernando H. Perez and Jaime Da Silva, May 1994. In A ugust Canadian members of ISSMFE by BiTech Publishers Ltd. As 1995 SPG organized the 3rd Geotechnical and Structu ral this has now been well established as a convenient and Journey. practical forum for discussion and information on R egional Peru affairs, discussions have been held with ISSMFE colleagues in Mexico to promote regular inclusion of their information in The new name of "Peruvian Committee for Soil Mechanics, the publication: as an initial step, BiTech has sen t 500 Foundations and Rock Mechanics" will be "Peruvian complimentary copies of the June and September, 1995 issues Geotechnical Society". for distribution to members within Mexico to encourage their support. The matter will be examined further in Guadalajara in The PGS has realized some technical activities consisting o f October, 1995. conferences on Geotechnical Engineering Topics, using the visit of some important personalities to Peru. Some o f these This summary report covers only those highlights of activities conferences have been about Plasticity Analysis of S oils, of importance to ISSMFE. Design of Asphaltic Pavement, Design of Tunnels in Rock. Regional and International Issues The Peruvian Committee has organized a Seminar on Laboratory Equipment of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical T h e First International Congress on Environmental Instrumentation. Geotechnics (1st ICEG) was held July 11-15, 1994, in Edmonton, Alberta. While the arrangements and technical This grows started to organize the VII National Conference for content of the Conference were excellent, the attendance o f about 300 was somewhat disappointing. It is of interest to Soil Mechanics, Foundations and Rock Mechanics, that w ill be held in 1996. note that a later speciality conference on a similar them e - Geo­ environment: 2000 - organized by USNS/ASCE-GT in U ruguay February, 1995, at New Orleans, Louisiana, had a com parably low attendance, despite an excellent format and the The initial contact of the President and Vice President with Mr concomitant local attractions of Mardi Gras. We may Alvaro Gutierrez from the University of La Republica speculate that these experiences suggest greater effort is yet University of Montevideo, has not produced yet any positive required to inform colleagues of the obvious links betw een result in terms of the formation of a national group. environmental issues and their solutions with geotechnology.

To encourage interchange of information and ideas w ithin the V enezuela Region and to facilitate arrangements for the 10th PanAmerican conference (PCSMFE) to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, the Vice President for North A m erica Eng. Pietro deMarco informed the new name of the society is had discussions with the President of the X PCSMFE, Ing. "Venezuelan Geotechnical Society" (SVG). Carlos J. Orozco y Orozco and Ing. Guillermo Springall, in Guadalajara in late December, 1994, and with Ing. A lberto The SVG organised the XIII Seminario Venezolano de Porras Lopez, the incoming Secretary (1995-96) of the Geotecnica y Medio Ambiente, that was held in Novem ber 8 to Sociedad Mexicana de Mecanica de Suelos, AC (SMMS). 12, 1994. Discussions covered not only arrangements for the Conference, at which a large attendance is expected, but future The Venezuelan Geotechnical Society was present in the IV collaboration within the North American Region, such as that International Symposium on Rock Mechanics, that was held in concerning publications as discussed above. Santiago, Chile in May 1994. Mexico - Sociedad Mexicana de Mecanica de Suelos, A C The SVG realized the following activities in 1995: I (SMMS) Geotechnical Seminar "Study of the Ambiental and Technical Norm Penal Law", May and a Special Conference on "K obe The President (SMMS) for 1994-5 was Luis Bernardo Earthquake”, June. Rodriguez Gonzalez and the Secretary, Rigoberto Rivera Constantino. The current President for 1995-96 is M I R aul For the end of 1995, the SVG is organizing the 1st S outh Vicente Orozco Santoyo and the Secretary, Alberto Porras American Course of Mass Movement, which will be held in L opez. Barquisimeto, Lara State, during October 9 to 15, w ith support of Centro Occidental Universidad Lisandro A lvarado. A number of technical meetings and short courses have been held in 1994-95 largely in Mexico City covering a range o f During 1996, the main effort of SVG will be the organization topics from tunnelling and underground construction to of the XIV Venezuelan Geotechnical Symposium, which will pavement design. The Twelfth Nabor Carillo Conference w as be held in November. held in Xalapa, November, 1994, and an internationa l symposium on Civil Engineering - Ten Years after the 1985 Earthquake is planned for September, 1995, in Mexico City. The Tenth PanAmerican Conference (X-PCSMFE), referred to above, will take place in Guadalajara, October 29 - N ovem ber 3 1995.

2661 USA - US National Society (USNS) are very much focussing over the past 2 years on speciality Seminars related to important topics, such as: The Chairman of USNS/ASCE-GT, 1994-95, is MW O'Neill. - unsaturated soils-stress strain behaviour From October 1, 1995, the Chairman will be LH Roth. T he - new developments in measuring techniques both in Secretary of USNS continues to be HE Wahls. laboratory and in field conditions - environmental geotechnics' issues Major geotechnical conferences held in the US involving - general soil improvement item. ISSMFE/USNS or ASCE sponsorship were: Settlement of This is all very encouraging, and also indicates that the '94, College Station, Texas, June 1994; Design and European Soil Mechanics Member Societies are Construction of Deep Foundations, Orlando, Florida, continuously upgrading their interaction with modem Soil December, 1994; Geoenvironment: 2000, New Orleans, Mechanics and Foundation Engineering approaches. Louisiana, February, 1994. (Attendance at this last conference has previously been discussed.) c) Member Society Events (1995-96)

Reference was made in the past report to the medal honouring Austria the late H Bolton Seed's contributions to teaching, research 2nd International Conference on Mechanics of Jointed and and practice in geotechnical engineering. The first recipient of Faulted Rock, Vienna, 10-14 April 1995. this medal has been chosen: IM Idriss, for his outstanding contributions to geotechnical earthquake engineering. He will Belgium present the first HB Seed Memorial Lecture on Novem ber 7, 29th Young Geotechnical Engineers' Conference, Gent, 4-9 1995, in Berkeley, California. September 1995 Croatia Canada - Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS) 2nd Conference of the Creation Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering : Geotechnical Engineering in The President of CGS, 1993-95, was JL Seychuk. From Cities, Varazdin, October 1995 1995-97, the new President is JM Laing. The Directo r General of CGS continues to be AG Stermac. Denmark Apart from the First ICEG, discussed above, the most XI ECSMFE: The Interplay between Geotechnical significant conference in Canada in 1994 was the Annual CG S Engineering and Engineering Geology, Copenhagen, 28 Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Seotember. T he M ay - 1 June 1995 48th Annual Conference will be held in Vancouver, B ritish Columbia, in September 1995. It is of interest to note the 50th France Annual Conference of CGS is to be held in Ottawa in 1997 Journee Thématique: Glissements de Terrains et Grans and hopefully will be celebrated as a "milestone" in Canadian Remblais, Toulouse, 22 March 1995 geotechnology with particular effort being given to attract Premier Congres International sur les Soil Non Satures, international participation. Paris, 6-8 September 1995 Journee Louis Menard: Densification des Soils: theorie, Also of interest to ISSMFE members, is that the CGS realisation, Controle, Paris, 22 November 1995 embraces a wide range of interests and disciplines. W hile Symposium International: Exemples Majeurs et Recents en some 800 members from the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Geotechnique de l'Environment, Paris, 1-2 Fevrier 1996 Division, they with others also participate in the o th er Divisions - Cold Regions; Engineering Geology; Germany Geoenvironmental; Geosynthetics; Hydrology; Rock World-Tunnel Congress and Stuve-Tagung '95, Stuttgart, Mechanics - which illustrates the Catholicism of geotechnical 8-11 May 1995 interests current in Canada and provides a posible indicator of 24 Baugrundtagung, 1995 the range of disciplines which could be considered in the future to be under the aegis of ISSMFE, appropriately Gos renam ed. Russia National Conference on SMFE with foreign participation, St Petersburg (Russia), 13-15 Septem b er 1995 APPENDIX 2C 8th Baltic Conference - Regional Conference, Vilnius (Lithuania), 2-5 October 1995 REPORT ON ACTIVITIES IN EUROPEAN REGION 1994-95 Italy 4th International Symposium on Field Measurements in W.F. Van Impe Geomechanics, Bergamo, 10-11 April 1995 XlXth Italian Geotechnical Conference, Pavia, 19-21 1. LIST OF ISSMFE - EUROPEAN MEMBER SOCIETIES September 1995 and A criv m E S Arrigo Croce Memorial Symposium, Napoli, October 1996.

a) In April 1995, 7361 European colleagues and 4 Norway European Corporate Members were within the ISSMFE. 7th International Symposium on Landslides (ISL '96), On a total number of 16988 individual ISSMFE Trondheim, 17-21 June 1996 Members this implements Europe to represent 43% of the overall ISSMFE working. Portugal The Corporate Membership still can increase over the Luso-Brazilian Seminar, Lisbon, 30-31 March 1995 coming years I hope, a figure of about 20 corporate Vth Portuguese National Geotechnical Congress, Coim bra, Members in Europe should be feasible. Over the past 4 A pril 1995 years the number of European ISSMFE members increased by about 4% (the overall ISSMFE members' list however Romania decreased in the same period by about 8%). Xth Danube Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Constantza-Mamaia, 12-15 September 1995 (b) The ESSMFE activities (about 30 major European Soil Mechanics Seminars are yearly organised) are becoming Sweden both in quantity and quality really impressive and the great progress in number of European Society Members we could International Symnposium on Cone Penetration Testing - show internationally, is fully due to your enthusiasm (the CPT'95, Linköping, 9-10 October 1995 Member Societies in our Region). Reviewing the most important activities over the 1994- Turkey 95 period of time in our European Member Society, being Symposium: 70 Years of Soil Mechanics, Istanbul, announced to me, it should be stressed that in Europe, we 11-13 April 1995

2662 UK Most of them have organised a meeting during a first 35th Rankine Lecture, 22 March 1995 meeting in May 1995 in Copenhagen. About (120) International Conference on Advances in Site Investigation colleagues all over Europe, cooperating in those TC 's, Practice, London, 30-31 March 1995 deserve all of our gratefulness for their considerable effort in contributing to this type of international scien tific 2. Finally, our European enthusiasm for the YGEC-idea, cooperation, being of greatest importance to the ISSM FE as is probably the most rewarding long-term-management a whole. But, it is equally clear that most of our estim ated investment we can make within the ISSMFE; the coming expert-colleages are involved and absorbed in so many YGEC-edition was organised in Belgium in September of duties that they rarely can find enough time to devote to this year, discussing on the environmental geotechn ics such committee work; this is creating important delays in topics. the time schedule planned for the committee reports. W e 38 young engineers from 40 different countries will should seriously reconsider the future committee take part in this Conference to exchange ideas and memberships in such a way as to knowledge in an informal way, guided by 6 geotechnical experts. (a) recruit more active young geotechnical engineers to the The final announcement includes a program with details on benefits and the progress of the committee work the various sessions and its presiding senior engineers. (b) reduce drastically the number of members, relieving a Monday 4.9.95 lot of the burden and so improving the daily - Introduction of the theme by W Van Impe, Laboratory o f workability of the committee. Soil Mechanics, Ghent University, Belgium, Vice-President o f ISSM FE 5. MODEL LIBRARY - Lecture Senior Engineer: M Manassero, 'Waste disposal design; some considerations on theoretical and practical The initiative supported by the funds of the Corporate geotechnical aspects' Members and the potential recipients are indicated to the Board by the Members themselves. A list of priority w as Tuesday 5.9.95 prepared by the Regional Vice-Presidents. For Europe we - Lecture Senior Engineer: H Meissner proposed: Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, - Lecture Senior Engineer: P Vermeer Estonia and Romania.

Wednesday 6.9.95 The composition of the Model Library will be aimed at Full day technical visit to the harbour of Zeebruges and to reconciling the needs of undergraduate students and, B ruges. possibly of young professionals to be introduced into the modem geotechnical engineering. The text books to be Thursday 7.9.95 included in the ML cover the areas of foundation - Lecture Senior Engineer: A Monjoie engineering, experimental and theoretical soil mechanics - Lecture Senior Engineer: N O'Riordan, ’Environmental and environmental geotechnics. About the last mentioned Geotechnics: risk management and remediation'. topic I believe we still should discuss the possibilities o f more comprehensive work on environmental geotechnics 3. The new and challenging ISSMFE type of International instead of overspecialized and too narrowly focussing Conferences launched in 1994, relates to the Environm ental editions. Geotechnics Conferences. The first one being organised in Edmonton - Canada 6. NEXT EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SMFE 1994; the second Conference of this type will go on in Japan (Osaka) 1996; the third Environmental Geotechnics (a) Four of our Member Societies had introduced their Conference in 1998 will be organised in Europe. This is invitation to act as host for the coming Europan Regional one of the most important coming events within our Conference in 1999: European Society next to the European Regional Conference. Czech and Slovak Committee SMFE Four countries (Austria, Finland, France and Portugal) (Czech Republic) expressed their interest in hosting the 1998 - ICEG. - NSSMFE (The Netherlands) SPG (Portugal) 4.EUROPEAN REGIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEES SGBF (Switzerland).

Eight European Regional Technical Committees have been set At the ESSMFE-meeting in Copnehagen (May 1995) the up early 1994. Dutch Geotechnics Society (NSSMFE) was elected by a large majority on the topic 'Implementation of Geotechnics No 1 Stabilization of Landslides Spain in the Transportation Infrastructure'. E. A lonso N o 3 Piles Belgium F D e C ock APPENDIX 2D No 5 Laboratory testing Netherlands L De Quelerij Report on Activities in Australasian Region 1994 to 1995 No7 Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering France Ph M estat M. C. Ervin No 9 Tunneling and underground construction in soil and soft rocks, 1. Introduction in urban environment Germany W W ittke This report has been prepared in August, 1995, to No 10 Evaluation committee for the allow it to be presented in the business papers for the application of EC-7 Italy R. Lancellotta Council and Board meetings, to be held in December No 11 Geotechnical aspects in pavement in Cairo. A number of significant activities will take design and construction UK place in the intervening period, and will be verbally S B row n reported upon at these meetings, as considered No 12 Evaluation committee for the appropriate. application of EC-8 Turkey A Ansal

2663 2. The Australasian Region of allowing delegates to include a visit to one of the premier wine growing areas of Australia. The planned The Australasian Region has two Member Societies, venue for the conference is the Adelaide Convention Australia and New Zealand, represented by the Centre, which is located close to the centre of Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) and the New Adelaide and which provides first class facilities for Zealand Geomechanics Society (NZGS). However, conferences and committee meetings. the region includes a number of Pacific Island nations and Papua-New Guinea. There are significant * The second Young Geotechnical Professionals geotechnical activities in a number of these countries, Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand but usually undertaken by offshore companies or from 29 November to 2 December, 1995. Chairman consultancies. In-country expertise and locally based of the organising committee is Sergie Terzaghi, activities tend to be limited and usually with itinerant grandson of Karl. personnel. Enquiries with respect to formation of local geotechnical groups with affiliation to the * The NZGS is planning its next two yearly symposium ISSMFE or our sister societies have not engendered on "Geotechnical Issues in Land Development", to be much interest. However, activities of the Australian held in Hamilton, 16 to 18 February, 1996. This or New Zealand Geomechanics Societies often attract promises to be an interesting meeting, and one which interest from individuals working in these other will provide a suitable stimulus for considering the countries of the region. impact of natural hazards on development, real or perceived. 3. Membership * The Perth Group of the AGS is offering to host the a) Australia 2001 International Conference of the Society, the venue of which will be decided at the Cairo Council Membership of the Society in Australia remains m eeting. relatively static at about 600 with our Secretariat advising that 364 members of the Australian * Monash University Civil Engineering department held Geomechanics Society are also members of ISSMFE. a one day symposium on June 7, 1995 to mark the The AGS is presently in a state of flux due to some retirement of Associate Professor Ian Donald later this restructuring within the Institution of Engineers, year. Ian is well known to many for his work on Australia, the major sponsoring body of the AGS. unsaturated soils, soft clays and more recently for Until these issues are resolved I expect our slope stability analysis. Eleven papers were presented membership will remain relatively static. However, to the Symposium by past and current affiliates and the current membership of ISSMFE probably fairly students of Ian. As a measure of the respect in which represents the direct interest in Australia, with the past Ian is held, presenters came from seven countries, and numbers of up to 450 being inflated due to poor record delegates from all states of Australia. keeping by our Secretariat. * State and local groups continue to be active with b) New Zealand learned Society activities. In Australia, technical meetings are generally held about once per month in Total membership of the NZGS at the end of January each capital city, with active groups also in other 1995 was 340, of whom 212 are affiliated to ISSMFE. major centres within New Zealand there are also This represents a slight increase over last year. active groups in Auckland, Wellington, Otago and Christchurch, with technical meetings held regularly. 4. Conferences and Symposia 5. Strategic Planning * There have been no major geotechnical conferences or symposia in the Region in the past 12 months. Both the NZGS and AGS have strategic plans in place, which are regularly reviewed for relevance and * A seminar on "Geotechnical Limit State Design" was success at implementation. As noted earlier, the run by the NZGS in later 1994. This was the first on relationship between the AGS and its sponsoring a planned series for NZGS and the geotechnical bodies is strained at present. This has been addressed profession at large on topics of general interest. at length at National Committee level, and is hoped to be favourably resolved. * Planning for the Seventh ANZ Conference on Georaechanics, to be held in Adelaide from 1 st to 5th 6. Name Change July,, 1996, is well in hand. The theme for the conference is "Geomechanics in a Changing World". The New Zealand Geomechanics Society has At the time of writing some 120 abstracts had been canvassed its members as to the suitability of this received, with interest in attending from several name for the Society as it functions today. Although countries. The keynote speaker will be our President, the response to the survey represented only 15% of Prof. Jamiolkowski. Three invited theme lecturers, the membership, there was strong support for a change two speciality sessions, presentation of the New to New Zealand Geotechnical Society. This matter is Zealand Geomechanics Lecture and the address by the to be further debated before any change is recipients of the John Jaeger Memorial Medal will be implemented. highlights of the Conference. Seven or eight technical sessions are proposed, in a traditional conference The NZGS and AGS continue to produce twice yearly format. Technical tours will have the added attraction news journals. These journals combine technical papers with general information on people,

2664 forthcoming events and matters o f general interest. (ii) International Symposium on "Compression and Consolidation of Preprints or notes also are often prepared for technical Clay Soil" (IS Hiroshima '95) was held meetings held at local group level. at International Conference Center, Hiroshima during May 10-12 with 312 participants. The Proceedings were APPENDIX 2E published by Balkema Printers.

Report on A ctivities in the A sian N ational Societies 1994-5 (iii) Second Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference in Asian Region was held A . S. Balasubram aniam at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, during June 27 - July 1, This report covers the period January 1994 to date on the 1994 with 42 participants. It is co­ activities of the A sian N ational Societies of ISSM FE. sponsored by Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society and AIT. 1. There are now fourteen National Societies in Asia. These are Japan, Israel, India, China, S. E. A sia, Syria, (iv) The Third Young Geotechnical Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Korea, Engineers Conference is under V ietnam, Sri Lanka and N epal. preparation to be held in Singapore in 1997. 2. Technical Committees

(v) The following conference and The Japanese Geotechnical Society hosts five symposia are under preparations: ISSM FE Technical Committees and has set up four A sian Technical Committees. * First International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical (a) ISSMFE TC Engineering (IS Tokyo ’95), TC-2 Centrifuge Testing Tokyo November 14-16, 1995. TC-13 M echanics of Granular M aterials TC-28 Underground Construction in Soft * Second International Ground Conference on Ground T C -29 Stress-strain Testing of G eomaterials Improvement Geo-systems (IS in the Laboratory Tokyo '96) Tokyo, May 14-17, TC -30 Coastal G eotechnical Engineering 1996.

(b) Asian TC * International Symposium on (1) M icro-mechanics of Granular Soils Earth Reinforcement (IS and its Applications to Soil Kysushu '96) Fukuoka, Engineering November 12-14, 1991. (2) Geotechnology for National Hazard (3) Localization, Bifurcation and * International Symposium on Progressive Failure in G eomechanics Deformation and Progressive (4) Earth Reinforcement Failure (IS Nagoya '97), Nagoya, October 4-7, 1997. 3. Professional Activities Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society The A sia-Pacific Region is now the fastest developing part of the world. Construction activities of all types (i) Developments in Geotechnical demanding G eotechnical Expertise are in full swing in Engineering (from Harvard to New m ost countries. A lmost all the countries have very big Delhi). International Symposium, development projects and it is not possible to make a Bangkok, January 1994. One hundred comprehensive listing of them. ISSM FE should focus and twenty participants. Proceedings more to the A sia-Pacific Region where "Things are published by Balkema Printers. A ctually Happening" at this present time and will continue to do for at least another decade. (ii) Workshops and Symposia on:

4. Conferences, Symposia and W orkshops * Soil and Rock Behaviour, May 1994, Forty participants. (a) Japanese Geotechnical Society * Residual Soils, Slope Stability (i) International Symposium on "Pre- and Landslide, August, 1994, failure D eformation Characteristics of Thirty participants. Geomaterials (IS Hokkaido '94) was held at Hokkaido University during * Ground Improvement and 12-14, September 1994. Two hundred Piled Foundation, 80 and twenty participants attended and participants, November, 1994. the Proceedings published by Balkema Printers. The Proceedings of the volume to be published by Balkema.

2665 (iii) Southeast Asian Symposium on A nalytical M ethods in Geotechnical Tunnelling, jointly sponsored by Engineering, New Delhi, December International Tunnelling Association 1994. held in Bangkok in January 1995. Three hundred and ten participants. (e) Korean Geotechnical Society

(iv) Workshops on: * Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Geotechnical Conference 21-22, * Geotechnical Aspects of O ctober 1994. Earthquake Engineering, May * North-east Asia Symposium and Field 1995, 45 participants. W orkshop on Landslides and Debris Flow 28 June to 16 July, 1994. * Behaviour of Residual Soils and Soft & Hard Rocks in * International Symposium on the Design and Construction, A pplication of Expanded Polystyrene August 1995, 40 participants. Foam for Embankment Construction, June 1994. * Environmental Geotechniques and Natural Hazards, (f) Pakistan National Society for Soil November, 1995. Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

* Geotechnical Analysis: Closed * Fifth National Conference on form and Finite Element Application of Geotechnical Analysis, January 1996. Engineering in M itigation of N atural Hazards, D ecember 1994. (c) Chinese Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering * UNDP Workshop on Mitigation of Hazards A pril 1994. * Seventh National Conference on SMFE, Xian 25-29, October 1994, 270 * Sixth National Conference on "Role of participants. Geotechnical Engineering in Earthquake Resistant Design", * Geotechnical Techniques on Both D ecember 1995. Sides of Taiwan Strait, Xian, 20-24 October 1995, 185 participants, 67 (g) Israel Geotechnical Society from Taiwan. * Introduction of the New Israeli * Second National Conference on Standard on Soil Classification. Design and Construction of Piled February 1995. Foundation, Guilin, December 1994, One hundred participants. (h) Iranian Geotechnical Society

* Fourth National Conference of Soil * Workshop on Soil Deformability Dynamics, Hangzhou, May 1994, One Characteristics, April 1994, 45 hundred participants. participants.

* Sino-Canadian Symposium on * Workshop on Soil Grouting Unsaturated-Expansive Soils, Wuhan, Techniques and Performances, 40 participants. September 1994, 26 participants.

(d) Indian Geotechnical Society * Unsaturated Shear Behaviour of Soils, February 1995, 40 participants. * International Conference on Design and Construction of Underground * Pressuremeters, May 1995, 25 Structures, February 1995, New Delhi. participants.

* Annual Geotechnical Conference (i) Vietnamese Geotechnical Society 1994, Warangal December, 1994, 200 participants. * Short Course on Compaction Control, July 1994, 200 participants. * Trends in Geotechnical Engineering, Terzaghi 1994, Tirupati. * New Technology for Construction, NTC '95, M arch 1995, 200 * Short Course on Principles of Site participants. Investigation and Foundation Design, Visakhapatnam, February 1995.

* National Workshop on Numerical and

2666 APPENDIX 2F Niger, Sengal and Togo). R3 (Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo, Report on Activities in the African Region 1994-5 Gabon, Chad and Zaire). Madagascar will join R3 soon. M K El-Ghamrawy They intend to hold a symposium in Marrakech G e n e ra l September 24th 1995 about "The use of local products for road construction". Activities in the African region have mainly been concentrated on two items. Firstly organization for the 2.3 Mr Gambin wrote congratulating them and urging Eleventh African Regional Conference to be held in C airo, them to contact ISSMFE through myself. I also made Egypt 11-15 December 1995. Secondly the problem of some efforts and got recent contributions from Chad membership of African countries in the ISSMFE. Especially and Mauritania. in the existence of considerable number of Francophone African countries. The formation of Regional African 2.4 In general normal communications are available only Technical Committees has been studied and decisions w ill be in a few countries in Africa among the 52. It takes taken during the coming conference to bring these studies to longer than usual to contact but we persevere to get as reality. many countries as possible to our society and to our conference. I think among the six regions of the 1. The Eleventh African Regional Conference - Cairo ISSMFE Africa needs the most encouragement. - 11-15 December 1995 (11th ARC - Cairo ’95) 3. Regional Technical Committees 1.1 The conference will be preceded by a Board Meeting on Saturday 9th and a Council Meeting on Sunday Little success has - so far - been achieved here. 10th. The conference itself will be held from 11th Contacts have been made between several parties to until 15th. Post conference tours will be from 16th to form a Technical Committee for Heritage the 21st. They will end in good time for the delegates Preservation. This committee will be formed during to return back home for Christmas. Some will spend the December 1995 conference. it with their families in Egypt.

A PPE N D IX 3 1.2 The number of abstracts which were sent to the conference were 180 (85 from 16 African countries XIV ICSMFE; Hamburg, 1997 and 95 from 29 Non-African countries). The actual papers received, refereed and accepted to date (August Report to ISSMFE Council Meeting by W. W ittke 18th 1995) are 75 papers (37 from African countries and 38 from Non-African countries). Six prominent The XTV Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation keynote lecturers will deliver their lectures during the Engineering will take place from the 6th - 12th Septem ber conference. 1997 in the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH) in Hamburg, G erm any. 1.3 The conference will contain nine sessions. Each session will be chaired by two chairpersons, an Up to now, the Conference Advisory Committee (CAC) and African and a Non-African. The Non-Africans are the Conference Advisory Board/Organizing Committee chosen to represent almost all regions in the world. (CAB) have held five meetings each, so far. There will be an exhibition running in conjunction with the conference. Only 23 booths are available in A timetable for the Conference has been compiled. T he the Nile Hilton during the conference period. An preparations are in-line with the uplisted items. offshore drilling company will host a session in which Professor Rowe (UK) will lecture and then a Bulletin #1 appeared in January 1995, Bulletin #2 w ill appear workshop in offshore drilling. The field trip will be to in midsummer 96. Bulletin #3 will be distributed at the a new city created in the desert then to Alexandria. beginning of the Conference and will, simultaneously, serve 2. Memberships as the Conference-programme.

2.1 In Africa there are 52 countries. Only 9 countries o f Bulletin #1 contained the subjects for the plenary and which are member in the ISSMFE. They all can deal discussion sessions for the Conference. They are the basis for in English. Active Francophone countries are 19. the abstracts which will be handed-in by the National Several other countries are Francophone, Anglophone Societies up to the 1.1.96. or speak other languages. The General Secretary of the ISSMFE allocated the num ber 2.2 A Francophone Transnational "Geotechnical" Society of pages for the proceedings to each National Society in June was decided upon December 1994 without informing 1995. the ISSMFE or myself as Vice-President for Africa. I was kindly informed by Mr Michel Gambin about it. In July, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Prof. But this was months after the December 1994 Wittke, has sent out letters-of-invitation, based on the meeting. They formed the Transnational Society from proposals being made by the International President and the three regions: Vice-President Europe. These were mailed to the potential Chairmen, Discussion Leaders, Theme Lecturers and R1 (Algeria, Djibouti, Morocco and Mauritania). Panelists. The answers received were 90% positive; som e are R2 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, still pending.

2667 Meanwhile, invitations also went out to the lecturers o f the will be conducted from January, 1996. All members o f the "Traditional Lectures" and positive replies have been received International Advisory Committee will be kindly requested to with the exception of the lecturers for the Momenteous be serve as international reviewers. Sessions. The Conference Advisory Committee (CAC) under the As Social Programme, it is intended to hold a welcom e party request from the International Society for Soil Mechanics and as well as a reception by the Senate of the City of H am burg Foundation Engineering had been organized, and the m eeting with a subsequent banquet. of CAD was held in Kyoto, Japan on April 23, 1995. T he basic technical program and the invited speakers of the 2 Technical Excursions will be made to interesting construction ICEG were decided in the CAC meeting. sites in Hamburg. The post-Conference tours have been planned as a combination of technical excursions and tourist Every technical session consists of one State of the A rt programmes: a trip to Berlin with its large construction sites, Report, several oral presentations of submitted papers and another one to the new Intercity-Express train section floor discussions. Key persons for sessions will be construction site Cologne-Frankfurt with vast tunnelling determined finally after the full paper review. Authors w ho projects, returning to Cologne by boat on the river have failed to be oral presenters will be encouraged to attend Rhine; a tour to various water straits in Northern G erm any the Poster session to present their papers and enjoy and to historically interesting cities. discussions.

To round off the Conference, a touristically interesting 296 abstracts were submitted for review until August 10. 12 programme for accompanying persons is being offered during abstracts were not accepted and 15 abstracts were asked to be the Conference. combined into 7 ones. 276 abstracts including the 7 com bined ones were selected for manuscript submission. Further details will be given with bulletin #2. Table 1 - Number of Submitted Abstracts In spite of the high costs for services in Germany, the Organizing Committee tries to keep the prices as low as possible. Registration fee will be DM 800.00, (for latecom ers C ountry Num. Country N um . it will be DM 1000,00), including proceedings but w ithout A ustralia 4 N orw ay 3 any excursions or the banquet. These will have to be booked separately. For reasons of economy and with the approval o f Austria 1 Poland 2 the CAD, the proceedings will be published as paperbacks Bangladesh 1 Portugal 1 (Balkema). It is intended to publish four different volumes of proceedings: three to be handed-out during the Conference B elgium 2 R ussia 21 which will contain the papers previously received and w hich fall within the framework of the allocation of pages and one B razil 18 Singapore 2 post-Conference volume with the lectures that have been held B ulgaria 2 Slovak Republic 2 during the Conference. Canada 14 South Africa 2 There will be a simultaneous translation/interpretation service at hand for the languages English, French and German; the Chile 1 Spain 1 latter for reasons that Eastern European participants are China 2 Sweden 2 frequently far more fluent in German than in English or French, the German lecturers will therefore deliver in E gypt 2 Switzerland 2 G erm an. France 11 Taiwan 6

For the technical exhibition more than 1 100m2 have been Germany 6 Thailand 2 rented from the CCH. The Managing Director of the G erm an Society for Geotechnics (DGGT), Mr. Thiel, has received lists India 8 The Netherlands 1 of addresses from a number of countries with possibly Iran 2 Turkey 1 interested companies. More addresses would be welcom e. Ireland 1 U K 9

Italy 13 U kraine 1 A PPE N D IX 4 Japan 84 U SA 56 2nd ICEG, Osaka, 1996 Korea 7 Vietnam 1

M Kamon Mexico 1 Yugoslavia 1

This is a transient report of the Second International Congress TOTAL: 296 on Environmental Geotechnics : IS-Osaka '96.

The number of abstracts received by the organizing com m ittee reached 296 from 38 countries as shown in Table 1. B y the review, 20 abstracts were rejected. Each number of abstracts among the congress topics is listed in Table 2. Authors of the accepted abstracts have been requested to prepare the full papers by December 1. 1995. The review of the full papers

2668 Table 2 - Accepted Abstracts in Each Session outlined in the brochure.

As at July 28, 1995 information on 36 databases had Session Theme N u m b er been compiled, but 82 such databases were advised as 1. Site Investigation, Speciation and 38 (16) being in existence. Once compilation of the database Characterization is sufficiently complete, it is proposed that the listing be made available, either on diskette or in hard copy, at 2. Modeling and Numerical Analysis 23 (10) a modest price. A sample record is attached. 3. Geotechnics of Mines Waste 9 (3) M anagem ent Information Retrieval System

4. Geotechnics of Municipal Waste 12 (3) The ISSMFE has been pursuing for some years the M anagem ent development of an information retrieval system for Members. Initially proposals were sought from GE- 5. Waste Disposal and Containment 60 (18) IRC who have in place the general framework from 6. Geotechnical Recycle or Reuse of 58 (5) which it could provide a retrieval service. At first this Waste Materials appeared attractive, but to provide adequate coverage of publications and to maintain and update the records 7. Remediation of Contaminated 30 (7) would have required provision of considerable seed G round money by the Society. Attempts were made to obtain this seed money through Aid agencies, but 8. Dredging and Sediments 4 (5) unsuccessfully. Concurrently with the discussions with 9. Geo-Environmental Risks : 7 (4) GE-IRC we became aware of a comprehensive Assessment and Mitigation retrieval system at the Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI). This system contains some 42,000 records in 10. Regulations : Trends and Vision 1 electronic form, and a further 40,000 pre 1975 records for the Future in card form. These records are all directly relevant to TOTAL 276 soil mechanics and foundation engineering, and more recently to geo-environmental engineering. A formal proposal from SGI to provide a comprehensive The numbers in parentheses stand the abstracts which fit the retrieval system has not yet been received. I hope to be plural sessions, and the numbers out of the parentheses do not able to report more fully on this at the Cairo meeting. include the ones in the parentheses.

Newsletter A P P E N D IX 5

Although we have not widely canvassed the views of Task Force on Communications members, there appears to be a general consensus that the current format is suitable and sufficient. However, Report by M. C. Ervin views from Member Societies would be welcomed. Clearly this is a valuable forum in which to advise the 1. Database of Databases membership of relevant issues and Society activities. The concept of linking the production of the newsletter At the Board Meeting in May, 1995, it was reported to the retrieval system has been considered. that the Society had funded US $ 5,000 for the development of a Database of geotechnical databases Please present to the Cairo meeting the views of your by the Geotechnical Engineering International Member Society on the present newsletter format, and Resources Centre (GE-IRC) at the Asian Institute of any other issues relating to communication between Technology. The basis of this funding was: your Board and the membership.

* ISSMFE makes a US $ 5,000 interest freeloan to C E -IR C . DATABASE OF DATABASES * GE-IRC pays back this loan out of profit Sample Record generated from the Database of databases on a 50/50 basis. Name of Database GeoMechanics Abstracts (GMA) * Once the loan is repaid, ISSMFE will negotiate Database Producer Rock Mechanics Information to share in any subsequent income. Service Address of Producer Imperial College of Science For this venture to be successful, The Society, through and Technology, The Royal the Member Societies, will need to actively promote School of Mines, Prince the existence of the database. A brochure outlining Consort Road, London, SW7 details of the database, and its use will be available at 2B P, U .K . the Council meeting. L anguage E nglish Period of Coverage (from) 1977 The idea of the database is to compile a record of (to) present known databases, so that researchers can access No. of Records 60.000 as of July 1993 relevant bibliographies as required. However, through U pdates 3.000 abstracts annually GE-IRC searches can be undertaken at modest cost, as Contact Person(s) Dr. Doug H. Spencer

2669 Address : Rock Mechanics Information For each of the above aspects, a sub-committee of the Service, Imperial College of main committee has been appointed to collect the Science and Technology, The appropriate material. It will be assembled and Royal School of Mines, presented as a report to the next International Prince Consort Road, London, Conference in Hamburg 1997. SW7 2BP, U.K. Database Vendor : ORBIT; Infopro Technologies Data on European Geotechnical Education Local/Regional Contact : ORBIT: U S A C O Corporation, 13-12 Shinbasi, In Europe a questionnaire on Geotechnical Education 1-Chome, Minatoku, Tokyo, at University level has been sent out to about 45 105 Japan, Tel: (03) 3502- Universities. The answers not fully completed for the 6471 or (03) 3593-2709 or moment, although it's already possible to summarise SAMTEK Corp., 154-16 some of the headlines. Samsung Dong, Kangnam Ku, Seoul, Korea, Tel: (02) In my opinion, the Geotechnical Education curricula 538-4400; Fax: (02) 538-4339 can be subdivided into 4 groups: Annual Service Fee : Available from local/regional contact 1. Curricula suggesting classical Geotechnical Database Rates : Available from local/regional Education programs, some of them in a fairly contact fundamental way and usually fitting in a 10 Subject Coverage: semester education system. GeoMechanics Abstracts is a bibliographic database covering the published literature on rock mechanics and engineering 2. A Geotechnical Education curriculum in which geology. It corresponds to the printed version of Soil Mechanics' principles and Foundation Geomechanics Abstracts. It contains full bibliographic details Engineering are fully mixed. including abstracts. Specific subjects are: properties of rock and soil; rock and soil masses; geology and hydrogeology; 3. A condensed Geotechnical Engineering mining, tunnelling, and support foundation engineering; slope curriculum with only very basic and very stability; communication; rock and soil improvement applied rules for Geotechnical design. techniques; site investigation and laboratory and field tests. 4. Overspecialised type of curricula with very specific topics only useful to local Geotechnical A P P E N D IX 6 design problems. ISSMFE and Geotechnical Engineering Education C o m m e n ts

W. F. Van Impe 1. With the exception of mainly France, laboratory and field testing remains rather 1. Introduction limited in the various curricula. In the framework of TC-31, chaired by Prof. Poulos, 2. All over, the use of computers supported and of the Task Force on Education chaired by me, a teaching is still negligible. speciality session on this topic will be organised during the next International Conference of ISSMFE in 3. 65% of the curricula already have implemented Hamburg 1997. the Environmental Geotechnics.

The Committee TC-31 has 12 members from various 4. There seems to be not enough interplay member societies, and is hosted by the Australian Geomechanics Society. It is concentrating on four between the foundation engineering contracting world and the fundamental soil mechanics area: education programs.

1. Curriculum Development - continuing efforts to develop model curricula for courses in 5. The use of case histories for teaching Geotechnical Engineering should be stimulated geotechnics, especially at undergraduate level, through such contacts with industry. 2. Demonstrations, Models and Experiments - the development and dissemination of information Recommendations on suitable experiments and demonstrations for the above courses, which illustrate the One could try first of all: fundamentals of soil and foundation behaviour, to organise a permanent and well-structured 3. Computer-Aided Instruction - the collection dialogue between the Geotechnical and dissemination of suitable audio-visual Departments of the Universities on the material, including sets of slides and Geotechnical Education. accompanying text. to improve coordination, whether globally or in 4. Case Histories - collection of suitable case clusters, of the great variety of exchange histories which may be used as illustrations and programmes, while reducing bureaucracy. exercised for courses.

2670 A recommendation could be to stimulate and/or ISSM FE A udited A ccounts strengthen the cooperation in the field of G eotechnical Education. The focus of this cooperation should be 1 January 1994 to 31 D ecem ber 1994 based on "common objectives" rather than on "common frameworks", since a concept of uniformity Report by Secretary G eneral or even harmonisation is very unlikely to ever be possible, or even not desirable. The ISSM FE audited accounts for 1994 show an increase in cash balance of G BP9029 in G BP accounts, and an increase of APPENDIX 7 CH F57962 in the CHF account. Taking GBP1 = CHF2.05 gives a net increase in cash balance of G BP37304 as against a ISSM FE A udited A ccounts budgeted deficit of G BP9850.

1 Jan 1993 to 31 D ec 1993 Separation o f the O rdinary and Extraordinary accoun ts items shows a surplus of G BP18854 on the Ordinary receipt and Report by Secretary G eneral expenditure items and a surplus of GBP 18415 on the Extraordinary receipt and expenditure items. (N ote: a different The ISSM FE audited accounts for 1993 show a decrease in exchange rate has been applied here of G BP1 = C H F2.13, as cash balance of G BP 11,233 in G BP accounts and an increase rates varied from 2.07 to 2.21 during the year, as compared to of CH F58,812 in CHF accounts. Taking GBP1 = CH F2.20 the audited accounts for which the financial position was gives a net increase in cash balance of G BP15,500. This considered above on a specific day i.e. 31 December 1994 compares with a budgeted deficit of G BP19.640. when GBP1 = CH F2.05). The sum of the surpluses in this tabulation differs slightly from the surplus on the audited It can be seen from the summary tabulation o f accou nts and accounts because o f this exchange rate problem. budget items that subscriptions exceed the budgeted amount by G BP 11,187 due to a drop in G BP exchange rate in 19 92 from In the Ordinary accounts receipts exceeded budget b y GBP1 - CH F2.53 to GBP1 = CH F2.20. G BP 10528, mainly because of a favourable exchange rate of the CHF against the G BP. In expenditure, office cos ts and M ajor items on which expenditure was substantially less than equipment were less than budget by G BP6121, as no rent was budget were Travel and Entertainment (-G BP6952), List of charged for office space, while photocopying, postage and M embers (-G BP2557), N ewsletter (-G BP1635), V ideo lectures stationery all exceeded budget and telephone and fax were less and slides (-G BP4107), Emoluments and office costs (- than budget. G BP6898) and YG EC (-G BP6000). The difference in the N ewsletter is explained by some of the costs carrying over to In the Extraordinary accounts receipts Corporate M ember 1994. No video lectures were made and there was no subscriptions exceeded budget by G BP5558, but conference expenditure on YG ECs. income was less than budget by G BP 11334 as no inco me was received from the Edmonton conference (a small amou nt will be received in 1995). Slide sales were also less than expected. Sum m ary of A ccounts and Budget Items 1993 In expenditure conference support was G BP 13033 less than budget as no money was put into the Edmonton conference. Receipts There was no expenditure on other initiatives, as against A ctual Budget A ctual-bi G BP4000 in the budget. Expenditure of slides, list of members GBP GBP GBP and ISSM FE N ews were all less than budgeted.

Subscriptions 79987 68000 +11187 O ther income 15946 15000 + 946

Expenditure

Travel and

Entertainment 18048 25000 - 6952 Photocopying 2378 1600 + 778 Telephone/Fax 1602 1600 + 2 Stationery 1484 740 + 744 Postage 2158 2200 ■ 42 A uditors Fees & Bank Charges 1171 1000 + 171

List of Members 4843 7400 - 2557

Newsletter 5665 7300 - 1635 Corporation Tax 4008 2500 + 1508 Kevin Nash Medal 773 0 + 773 O ffice Equipment 89 800 - 771 V ideo Lectures and Slides 893 5000 - 4107 Staff Emoluments &

O ffice Costs 33602 40500 - 6898

YGEC 0 6000 - 6000 Model Library 1203 1000 + 203 UATI Fee 1274 0 + 1274

2671 International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 December 1994

Credit Barclays Investment University Suisse Bank Accounts of Cambridge SFr £

Cash balance at X January 1994 169,232 66,304 129,927 (4,491)

Add: Receipts M em ber Society subscriptions 168,334 1,194 Corporate M em ber subscriptions 9,558 Conference income 18,666 Publication sales 574 Slid e sales 690 TVavel refund 2,639 Interest received 2,346 7,796

337,566 101,971 137,723 (4,491)

Less: Payments Em olum ents and staff costs 28,022 13,493 TVavel and entertainm ent 20,426 80 Photocopying 82 1,403 Telephone, telex and fax 1,534 Postage 443 2.076 Stationery 523 474 N ew sletter 6,740 A udit fees 964 Bank charges 358 326 Corporation tax 2,838 Conference support 1,967 Publications 689 UA TI Fee 1,296 O ffice equipment 1,379 Slides and videos 293 List o f members 88

358 65,938 19,198

Add: Transfers from other accounts 50,702 25,000

Less: Transfers to other accounts 110,014 25,000

Cash balance at 31 D ecember 1994 227,194 61,735 137,723 1,311

Increase/(decrease) in cash balance 57,962 (4,569) 7,796 5,802

Information: At 31 December 1994 - £1 = SFr2.05

2 2 .Q p j.[.. i . . ^ R H G Parry, Secretary G eneral D ate

2672 International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

C o rporate M ember US $ £

Agra Earth & Environm ental Ltd 400 271 Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH 400 265 China Engineering Consultants Inc 1,600 1,067 China Harbour Engineering Company 1,600 1,077 Concrete Engineering Products Berhad 400 271 Fuji ta Corporation Tfechmcal Research Institute 400 267 G EI Consultants Inc 1,600 1,083 Golder A ssociates Inc 1,600 1,007 Harza Engineering Company 400 271 Keller Group Ltd 400 267 Kiso-Jiban Consultants Co Ltd 1,600 1,034 Klohn-Crippen Consultants Ltd 400 267 L&M Geotechnic Pte Ltd 400 270 Monenco A GRA Inc 400 265 Pilecon Engineering BH D 400 261 Sinotech Engineering Consultants Inc 1,600 1,083 Sir A lexander Gibbs & Partners Ltd 400 267 STS Engineering Consultants Co Ltd 400 265

14,400 9,558

Corporate M embership fees are invoiced in US S but received in sterling.

Information: On average for 1994 - £1 = US $1.51

2673 ISSMFE ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNTS 1994

ORDINARY ACCOUNTS

RECEIPTS ACTUAL BUDGET GBP CHF GBP Member Society Subscriptions 1194 168334 70000 Interest (less Corp.Tax) 7304 7000 Total 8498 168334 77000 (Total equivalent GBP) 87 528 77000 (1GBP = 2.13CHF)

EXPENDITURE ACTUAL BUDGET GBP CHF GBP Emoluments & Staff Costs 41515 42000 Office Costs and Equipment 1379 7500 Photocopying and Printing 1485 500 Telephone and Fax 1534 2000 P o s t a g e 2519 1800 S t a t i o n e r y 997 600 Audit Fees/Bank Charges 1290 358 1200 Travel & Entertainment (less refund) 1 7 787 ___ 3 8 0 0 0 T o t a l 68506 358 93600 Total equivalent GBP 68674 93600

RECEIPTS less EXPENDITURE 18854 (16600)

EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUNTS

RECEIPTS ACTUAL BUDGET G B P C H F GBP Corporate Member Subscriptions 9558 4000 Conference Income 18666 30000 R o y a l t i e s 3000 Sales of Slides 690 2000 Sales of Videos 500 Lexicon & Other Sales 57 4 500 T o t a l 2 9 4 8 8 4 0 0 0 0

EXPENDITURE ACTUAL BUDGET G B P C H F GBP Conference Support 1967 15000 Proceedings and Reports 689 Model Library 500 Other Initiatives 4000 V i d e o s S l i d e s 293 1400 Kevin Nash Gold Medal List of Members 88 2000 ISSMFE News 6740 9000 UATI Subscriptions 1296 1350 T o t a l 1 1 073 3 3 2 5 0

RECEIPTS less EXPENDITURE 18415 6750

2674 APPENDIX 9

ISSM FE - ORDINARY BUDGET

1994 1995 1996 1997

(GBP) (GBP)(GBP) (GBP)

RECEIPTS

M ember Society Subscriptions 73000 73000 74000 Interest (less Corp. Tax) 7000 7500 8000

80000 80500 82000 EXPENDITURE

Emoluments & Staff costs 42000 44000 44000 O ffice costs and Equipment 1500 2000 2000 Photocopying and printing 2000 1500 2000 Telephone and Fax 2200 2500 2500 Postage 1900 2000 2500 Stationery 700 800 1000 Audit fees / Bank charges 1200 1250 1300 Travel and Entertainment 27000 27000 27000

78500 81050 82300

Surplus (D eficit) 1500 (550) (300)

Accumulated Surplus Ordinary + real figure ' Extraordinary Budgets 311595 294245 276445 283895

ISSM FE - EXTRAORDINARY BUDGET

1994 1995 1996 1997

(GBP)(GBP)(GBP) (GBP)

RECEIPTS

Corporate M ember Subscriptions 4000 4000 4000 Conference Income 1000 0 30000 Royalties : Proceedings / Reports 500 500 500 Sales of Slides (& video) 500 500 500 Lexicon and other Sales 500 500 500 6500 5500 35500

EXPENDITURE

Conference Support (incl. YG EC) 4000 6000 6000 Proceedings and Reports M odel Library 6000 6000 0 O ther Initiatives 3500 0 0 Videos Slides 500 750 750 Kevin Nash Gold M edal 1000 List of M embers 0 0 10000 ISSM FE News 10000 10000 10000 UA TI Subscriptions 1350 0 0

25350 22750 27750

Surplus (D eficit) reality 18288 (18850) (17250) 7750

2675 International Society for Soil M echanics and Foundation Engineering - M in utes

of the Council M eeting held in Congress C entre, H am burg, G erm any

September 7, 1997 8.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m 2.00 p.m to 6.30 p.m

PRESENT President: Prof M Jamiolkowski

V ice Presidents: Prof M K El-G hamrawy A frica Prof A S Balasubramaniam A sia M r M C Ervin A ustralasia Prof W F V an Impe Europe Prof L V alenzuela South A m erica M r V M illigan N orth A merica

Past President: Prof N R M orgenstern

Board M ember: D rKHeeg Prof T Kimura Prof F Schlosser

Secretary General: Dr R H G Parry

(A fter lunch) Prof K Ishihara M r M ichel Gambin Prof R Peck

President ISRM : Prof S Sakurai

V ice Presidents: Prof F Bogossian South A merica Elect M r G Springall N orth A merica

Past President IA EG : Prof R O liveira

Chairman TC7: Prof J H Troncoso Chairman TC8: Prof E Slunga Chairman TC9: Prof J-P G ourc Chairman TC11: Dr D M Cruden Chairman T C I5: M r R Termaat Chairman T C I6: D r P K Robertson Chairman T C I7: Pro f I Juran Chairman TC29: Prof F Tatsuoka Secretary TC 30: D r T Tsuchida Chairman T C 31: Prof H G Poulos

M EM BER SOCIETY VOTING MEMBER NON-VOTING MEMBER

A rgentina Australia Prof Mark Randolph Prof John Carter Austria Prof Dr Heinz Brandi Dr Manfred Fross Azerbaijan Prof Yagub Eyubov Bangladesh Prof A S Balasubramaniam* Belgium Prof A Holeyman Bolivia — Brazil Prof Willy Lacerba Mr L Guilherme de Mello Bulgaria Prof D r G eorg Stefanoff D r Dimiter A lexiew Canada Prof Jim Graham Prof R Kerry Rowe Chile Prof Jorge Troncoso Mr Issa Kort China Prof Xue-Yuan Hou Colombia Mr Luis Fernando Vesga Costa Rica — Croatia Mr Zvonimir Lisac Mr Mensur Mulabdic Czech & Slovak Rs Dr Jaroslav Feda Mr Jan Bohac Denmark Prof Jergen Steenfelt Mr Jens Kammer Mortensen

2676 MEMBER SOCIETY VOTING MEMBER NON-VOTING M EM BER

Ecuador Prof W illy Lacerba* Egypt M r M Hamza Estonia M r M ait M ets Finland M r Hans Rathmayer M r M arkhu Tuhola France Prof M ichel Londez D r Samuel A mar Germany ProfW W ittke Prof E H M Nussbaumer Ghana G reece D r Dimitri Coumoulos Dr A G Anagnostopoulos Hungary D r Tibor Boromisza Iceland Prof Jorgen S Steenfelt* India Prof N Som Prof Gopal Ranjan Indonesia Prof A A ziz D jajaputra Iran M r Kamran Rezvan M r Behrouz Gatmiri Ireland M r M ike Long Israel M r Carl Redel M r Joseph G Zeitlen Italy D r M ario M anassero Prof Luciano Picarelli Japan Prof Tsutomu Kimura Prof O samu Kusakabe Kazakhstan Prof A sear Zhusupbekov D r Kuntas S Bizhanov Kenya Korea R Prof Chong-Kyu Lee Dr M young M o Kim Latvia Lithuania M r L Furmonavicius M r V incentas Stragys M exico D r A lberto Jaime D r Eulalio Juarez Badillo M orocco M r Houssine Ejjaaouani N epal D r Tej B S Pradhan N etherlands M r G W Beetstra N ew Zealand D r A lexei M urashev N igeria Norway Pro f Jenrgen Steenfelt* Pakistan D r Izhar-ul-Haq D r A rif A jaz Paraguay Peru Poland Prof E Dembicki Prof Zb M ylanarek Portugal Prof Pedro Séco e Pinto Prof Luis Lemos Romania Prof Iacint M anoliu Prof A ugustin Popa Russia Prof V A Ilyichev M r I V Kolybine Slovenia Prof Ludvik Traunder M s A na G aberc South Africa Mr Peter Day Mr Gavin Byme S E A sia Dr Siu-Mun Woo Prof Cheng-Hsing Chen Spain ProfS Uriel Sri Lanka Prof A S Balasubramaniam* Sudan Sweden Prof Rainer M assarsch M r Bengt Rydell Switzerland Prof Peter A mann Syria Tunisia Turkey Prof Ergün Togrol Prof Ufuk Ergun UK Dr W H Craig M r N A Smith USA M r Lawrence H Roth Prof Harvey E W ahls V enezuela Juan Carlos Hiedra-Cobo Juan C H iedra-López Vietnam Prof Tsutomu Kimura* Yugoslavia Prof M akisimovic Zimbabwe

* denotes Proxy V ote APOLOGIES

Prof H L Jessberger - Chairman ISSM FE TC5 Dr S Thorbum - Chairman ISSM FE TC20 Prof G E Blight - Chairman ISSM FE TC25 Prof R M air - Chairman ISSM FE TC28 Prof A W Skempton - Past President ISSM FE Prof J Kerisel - Past President ISSM FE Prof V H F de M ello - Past President ISSM FE Prof P G M arinos - President IA EG M r C Berenguier - Secretary G eneral ITA D r D Rodrigues - Secretary General ISRM

2677 INTRODUCTION M ember Societies should inform the new President regarding their wishes with respect to Technical 1. The President opened the meeting at 8.30 a.m. and Committees. He felt, himself, that most TCs should welcomed M ember Society delegates and invited continue their work, although with changes in participants. He mentioned that two other items not membership and terms of reference and, in some on the agenda would be raised during the meeting, cases, host country. namely the venue for the 4th ICEG in 2002 and a British Geotechnical Society proposal to hold an COMMUNICATION International Y G EC in the year 2000. 6. Mr Ervin advised the meeting that a Database of QUORUM Geodatabases in diskette form was available at a co st of USD 50 to ISSM FE members (from G E-IRC, Asian 2. A roll call at the start of the meeting showed 4 6 voting Institute of Technology, PO Box 4, Klong Luang, delegates to be present. A s 60 M ember Societies were Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand). entitled to vote, the number of voting delegates exceeded two-third of this number and consequently 7. A rudimentary ISSM FE Homepage had been set up on the meeting was quorate to deal with all matters. In the Internet, and this will be expanded by the addition to the voting delegates there were 6 proxy incoming Board. votes. 8. Negotiations had almost been completed for ISSM FE MEMBERSHIP members to gain favourable status access to the Swedish G eotechnical Institute Information Retrieval 3. The Secretary General reported that membership o f System (SGI Line). Access will be through the ISSM FE on 10 M ay, 1997 was 16741 in 70 M ember Internet. M r Ervin confirmed that the system was Societies (see tabulation, Appendix la). This comprehensive and suited to the needs of ISSM FE compares with 16667 in 68 M ember Societies on 31 M embers consisting of some 40000 card records of A ugust 1995 reported to the Council M eeting held in pre-1976 published material and 45000 post-1976 Cairo on 10 December 1995. N ew M ember Societies records in electronic form. He summarised the latest joining in 1996 were A zerbaijan (European Region) SGI proposal: with 15 members and Kazakhstan (A sia Region) with 18 members. At a Conference of African (a) ISSM FE M embers to get access to the system Francophone countries in M arrakesh in September on the Internet for U SD 250 per annum, which 1996, a general constitutive meeting w as held to set up is a 40 per cent reduction on the full the A frican Transnational Society of Geotechnique commercial rate of U SD 420 per annum. (CTG A ) in French. This Group M ember Society has submitted all papers required for ISSMFE (b) ISSM FE will pay USD 7000 to SGI to record, membership. M ember Societies with membership electronically, selected pre-1976 publications. payments four years or more in arrears are: This will be paid in two parts, USD 3000 at Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Latvia, N igeria, Sudan. commencement and U SD 4000 at completion As a result of a meeting between Past President o f the task. Professor M orgenstem and senior members of the geotechnical community in M yanmar it is likely that (c) A s far as possible ISSM FE will arrange for all that country will soon be applying for ISSM FE ISSM FE sponsored publications to be membership. provided to SG I free of charge.

4. Corporate Membership remains at 25 as shown in (d) ISSM FE will pay SGI USD 6000 per annum to A ppendix lb. The Corporate M embers are distributed maintain the system. SG I have agreed that this by Region as follows: A frica 0, A sia 10, A ustralasia can be in the form of 24 subscriptions at 0, Europe 9, N orth A m erica 6, South A m erica 0. USD250 each for selected recipients in developing countries.

TECHNICAL COM M ITTEE ACTIVITY (e) The agreement with SGI will be reviewed at each Council M eeting. 5. The President summarised the Technical Committees (A ppendix 2) and advised the meeting that in making 9. Following M r Ervin's introduction, Dr Bengt Rydell his initial review of the TCs he had merged the explained the SG I Retrieval System to the meeting and previous TC3 on Arid Soils with TC6 on Expansive distributed a flier describing the system. He said it Soils to form a new T C 6 on M echanics of Unsaturated would be operational on the Internet in O ctober 199 7, Soils. Similarly TC27 on Pressuremeter and with free access until the end of 1997, after which D ilatometer Testing had been merged with T C I6 on access would be by fee payment. Penetration Testing to form a new T C I6 on Ground Property Characterisation from In-situ Testing. Three 10. It was agreed by the meeting that the incoming Board new TCs had been formed, viz: T C29 on Stress-Strain should finalise the agreement with SGI. Testing of G eomechanics in the Laboratory, T C 30 on Coastal Geotechnical Engineering and TC31 on EDUCATION Education. He confirmed that most of the TCs had been very active in organising symposia or special 11. Prof Van Impe said that the work of this Task Force meetings, or in preparing reports or technical on Education has been merged with the work of T C 31 specifications. He reminded delegates that their on Education and he referred to an outline he had

2678 prepared (Appendix 3) of a report by TC31, to be Proposed amended by-law 12K .1: discussed in a Workshop on Education in G eotechnical Engineering in the programme for the "Proxy votes formalised in accordance with Statute XIV ICSM FE. 12G shall be counted in determining the quorum".

REGIONAL REPORTS There was no discussion on this motion and it was carried with no votes against and no abstentions. 12. Brief summaries of their Regional Reports (A ppendix 4a-f) were given by the Regional V ice-Presidents. STATUTE 18B

16. It was explained by the President that the requirement of Statute 18B that amendments to Statutes could only STATUTE 12G be passed at a single Council meeting if there was no votes against w as very restrictive for an International 13. The President expressed his concern that the tw o most Society like ISSM FE. This created a serious problem recent ISSM FE Council meetings in 1994 and 1995 and even the allowance of Statute 18C, that such had not been quorate for voting on changes o f statutes. changes could be made by two-thirds majority at two It was therefore being proposed in the next item on the successive Council M eetings, meant that long period s agenda to allow proxy votes to be counted in could elapse before important changes could be made. establishing a quorum. This would make for more He knew of no other learned Society which imposed effective decision taking by the Society in view of the such restrictions, and proposed that Statute 18B limitations placed on delegate numbers at Council should be amended. meetings by the growing cost o f travel and sometimes the remoteness of the meeting. H owever, he felt that Present Statute 18B: the designation o f proxy votes should be tightened and the number that m ay be carried by any delegate should "A n amendement to the Statutes which is passed with be limited. This would require a change to the present no votes against by the Council shall com e into eff ect Statute 12C: from the date fixed by the Council".

"A M ember Society which is not able to have a Proposed amended Statute 18b: delegate present may transfer its voting rights either to its own V ice-President or to the delegate o f another "A n amendment to the Statutes may be passed by a M ember Society having notified this in writing to the qualified majority of three-quarters o f Council, vo ting Secretary General. However, no delegate may carry in accordance with Statute 12G ". more than four such proxy votes."

17. An amendment proposed by the Danish delegate and Proposed amended Statute 12G : seconded by the Swedish deletate to replace "voting in accordance with Statute 12G" by "voting in "A M ember Society which is not able to have a accordance with Statute 12K and By-law 12K .1" was delegate present m ay transfer its voting rights either to carried with no votes against and one abstention. its own V ice-President or to the delegate of another M ember Society having notified this in writing to the 18. In reply to a query from the Pakistan delegate the Secretary General at least one month before the Chairman advised that any change to statutes would Council M eeting. N o delegate may carry more than not com e into effect until after the end o f the present two such proxy votes, with the exception of the meeting. ISSM FE V ice-Presidents who may carry three such proxy votes". 19. The amended motion was lost, as there was one v ote against by the Turkish delegate. However, as there 14. After some brief discussion an amendment, proposed were no abstentions, a two-thirds majority was by the Danish delegate and seconded by the Greek secured, allowing the motion to go forward to the n ext delegate, was carried to omit "at least one month" Council M eeting were it can be carried by a two-third s from the motion, and then the amended motion put to majority. the vote. It was not carried as there was one vote against by the Finnish delegate. There were also four NAM E OF SOCIETY abstentions. However, as a two-thirds majority was achieved, the motion may be put to the next Council 20. The following motion, approved by the Board, was put meeting and carried with a two-thirds majority. to the meeting by the Chairman:

BY-LA W 12K.1 "The name of the International Society for Soil M echanics and Foundation Engineering is to be 15. A motion approved by the Board to amend By-law changed to the International Society for Soil 12K.1 was put to the meeting by the Chairman: M echanics and G eotechnical Engineering. This name will become effective immediately following the Present By-law 12K . 1: closing session of the XTV ICSM FE."

"In determining the 'quorum', only those M ember 21. In introducing this item the President said that the Societies with delegates present are counted. (Proxy proposed name: (a) reflected the present activities of votes are not counted in determining the quorum)". ISSM FE members (b) allowed the incorporation of new areas o f activity (c) gave due consideration to the

2679 interests of the Sister Societies and (d) should prevent Australasia Prof Mark Randolph a proliferation of new International Societies to fill Europe Prof Dr Heinz Brandi voids left by the present name of ISSM FE. In North America M r Guillermo Springall response to a letter he had sent to all member South America Prof Francis Bogossian Societies, 42 M ember Societies had given a positive reply to the proposed new name, and another 10 had These names were greeted with applause. supported it, although preferring the name International Society for G eotechnical Engineering. ELECTIO N O F ISSM FE PRESID EN T 1997-2001 There were no replies opposing the proposed name. A lthough a motion was put to the Council M eeting in 26. Election papers were distributed containing the names Cairo in D ecember 1995 proposing that the new name of the two candidates for the ISSM FE Presidency should be adopted, the subsequent vote taken on this 1997-2001: was invalid as the meeting was not quorate for changing the statutes, which a change of name Professor Kenji Ishihara, nominated by Indonesia, required. Japan, K orea, Poland, Sri Lanka.

22. He said that both Sister Societies had also con sidered Professor Harry G Poulos, nominated by Australia, changing their names at their recent Council M eetings. Canada, G ermany, Israel, Russia, South A frica. It had been agreed by the LAEG Council M eeting in

Athens in June 1997 that their name should be In a secret ballot, the following votes were cast: changed to the International Association for

Engineering Geology and the Environment. A t the Professor Ishihara 30 votes ISRM Council M eeting in New York two possible Professor Poulos 24 votes new names had been discussed, viz: "International

Society for Rock M echanics and Rock Engineering" The President announced the election o f Prof Ishihara and "International Society for Rock M echanics and to the office of President, ISSM G E, for the period Geotechnical Engineering". The President said he 1997-2001. This was greeted by applause. strongly favoured the latter name as it matched the

proposed name change for ISSM FE and might, VENUE FOR THE 1999 ISSM GE BOARD AND COUNCIL sometime in the future, help towards a merging o f the MEETING two Societies. As the ISRM Council M eeting vote

was split equally between the two proposed names, the 27. The Secretary General advised that offers to ho st the existing name was retained. 1999 ISSM G E Board and Council M eetings had been received from the Organising Committees from all 23. In discussion, the President confirmed that the number five Regional Conferences to be held that year, as sequence for ISSM FE 4-yearly International follows: Conference would continue and the Conference in

Istanbul in 2001 would be XV ICSM GE. The 12th A frican Regional Conference to be held in Cape problem o f a French translation was raised and Prof Town/Durban, South A frica, April 12-14. Schlosser confirmed that it was difficult to find a

translation for "Geotechnical Engineering" and 8th A N Z Conference on G eomechanics to be held in "Géotechnique" was the best compromise. Prof Hobart, A ustralia, 15-19 February. Sakurai, President of ISRM , confirmed that his Society was retaining its present name because o f the 11th A sian Regional Conference to be held in Seoul, split vote. He said mining engineers did not like the Korea, August 23-27. term "Geotechnical Engineering". Dr Oliveira, representing IAEG, said that his Society, while 12th European Regional Conference to be held in changing its full nam e, would retain the initials IAEG. A msterdam, The N etherlands, June 7-10.

24. Before taking the vote on this item a count was made 11th Panamerican Conference to be held in Foz do to check the quorum. There were 48 voting delegates Iguacu, Brazil, A ugust 8-12. present, which was sufficient to allow a change in statutes. A s there were no votes against and one Following brief oral presentations to host the abstention, the motion was carried. The new name of meetings, voting papers were distributed. In a secret the Society, to take effect from the end of the XIV vote the candidate with the lowest number of votes ICSM FE, will be the "International Society for Soil was eliminated and this was repeated in successive M echanics and G eotechnical Engineering" (ISSM G E). votes, until only two candidates remained. The votes In French the "Société Internationale de M écanique cast for the final tw o candidates were: des Sols et de la G éotechnique". Amsterdam, June 7-10 27 votes Hobart, February 15-19 26 votes REGIONAL VICE-PRESIDEN TS 1997-2001 Consequently the ISSM GE Board and Council 25. The President advised the meeting that the elected M eetings in 1999 will be held in A msterdam at the ISSM FE Regional Vice-Presidents for 1997-2001 time and venue of the 12th ECSM G E.

XIV ICSM FE HAM BURG A frica M r Houssine Ejjaaouani Asia Prof Sang-Kyu Kim 28. In welcoming delegates to the XTV ICSM FE,

2680 Professor W ittke announced that 1073 participants had IA EG , ISRM and ISSM FE, which has led to the three registered for the Conference up to that time, o f w hich incumbent Presidents promoting the holding o f a joint 308 were Germans. There were 210 accompanying international millennium conference in the year 200 0. persons. 75 delegates had registered from Eastern Other International Societies IG S, ITA and IA H had Europe, of which the German Science Foundation also accepted to be co-sponsors. M r Ervin then were covering all costs for 15 of these and the summarised the programme contained in fliers he had registration fee was being waived for a further 10. distributed to meeting delegates. He encouraged There were 72 exhibitors, of which 40 were G erman. delegates to visit the G eoEng 2000 booth at the XTV Professor W ittke thanked the Conference A dvisory ICSM FE exhibition. He said he expected the Committee and Conference A dvisory Board for their registration fee for G eoEng to be about U SD 600. work and said that the number o f participants already registered ensured the economical success of the conference. 3RD ICEG, LISBON 7-11 SEPTEM BER 1998 LANGUAGES AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 34. A summary of his report (Appendix 7) was given by 29. A s the original motion on this item to amend Statute Professor Seco e Pinto, who said that 204 abstracts 3D, prepared by the German M ember Society and had now been received from 28 countries. He was presented by Professor W ittke, drew considerable particularly concerned that there had been no abstracts criticism it w as withdrawn and a new motion prepared from Scandinavian countries and only four from USA . by the German delegate and seconded by the The deadline for receipt o f abstracts was the end o f Bulgarian delegate, viz: September.

"The official languages shall be used in the 4TH ICEG 2002 proceedings and sessions of an International Conference. The language of the host country may 35. The President explained that it had been the also be used for oral presentations and discussions as recommendation of the Board that, although the first an unofficial language, if the host country so wishes, three ICEG s had been held at tw o year intervals, these and if simultaneous translations are provided. The intervals should be extended to four years following costs for these simultaneous translations have to be the 3rd ICEG in Lisbon. The 4th ICEG would borne by the host country and shall not be charged to consequently be in the year 2002, although the registration fees". environmental geotechnics would be one o f the major topics at G eoEng 2000. It had already been decided 30. The reason advanced in proposing this motion was that the ICEG series should be treated in the same that an International conference of the ISSM FE is a manner as the tradition IC SM FE series and the venue considerable economical risk for the M ember Society voted upon at Council M eetings. However, it would of the country hosting the conference, in particular for be too late to vote on the venue for the 4th ICEG in those countries where no government funds or the 1999 Council M eeting, but he had received an financial support is given. A conference must excellent offer from the Brazilian M ember Society to therefore be attractive for both the members of the hold the 4th ICEG in Rio de Janeiro in 2002. M ember Society and for consultants and construction A lthough this matter was not in the agenda for this companies and exhibitors. That attractiveness depend Council M eeting he hoped that the meeting could largely on the use of the native language o f the host come to an agreement on this. This would enable the country during a conference. 4th ICEG to be promoted in Lisbon in 1998. A s the previous two ICEGs were held in North America 31. This motion was lost as there were 8 votes against, 7 (Canada) and A sia (Japan), and the 3rd would be in abstentions and 34 in favour. A s it has a two-third s Europe (Portugal) he felt there was a strong case for majority in favour it may be carried forward to the the 4th to be held in South A m erica. next Council M eeting, where a two-thirds majority will be sufficient to bring it into effect. 36. As there was no opposition to this proposal the President announced that the 4th ICEG would be held XV ICSM GE, ISTANBUL 27-31 AUGUST, 2001 in Rio de Janeiro in 2002.

32. Presenting his report on this item (Appendix 5), YG EC 2000 Professor Togrol, Chairman of the XV ICSM GE O rganising Comm ittee, confirmed that all traditional 37. The President drew attention to a paper (A ppend ix 8) aspects of the International Conferences would be which had been distributed to delegates at the meeting, included, but it w as intended to provide more time for prepared by the British Geotechnical Society, discussion and to investigate more modem publishing proposing to hold a "one off' International Young methods, such as the use of CD -RO M S. Technical G eotechnical Engineers Conference in the year 2000. Committees could run separate specialist conferences It would be held in Southampton 11-13 September within the programme. He expected 2000 participants 2000. to attend the conference.

38. The meeting agreed to this proposal. GEO ENG 2000, M ELBOURN E 19-24 NO VEM BER 2000

33. M r Ervin, Chairman of the Organising Committee for G eoEng 2000, in presenting his report (A ppendix 6), stressed the synergy between the three Sister Societies

2681 ISSM FE 1997 LIST OF M EM BERS prepare a manual for preparation o f technical papers for conferences under the auspices of ISSM FE. 39. It was reported by the Secretary General that an offer by A BaLkema was accepted to produce a 1997 43. There was support from Professor Steenfelt, who said ISSM FE List of members with the same bound format that presentation on CD-ROM should also be as in the past, for G BP 0.82 (U SD 1.3) per copy. On considered, and from Professor Cruden who said that 26 June 1996 a letter was sent from the Secretariat to such a manual should be made available to all Chairs the Secretaries o f all M ember Societies asking them to of Technical Committees. Dr Day expressed some forward direct to Balkem a their lists on computer disk concern that such a manual could stifle beneficial (with a printout) by January 1997. A reminder was changes in publication methods in the future. sent out with subscription notices in early D ecem ber 1996, and further reminders in February and April 44. Noting that the meeting was expressing some interest 1997 to Societies which had not submitted lists. The in the proposal, the President recommended that it Secretaries were advised that, as with previous issues, should be considered by the new President and Board . copies of the List o f M embers would be sent to them in bulk for distribution to members who requested M ODEL LIBRARIES them. Each M ember Society would receive a number equal to about 20% of their membership number. The 45. Reports were presented by the Secretary General on total number printed would be 3750. Proofs of the the English Language M odel Library (A ppendix 10a) lists prepared by Balkema had been sent back to and by M r Gambin on the French Language M odel M ember Societies for checking and final lists sent out Library (Appendix 10b). M r Gambin said that a to all Societies. Thirteen M ember Societies failed to French Newsletter was also being distributed to send in lists of their members. On 27 N ovember 1996 selected recipients, based partly on ISSM FE N ews. a letter was sent to all 25 Corporate members advising them that they could place a business card in the List 46. The President said he felt strongly that the Model of M embers if they wished to do so. Only three Libraries in English and French were a worthwhile responded to this. A list of all Corporate M embers, by initiative which should be continued. He also drew a name and country, is included in the List o f M embers. parallel with the proposed agreement with SGI for In a break with tradition, ISSM FE Statutes and By­ ISSM FE to pay subscriptions to SG I Line Information laws were not included in this edition of List of Retrieval System for selected recipients in growing M embers, because of possible change of statutes at countries. The procedure for selecting the recipients, this Council M eeting and the change in the name of in particular inviting suggestions from Regional V ice- the Society. Presidents, would have to be similar to that for selecting M odel Library recipients. 40. The 1997 ISSM FE List of Members has now been printed by Balkema and would shortly be sent in bulk to M ember Societies. ISSM FE HERITAGE M USEUM ISSM FE HOM EPAGE ON THE INTERNET 47. In presenting his report on this item (Appendix 11a), 41. A cting on a proposal by M r Ervin, Chairman of the Professor V an Impe said that his proposal to establish Task Force on Communications, the Secretary G eneral an ISSM FE Heritage M useum had been approved by reported that the ISSM FE Board had asked him to the ISSM FE Board M eeting held in Santiago in 1996. explore the possibility of ISSM FE setting up a The Turkish M ember Society had made an offer to Homepage on the Internet. The Board has also asked host the M useum, some details of which were given in M r Ervin to write to Professor M ark Randolph asking his report and, more recently, an offer (A ppendix 1 lb) him if he would agree to take responsibility for setting had been received from the German M ember Society up a small comm ittee to recommend on the design and to accommodate the Heritage Museum at the contents of the Homepage. A basic Homepage has Deutsches M useum in M unich. A t this time he was been established, but no attempt has been made as yet asking for the Council to authorise the incoming to develop the site and this action has now been President and Board to select a suitable location for delayed until after the installation o f the new President the Heritage M useum and to finalise an agreem ent, to and Board. This will also give the opportunity for the be presented to the 1999 ISSM FE Council M eeting. comm ittee to be set up by Professor Randolph to make its recom mendations. 48. Professor Togrol confirmed that the Rector of the Istanbul Technical University had offered to provid e The cost o f renting the present website is G BP 10 p er sufficient space in one wing of a new building now month. In addition to this a set-up fee of G BP 12 has under construction, to accommodate the proposed been paid, but the principal costs will be in employing Heritage M useum. The building will be completed at someone to further set up the site and input the the end of 1998. The facilities would include living detailed information. The cost might be G BP500 to quarters for young people wishing to do research 1000 and there may be further costs for monthly linked with the M useum and also a large meeting updates if this cannot be done by the Secretariat. room.

MANUAL FOR PRESENTATION OF TECHNICAL 49. Professor W ittke distributed to the meeting a letter PAPERS from Professor Fehlhammer offering to house the ISSM FE Heritage M useum in the D eutsches M useum, 42. A proposal by the Israeli M ember Society (Appen dix M unich. Professor W ittke said the M useum already 9) was presented by M r Redel, that ISSM FE should had sections devoted to structural engineering,

2682 tunnelling and highway design. The addition of between the two Societies. Their interests were geotechnical engineering would complement these. complementary, as IGS primary interest was in Support for setting up the M useum would be given by G eosynthetics and their application in G eotechnical the G erman civil engineering industry and the D G G T Engineering, whereas ISSM FE primary interest was and the Museum would cover running costs. G eotechnical Engineering and the possible uses of Additional scientific support would be given by the G eosynthetics. Professor Jones promised to raise the two technical Universities in M unich. The M useum possibility of closer co-operation with O fficers of his would be open for scholars and researchers, and Society at their meeting in August 1997, and the particularly young people. He would be preparing a ISSM FE Secretary General said he would raise this report on this offer for the ISSM FE Board. with the new President of ISSM FE in September, particularly in relation to his review of the work of 50. The President thanked Professor Togrol and Professor TC9 on G eotextiles and G eosynthetics and his choice W ittke for these offers and said that any offer would of a Chair for this Committee. have to cover both the setting up of the M useum, including obtaining and transporting items, and 55. The President said that ISSM FE was awaiting subsequent running costs. These would have to be initiatives from IA EG and ISRM for the next meeting compatible with the ISSM FE Budget. He asked that of the three Secretaries G eneral. the meeting should authorise the incoming President and Board to explore these and other possible offers to ISSM FE AUDITED ACCOUNTS 1995, 1996 house the M useum and to finalise a suitable solution. The meeting agreed to this. 56. The Secretary General reported that the ISSM FE audited accounts for 1995 (A ppendix 12a) showed a decrease in cash balance of GBP9581 in GBP accounts and an increase of CH F65,179 in the CHF RELATIONS W ITH SISTER SOCIETIES account. Taking GBP1 = CHF 1.787 gives a net increase in cash balance of G BP26893 as against a 51. The Secretary General said that although the three budgeted deficit of G BP17350. In terms of GBP, Sister Societies IAEG, ISRM and ISSM FE have M ember Society subscriptions were GBP 106,690 always enjoyed a close relationship, they have not compared to budget G BP73000, but this excess was a until now sponsored a major event. This will be result o f a substantial drop in the value o f G BP against remedied with the organisation of G eoEng 2000, an the CHF. This has an important influence becuase International Conference on Geotechnical and ISSM FE income is primarily in CHF, whereas G eological Engineering to be held in M elbourne, expenditures are mostly in GBP. As a matter of Australia, 19-24 November 2000. Planning and interest the exchange rate dropped from 2.20 in 199 3 organisation of the conference is well in hand, as to 2.05 in 1994 and 1.787 in 1995 (increasing again in described by the Chairman of the Conference 1996 to 2.30). Separation of the Ordinary and O rganising Committee, M r Ervin, in his report to this Extraordinary accounts items (A ppendix 12c) shows meeting, and a meeting of the Conference A dvisory a surplus of G BP40563 on the Ordinary receipt and Committee was held in Singapore in February 1997, expenditure items and a deficit of G BP 10860 on the attended by the Presidents o f the three Societies, the Extraordinary receipt and expenditure items. The Secretaries General of ISRM and ISSM FE, members discrepancy between these amounts and the increase of the Organising Committee and the ISSM FE V ice- o f G BP26893 given above arises because of transfer president Elect for A ustralia. Co-Sponsors will be the of money from the Swiss bank account to the G BP International G eosynthetics Society, the International account during the year at rates different to the G BP1 Tunnelling Assosication and the International' = 1.787 adopted for the year-end accounting. The one A ssociation of Hydrogeologists. expenditure item in the Ordinary Budget which is substantially above budget and 1994 expenditure is 52. A close co-operation was established between IC OLD Stationery, partly due to the printing o f headed note and ISSM FE (through TC7 and ISSM FE Vice- papers and envelopes and the supply of photocopy President for South A m erica, M r Luis V alenzuela) in cartridges. jointly sponsoring the Syposium on Tailings Dams held in Santiago, Chile, in October 1996. The 57. The ISSM FE audited accounts for 1996 (Appendix ISSM FE Board M eeting was held at the same venue 12b) showed an increase in cash balance of immediately before the Symposium. GBP 15,507 in GBP accounts and a decrease of CHF230 in the CHF account. Taking GBP1 = 53. ISSM FE continues to be an affiliate member of the CHF2.3 gives a net increase in cash balance of International Union of Geological Sciences and G BP15,408, against a budgeted deficit for 1996 of through this connection ISSM FE has been invited to G BP 17800. In general, Ordinary items o f expenditure nominate a representative to act on the Organising (Appendix 12c) correspond reasonably well with Committee for the 31st International Geological budget, with telephone and fax, and postage, Conference, to be held in Rio de Janeiro in the year substantially less than budget (G BP970 and 622 less 2000. ISSM FE Vice-President Elect for South respectively). Under Extraordinary items receipts for A merica, Professor Francis Bogossian, has kindly conference income (no item in budget) and sales of agreed to act in this capacity. slides exceeded budget while Corporate M embers subscriptions, royalties and lexicon sales were below 54. In recent telephone conversation, the President of the budget. Under expenditure, conference support and International G eosynthetics Society, Professor Colin ISSM FE News were substantially less than budget Jones, and the ISSM FE Secretary G eneral agreed on (G BP4000 and G BP5943 less respectively). The low the desirability of a closer working relationship figure for expenditure on ISSM FE N ews is because

2683 two of the payments for postage were held over G BP8000 for Regional Conference income for the because of a dispute with DHL and payments for year 1999. He thought it might be cost saving for printing of only 3 issues were made in 1996. The ISSM FE to have a well organised Internet Homepage, fourth payment and the payments to D H L (problem and to have an agreem ent with some specialised editor now resolved) will appear in the accounts for 1997. to send out the printed version of ISSM FE News, allowing for inclusion of some technically relevant 58. The accounts for 1995, 1996 were audited by Coopers advertising. The budget showed a substantial and Lybrand, Chartered A ccountants and Registered accumulation of funds up to 1997, but an accurate A uditors. prediction of this accum ulated fund could not be made beyond 1997. There was a need for the incoming 59. In view of the substantial funds accumulated by the President and Board to consider the financial Society, the President recom mended that the incoming management of these funds. Finally he felt that an President and Board should explore the m ost effective increase in M ember Society subscriptions in the year means of managing these funds. He thought there 2000 would be necessary to avoid a budget deficit. could be some problems related to the introduction in The last increase had been in the year 1991. 1999 of the European Common Currency.

61. In discussion on this item Professor Graham said there ISSM GE BUDG ET 1997-2001 might be some problem for Canada to pay a sudden 14% increase in ISSM FE subscription in 2000, as 60. The Budget agreed by the Board was presented by opposed to making small inflationary increases in Professor V an Impe (A ppendix 13). Expressing some payments each year, which presented no problem. concern at the ISSM FE expenditure, he was showing Professor Steenfelt queries whether it would not be in the budget some decrease in Secretarial expenses more appropriate to allow an increase in Secretariat after 1999, but had recognised that there would be expenditure in the future, so that it could provide more some increase in expenditure at the time of the services. Dr M illigan said he thought more income change-over of the Secretariat. An amount of could be obtained from Corporate members, by giving G BP27,750 was allowed for Board travel and them a special status and a different name. expenses in 1998,9 increasing to G BP30000 in 2000

and 2001. The Board expenditure for travel, in the 62. The budget was agreed by the meeting. past, had been less than the budgeted amount. Under Extraordinary expenditure other initiatives in the NEXT M EETING future might include a Heritage M useum, a M odel Library Schem e, SG I Line Information Retrieval and 63. The next ISSM GE Council M eeting will be held in V isiting Lecturers. He felt there was an anomaly in Amsterdam on the occasion of the XH ECSM G E. The that ISSM FE Regional Conferences do not contribute date o f the meeting will be Sunday 6th June. to ISSM FE income, whereas the ICEG Conferences do contribute. He had consequently included a sum o f

APPEND IX la.

ISSM FE M EM BERSHIP TA BLE - 10 M ay, 1997

Member Societies No of Africa Asia Australasia Europe North South M embers A m erica A m erica

Argentina 93 93

Australia 462 462

A ustria 72 72

Azerbaijan 15 15

Bangladesh 55 55

Belgium 72 72

Bolivia 13 13

Brazil 242 242

Bulgaria 52 52

Canada 889 889

Chile 46 46

China 156 156

Colombia 37 37

Costa Rica 58 58

Croatia 43 43

Czech & Slovak Republics 43 43

2684 Member Societies No of Africa Asia Australasia Europe North South Members A m erica A m erica

Denmark 275 275

Ecuador 22 22

Egypt 20 20

Estonia 30 30

Finland 177 177

France 746 746

Germany 1517 1517

Ghana 33 33

Greece 158 158

Hungary 84 84

Iceland 10 10

India 430 430

Indonesia 70 70

Iran 58 58

Ireland 32 32

Israel 74 74

Italy 262 262

Japan 1331 1331

Kazakhstan 18 18

Kenya 21 21

Korean R 87 87

Latvia 31 31

Lithuania 40 40

Mexico 180 180

Morocco 12 12

Nepal 15 15

Netherlands 325 325

New Zealand 238 238

Nigeria 58 58

Norway 330 330

Pakistan 80 80

Paraguay 17 17

Peru 25 25

Poland 128 128

Portugal 181 181

Romania 53 53

Russia 180 180

Slovenia 31 31

South Africa 546 546

S E Asia 406 406

Spain 230 230

Sri Lanka 34 34

Sudan 25 25

Sweden 517 517

Sw itzerland 264 264

2685 M em ber Societies No of A frica Asia Australasia Europe North South M embers A m erica A m erica

Syria 12 12

Tunisia 10 10

Turkey 181 181

UK 1016 1016

USA 3586 3586

Venezuela 37 37

Vietnam 18 18

Yugoslavia 29 29

Zimbabwe 103 103

TOTAL 16741 828 2844 700 7124 4655 590

APPENDIX lb - M EM BERSHIP

ISSM FE CORPORATE M EM BERS

Keller Group Limited, UK A gra Earth & Environmental Ltd, Canada

A pagéo-Segelm, France Kiso-Jiban Consultants Co Ltd, Japan

Klohn-Crippen Consultants Ltd, Canada Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH, Germany

L & M G eotechnic Pte Ltd, Singapore China Engineering Consultants Inc, Taiwan

M onenco A G RA Inc, Canada China Harbour Engineering Company, Hong Kong

Concrete Engineering Products Bdh, M alaysia PRO TEKT, Ukraine

D redging International N V , Belgium Sinotech Engineering Consultants Inc, Taiwan

Entrecanales y Tavora SA , Spain Soletanche Enterprise, France

Fijita Corporation Technical Research Institute, Japan STS Engineering Consultants Co Ltd, Thailand

GEI Consultants Inc, USA Terre A rm ée Internationale, France

Tokyu Construction Co Ltd, Japan G eo-Research Institute, Japan

Golder A ssociates Inc, USA TPL-Technoogie Progetti Lavori SpA , Italy

Harza Engineering Company, USA

APPENDIX 2

ISSM FE TECHNICAL COM M ITTEES

TECHNICAL COM M ITTEE SMSCHAIRMAN

TC-1 INSTRUMENTATION FOR GEOTECHNICAL MONITORING NOR WAY DR. E. DI BIAGIO

TC-2 CEN TRIFUGE TESTIN G JAPAN PROF. T. KIMURA

TC-4 EARTHQUAKE GEOTECHNICAL ENGNG PORTUGAL DR. P. SÉCO E PINTO

TC-5 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS GERMANY PROF. H. L. JESSBERGER

TC-6 UNSATURATED SOILS CANADA PROF. D. FREDLUND

TC-7 TAILING DAMS CHILE PROF. J. H. TRONCOSO

TC-8 FROST FINLAND PROF. E. SLUNGA

TC-9 GEOTEXTILES AND GEOSYNTHETICS FRANCE DR. J. P. GOURC

TC-10 GEOPHYSICAL SITE CHARACTERIZATION USA DR. R. D. WOODS

TC -11 LA NDSLIDES CANADA DR. D. M. CRUDEN

2686 T C-12 VALIDATION OF COM PUTER SIM ULATIONS USA DR. J. T. CHRISTIA N

TC-13 MECHANICS OF GRANULAR M A TERIA LS JAPAN PROF. MASANOBU ODA

TC-14 OFFSHORE GEOTECHNICA L ENGINEERING USA DR. W. DUNLAP

TC-15 PEAT NETHERLANDS MR. R. J. TERM A A T

TC-16 GROUND PROPERTY CHARACT. FROM INSITU TESTING CANADA PROF. P. K. ROBERTSON

TC-17 GROUND IM PROVEMENT USA PROF. I. JURAN

TC -18 PILE FOUNDATION BELGIUM PROF. W. VAN IMPE

TC-19 PRESERVA TION OF HISTORIC SITES ITALY PROF. C. VIGGIANI

TC-20 PROFESSIONA L PRA CTICE UK DR. S. THORBURN

TC-22 INDURATED SOILS AND SOFT ROCKS FRANCE M R. J. L. DURVILLE

TC-23 LIM IT STA TE DESIGN IN GEOTECHN. ENGNG DENMARK PROF. N. K. OVESEN

TC-24 SOIL SAMPLING UK DR. D. HIGHT

TC-25 TROPIC AND RESIDUA L SOILS SOUTH AFRICA PROF. G. E. BLIGHT

TC-26 CALCAREOUS SEDIM ENTS AUSTRALIA PROF. R. JEWELL

TC-28 UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION IN SOFT GROUND UK DR.R.MAIR

TC-29 STRESS-STRA IN TESTIN G GEOM A TERIA LS IN THE LA B JAPAN PROF. F. TATSOUKA

TC-30 COASTAL GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING JAPAN PROF . A. NAKASE

TC-31 EDUCATION IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING AUSTRALIA PROF. H. G. POULOS

APPENDIX 3 - EDUCATION 3. FUNDAMENTAL PRE-REQUISITES

REPORT ON ISSMFE TC-31 + TASK FORCE ON * Mathematics EDUCATION * Statics * Dynamics Prof. H. G. Poulos, in cooperation with the Task force on * Engineering Geology Education, is preparing a compilation o f the T C -31 activities * Computer programming & other languages.programs - over the passed 3'/2 years. e.g. EXCEL, M ATHCAD, M ATLAB

The presentation of such work will be ensured during the 4. CURRICULA FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES session on G eotechnical Education in Hamburg.

* Burland's triangle as desirable basis The content on the document and the preparation for the * Emphasis varies depending on country & educational Hamburg Session can be listed as indicated (enclosu re). background e.g. Europe, USA , U K differ in emphasis on m athem atical basis, practical content W . F. VAN IM PE. * Course philosophy

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION * 3 main courses - Basic Soil Mechanics TOW ARDS 2000 - Soil & Foundation Engineering - Practical G eotechnical Engineering

Report of Technical Com m ittee TC -31 * "Service" courses for non-specialists may need to combine aspects of all 3

OUTLINE 5. COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION

1. INTRODUCTION * Rapid developments - scope

* Background of TC-31 - follows on ISSM FE 1989-94 * Examples of active developments for both theory & * Objectives of TC-31 1994-7 laboratory work & test simulation * O utline of report * GEOTECHNICAL (UK) * CATIGE (Australia)

2. EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES * University of Hong Kong

* D epends on course and end-point 6. DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS + Civil; M ining; Environmental; Service course for other disciplines * M ore emphasis on basic principles & understanding * 3 basic courses in "undergraduate" level * Less emphasis on carrying out routine tests (CAI can * Courses & career paths assist the latter)

2687 * Examples o f demonstrations in various categories, as The Eleventh African Regional Conference in Soil per Holtz sub-group M echanics and Foundation Engineering (XI A RC SM FE).

7. CASE HISTORJES The XI A RC SM FE w as held in the N ile Hilton Hotel - Cairo - Egypt 11-15 December 1995. It was preceded by a Board * Value and use of well-documented case histories Meeting and a Council M eeting both o f ISSM FE in 9 and 10 * Illustrations of real behaviour Decem ber respectively. * Predicted versus measured behaviour * Examples 237 delegates 23 accompanying persons attended the - Bearing Capacity (Transcona) conference. - Settlem ent (Pisa Tow er ?) - Embankm ent Failure REGION NUM BER OF NUM BER OF - Sheet pile w all failure (Daniel & Olsen, 1983) COUNTRIES DELEGA TES

8 . POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION A frica 9 23

A sia * Breadth and depth 9 24 * Typical courses Europe 15 35 * Increasing emphasis on environmental courses

North A merica 2 6 9. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING South A merica 1 2

* Updating education of professionals A ustralia 1 3 * Refresher courses for fundamentals * Courses on newer topics Egypt - 144 * Courses on new developments in traditional topics

* Teachers to gain practical experience The conference contained 10 sessions on 8 main topics. It * ISSM FE role in continuing education also contained 7 keynote speakers (T. Kimura, F. Sc hlosser, * Bridging the gap between practice and the latest W. Van Impe, A. S. Bazarra, N. K. Kumapley and A. J. research developments Ferrante). A pioneering lecture on a new theory o f the construction o f the great pyramid o f Giza w as deliv ered by Dr.

10. CONCLUSIONS R. Parry.

* Issues addressed 144 papers were published in the four volumes of * Continuing need to relate education to rapidly- proceedings. Out o f this number 50 persons presented their changing technology w ork during the sessions. * Researchers need to be aware o f needs o f industry ,and vice-versa The vice president for A frica called for a meeting o f the * ISSMFE to play continuing role in guiding representatives o f the francophone countries w ho w ere present developments in geotechnical education. at the conference. Several problems w ere discussed and the vice president suggested that holding a conference or a sim ilar

APPENDIX 4 a-f - REGIONAL REPORTS BY VICE- in which the invitation shall be specifically directed to PRESIDEN TS francophone A frican countries w as - by then - a dem anding issue.

Report to H am burg Council M eeting, Septem ber 7th, 1 997 The Francophone conference, M arrakech Septem ber 199 6

(a) AFRICAN REGION (1994/1997) Both the french and the Moroccan geotechnical socie ties

Introduction responded positively to the idea o f a francophone c onference. A conference was called for by the M oroccan society for two

The African region contains 52 countries. Only 90 c ountries days 17 and 18 September 1996 in Marrakech. The theme for are members in the ISSM FE. During the past four years the conference was; "Pathologie des fondations et les efforts were made to try to overcom e some o f the difficulties remedes" (Damages and Remedies of Foundations). The that surround the activities o f the International Society in invitations were directed towards the francophone A frican Africa. Communications is one o f the biggest proble ms. So countries. are the political unrest and instabilities. Besides local languages, almost half the region is anglophone and the other There were three co-presidents in the conference. T he half is francophone. The reputation o f ISSM FE as be ing presidents o f the national geotechnical societies o f M orocco anglophone alienated many francophone countries fro m and France and the vice president ISSM FE for A frica. 140 joining. The two main achievements during the 1994/ 1997 delegates attended the conference from 14 francopho ne vice presidentship is the XI A frican Regional Confe rence and African countries. During this conference two important the formation o f the Transnational Geotechnical Soc iety for events took place. Francophone African Countries (CTGA ) and apply for its membership in ISSM FE. This will - hopefully - help in The first is the distribution o f thirteen model lib raries - for the embracing large number o f African francophone countries first time - in French. Each model library consists o f five w ithin the ISSM FE. excellent text books including the Canadian manual for foundations. Four counties contributed to this library. France, Belgium , Sw itzerland and Canada. 17 A frican francop hone institutions w ere eligible as recipients, 13 o f w hich received

2688 the model libraries during the conference. They were To my experience, the Symposia and Conferences organized institutions from tw o from each o f A lgeria and Tunis and one based on the Technical Committee activities have several from Burkina Faso, The Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Gab on, advantages in the sense that: Guinea, M ali, M orocco and the Senegal.

1 . the theme of the event can be narrowed down to a The second important event was the establishment o f the specific topic and thus, the value o f the gathering and Comite Transnational de Geotechnique d'A frique CTGA (The the printed volumes have great educational, researc h Transnational Geotechnical Society for the African and professional impact. Francophone Countries). Egypt is a member in this society

because o f its unique situation as being both anglo phone and 2 . with the increase in number of national societies, francophone. France and Belgium are assistants in the annual symposia can be sponsored by the Asian formation of the society and the constitution. CTGA has National Societies through ISSM FE in the newly completed all necessary documents for applying to the joined member countries of ISSM FE and thus, membership o f the ISSM FE. The - hopeful - approval o f the catalyze their activities and membership profile. International Society will be sought during the Cou ncil M eeting o f September 7th 1997 in Hamburg. A lso, with the Third Young A sian Geotechnical Confe rence to be held next month in Singapore, the YG EC is now more The Twelfth African Regional Conference on Soil matured with the first two held at A IT in 1991 and 1994, Mechanics and Foundation Engineering 1999 (XII respectively. In order to coordinate these activities and to ARCSMFE) have a better liaison w ith the ISSM FE Secretariat, I thought that a Secretariat o f the A sian National Societies can be set During the XI A RCSM FE in Cairo December 1995 it was up. The idea was well received by most of the Natio nal agreed between member societies in A frica to accept the Societies with the exception o f one member country. Such a invitation o f the South A frican Geotechnical Society to hold secretariat can be set up for a period o f four years w ith the the XII A RCSM FE in Cape Town during 1999. No specific possibility o f rotation as desired by the m ember co untries. I date has - as yet - been set for this conference. am now putting this idea to the countries in an informal manner. Clearly, the Secretariat Setup in A sia, and possibly Epilogue in other continents w ith larger country memberships, must help the ISSM FE Secretariat and should not complete w ith the The A frican region has been set in motion after lon g isolation. parent body. Especially so after the XI A RC SM FE w hich was consid ered the first international geotechnical conference eve r to be held I am leaving this matter entirely in the hands o f o ur incoming in A frica. The formation o f the CTGA w as a great step for the Vice President for Asia. If he so desires, and National francophone A frican countries as w ell as for the in ternational Societies continue to have faith, I personally would be society. Through CTGA half the countries o f A frica w ill be interested in giving any assistance to run this sec retariat as in a way members in the ISSM FE. Besides the Moroccan A IT is centrally located in A sia and the Secretariat o f SEA GS society, thanks are due to M r M . Gambin, Prof F. Sc hlosser is based in A IT. The activities o f each national so ciety w ill and the French Geotechnical Society for their invaluable not be summarized and this is done not in any particular order. contribution for the formation o f CTGA . The momentu m w ill continue - for sure - during the coming four years especially (I) Japanese Geotechnical Society (JG S) that the new vice president is - mainly - a francop hone. He will be able to connect both language speakers and (A) Conferences, Seminars and Symposia communicate w ith A frican countries w ith ease. (1) First International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (IS-Tokyo '95) was (b) REPORT OF THE A CTIVITIES OF THE ASIAN held in Tokyo during 14-16 November 1995. NATIONAL SO CIETIES OF ISSM FE Three hundred and fifty participants attended and the Proceedings contain 197 papers. Currently, there are fifteen National Societies o f ISSM FE in A sia. Reports o f activities were received from Japan, Iran, (2) Second International Conference on Ground Korea, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia, China, Sri Improvement Geosystems (IS-Tokyo '96) was Lanka, Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Up to the date o f held in Tokyo during 14-17 May 1996. Four preparing this report, activities o f the follow ing Societies w ere hundred and fifty seven participants attended not yet received, nam ely; Nepal, India, Syria and Bangladesh. and the Proceedings contain 144 papers.

During the period of my Vice Presidency, extensive (3) Second International Congress on correspondence was made with all the fifteen Nation al Environmental Geotechnics (IS-Osaka '96) Societies o f the ways and means for the collaboration and w as held in Osaka during 5-8 November 1996. communication within the Asian National Societies and to Six hundred and tw enty participants attended improve the liaison w ith the ISSM FE Secretariat. No doubt, and the Proceedings contain 205 papers. the Asian Regional Conferences have been important Forums for the interaction o f the member countries o f A sia. This is (4) International Symposium on Earth further strengthened by the initiation o f the Japan ese Reinforcement (IS-Kyushu) was held in Geotechnical Society to: Fukuoka, during 12-14 November 1996. Four hundred and forty five participants attended 1. Form the Asian Technical Committee o f ISSM FE, and and the Proceedings contain 151 papers.

2. Organize the regular Young Geotechnical Engineers (5) Joint seminar with the Vietnam Geotechnical Conference Society (Japan - Vietnam Seminar in

2689 Geotechnical Engineering) w as held in Hanoi the Beijing Asian Regional Conference in during 28-29 March 1996. Five JG S members 1995. An International Symposium on and eight V G S members lectured. Over three Deformation and Progressive Failure in hundred participants attended this joint Geomechanics is under preparation. W orking sem inar. reports are to be included in Volum e 2 o f the Proceedings o f IS-N agoya '97.

( 6 ) The following Conferences and Symposia

areunder preparation. ( 8 ) Asian TC on Earth Reinforcement: A special session was organized at the 1995 (a) Third Young Geotechnical Engineers Asian Regional Conference, 1995. The News Conference in Singapore (14-16 M ay Letter (ERA New s) is regularly circulated to 1997). the members. The final w orking reports are to be included in Volume 2 o f the Proceedings o f (b) International Symposium on IS-Kyushu '96. Deformation and Progressive Failure (IS-Nagoya '97) in Nagoya, 4-7 (C) Published Books, Journals October 1997. A special issue of Soils and Foundations on the (c) International Conference, Centrifuge Geotechnical Aspects of the January 17, 1995 '98 (IS-Tokyo ’98) in Tokyo, 23-25 Hyogoken Nambu Earthquake with 31 papers was Septem ber 1998. published in January 1996.

(d) International Symposium on (n ) Kazakhstan Geotechnical Society Problematic Soils (IS-Took ’98) in

Sendai, 28-30 October 1998. (A) Conferences, Symposia and Seminars .

(B) Technical Committee Activities (1) First Kazakhstan National Geotechnical Conference on Foundation Engineering on (1) TC-2, Centrifuge Testing: International Problematic Soils o f the N ew Capital City, 28- Conference, Centrifuge ’98 is planned. The 31 M ay 1997, A kmola, Kazakhstan. preparation o f testing manuals and cooperative

jo int program are in progress. (2) Profs. A. Z. Zhusupbekov and B. Unaibaev participated in the APCOM Conference, (2) TC-13, Mechanics of Granular M aterials: Seoul, September 1981. The preparation o f a Book titled "Introduction

to Mechanics o f Granular Materials" is in (3) Prof. A. Z. Zhusupbekov gave roving progress and a symposium is to be held around Seminars in Yonsei University, Korea the dates o f the Hamburg Conference in 1997. University and Korean A dvanced Institute o f Technology. (3) TC-28, Underground Construction in Soft

Ground: International Symposium on (4) Prof. A. Z. Zhusupbekov and team visited Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Kobe Earthquake site in March 1997 and Construction w as held in London, 15-17 April lectured at the O saka G eo-Research Institute. 1996. The British Geotechnical Society now takes the responsibility o f this Com m ittee. (B) Others

(4) TC-29, Stress-Strain Testing of Geo- Prof. A . Z. Zhusupbekov received the prestigious Dr. m aterials in the Laboratory: Symposium in Sc. Degree in Geotechnical Engineering, the only Print in Geotechnique. A cooperative joint recipient in the Republic o f Kazakhstan. M em bers o f program is also in progress. the Society participated in the 10th A RC in Beijing and 12th SEAGC in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (5) TC-30, Coastal Geotechnical Engineering: Members w ill also participate in the International International Symposium on Geotechnical Symposium in Geotechnical and M ining Engineering, Characterization o f Soft Clays in Coastal A rea W oolongong University, Australia. was held 26-28 February 1997. The preparation o f the International M anuals for (H I) Korean Geotechnical Society (KG S) Evaluating Design Parameters o f Coastal Soft Deposits is in progress. (A) Conferences, Symposia

(6 ) Asian TC on Geotechnology for Natural (1) Preparation of the 11th A RC, Seoul, 1999 H azards: A special session on Hansin Great Earthquake was organized in Dalian China, The Eleventh A sian Regional Conference o f 27-28 August 1996. The preparation o f the the International Society for Soil M echanics Manual for Zonation on Rain-induced Slope and Foundation Engineering w ill be held in Failure is in progress. August 1999 in Seoul. Eight Conference Themes are selected, namely; Engineering (7) Asian TC on Localization, Bifurcation and Properties of Soils and Rocks, Deep and Progressive Failure in Geomechanics: A Shallow Foundations, Underground workshop was organized simultaneous with Excavation and Tunneling, Earth Structures

2690 and Slopes, Natural Hazards and Ground Tunneling, Soil Dynamics, and, Earthquake Improvement, Environmental Geotechnique, Engineering, respectively. Attendance each time Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, exceeded one hundred and twenty. and Case Histories in Geotechnical

Engineering. (D) Journal and Publications

Poster Sessions, Technical Visits and Tours, (1) The Geotechnical Engineering Joumal o f KGS Exhibitions, and, Social Programs w ill also be is published at bi-monthly intervals. The June arranged. The venue of the conference is issue is published in English. Seoul. Bulletin No. 1 was distributed in January 1997 and Bulletin No. 2 will be (2) Other publications o f KGS are as follows: prepared towards the end of 1997. The Korean National Society has extended an (a) Proceedings of the National invitation to host the ISSM FE Board and Conferences (Four in 1995 and 1996) Council meetings in Seoul in 1999. (b) A Design Guide for Foundations and Retaining W alls The conference w ill follow the fine tradition (c) Geotechnical Engineering Series #7 in and exam ples established by the previous ten Tunnelling A RCs, starting w ith the 1 st A RC in N ew Delhi (d) Geotechnical Engineering Series # 8 on in February 1960 to the 10th A RC in Beijing Soil Dynamics and Earthquake in August 1995. The conference will also emphasize more on the future trends in (E) New President of KG S Geotechnique and therefore, more active participation o f the Young Geotechnical Dr. Chong - Kyu Lee, Professor o f Civil Engineering Engineers w ill be encouraged. the Dankuk University, is elected as the new Presid ent on 28 M arch 1997. The outgoing President is Dr. B. H. Kang. (2) National Conferences

(IV ) Iranian G eotechnical Society The Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS) generally arranges tw o National Conferences, (A) Conference, Symposia, W orkshop in Fall and in Spring, each year. A ttendance at each conference are between 300 and 400. (1) Young Engineers are trained with Workshops The following overseas lecturers made on Grouting, Unsaturated Soils and Plate Load contributions. Tests.

Professor Chen Zhong-Yi (Ching Hwa (2) The Third Iranian Geotechnical Seminar is University) - "A Glimpse o f the Earthw orks planned in 1998. and Foundations in A ncient China".

(B) Bulletins and Newsletters Professor Tatsouoka, Tokyo University (1996) - "Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Retaining Periodical N ew sletters and Bulletins are published. W alls as Important Perm anent Structures".

(C) Codes and M anuals (B) National Technical Committee

A Manual for Soil M echanics Laboratory Tests is There are eleven Technical Committees in the Korean published for the use of Private Sectors and Geotechnical Society, namely; I. Piled Foundation, 2. Educational Institutions. Soft Ground Improvement, 3. Information-Oriented Construction, 4. Dredging and Reclamation, 5. (D) Soil M echanics Library Excavations, 6 . Tunnelling, 7. Soil Dynamics, 8 . Earthquake Engineering, 9. Geosynthetics, 10. Subso il A good Soil Mechanics Library accessible to all Investigation, and 11. Rock M echanics. members is now under preparation.

Each Technical Committee organizes International (E) Others and National Conferences, Seminars and Technical Visits. A n example o f the international activity is the The new Iranian Society officers are Mr. B. A mini, International Symposium o f Piled Foundations held o n President and Mr. B. Serissi, Secretary w ith members 19 January 1996 and organized by the Piled M essrs. S. Heidari, B. Gatmiri and F. A bedzadeh. Foundation Technical Committee. The invited speakers included Prof. Ir. W . F. Van Impe, Dr. R. (V ) Chinese N ational Society M assarsch, M r. Hossain, and Prof. M . Randolph.

(A ) Conferences, Seminars and W orkshops (C) Short Courses

(1) Tenth Asian Regional Conference on Soil Since 1990, KG S regularly organizes annual Short Mechanics and Foundations Engineering, Courses in January/ February to educate the Practicing Beijing, 29 August - 2 September 1995. Engineers on the recent theories and design About 340 participants from 26 countries procedures. The titles o f the Short Courses are attended and 117 papers w ere included in the

2691 Proceedings. (C) Others

(2) Second Chinese Young Geotechnical M ajor projects include the Ghazi Barotha Hydro- Engineers Conference, Dalian, 22-24 Power, Chasma Low Head Hydro Electric Project, September 1995. About 90 participants and Hub Thermal Pow er Project and several Irrigation and 109 papers w ere included in Proceedings. Road projects.

(3) Fourth National Conference on Ground (V II) Israel N ational Society Improvement, Zhaoqing, 5-9 Decem ber 1995. About 258 participants attended and 128 (A) Conferences, Sem inar and Lecture Series papers w ere included in the Proceedings. (1) Professor S. Piekowski, University of (4) Workshop on Shear Strength Tests and their M assachusetts lectured on Dynamic A nalysis Applications, Zhenjiang, 28-31 May 1996. o f Pile Driving in A ugust 1995. A bout 57 participants attended and 28 papers w ere presented. (2) A large representation of the Israel Geotechnical Society took active participation (5) Third National Conference on Pile Foundation in the Tenth A sian Regional Conference on Engineering, W uhan, 12-15 September 1996. SM FE, Beijing, China in August 1995. Four About 300 participants attended and 109 technical papers w ere presented. papers w ere included in the Proceedings. (3) Symposium on Quality in Geotechnical (B) Conferences and Symposia under preparation Engineering, November 1995.

(1) Second International Conference on (4) Seminars by Prof. S. Marchetti o f Università Unsaturated Soils, Beijing, 27-30 August L'Aquilla - Rome, Italy on Dilatometer 1998. Equipment and Test, Decem ber 1995.

(2) Fifth National Conference on Ground (5) Prof. M. Jamiolkow ski, President o f ISSM FE Improvement, 1997. lectured on "The Stability o f the Tow er of Pisa", December 1996. (3) Symposium on Inspection Techniques in Geotechnical Engineering, 1997. ( 6 ) The third largest delegation after Egypt and South Africa, Eleventh African Regional

(4) Symposium on Piled Foundation Technology Conference, December 1995. for High-Rise and Heavy Buildings 1998. (7) Symposium by Leading Engineers : Each

(C) Other Events Engineer reported on an interesting Project in w hich he w as involved during his professional

(1) Mao Yi Shen Award on Soil Mechanics and career, N ovember 1996. Foundation Engineering (once in two years). The 1996 award was given to Mr. W ang Gun- ( 8 ) Eleventh Israel National Civil Engineering Conference, three sessions on Soil M echanics Shan, Research Professor and Mr. Liu Jian- and Foundation Engineering, M arch 1997. Hang, Chief Engineer and the China Engineering A cademician. (B) Technical Committee, Standards, Codes (2) The ISSM FE membership increased from 100 to 156. Israeli Standard s (SI)

(3) The "Geotechnical Engineering" Journal (in (1) SI 3 Mineral Aggregate from Natural Chinese) is sponsored by five Chinese Resources. This Standard is National Societies, and, is published bi­ undergoing a revision. It was monthly. A Quarterly journal on Ground originally issued in August 1988 and Improvement is also published. the amendments have been made in April 1990, July 1992, November (V I) Pakistan N ational Society 1993, and November 1994.

(A) Conferences and Lecture Series (2) SI 362 Hot Asphalt Mixtures: Composition, Production, Transport, Laying and (1) Sixth National Conference on Geotechnical Compaction; Original issue in June Engineering, January 1997. 1995 is currently revised.

(2) Several Lectures and Seminar series. (3) SI 413 Design Provisions for Earthquake Resistance o f Structures. Issued in (B) Contribution to Conferences June 1995; English Translation of Hebrew version. Papers were contributed to the XTV - ICSM FE in Hamburg, the International Symposium in Naples, (4) SI 940 Foundations for Buildings; The Italy and the Dam Safety Conference in India. original version o f December 1978 is

2692 in advance stage o f revision. given and the Speakers were from Vietnam, Japan, and Sw eden. The topics include Site (5) SI 1454 In-Situ Test o f Density and Moisture Investigation, Soil Improvement, Piled Content of Soil by Nuclear Gauge; Foundations, Shallow Foundations, Retaining Original issue in April 1991 is under W alls, Slope Stability, Dams and Gravity revision. Structures.

( 6 ) SI 1571 Execution of Concrete Block (3) Seminar on Design and Construction o f High Pavements; to be finalized in 1997. Rise Buildings in Ho Chi M inh City, January 1997. More than 300 engineers and (7) SI 1926 Reinforced Earth Retaining W alls; researchers attended the Seminar. The topics under preparation. are on Construction o f Bored Piles, Prediction o f Bearing Capacity o f Piles, Static Load

( 8 ) SI 1865 Part I: Testing Methods for Pavements, Tests, Quality Control, Excavations and Testing o f Soils Experiences from the Design and Construction o f Foundations in Ho Chi M inh City. (9) SI 1865 Part II: Testing Methods for Pavements, Testing o f Aggregates; (B) Short Courses under preparation.

(1) Prof. Schofield of Cambridge University, (10) SI 1885 Crushed Graded Aggregates for Bases Professor M . Gunn o f South Bank University o f Highw ays, Aprons and Airports. and Dr. Roger Chandler o f Sage Engineering Limited delivered lectures on Critical State (11) SI 1926 Retaining W alls, under preparation. Soil M echanics and SA G E CRISP from 20 to 30 January 1997. Seventy participants (C) Leading personalities attended this Course.

Professor Joseph G. Zeitlen reached the Octogenarian (2) Professor D. G. Fredlund of University of stage in N ovember 1996. A special dinner party, held Saskachewan, Canada delivered several at the Technion-Israel Institute o f Technology, had a lectures on Geoslope, Unsaturated Soils and very large attendance. Prof. Zeitlen was a graduate Case Records on Failure o f Foundations. student of Prof. Donald W. Taylor at MIT, and performed many o f the Triaxial tests that appeared in (C) Standards, Codes Prof. Taylor's book "Fundamentals of Soil M echanics". He brought modem Soil M echanics to Design and Construction o f M ini Piles 1995 Israel, establishing the studies and research on the Classification o f Soils 1995 subject at the Technion and likewise performed Piled Foundations 1996 pioneering research on sw elling soils and unsaturated soils, in addition to his teaching and consulting (D) Books, Journals activities. He hosted the First International Sem in ar on unsaturated soils in the early Sixties. Prof. Z eitlen The Vietnam Journal w as published for the first tim e w as a past V ice President for A sia o f ISSM FE and is in Vietnam. Summary is in English. Papers are both Professor Emeritus o f the Technion. in English and Vietnamese; Publishing O ffice : 21A Phan Chu Trinh, Hanoi. Editor in Chief : Nguyen Dr. Gdalyah W iseman passed away suddenly last Truong Tien. December 21, 1996, leaving a family, associates, students and acquaintances w ith a sense o f deep loss.

He w as Professor Emeritus o f the Technion - Israel (IX) Indonesian Society for Institute o f Technology engaged in teaching, research Geotechnical Engineering (ISG E) and consulting activities. In addition to his many

activities, he also served as the V ice President fo r the (A) Seminars Asian region o f ISSM FE. He w ill be missed by all

who knew him. (1) Soil Parameters and Construction Methods,

A pplication and Control, 6 July 1995. (V III) Vietnam ese Geotechnical Society

(2) Basement Constructions, 23-25 October 1995. (A) Conferences, Seminar and Symposia (3) Tunnels and Deep Excavations, 23-24 April (1) Seminar on New Technology for Construction 1995. o f High-Rise Building (Soil Investigation, Design and Construction o f Foundations and (4) Coastal Reclamation, 22-24 July 1996. Quality Control), M arch 1995. M ore than 200 delegates from home and aborad participated (5) Study on Peaty Soils for Engineering in this event. Purposes, 18 Septem ber 1996.

(2) Japan - Vietnam Seminar on Geotechnical (6 ) Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Engineering JV G E '96, 28-29 March 1996. Structures, 12 N ovem ber 1996. More than 200 engineers and researchers attended the Sem inar. Fourteen lectures w ere (7) Foundation Problems, 9-10 December 1996.

2693 (B ) Short Courses The symposium was held in Singapore in honor o f the retirement o f Prof. Brom s from Soil Testing and Interpretations o f Data for Design the Nanyang Technological University; a total Purposes, 6 - 8 June 1996 and 16-18 January 1996. o f 22 papers w ere presented by Professors F. H. Kulhaw y, J. M . Duncan, S. Hansbo, A . F. (C) Technical Committee Van W eele, K. S. W ong, W . F. Van Impe, Z. C. Moh, X. Y. Hou, I. H. Wong, R. The Indonesian Society has established a Committee M assarsch, V. Choa, S. L. Lee, R. D. Holtz, H. in 1996 to prepare and to propose to the Government Brandi, J. Hartlen, G. M iki, K. Senneset, M. o f Jakarta Metropolitan City, and to evaluate the Kamon, D. G. Fredlund, Yudhbir, A. granting o f permits and licenses for Geotechnical Anagnosto Poulos, M. Fukuoka, B. Engineering Services and Professionals. Mazurkiew icz, N. K. Ovesen, A. T. C. Goh and R. Chowdhury. (D) Journal & Geotechnical Inform ation Bulletins (2) The Third Sino-British Geological The society has its ow n journal published three tim es Conference, Taipei, 21-29 M arch 1996. a year and has quarterly publication o f the Inform ation Bulletins. (3) The 12th Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur, (E) Manual Malaysia from 6-10 May 1996. Over 500 participants from more than tw enty countries The Indonesian National Committee is now w orking participated. Prof. John B. Burland from the on a Foundation Engineering M anual. Imperial College o f Science, Technology and M edicine w as the keynote lecturer. Dr. E. W . Brand delivered the third Chin Fung Kee (X) Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society (SLG S) lecture. Nine other special lectures w ere given by Prof. H. G. Poulos, Dr. Z. C. M oh, Dr. S. F. (A) Seminars Chan, Prof. V. Choa, Mr. Y. C. Chan, Dr. S. M. Woo, Prof. R. Yong and Prof. A. S. (1) A one day seminar on "Experiences in Balasubramaniam. Techniques o f Foundation Treatment and Ground Improvement" was held on 12 (4) Rock Engineering Symposium, Taipei, 12-13 September 1995; about 175 participants December 1996. attended the seminar.

(5) Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Soil (2) A one day Seminar on "Site Investigations" Engineering, IEM Saraw ak Branch, M alaysia, w as held on 30 October 1996. 5-7 M arch 1997.

(3) A one day Seminar on "Earth Retaining (6 ) Ground Improvement Technique, Macao, 6 - 8 Structures" is planned in N ovem ber 1997. May 1997. A total of 131 papers from 31 countries w ill be presented. (B) Specifications

(7) International Conference on Foundation Specifications and Guidelines are prepared for the Failures, Singapore, 12-13 M ay 1997. Institute for Construction Training and Development (ICTA D). They are on:

( 8 ) Third Asian Young Geotechnical Engineers 1. Site Investigations for Building Works, and, Conference, Singapore, 14-16 May 1997. A Bill o f Quantities. total o f 53 papers w ill be presented w ith over 100 participants and three Key N ote Lectures 2. Bored and Cast-in-situ Piles. by Professor T. Kimura, Dr. S. B. Tan and Dr. S. F. Chan. 3. Interpretations o f Site Investigation Data for

Estimating the Design Load o f Bored and (9) The Seventh Conference on Current Cast-in-situ Piles. Researches in Geotechnical Engineering, Taiw an, Chin-Shan, 28-30 August 1997. (C) Public Lectures and Site Visits (10) Thirtieth Year Anniversary Symposium of ( 1 ) Monthly Public Lecture. SEAGS at AIT on Deep Foundations, Excavations, Ground Improvement and (2) Site Visits at regular intervals. Tunneling, Bankok, Thailand, 17-21 November 1997.

(XI) Southeast A sian Geotechnical Society (SEA G S) (11) Regional Symposium on Sedimentary Rock Engineering in Taipei, 20-22 November 1998. (A) Conferences and Symposia

(12) Thirteenth Southeast Asian Geotechnical (1) Bengt B. Broms Symposium in Conference, Taipei, Taiw an, 16-20 November Geotechnical Engineering, 13-15 Decem ber 1998. 1995

2694 (13) An International Symposium on Soft Clays is (3) Estimation o f Design Parameters for Soils and planned in Bangkok in 1999. The names Rocks from Laboratory and In-situ Tests, 10- suggested as the "So ft Clay Stars - II" are (not 14 June 1996, Bangkok; Lecturers: Prof P. in any order) Prof. Jean-Pierre Magnan M ayne, Dr. R. Harianto, Prof. S. Sakurai, Prof. (France), M rs. Ana Gaberc (Slovenia), Don J. T. Adachi, Prof. Don De Groot, Dr. N. De Groot (U.S.A ), Paul W . Mayne (U.S.A ), Sugaw ara and Dr. Shima. Ro lf Larsson (Sw eden), Prof. R. Massarsch (Sweden), Prof. Broms (Sweden), Prof. (4) Deformation of Soils and Displacement of Hansbo (Sweden), Prof. Kerry Rowe Structures, 4-8 November 1996, Bangkok; (Canada), Dr. Julie Sheng (Canada), Prof. Lecturers: Dr. S. F. Chan, Dr. R. M air, Dr. P. Fellenius (Canada), Dr. Vinod Garga J. M oore, Dr. M . Sugimoto, Dr. K. Sekiya, Dr. (Canada), Prof. Serge Leroueil (Canada), Prof. T. Kawabata, Dr. S. M. Woo, Prof. F. Alan J. Lutenegger (U.S.A ), Prof. G. Mesri Kulhaw y, Dr. R. Hwang, Dr. V. M. Sharma, (U.S.A ), Suzanne Lacasse (Norway), Prof. Dr. S. Buttling and Prof. L. A . W ood. Andrew J. Whittle (U.S.A ), Prof. H. Ohta (Japan), Prof. Richard J. Finn (U .S.A ), Dr. A . (5) Geotechnical Analysis using CRISP Program, Jaime (Mexico), Bob Holtz (U.S.A), S. 3-6 February 1997, Bangkok; Lecturers: Prof. Shibuya (Japan), Renatto Lancellotta (U .S.A ), A. N. Schofield, Prof M. Gunn, Dr. R. David Daniel (U.S.A ), Craig Benson (U.S.A ), Chandler and Dr. K. Jeyatharan. Dr. Sam S. C. Liao (U.S.A ), Dr. Chang M ing-

Fang (Singapore), Joseph P. W elsh (U.S.A ), (6 ) Foundation and Geotechnical Engineering, 5-6 John J. M. Powell (U.K), Prof. M. March 1997, University Technology, Jam iolkow ski and/ or Prof. D. Lo Presti (Italy), M alaysia. Prof. H. G. Poulos (A ustralia) etc. (7) Site Investigation with Geophysical Methods (14) Year 2000-Geotechnics with invited papers. and M odem Testing Techniques, 19-23 May List o f authors who have accepted to write 1997, Bangkok; Lecturers: Dr. D. Bevan, Dr. articles: Dr. E. W . Brand, Prof. K. Ishihara, R. H. W hiteley, M r. T. Lunne, Prof. G. J. Rix Prof. R. J. M itchell, Dr. E. Togrol, Mr. S. and Prof. K. H. Stokoe. Ohya, Dr. R. Chowdury, Prof. Fred H. Kulhaw y, Mr. M . J. Tomlinson, Prof. C. B. ( 8 ) Site Investigation Practice, 16-17 June 1997, Craw ford, Prof. R. B. Peck, Prof. J. G. Zeitlen, IEM , M alaysia. Prof. S. Leroueil, Prof. G. M eyerhof, Prof. M.

Fukuoka, Dr. A. D. M. Penman, Prof. T. (9) Geotechnical Hazards and Dam Construction, Adachi, Prof. T. W . Lambe, Prof. Victor de 28-31 July 1997, Bangkok; Lecturers: Prof. S. M ello, Prof. Jean Kerisel, Prof. S. Sakurai, Tow hata, Prof. S. Yasuda, Dr. J. Okada, Dr. Prof. Pierre Habib, Dr. Za-Chieh M oh, Prof. Pedro S. Seco e Pinto, Dr. R. L. Schuster and It. W . F. Van Impe, Prof. A. Verruijt, Dr. T. Prof. Yudhbir. Hosoi, Prof. H. A boshi, Prof. W . W ittke, Prof. N. Janbu, Dr. F. Lizzi, Prof. H. G. Poulos, (C) Seminars and Lectures Prof. Y. Yoshim i, Prof. G. Gudehus, Prof. S.

L. Lee, Dr. S. Shiraishi, Prof. N. M iura, Prof. (1) Theory and Performance of NGI's Ground Yudhbir, Prof. M. Jamiolkow ski, Prof. C. Penetrating Radar, 18 A ugust 1995, Lecture by Viggiani, Prof. R. Madhav, Prof. B. Ladanyi, Dr. Fan Nian Kon, IEM , M alaysia. Prof. S. Hansbo, Prof. T. A kagi, M r. P. Londe,

Prof. T. Yamanouchi, Prof. A. N. Schofield, (2) What is a Successful Urban Transit Project, Prof. A. Nakase, Dr. W . H. Ting, Prof. H. Chin Fung Kee M emorial Lecture, 7 October Brandi, Dr. Victor Milligan, Dr. John A. 1995, Mr. T. M. Ridlen, President, ICE, Focht, Prof. Francois Schlosser, Prof. R. K. London, IEM , Malaysia. Row e, Prof. A . Kazi, Dr. R. P. Brenner, Prof.

P. B. Attewell, Prof. B. Maidl, Prof. T. H. (3) Ground Improvement Works for New Kuching Hanna, Prof. Gerald P. Raymond, Prof. Deep W ater Post, 8 October 1995, Lecture by Chandrakant Desai, Dr. Chin Der Ou and Prof. Dr. Ooi Teik Aun, IEM Sarawak Branch, Ronald F. Scott. M alaysia.

(B) Short Courses and W orkshops (4) Static Load Test Using the Osterberg Cell Method, Lecture by Prof. Jorg O. Osterberg, (1) Numerical Analysis in Geotechnical IEM , M alaysia. Engineering using PLAXIS and CRISP Programs, 12-16 February 1996, Bangkok; (5) Foundation Failures, Chin Fung Kee Memorial Lecturers: Dr. Brinkgreve, M r. Brand, Dr. M. Lecture, 7 September 1996, Dr. S. F. Chan, S. A . Siddique, Dr. K. Jeyatharan and Dr. R. IEM , M alaysia. Chandler. (6 ) Statnamic Load Test, 17 January 1997,

(2) Problematic Soils and Ground Improvement Lecture by Mr. P. Middendorp, IEM, Techniques, 5-9 May 1996, Bangkok; M alaysia. Lecturers: Prof. L. Anderson, Dr. D. Bruce, Dr. D. T. Bergado, Dr. R. Harianto, Dr. Y. (7) Design Principles o f Soil Nailed Structures, 28 Loke, Prof. R. M assarch, Dr. Chida. March 1997, Lecture by Dr. Mohd. Ashi

2695 Othman, JEM , M alaysia. Prof. D. H. Stapledon E. H. Davis Lecture:- 1995 Prof. John Booker ( 8 ) Computer Programs for Reinforced Soil 1997 Prof. M ark Randolph W alls, 11 June 1997, Lecture by Prof. P. R. Trollope M edal:- Rankilor, IEM , M alaysia. Dr. D. P. Stew art

(c) AUSTRALASIAN REGION 2. NZGS Geomechanics Award:- Dr Graham Ramsey Introduction Geom echanics Lecture:- Prof. M ick Pender The Australasian Region of the ISSM FE comprises two Member Societies, Australia and New Zealand, but also 3. Joint Societies Award, given for the best paper represents the activities o f the Society in the Sou th Pacific. submitted to the ANZ Conference, was awarded to Geotechnical engineering is active in Papua New Guinea, Fiji M essrs Barthur, Jaksa and M itchell for their paper on and New Caledonia, but no local groups devoted to "Design o f Residential Footings Built on Expansive geotechnical engineering, even in its broadest sense, have Soils using Probabalistic M ethods". been established to my know ledge.

Group A ctivities M embership

Both societies have local learned society groups in all m ajor The Australian Geomechanics Society has previously been population centres. These groups hold up to 10 tech nical sponsored by the Institution o f Engineers, A ustralia and only meetings per year, usually including at least one symposium. a modest subscription was levied on members. This has changed under new funding rules from the Institutio n, and A number o f very relevant publications have been produced, substantially revised fees have been necessary for the A GS. and continue to be so. Examples o f those in preparation Total membership at April 21, 1997 was 881, o f w hom 490 include "Guidelines for assessm ent o f slope stability", by the are members of ISSM FE. However, this figure may be NZGS, and the "Engineering Geology of the Brisbane inflated as it includes past members w ho may be in arrears Region", by the Queensland grouop o f the A GS. and w ill not rejoin.

Closure The New Zealand Geotechnical Society continues to flourish, with current membership o f about 400, up from 370 last year. It has been my pleasure and privilege to be the V ic e President O f these 245 are also members o f ISSM FE. for A ustralasia over the past four years. W hilst the region has only two member societies, it has about 4.5% o f the total Conferences membership o f the ISSM FE, and continues to be very active both locally and nationally. A ustralia and New Zealand are The 7th ANZ Conference o f Geomechanics was held in alw ays very w ell represented at international confe rences and A delaide in July, 1996. It w as a highly successful conference, symposia, reflecting the high profile and level o f interest in with some 200 delegates. The theme o f the conferenc e w as geotechnical engineering, in its broadest sense. "Geom echanics in a Changing W orld".

I congratulate Prof. M ark Randolph w ho w ill take ov er from The format o f the conference comprised a keynote le cture by me after the Hamburg Conference and w ish him w ell as he Prof. M. Jamiolkowski, then plenary sessions in which represents our region. review s o f papers w ere presented by Reporters follo wed by discussion from the floor. A number of invited lectures M C Ervin associated with the Region's awards were also presented. V ice Precident for A ustralasia Follow ing the success o f the momentous occasion, le ctures at the ICSM FE in New Delhi, a similar and very successful (d) EUROPEAN MEMBER SOCIETIES AND session w as also held at A delaide. A CTIVITIES

The next A NZ conference w ill be held in Hobart, Tasm ania, 1. List of ISSM FE in February 1999. The timing o f this conference has been brought forw ard to bring the A ustralasian conferenc es back in a) The European members' list is available. In line with the other regional conferences o f the ISSM FE, and October 1996, 7133 European colleagues, also to avoid what would otherw ise have been a clash with beside o f the 9 European Corporate M em bers, GeoEng2000, to be held in Melbourne in November 200 0. A w ere cooperating w ithin the ISSM FE, grouped separate report on this conference is presented. in 31 M em ber Societies.

The Third Young Geotechnical Professionals Conferen ce w ill On a total number of 16647 individual be held in M elbourne in February, 1998. ISSM FE Members this implements Europe to represent 43% of the overall ISSM FE Awards w orking.

Both the AGS and NZGS have a number of awards, to The Corporate Membership (9 in Europe) still recognise contributions o f individuals or groups to the can increase over the com ing years; a figure o f practice and theory o f geom echanics. Recent recipients w ere:- about 20 Corporate M em bers in Europe should be feasible. Over the past 2 years the number 1. AGS John Jaeger Memorial Medal:- of European ISSM FE members slightly

2696 decreased (the overall ISSM FE members' list Engineering, Hamburg, 6-12 also slightly decreased in the sam e period). Septem ber 1997 b) The ESSMFE activities (about 30 major G reece European Soil M echanics Seminars are yearly International Symposium on organised) are both in quantity and quality Engineering Geology and the levelling high and the increase in the active Environment, Athene, 23-27 June (Seminars, Workshops, etc) number of 1997 European M ember Societies is mainly due to

many young geotechnical engineers' H ungary enthusiasm. Seminar on the M ulti-Barrier System s in Landfill Design, Budapest, 2-3 This should stimulate all o f us to put even October 1996 more effort in attracting the younger engineering to our ISSM FE w ork (for example Italy also during Regional ISSM FE Conferences). IS on Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Review ing some o f the important activities Historic Sites, Naples, 1-2 October over the 1996-1997 period of time in our 1996 European M em ber Society should be stressed that in Europe, w e are very much focussing, N etherlands over the past 2 years, on speciality Seminars EuroGeo 1, Geosynthetics Conference, related to important topics such as: M aastricht, 30 Septem ber - 2 October 1996 unsaturated soils-stress strain behaviour N orway new developments in measuring 7th International Symposium on techniques both in laboratory and in Landslides (ISL'96), Trondheim, 17-21 field conditions June 1996 environmental geotechnics' issues general soil improvement item Poland Xlth National Conference on Soil c) M ajor M ember Society Events (1996-1997) Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Gdansk, 25-27 June 1997 A ustria 2nd International Green Symposium 11. Christian V eder Kolloquium , Graz, on Geotechnics and the Environment, 11-12 A pril 1996 Krakow , 8-11 September 1997 12. Christian Veder Kolloquium , Graz,

3-4 April 1997 Rom ania 1st Austrian Baugrundtagung + Vmth National Conference for Soil Terzaghi Lecture, W ien, 25-28 May Mechanics and Foundation 1997 Engineering, Iasi, 25-28 September 1996 Belgium TC-18 ISSM FE Workshop on Piled Russia Rafts, Ghent, 16 A pril 1997 5th International Conference of International Seminar on Design o f Problems o f the Construction o f Pile Axially Loaded Piles - European Foundations and Deeply Placed Practice, Brussels, 17-18 A pril 1997 Foundations, Tyumen, 10-13 September 1996

Czech & Slovak Republic 2nd International Geotechnical Slovenia Conference, Bratislava, February 1996 2nd Conference on the Slovenian Geotechnical Society, Rogla, 2-6

France October 1996 Symposium International : Exem ples M ajeurs et Récents en Géotechnique Spain de l'Environnement, Paris, 1-2 Février Symposium on Earth Retaining 1996 Structures, Santander, 25-27 Multiple one-day workshops on Septem ber 1996 various topics : soil improvement, 11th Young Geotechnical Engineers' offshore techniques, geotechnical risk, Conference, Madrid, 6-11 September codes and standards, numerical models 1997

G erm any Sweden Baugrundtagung, Berlin, 25-27 International Symposium on Ground Septem ber 1996 Freezing and Frost A ction in Soils, XlVth International Conference on Lulea, 15-17 A pril 1997 Soil Mechanics and Foundation

2697 T urkey - No 3 Piles 10th Young Geotechnical Engineers' Belgium , F. De Cock Conference, Cesme, 20-25 October 1996 - No 5 Laboratory testing N etherlands, L. De Quelerij U.K Rankine Lecture, London, 12 March - No 7 Numerical methods in geotechnical 1996 engineering International Symposium France, Ph. M estat Geotechnical A spects o f Underground Construction in Soft Ground, London, - No 9 Tunnelling and underground 15-17 A pril 1996 construction in soils and soft rocks, in International Symposium on the urban environment Influence o f Professional Practice o f Germany, W . W ittke Eurocode 7, Geotechnical Design, London, 30 September - 2 October - No 10 Evaluation committee for the 1996 application o f EC-7 Rankine Lecture, London, 19 March Italy, R. Lancellotta 1997 BGS/ CFMS Conference on Ground - No 11 Geotechnical aspects in pavement Improvement by Densification and design and construction Reinforcem ent, London, 3-6 June 1997 U.K, S. Brow n

- No 12 Evaluation committee for the 2. Our European enthusiasm for the YGEC-idea, is application o f EC - 8 probably the most rew arding long-term-management Turkey, A . A nsal investment we can make within the ISSM FE; the former 1996 YGEC-edition w as organised in Turkey M ost o f them have organised a m eeting during a first in September, discussing on the Ground Improvement meeting in M ay 1995 in Copenhagen. topics.

It becam e clear over the past three years that m ost o f 34 Young engineers from 18 diffierent countries too k our estimated expert-colleagues are involved and part in this Conference to exchange ideas and absorbed in so many duties that they rarely can dev ote know ledge in an informal way, guided by geotechnical enough tim e to such com m ittee w ork; this is creatin g experts. important delays in the tim e schedule planned for the com m ittee reports. The 1997 YGEC will be organised in Madrid (September 1997) on the topic : Geotechnical I explicitely want to recommend for the future to Engineers and Computers. seriously reconsider the committee memberships so as: 3. The third Environmental Geotechnics' Conference in 1998 w ill be organised in Lisbon (Portugal). This is a) to recruit more active young geotechnical one o f the most important still com ing events w ithin engineers really involved in the committee our European Society next to the European Regional topic, all to the benefit and the progress o f the Conference (cfr. 6 .) and also besides o f the 1998 committee w ork. Danube Conference in Croatia.

b) to reduce drastically the number o f members, The topics for this w ell know n Danau Conference can relieving a lot o f organisational burden and so be summarized as follow s: improving the daily workability of the comm ittee. Geotechnical Hazards related to:

Dams and embankments The summary o f activities o f ERTC-1, ERTC-3, Landslides ERTC-10 and ERTC -11 were reported to me in A pril o f this year. Environmental geotechnics Earthquakes Foundation design, preservation and restoration The committee ERTC-1 organised its work in three Subsidence subtopics: Floods Erosion a) Introduction o f general related problems Transportation b) Analysis c) Remedial measures

4. European Regional Technical Committees The first version o f the report w ill be prepared by end

Eight European Regional Technical Committes have o f June 1997. been set up early 1994. ERTC-3 has organised a Seminar (April 1997 in

-N ol Stabilization of Landslides Brussels) and edited a very comprehensive proceedings volume on the topic; the w ork o f ERTC-3 Spain, E. A lonso has been very rewarding as far. The terms of

2698 reference have not been fully discussed as far; a the Dutch Geotechnics Society (NSSM FE) was continuation, over another 4 years, o f the ERTC-3 elected by a large majority on the topic activities is advisable. 'Implementation o f Geotechnics in the Transportatio n Infrastructure'. ERTC-5 also prepared a volume for the Hamburg Conference w ith a lot o f valuable recommendations. The Regional CA C started to w ork in M ay 1996 and The w ork related to the terms o f reference has been as far has met four times. fully completed. The technical program o f the Regional Conference has The ERTC-10 committee joint effort with the been more or less stipulated fully, and can be Institution of Structural Engineers in London summarized as follow s: (30/ 9/ 1996), to organise a Seminar related to more general topic including the EC-7 applicability Timing discussion. There is no further technical outcome reported. This comm ittee should be review ed in term s 1 Heritage Lecture (45') o f members appointed and terms o f reference. 3 Special Lectures (45' each) 3 M ain Sessions (100' each) The ERTC -11, ERTC-12 and ERTC-7 and ERTC-9 7 Discussion Sessions (150') comm ittees have not mentioned clearly any technically 2 W orkshops (150') relevant activity as far. The above stated general introductory comment on the w orkability o f TC's is all Topics o f the M eetings the more valid here. M ain Sessions 5. Model Library 1st Roads, Highw ays, A irports - Keynote Lecture 2nd High Speed Railw ays - Keynote Lecture A list o f priority M ember Societies w as prepared by 3rd Waterways, Harbours, Offshore Platforms - the Regional Vice-Presidents. For Europe we Kenote Lecture proposed for 1996-1997 : Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraina, Lithuania, Russia, Estonia and Rom ania. 'Geotechnical problems and developments related to 1,2, 3' The recent French version o f the Model Library contained specific books and information, assembled Discussion Sessions (relevant to the Conference top ic) by the French M em ber Society: 1st Site Characterization Don de la SIM STF 2nd Numerical and Physical M odelling Elém ents de mécanique des sols, F. Schlosser, 3rd New Developments in Design and Construction o f Presses des Ponts, 1989 Tunnels o f Soils

Fondations et Soutènements (cours EN PC T 6 - 4th Static and Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction T9), Auteurs multiples, Techniques de Problems l'ingénieur, 1995 5th Environmental Geotechnology for Transportation Introduction à la géotechnique, R. Holz, W . Infrastructure

Kovacs, traduction J. Lafleur, Ed. de l'Ecole 6 th Foundations and Soil Improvement Polytechnique, M ontréal, 1991 7th Geotechnics Related to Dredging Problems A ide-mémoire d'hydraulique souterraine, M . Cassan, Presses des Ponts, 1994 W orkshops Manuel d'ingénierie des Fondations, Société Canadienne de Géotechnique, 1994 1st Interaction between Eurocodes EC-7 and EC - 8 W orking Examples Don du Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées 2nd Quality Control o f Geotechnical W orks in EEC Reconnaissance des tracés de routes, 1982 3rd Professional Liability and Responsibility of Les essais de pénétration, 1989 Geotechnical Engineers in EEC

Don d'Apageo Segelm Special Lectures (to be selected among the follow in g Manual du Pressiomètre Ménard D -60, 1996 topics)

Don de Solétanche New Trends in Building on Soft Ground Procédés récents de Fondation, 1995 Application of Geophysical Methods to Ground Property Characterization

One should recommend to discuss, in the future, w ith Design o f Piled Rafts the French Member Society o f ISSM FE, the strict Recent Developments in Underground limitation o f the library content (for example with Excavation Technology for Soils and Soft respect to company related editions) donated in the Rocks name o f ISSM FE. Geotechnical A spects o f Dedged Sludge Long Term Behavious of Geotechnical

6. Next European Conference on Soil M echanics and Engineered Constructions. Foundation Engineering W. F. VAN IM PE

At the ERC o f ISSM FE in Copenhagen (May 1995)

2699 (e) REPORT ON NORTH AM ERICAN ACTIVITIES A number o f short courses for both students and eng ineers 1996-97 were held in 1996 in conjunction w ith the societies. There w ere: A ctivities w ithin the Region involving almost 5,000 members have continued to be extensive and varied. News on Jan 29th - Feb 2nd - Guayaquil (Ecuador) - 'Geotech nical Geotechnical conferences held w ithin the Region, on special Construction Quality Control' awards and publications and other events in U.S.A and in

Canada continue to be reported and described in Geotechnical M ar 6 th - 10th - M exico - 'Underground Construction1 News, published quarterly and distributed to all U.S and Canadian members o f ISSM FE by BiTech Publishers Ltd . Aug 16th - Nov 23rd - Queretaro - 'Geotechnical Quality As this has now been w ell established as a convenient and Control and Design o f Specifications' practical forum for discussion and information on R egional affairs, discussions continue with ISSM FE colleague s in Nov 18 th - Dec 11th - Mexico - 'Geotechnics in the M exico to promote regular inclusion o f their inform ation in Construction o f the M etro' the publication. Regrettably, to date this is not y et arranged. Dec 9th - 11th - El Salvador (San Salvador) - 'Quality in the M EXICO - SOCIEDAD M EXICANA DE M ECANICA Construction o f Highways' DE SUELO S, A .C. (SM M S) A 40 hour course entitled 'Foundations Design and The activities of the SM M S are those concerning the Construction According to the District Regulations', was promotion and diffusion o f know ledge o f Soil M echan ics and given in A pril 1997. Geotechnical Engineering. Normally, these activitie s consist of course, conferences, symposia, task committees and From May to September, the SM M S is celebrating its 40th publication o f books and the SM M S review. A nniversary holding 15 conferences on different themes. The invited speakers are the past Presidents and the cu rrent The X Soil M echanics Professors' M eeting w as celebrated on President o f the M exican Society. The conferences are being November 12th, in M orelia. Professors from most Sch ools o f held in Guadalajara, M erida, M exico City, M orelia, Puebla, Engineering in M exico attended this meeting concern ing Soil Queretaro and Tuxtla Gutierrez. M echanics teaching. The SM M S is organizing an International Conference to be In the last year the SM M S published 11 books, m ost o f them celebrated in 1998. The main theme will be dams and being proceedings o f conferences and the quarterly review collateral construction. entitled 'Suelos'.

U.S.A - A SCE G EO -IN STITUTE (USNS) The SM M S has 14 Task Committees on different technical topics. The most active o f them in the last year were those On October 1, 1996 the A SCE Geotechnical Engineerin g related to teaching, geotextiles, deep foundations, quality Division because the A SC E Geo-Institute, a semi-autonomous control, tailing dams and publications. organization that reports directly to the A SCE Board of Direction. The activities and affairs o f the Institute w ill be The SM M S has up to now five Regional Delegations, three o f directed by a seven-member Board of Governors. them were established in 1996, in Puebla, Yucatan and Membership in the Geo-Institute w ill be open to all geo­ Chiapas. Some short conferences were held in these professionals. The new organizational structure sho uld enable Delegations. the Geo-Institute to be more responsible to the needs of Geotechnical engineers and other professionals in the geo­ Conferences and W orkshops industry. The Geo-Institute w ill serve as the U.S m ember society o f the ISSM FE. The Geo-Institute's first sp eciality * The National Conference with the Nabor Carrillo conference, GeoLogan, w ill be held in Logan, Utah in July Conference and the Professors' Meeting, is the 1997. principal SM M S event, w hich is held every tw o years. The XV m National Conference on Soil Mechanics An ad hoc publications committee (Stein Sture, Chair) has and Foundation Engineering took place in M orelia, in review ed more than 100 abstracts for the XIV ICSM FE in November 13-15, 1996. Hamburg. On the basis o f reviews o f full manuscripts, approximately 45 papers were selected for the Confe rence * On May 8/ 96, the late Dr. G. A. Leonards gave an Proceedings. interesting conference (one o f his last), entitled 'Defects in Soft Clays : A Challenge to Stability Dr. Robert M . Koem er presented the 1996 Terzaghi Le cture A nalysis', in the National A utonomous University o f on "Emerging and Future A pplications o f Geosynthetics" at M exico. the ASCE Annual Convention in Washington, DC in November 1996. Dr. Richard D. W oods w ill present the 1997 * In November 14/ 96, in Morelia, Dr. Daniel Resendiz Terzaghi Lecture in M inneapolis in November. was the invited speaker at the XIII Nabor Carrillo Conference, entitled 'The Methods o f Geotechnics, o r Professor John Burland w ill receive the 2nd H. Bolton Seed Observation, Im agination, Experience and Theory'. Medal and w ill present the Seed Medal Lecture at th e Geo- Logan speciality conference in Logan, Utah in July 1997. * On July 11/ 96 a Symposium was held about 'The Responsibility o f the Geotechnical Engineer in the We are saddened to report that three prominent U.S Design and construction o f Buildings in the Federal Geotechnical engineers, Gerald A. Leonards, George F. D istrict'. Sow ers and W illiam F. Sw iger, passed away during the past

2700 year. A lthough they had form ally retired, all three remained M ichel Aubertin very active professionally. * 49th CGS Conference, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Chairman, Jack Clark Conferences and W orkshops (A SCE, USNS or ISSM FE) 1997 * Third International Symposium on Environmental * 50th CGS Conference, Ottawa, Chairman Gordon Geotechnology, San Diago, CA , June 1996. M cRostie. * First International Conference on Site Characterization * Uncertainty in the Geologic Environment, Madison, (ISC '98). ISSM FE TC-16, CGS-A SCE, July 16-19, W I, July 31-A ug 3, 1996 (A SCE). Utah, Chairman P. Robertson.

* Fifth International Conference on Application of 1998

Stress-W ave Theory to Piles, Orlando, FL, September * 8 th Int. Congress o f IA EG, CGS, September 21-25, 1996. Vancouver, W ayne Savigny * International Permafrost Conference, CGS, * Geosynthetics '97, Long Beach, CA, March 1997. Yellow knife, David Sego. * Computer Applications in the Mineral Industry, * Geo-Logan, Logan, Utah, July 1997 (Geo-Institute). CA M ! '98, Saskatoon, October 19-21,1998, Chairman Doug Stead.

CANADA - CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY (f) REPORT ON ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTH (CGS) AND CENTRAL AM ERICAN REGION JULY 1995 - A UG UST 1997 A total o f over 125 lectures, as w ell as a number o f one-day seminars, workshops, and technical site visits have been by Luis V alenzuela organized by local societies across Canada in the last tw o V ice-President for South A m erica years. Som e o f the m ore impressive activities are in the BC Region, where no less than five groups, in Vancouve r, 1. General Regional News Victora, Nanaimo, Prince George and the Interior (V emon) are active. The BC Region now has a total membership of The South and Central A merican region includes 10 over 400; not all o f w hom being formal members o f C GS. countries registered as national groups o f the ISSM FE, with a total o f 581 members (up to 31 o f July 1996). The Vancouver Geotechnical Society has created an A w ard to be made annually for contributions to the CGS and to the It should be pointed out that the majority o f the practice o f geotechnique. The first recipient w as M r. Charles national groups encompass also the activities o f the F. Ripley. ISRM (w ith the exception o f Bolivia) and sometimes also o f the IA EG. Some o f the national groups have The V G S has also initiated a special commemorative issue o f adopted the generic name o f Geotechnical Society the Canadian Geotechnical New s to be published for the 50th (Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay and anniversary o f the CGS in 1997 and containing solic ited Venezuela). The Brazilian group recently adopted the papers from a w ide range o f eminent geotechnical en gineers. new name o f "Brazilian Society for Soil M echanics This publication is to be w idely distirbuted, as it covers the and Geotechnical Engineering", following the most significant geotechnical conference in Canada for some proposed new name for ISSM FE to be voted in tim e. Hamburg.

In other regions, a number o f activities have been undertaken Although Brazil continues to be, by far, the most jointly w ith other technical societies such as the C SC E and the active national group in the region (40% of the Tunnelling A ssociation o f Canada. The Technical Div isions membership o f the region), it should be noted the o f CGS have plans for conferences or speciality sessions at important activities carried out by other national conference in future. Members in the Rock Mechanics groups such as Ecuador, as w ell as the enthusiastic Division, The Geosynthetics Division and the Soil M echanics participation o f Costa Rica in Central A m erica, acting and Foundation Engineer Division have enjoyed an ac tive as a coordinator o f other Central A merican groups not year with key participation o f its members in several m ajor members o f ISSM FE. events. Special efforts have been made by the national grou p

The Vancouver Organizing Comm ittee is organizing the 8 th o f Venezuela, that organized a regional course on Congress o f the International A ssociation o f Engineering landslides in O ctober 1995 and that now is organizing Geology, to be held in Septem ber 1998. the 3rd Latin American Conference for Young Geotechnical Engineers.

Conferences and W orkshops Paraguay has also been active preparing for July 1997 International conferences, often in collaboration w ith other its national conference and a regional coordination learned societies include: meeting for the next Panamerican Conference. Bolivia is gradually becom ing more active and at least 1996 three groups (La Paz, Cochambamba and Santa Cruz) * Geofilters '96, Montreal, ISSM FE, ICOLD, IGSJFA I, are actively present. CG S, Jean Lafleur, Jerry Raymond. * The 2nd North American Rock Mechanics The efforts done by this Vice-President and the Symposium (NA RM S '96), Montreal, June 19-21, President o f ISSM FE in Uruguay have not given

2701 positive results up to now , and no national group has 4. X Pan-American Conference, G uadalajara, M exico yet been formed. 1995

2. Regional M eetings with the V ice-President This Conference is the most important event in the region. The Pan-American Conference was held in This Vice-President has tried to meet w ith most o f the Guadalajara, M exico, from October 29 to November presidents or representatives o f the national group s 3, 1995. since he w as elected. Professor Norbert Morgenstern o f Canada delivered The Vice-President met most o f the representatives o f the Third Casagrande Lecture on "M anaging Risk in the national groups o f South and Central A m erica on Geotechnical Engineering". occasion o f the X Panamerican Conference that was held in Guadalajara, M exico in October 1995. During this Conference a meeting of the South American groups was held on M onday 29 and a Pan- Unfortunately, at the ISSM FE Council M eeting held American Committee meeting on Tuesday 30, in El Cairo, Egypt on December 10, 1995, only the October. representatives o f Brazil w ere present.

5. XI Pan-American Conference, Fóz do Iguacu of The follow ing meeting o f the Vice-President w ith the Paraná, Brazil, 1999 representatives o f the national groups o f South and

Central America was in October 1996, in Rio de The Conference w ill take place from August 8 to 12, Janeiro, after an invitation o f Dr. Francis Bogossian, 1999 in Fóz do Iguacu, Brazil, close to the common President o f the Organizing Committee o f the XI border w ith A rgentina and Paraguay. Panamerican Conference (X I PC SM FE) to be held in Foz de Iguazu in August 1999. The President and the The Conference will be organized by ABMS General Secretary o f ISSM FE also attended this (Associacao Brasileira de Mecánica de Solos e m eeting. Engenharia Geotècnica), w ith the participation o f the National Societies o f A rgentina and Paraguay. This Vice-President has visited the national groups o f Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru, and is Considering the expected change in the name o f the planning to attend a South A merican meeting next ISSM FE to "International Society for Soil M echanics July in Paraguay. and Geotechnical Engineering", probably to occur in the next ISSM FE Council M eeting in Hamburg, the 3. Regional Technical Committees Organizing Comm ittee proposed an equivalent change in the name o f the X I Pan-A merican Conference. This The common technical activities in the region are name w ill be proposed by the Conference Organizing organized through the Regional Technical Committee and submitted to the Conference A dvising Committees. Committee for approval.

After the Second South American Symposium on A first regional coordination meeting of this Landslides (also designated as Pan-American conference with representatives o f almost all the Symposium on Landslides) that w as held successfully countries was held in Rio de Janeiro. In this in Guayaquil, in August 1994, two other activities opportunity, the Conference Adviser Conference have been programed: Follow ing an idea discussed (CA C) met for the first time. The members o f CA C during the Symposium, the Venezuelan Geotechnical are Dr. R. Parry, Vice Presidents V. Milligan Society organized a very successful South A merican (represented in this opportunity by Dr. V . Garga) and Course on Landslides in October 1995; Brazil was L. Valenzuela, Prof. F. Bogossian (President o f the host to the 2nd Pan-A merican Landslides Symposium Organizing Committee) and Dr. S. Niyama (Secretary (3rd South A m erican) in Rio de Janeiro in November, o f the Organizing Committee). Prof. Jamiolkovski, 1998. President o f ISSM FE also attended this meeting.

In a meeting held in Santiago, in M ay 1994, it was Recently the national group o f Paraguay has invited to decided to participate in the South American a second coordination meeting, in July 1997, o f the Committee on Weak Rocks, a committee already national groups o f the region as part o f the activities o f supported by ISRM and IA EG. Argentina, Brazil and the Organizing Committee o f the XI PCSM FE. Paraguay are active members of this regional

com m ittee, but now Bolivia is also participating. 6. 1996 ISSM FE Board M eeting in Chile

Dr. Lorenz Dobereiner, then President o f Technical The 1996 ISSM FE Board Meeting was held in Committee No. 22 o f ISSM FE also attended this Santiago, Chile, October 14 and 15, follow ing an meeting as w ell as a second meeting that w as held in invitation o f the Chilean Geotechnical Society. This November 1994 in Foz de Iguazu, Brazil, on occasion was the second tim e that an ISSM FE Board M eeting o f the Brazilian Conference on Soil M echanics and is held in South America. The Board Meeting was Foundation Engineering. The geotechnical held just before the International Symposium on community o f the region w as profoundly saddened by Seism ic and Environmental A spects o f Dam Designs - his sudden death. Dr. Dobereiner w as an enthusiastic Earth. Concrete and Tailings Dam s, that w as held in supporter o f this com m ittee. Santiago, October 15-18, 1996.

2702 7. ISSM FE Model Library (English) the city o f La Paz.

A t the present tim e, five sets o f books have been sent A BIG is at present w orking on the agreements with out, one to each o f the follow ing recipients: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and la Paz City Council for projects on w eak rocks and geotechnical * Facultad de Ingeniería Civil y Facultad de research. A BIG is also preparing a local seminar on Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad M ayor de the properties o f M iraflores gravel. San A ndrés - Bolivia * Universidad de Guayaquil - Ecuador Brazil * CISMID, Facultad de Ingienería Civil, Universidad N acional de Ingeniería - Peru The A BM S, the national group o f Brazil, dedicated significant effort to the improvement of their * Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologia, organization. A BM S is organized in regional groups: Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Sao Paulo (the largest), Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Rio A sunción" - Paraguay Grande do Sul and Bahia. * Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales y Modelos Estructurales, Universidad de Costa Rica - It should be noted that, although, A BM S has almost Costa Rica. 1000 members, only 228 are emembers o f ISSM FE. The Board o f A BM S has promised to make special The Vice-President attended a ceremony at La Paz, efforts in order to at least double this number in a Bolivia, in N ovem ber 1996, w here the National Group couple o f years. o f Bolivia presented the ISSM FE M odel Library to the authorities o f the Universidad M ayor de San Andrés. A new name was proposed and approved for the national group o f Brazil: "A ssociacao Brasileira de 8 . ISSM FE Model Library (French) Mecánica de Solos e Engenheria Geotècnica", maintaining its abbreviation A BM S. The new name A set o f the Francophone M odel Library o f ISSM FE w ill becom e official after the meeting in Hamburg this has been donated by the Com ité Français to Facultad year. de Ingeniería o f the Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frias in Potosi, Bolivia. The A BM S is, by far, the most active national group in South A m erica, continuing w ith the publication o f 9. Activities by the National Groups its national bulletin every tw o months and the journal "Solos e Rochas", which is already a well-known A rgentina international journal.

The "Argentinean Society for Soil Mechanics" A project is still on its way in order to adopt this (SAMS) has been publishing Bulletins with journal, or an equivalent journal, edited by A BM S as information and technical articles every three m onths. a Latin A merican journal with articles in English, This bulletin is distributed to all associates, Portuguese and Spanish. ABM S has been very Argentinean universities, other groups national and successful in attracting international events. At ISSM FE authorities. present, A BM S is organizing the follow ing: "II Pan- A merican Symposium o f Landslides", w hich w ill be This society organized their national conference in held in Rio de Janeiro, November 10 to 14 o f 1997; Córdoba, in August 1996. The SA M S aim is to give the 1998 International Conference o f ITA "Tunnellin g more continuity to these conferences, probably having and M etropolises"; the XI Pan-A merican PCSM FE" them in a yearly basis. in Foz de Iguacu in 1999 (in collaboration with Argentina and Paraguay) and the "V I International The SA M S is a coorganizer o f the X I PCSM FE, to be Conference on Use o f W ave Stress Equations in Pilk held in Foz do Iguaçù in 1997, having participated Design", event w hich w ill be held in Sao Paulo in y ear actively in the first CA C meeting held in the city of 2000 . Rio de Janeiro in October o f 1996.

A BM S co-organized the First Brazilian-Portugal Bolivia Meeting in Environmental Geotechnics (I Jomado Luso Brasileria de Geotecnia A m bientai) that w as held The Bolivian A ssociation o f Geotechnical Engineerin g in 1995. (A BIG ), participated in the "International Sym posiu m on Seismic and Environmental Aspects of Dams Chile Design: Earth, Concrete and Tailings Dam s", held in Santiago de Chile, October, 1996; and specially in the The Chilean Geotechnical Society (SOCHIGE), Coordination Meeting for the "XI Pan-American continues to participate in several technical Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation committees of the ISSM FE, ISRM and IAEG. At Engineering", meeting that was held in Rio de present Chile is hosting TC No. 7. Janeiro, O ctober, 1996.

In a special event attended by L. Valenzuela, Vice- Actually, TC No. 7 organized, together with President o f the ISSM FE for South A merica, A BIG SOCHIGE and ICOLD-Chile, the successful presented the donation made by ISSM FE, of the "International Symposium on Seismic and M odel Library to the Faculties o f Civil and Geological Environmental Aspects of Dam Design-Earth, Engineer o f the Universidad M ayor de San A ndrés in Concrete and Tailing Dams", that was held in

2703 Santiago, October 15-18, 1996. More than 300 held in M arch o f 1997 and the society has continued delegates from all over the world attended this w orking on the Code o f Building Foundations. meeting. A t the present tim e, the Society is organizing the V II SOCHIGE also provided the facilities and extra National Geotechnical Sem inar and the 2nd M eeting programatic activities for the 1996 ISSM FE Board of Geotechnical Engineers of Central America, Meeting that was held in Santiago just before the scheduled for November 1997. Symposium. Ecuador SO CH IGE is, at present, organizing the IV Chilean Conference on Geotechnical Engineering to be held at The Ecuadorian Society for Soil and Rock M echanics Universidad Santa Maria, Valparaiso, October 21-24, (SEM SIR) has now reactivated its participation w ithin 1997. the International Society o f Rocks M echanics, as it was done w ith ISSM FE in 1993. Colombia Some activities organized by SEM SIR were a The "Colombian Geotechnical Society" (SCG) is conference on Tunnels in Soil for the Metro of publishing again its semestral bulletin "Boletin Guayaquil, 1995 and the edition o f Volum e II o f the I Colombiano de Geotècnica", that had ceased to be Pan-American Symposium on Landslides. SEM SIR published three years ago. is, at present, organizing the in Ecuadorian Conference on Soil M echanics and II International Last year SCG organized the VI Colombian Conference on Tropic-Andean Soils, to be held in Geotechnical Conference, that was held in October Quito, November 17 to 21, 1997. 1996, in the city o f Bucaramanga. Its central theme being Soils Erosion. Over 250 delegates attended th is SEM SIR presented the Model Library, donated by conference. SCG is now organizing its next (VII) ISSM FE in February in 1997, to the University of national Conference to be held in July-A ugust 1998. Guayaquil.

SCG collaborated with INGEOMINAS in the Paraguay conference held on July 31 to August 3, 1996, in the city o f Villa de Leyva. Different methodologies of The Paraguayan Geotechnical Society is organizing Geotechnical Zonification were discussed and several activities that w ill take place from 14 to 17 o f analyzed. July, 1997, in the city o f A sunción:

Together with the Colombian Association of I Congress of Paraguayan Geotechnical Engineers (SCI), the Colombian group has been Engineers (I COPA IN GE) working on the issue o f new Excavation Standards, IV Jom adas Geotécnicas Estructurales and the organization o f joint seminars on several I Meeting of Geotechnical Engineer of geotechnical engineering subjects. M ercosur.

Since SCG is hosting the General Secretariat o f the During these activities, the second preparatory South A merican Committee on Landslides, SCG has meeting o f the X IPC M SFE w ill be held. Paraguay is been collaborating with the Organizing Com m ittee o f a co-organizer o f this conference together with the Second Pan-A merican Symposium on Landslides A rgentina and Brazil. to be held in Rio de Janeiro, November 1997. Peru Costa Rica The COPEM SFM R (Peruvian Committee of Soil The Geotechnical Society o f Costa Rica (A sociación Mechanics, Foundations and Rock Mechanics) Costarricense de Geotecnia) organized several organized several activities during 1996 and early activities during 1996, and early 1997. 1997, including several lectures and seminars on foundations, underpinning, earth dams, earthquake These activities include several lectures and courses geotechnical engineering, pavements, geosynthetics on geotechnical subjects, some of them in and m ineral analysis. collaboration w ith the Civil Engineering Faculty o f Universidad de Costa Rica. COPEM SFM R also organized a course on fmite elements applied to geotechnical engineering. In A CG participated in the II Pan-A merican Congress o f October 1996, CPEM SFM R presented to CISM ID- Environm ental Engineering, that w as held during the UNI the M odel Library donated by ISSM FE. XXIV Pan-American convention o f UDA PI 96. Venezuela The Geotechnical Society o f Costa Rica presented the Model Library donated by ISSM FE in October 14, The SVG, Venezuelan Geotechnical Society, 1996, to the National Laboratory o f M aterials and organized the I South-A m erican Course on Landslides Structural Models o f Universidad de Costa Rica in the city o f Barquisim eto, October 9-15 o f 1995. (LA N A M M E). During the same event, two lectures on Soil M echanics were given by A CG members. O rganisation

A Seminar on Chemical Stabilization o f Soils was The Conference Advisory Committee w ill be formed by the

2704 Geotechnical Case Histories in Venezuela. incoming President and according to By-laws will be responsible for advising on the conference programm e, and the detailed organisation o f the conference will be the At present SVG is organizing the XV National responsibility o f the Turkish M ember Society. Offic ially, Geotechnical Sem inar to be held in October 1998. both o f those com m ittees w ill start functioning after the XIV . Conference closes. Therefore, some o f the follow ing points A PPENDIX 5 - XV ICSM FE are subject to the approval o f the A dvisory Comm ittee. Report by Professor E Togrol

Participants and Registration REPORT ON ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE XV

The conference is arranged primarily for the benefit o f the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOIL members o f the International Society. How ever, persons who M ECHANICS AND FOUNDATION ENGINEERING are not members may attend by paying a special registration 2001 fee. A reduced fee w ill be applied to a total o f 20 0 young engineers who w ill be appointed by their M em ber Soc ieties. Place and D ate of the Conference

Official Languages The XV International Conference on Soil M echanics and Foundation Engineering w ill be held in Istanbul in August 001 The official languages o f the conference w ill be En glish and 2 . French. Simultaneous translation w ill be provided at the sessions. The sessions will be held at the Istanbul International Conference and Exhibition Centre, beginning on M ond ay, 27

Program m e August and concluding Friday 31 August. Post-conference tours w ill be arranged to various places in Turkey and in the

The programme o f the conference will include plenary region. sessions, discussion sessions, w orkshops, theme lectures as in the previous conferences. M ajor state-of-the-art review s from O bject of the Conference senior experts o f the profession and prestige lectu res w ill be continued. The Terzaghi Oration w ill have a special place in The object o f the Fifteenth International Conferenc e is to the programme. The Board and Council meetings will be provide an opportunity for engineers and scientists w orking in arranged on two consecutive days before the confere nce. the field o f soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering to m eet and present new ideas, achievements and experiences. Speciality sessions (in the form o f discussion sessions and w orkshops) w ill be organised at the conference in a selected Professional Conference O rganiser number o f areas. Furthermore, it is considered to h old 1 or 2 day sub-conferences on more-focused manner before the main IKON Tourism and Trade Inc has been nominated as the conference starts. Professional Conference Organiser o f the conference . IKON is well acquainted with the local scene in Istanbul and is Proceedings extremely experienced in international conference organisation and has successfully organised H A BITA T II Perhaps the tim e is ripe for the Society to conside r changing United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, rec ently. the format o f the proceedings o f international conferences.

Correspondence One proposal is to have one printed volume with one page abstracts o f all papers and a CD -RO M disc w ith full papers, Prof. Dr. Ergiin Togrol, to be provided before the conference. The CD-ROM wo uld Chairman o f the Organising Committee have softw are to search on keyw ords, on all the words in the Faculty o f Civil Engineering, paper titles, on the authors, and on institutions w here the Istanbul Technical University, authors w ork, etc. The second volume could be provided after 80626 A yazaga, Istanbul, the conference. This volume would include the invited Turkey papers, keynote papers, discussions, state-of-the-art reports, Tel: (90)212 285 3747 minutes o f the Council meetings. Fax:(090)212 285 6587

During the meeting o f the South A merican Committee A PPENDIX 6 - GEOENG 2000 held in Guadalajara, Mexico, Venezuela was

designated to host the HI Latin A m erican Conference G eoEng 2000 o f Young Geotechnical Engineers. The conference

has been scheduled for N ovember 1997. Report by M r M Ervin

The course on Design and Construction of 1. Introduction Anchorages, by Prof. Andres Pesti, was held in Caracas in M arch, 1996. At the Cairo Council meeting in December, 1995, President Jam iolkow ski proposed a conference to be SV G has continue publishing its bulletin (recently held in the year 2000, to bring together the ISSM FE , numbers 69 and 70 have been distributed). ISRM and IA EG, to reflect on the synergies which exist betw een the three sister societies as w e approach The XTV Venezuelan Geotechnic Sem inar w as held in the third millennium. The concept had the support o f Caracas in September, 1996. Its theme was the Presidents o f the ISRM and IA EG.

2705 Invitations were sought from several Member sessions throughout the day. Societies to host this conference. The three Presidents then agreed to invite M elbourne, A ustralia to host the The tentative programme for technical activities is event. It is my priviledge, and rather daunting task, to attached. be the Chairman o f the Organising Committee of GeoEng 2000, "An International Conference on 5. Social Programme Geotechnical and Geological Engineering". W e recognise this conference has the potential to b e a 2. Date and Venue landmark conference, bringing together three Sister Societies plus som e affiliated International Societies. The conference will be held at the Melbourne W e have a firmly stated intention o f making the International Congress Centre, from N ovem ber 19 to conference a memorable one from social perspective, 24, 2000. This time w as selected to be several w eeks as w ell as technically. W e sincerely hope it w ill b e after the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, to avoid accepted as a conference not to be missed. difficulties with airline bookings and inflated accommodation prices. The Olympics finish on It would be remiss o f me to reveal our plans at this October 1, 2000. tim e, but be assured M elbourne is a delightful city w ith lots o f parks, restaurants, theatres and beach es. The conference venue is located on the Yarra River, 3. Co-Sponsors immediately adjacent to the City centre. Not only w ill the formal social functions be remembered, but we A s indicated, the main sponsors are the three Siste r hope delegates w ill also find tim e to explore our c ity Societies, ISSM FE, ISRM and IA EG. Each o f these and its numerous attractions. Societies has provided seed money. In addition, we have w elcom ed the co-sponsorship o f the International Accompanying delegates will be provided with a Geosynthetics Society, the International Tunnelling range o f activities and scenic tours. Association and the International Association of Hydrogeologists, all o f whom have enthusiastically 6 . Technical Tours embraced the concept o f the conference.

Technical tours w ill be run on three afternoons w ith 4. Technical Programme the technical programme arranged so that devotees to a particular them e w ill be able to participate w ith out Five main themes have been developed, with the having to m iss any technical sessions. intention that they be considered in separate mini- conferences or symposia, within the overall 7. GeoFair 2000 conference format. The themes have been chosen because they reflect the activities o f members o f all A n exhibition is proposed in association w ith GeoEn g three Sister Societies. These them es are:- 2000. A number o f themes are again proposed, both w ith the aim o f encouraging sponsorship, but also to * Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering ensure the exhibition is o f genuine interest. For * Underground Works example, w e plan to have an area devoted to softw are * Environmental Geotechnics in geotechnical and geological engineering. The * Stability of Natural and Excavated Slopes mining companies w ill doubtless wish to show their * Ground Improvement and Ground Support fare. Sim ilarly, w e hope to attract the purveyors o f geophysical equipment and testing methods; and o f It is proposed that for each o f these them es there w ill course geosynthetics. be two keynote lectures, three issues lectures and several discussion sessions workshops or paper GeoFair 2000 w ill be held in the same centre as the presentation sessions. Parallel sessions are proposed conference, allow ing ready interaction by delegates for the mini-conferences. However, the tentative and exhibitors. programme ensures that delegates with a specific interest in one o f the themes can attend all relevant

sessions. 8 . Costs

A number of more general plenary sessions are Based on 1997 costs, w e consider that a registratio n proposed, in w hich invited lectures w ill be presented. fee o f USD 660, covering conference attendance, In addition to the main keynote lecture, to be given by social functions and a gala dinner is achievable. W e Past President M orgenstem, our co-sponsors w ill be propose to provide all papers in CD Rom form, but invited to present a lecture. W e have also selected with the invited lectures also in hard copy. How ever, several other topics of general interest such as group registrations where only one hard copy set o f geophysics and computing, on w hich invited lectures invited papers is provided is being considered to also w ill be presented. reduce registration fees.

To encourage papers to be submitted, we propose W e w ill ensure low cost accommodation, such as at some formal paper presentation sessions, and an University Halls o f Residence is available, together award for the three best papers submitted. A ll papers w ith a free public transport pass for those who may w ill have an opportunity to be presented in poster w ish to m ake other arrangements. form, either as invited posters to be shown during a late afternoon "happy hour", or in general poster Air travel to Australia is not expensive, as is often

2706 thought, w hen compared, for exam ple, to travel w ithin Now adays Lisboa has about 2 millions inhabitants and show s Europe. On current prices, return airfares from relevant contrasts from w ide avenues to w inding narrow and Europe to Melbourne as low as USD 1500 are picturesque streets and paths, and from monuments and available. W e w ill appoint a conference airline who museums to modem multistorey buildings and shopping w ill assist in providing discounted airfares. centres.

9. Closure Nightlife in Lisboa is well known by locals and visitors, specially in the typical old districts o f A lfam a, M adragoa and GeoEng 2000 is an exciting idea. It is, however, a Bairro A lto w here in many "Casas de Fado", apart from a rich one-off conference being held at a tim e w hen funding gastronomy, the typical national song, the Fado, and regional for conference attendance is harder to obtain, and dances can be enjoyed. there is an increasing number o f specialist confere nces

and symposia competing for delgates. W e recognised In Lisboa w ill take place the EXPO 98 (last W orld Exhibition this when we agreed to host GeoEng2000, and go o f this century) with further cultural events w hich w ill be forward w ith enthusiasm and confidence because we available to the Congress participants and companio ns. believe w e have the framew ork o f a truely stimulating, exciting and above all memorable conference:- a W e w ill be happy to w elcome you in Lisboa. conference w hich w ill allow the new to meet the old , for the current and past contributors to our presen t state o f the art to m eet and reflect on w here w e have Date and Venue come in the past 60 or so years, and for us all to consider w here w e need to go as w e approach the nex t The Third International Congress on Environment century. It w ill be a conference concentrating on the Geotechnics will be held from 7 to 11 September 1998 at state o f practice, as w ell as the art, w ith the intention Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), Av . that the proceedings w ill be a treasured reference. Brasil, 101, 1799, Lisboa Codex, Portugal.

I commend G eoEng2000 to you, and seek you support Topics and encouragement. The technical sessions o f the Congress, mainly invo lving the M C ERVIN ISSM FE TC-5 work, w ill cover the follow ing topics:

W ASTE CHARACTERIZATION A PPEN DIX 7 - 3RD ICEG Site investigation, laboratory investigation, engineering properties o f w astes Prelim inary Report

TAILINGS DAMS THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON Tailing properties, tailing deposition methods, tailings ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS dams construction, abandonment

Septem ber 1998 SOLID W A STE LANDFILLS Lisboa, Portugal W aste containment components Bottom liner and cover liner Invitation to Lisboa Leachate control system s (barriers, drainage) W aste material reuse (recyling tyres and plastic w aste) The Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, SPG, takes g reat Power station ashe (mechanical and chemical pleasure in extending an invitation to attend the T H IRD properties) INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON Quality assurance ENVIRONM ENTAL GEOTECHN ICS which will take place in Lisboa in Septem ber 7-11, 1998. TREATMENT OF TUNNELLING AND OTHER DRILLING PROCESS W A STE Technical visits and post Congress tours will give the Parkland participants the chance to see more o f Portugal and o f its Slurries engineering activities.

REMEDIATION M EA SURES Lisboa, the capital o f Portugal, is a very attractive setting spread over seven hills, boarding the Tagus river and facing EVALUATION OF ENVIROMENTAL RISKS RELATED the A tlantic Ocean. WITH CONTAM INATED LANDFILLS

Historians attribute to the Phoenicians the foundation of DREDGING SLURRIES Lisboa around 1200 BC. Since then Lisboa w as successively occupied by Celts, Romans, Visigoths and M oors, the latter HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIAL WASTES (STORAGE) having remained in the country for four centuries u ntil 1147, MONITORING SYSTEM S when the first king of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, conquered the city. Lisboa became the capital o f Po rtugal in LAND MARINE RECLAMATION AND 1255. ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM S

In 1755 Lisboa w as severely damaged by a strong earthquake CODES and LEGISLA TION but it was rebuilt soon after under the leadership o f the Marqués de Pombal. CA SE H ISTORIES

2707 Scientific Program O fficial Languages

The Congress w ill include: Theme Lectures addressed by The official languages o f the Congress are English and world authorities in Environm ental Geotechnics; (ii) Special French. Simultaneously translation w ill be provided during Lectures prepared by w ell know n specialists in each specific the Sessions. Papers and abstracts may be w ritten in either field; (iii) Presentations by Discussion Leaders and Panelists; languages. and (iv) Poster Sessions. Congress Proceedings During the Technical Sessions and Poster Sessions discussions w ill be encouraged. Three or four hard-bound volumes o f proceedings which contain all the papers, the theme lectures and the special

D ivulgation lectures w ill be published by A . A . Balkem a.

The Third International Congress on Environmental Bulletin N o. 2 Geotechnics was divulged in the Diary o f Events o f ISSM FE News, in IA EG New s, ISRM New s Journal and ITA Tribu ne. Bulletin No. 2 will be mailed by November 1997 and w ill contain: Letters w ith Bulletin N o. 1 (m ore than 200 letters) w ere sent to all Secretariats o f National Groups o f ISSM FE, IA EG, final Congress them es; ISRM and ITA , requesting to share this information w ith their scientific and technical programme; national members w ho may like to contribute. accompanying persons programme; instructions for geotechnical engineering exhibitio n; A lso more than 100 letters w ith Bulletin No. 1 w ere sent to general information o f registrations fees, hotel individuals requesting them to circulate the inform ation. accommodation, social and cultural activities, and other inform ation o f general interest. In Osaka during the Closing Ceremony of the Second International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics an A dditional Inform ation invitation address to 3ICEG was presented. A lso in Osaka, Bulletin No. 1 and Poster o f 3ICEG w ere distributed . Congress news is posted on our W W W address:

M ore than 4000 Bulletins No. 1 w ere already distrib uted. http:/ / -lnec.pt/ 3RDICEG

M eetings Telephone: (351) (1) 8482131 Telex: 16760 LNECP

The Portuguese Society for Geotechnique has invited Prof Fax: (351) (1)8478187 Van Impe for a meeting in Lisboa. Email: [email protected]

This meeting took place in Laboratorio Nacional de PROF. PEDRO S. SÊCO E PINTO Engenharia Civil de Lisboa on April 2, 1996. Several topics Secretary General for 3rd ICEG w ere discussed and particularly the issues related w ith the Lisboa, 15 May 1997 themes and tim e schedule.

A lso meetings took place, in Chile, during the International Table 1 - N um ber of Subm itted A bstracts Symposium on Seism ic and Environmental A spects o f D am s Design Earth, Concrete and Tailings Dam s, in Octobe r 14-16, Country Number Country Number 1996 and in Osaka, during the 2ICEG, in November 19 96, 1 Japan 4 with the presence o f Prof. Jam iolkow ski, Prof Van Impe and A rgentina CA C members for discussions o f scientific/ technical subjects A ustria 1 M exico 1 o f EICEG. Belgium 1 Netherland 1 The first official CAC meeting took place in Lisboa on Botsw ana 1 Portugal 1 1 December 7th 1996, w ith the presence o f Prof. Jam io lkow ski,

Prof Van Impe, Dr. Parry and CA C members. Brazil 6 Russia 6

Canada 3 Spain 1 The second CA C meeting will take place in Hamburg, on

September 1997, during the 14th IC SSM FE. France 1 South A frica 1

Germany 1 Syria 3 On-going meetings o f the Organizing Committee are taken place to discuss the selection and invitations for Theme Hungary 1 Turkey 1 Lectures, Special Lectures, Chairmen, Discussions L eaders and Panelists. India 1 UK 4

Kyrghyz 1 USA 1 Call for A bstracts Republic

Until the end o f April 1997, the number o f abstracts received Italy 2 by the Organizing Committee reached 54, from 23 cou ntries, as show n in Table 1. The deadline for the abstracts is 31 May 1997.

2708 APPENDIX 8 - YGEC 2000 M aterial Issued

Proposal to hold an International Young G eotechnica l For the preparation o f technical papers the required m aterial Engineers Conference in the Y ear 2000 is issued. For the XlV th International Conference o n Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering the follow ing was The British Geotechnical Society is proposing to ho ld a fully issued: international conference for young geotechnical eng ineers to mark the M illennium. This is tentatively scheduled for three Instruction for preparation o f abstracts days, 11-13 September 2000 and w ill follow the pattern o f Exam ple o f filled out abstract form young engineers events pioneered in the UK by John A bstract forms A tkinson in the 1970s (and still running nationally as the Typing instruction for prepapring camera-ready biennial BG S Young Geotechnical Engineers Symposia) and papers for ISSM FE conferences later taken up by several regions o f the ISSM FE in the form Specim en paper o f the Young Geotechnical Engineers Conferences held in Type area recent years. Form s for technical paper

W e are proposing a fully international event w ith a form at in Many differences can be found betw een the above mentioned which National Societies in the ISSM FE community w ill material and the material supplied for other conferences, each be invited to sponsor the attendance o f 2 delegates, w hich are organized under the auspices o f ISSM FE, say the under the age o f 35. The expectation is that every delegate Tenth A sian Regional Conference on SM FE that took p lace w ill be requested to contribute a short paper, related to August 29 to Septem ber 2, 1995, in Beijing, China. his/ her ow n experience and area o f interest. A t this stage it is not intended to set a particular theme for the d elegate The difference o f type size, indenting, primary and secondary papers which might arise from some form o f competitive headings, width o f column, spacing between paragrap hs, selection process by sponsoring Societies. W e envisage that position of the name of the authors), abstract versus at least one paper from each National Society will be synopsis, figures and tables, text o f the references, etc. create presented orally - possibly every paper, depending on overall unnecessary confusion and w aste o f time for those authors numbers; the aim is to maximise delegate involvemen t. that contribute to different conferences. These presentations w ill be organised in parallel sessions arranged by subject themes and the conference will be Recom m endations completed by a w hole day field visit and by plenary sessions at which invited senior speakers from the international To standardize technical papers it is recommended that a community w ill lecture to a theme relating the history of Manual for the Preparation of Technical Papers for geotechnical engineering to the prospects o f develo pments in Conferences Under the Auspices o f ISSMFE be prepared, the foreseeable future. The collected papers will b e circulated among the M ember Societies for comments and published. The venue chosen, Southampton, is in an adopted for use. attractive coastal location readily accessible from London and close to the w ell know n coastal landslip areas o f the Isle The Manual w ill produce economy since it w ill contain the o f W ight, to w hich a full day field trip w ith expert guides is standardized instructions for abstract and technical paper, planned as an integral part o f the conference. specimen paper, etc. and after their original hando ut, additional copies are to be sent only to those requ esting W e will expect the costs o f attendance to be met by the them. Also, unused forms for the abstract and techn ical National Societies, or their sponsored delegates, b ut w ill paper may be kept by interested parties for use for endeavour to keep the conference costs to a minimum . We subsequent conferences. Additional savings can be o btained w ill also be seeking travel bursaries to assist attendance. by ordering greater quantities o f the m aterial at o ne tim e.

Planning is o f course in the early stages, but the venue and Changes in the Manual can be made by addendum. Afte r accommodation are booked provisionally. W e wish at this several changes have been made a new version o f the Manual stage to bring these plans to the attention o f ISSM FE and its can be issued, if deemed necessary. Council and to seek the support o f the Society. Conclusions

The Manual for Preparation o f Technical Papers for APPENDIX 9 Conferences Under the Auspices o f ISSMFE w ill make life easier for the organizer o f conferences as w ell as for the M anual for Preparation of Technical Papers for author o f technical papers. In addition, a bonus is in the Conferences under the A uspices of ISSM FE offering due to the low ering o f expenses.

Proposal by the Israel G eotechnical Society A PPENDIX 10 Presented by M r C Redel

ISSM FE M odel Library (English) Introduction

Every year several conferences are held under the auspices o f Report by Secretary G eneral ISSM FE and their number are constantly increasing. For Tw enty-five sets o f the Model Library books have no w been these conferences, bulletins are sent to the M em ber Societies obtained direct from the publishers. Each set is co mprised o f w ith the call for technical papers. the follow ing books:

2709 * Foundation Design and Construction ( 6 th Edition) The sets o f books have been sent to the Secretaries o f the by M J Tomlinson, publ. Longman, Scientific and ISSM FE M em ber Societies in the recipients' countrie s w ith Technical. the request that they should be presented to the re cipient, by * Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice by a Senior ISSM FE Member, in a small ceremony (see Terzaghi and Peck (New Edition prepared by Peck example o f accompany letter). A s the Ukraine does n ot have and M esri), publ. W iley Interscience. a Member Society the set o f books for Odessa were sent * Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour by J K Mitchell directly to Prof Doubrovsky. A mounted plaque has b een (2nd Edition), publ. W iley Interscience. sent w ith each set o f books and ex-libris plates pasted inside * W aste Containment Systems, W aste Stabilization the front cover o f each book (see attached exam ples). and Land fills; Design Construction by Sharma and Lew is, publ. W iley Interscience. A French language M odel Library has also been assem bled * Soil Mechanics (5th Edition) by R F Craig, publ. and distributed and the report on this by M Gambin to the Chapman and Hall. 1996 ISSM FE Board meeting is attached. * Soil M echanics - Solutions M anual (5th Edition) by R F Craig, publ. Chapman and Hall. ISSM FE M odel Library (French) * Piling Engineering by Fleming, Weltman, Randolph and Elson, publ. Surrey Univ. Press and Halsted Report by M G ambin Press. In cooperation w ith the Canadian Geotechnical Socie ty, le * M ohr Circles, Stress Paths and Geotechnics by R Groupement Belge de Mécanique des Sols et la Société H G Parry, publ. E and F N Spon. Suisse de Mécanique des Sols et des Roches, le Comité

The books by M itchell and by Terzaghi, Peck and Mesri Français de M écanique des Sols selected the follow ing titles: were donated by W iley to ISSM FE free o f charge, and the remaining books purchased at a reduction o f 15% to 25% on F. SCH LO SSER "Eléments de M écanique des Sols" retail price. The total cost of the books was GBP38 20. Les Presses des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (1989). Tw enty sets o f books have been sent out, one set to each o f the follow ing recipients: M. CASSAN "Aide-Mémoire d'hydraulique souterraine" Les Presses des Ponts et Chaussées,

* Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Paris (1994). Engineering and Architecture, University of Khartoum - Sudan Auteurs multiples "Fondations et Soutènements" Les * Department of Civil Engineering, University of Techniques de l'ingénieur, Paris (1995). Moratuwa - Sri Lanka * Department of Civil Engineering, Regional College B. HOLTZ & W. KOVACS (J. LAFLEUR o f Engineering, Kakinada - Ind ia translator) "Introduction à la géotechnique" Editio ns * Hydraulic Engineering Department, Tsinghua de l'Ecole Polytechnique de M ontréal (1991). University - China * Printhiwi Narayan Campus, Pokhara, Gandaki - Société Canadienne de Géotechnique "Manuel Canadien d'Ingéniérie des Fondations" Bitech, Nepal distributor, Vancouver (1994). * Tallinn Technical University - Estonia * Facultad de Ingeniería Civil y Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés - under the supervision o f Prof. W . Van Impe who included the funds in the 1996 budget o f ISSM FE and helped to select Bolivia * Universidad de Guayaquil - Ecuador the recipients. * CISM ID, Facultad de Ingeniería Civil, Universidad N acional de Ingeniería - Peru F. Schlosser and M . Cassan books w ere obtained at h alf rate, * Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnología, Universidad i.e. FF 170 and 165 respectively, instead o f FF340 and 330, Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción" - from "Les Presses des Ponts", Paris. Paraguay * Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales y Modelos Les Techiques de l'ingénieur manual, especially printed for Estructurales, Universidad de Costa Rica - Costa the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées students w ere Rica paid at a discount rate o f FF 115.21. * Department of Soil Mechanics, Bases and Foundations, State Civil Engineering Unviersity, "Introduction à la Géotechnique" w as bought at CN $ 71.20, Moscow - Russia shipment included, from Prof. J. Lafleur.

* Technical University of Bucharest - Romania CGS Manual was free. * Vilnius Gediminas Technical University - Lithuania

* University of Maribor - Slovenia To this list, the French A gency for Roads and Motorw ays * University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore - added :- Pakistan * Odessa State Maritime University - Ukraine "Reconnaissance des tracés de routes et autoroutes" * Department of Bases, Foundations and Soil Lab. Central des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (1982). M echanics, University o f Architecture and Civil Engineering, St Petersburg - Russia "Les essais de pénétration" Lab. Central des Ponts et * Karaganda Metallurgical Institute, Department of Chaussées, Paris (1989). Civil Engineering, Temirtau - Kazakhstan * Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi - The first distribution took place on the 17th Septe m ber 1996 N igeria at Marrakech, Morocco, during a specially designed

2710 international symposium, on "Dam ages to Foundations and APPENDIX 11 - ISSM FE HERITAGE MUSEUM their Rem edies", Prof. M . El Ghamraw y being in the chair. (a) Report by Professor W F Van Impe The name and location o f the 18 recipients is given in the attached table. Copies of plaques with the names of In the last ISSM FE Board meeting of October 1996 in Corporate M em bers and Publishers and inserts in eac h book Santiago de Chile, the proposal to create a Soil M e chanics inside cover w ere given out w ith each set o f books. Heritage M useum w as greeted and fully approved.

At the same symposium, le Comité Transnational de The intention can be described as to collect and to house in Géotechnique A fricain w as formed to gather all francophone a museum the pieces o f equipment, valuable documents and geotechnical engineers and academics who were not y et artefacts o f real historical interest and importanc e to the members o f ISSM FE. conservation of our Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering patrimony. The main aim would be to cre ate A Francophone M odel Library w as donated this Spring to the within the ISSM FE another very w orthw hile educational tool Universidad A utonoma Tom as Frias, Potosi, Bolivia through and to open our learning Society even more towards all the Vice-President o f ISSM FE for South A merica, Pro f. L. interested scientists and young people. Valenzuela. Rencontre de M arrakech des 17-18 Septem bre 1996 At a first organisational step, we should establish now a Récipiendaires de la bibliothèque francophone de la small committee of enthusiastic colleagues ready to SEM STF graciously devote their time supporting such initiative (at least at its start) with their expertise, analysing and evaluating the first possible offers for valuable artefacts w e Pays Establissement expect to assemble from all over the world. Algérie Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, El Harrach, A lger A t the same tim e, the need for a selection o f a historically and geographically attractive site for such a museu m is A lgérie Ecole Nationale des Travaux em erging, keeping in mind a suitable architectural design, the Publics, Vieux Kouba, A lger required facilities for on the one hand, the relevant ordering o f the historical equipment and all other documents and on Burkina Faso EIEIER Ouagadougou the other hand, guaranteeing the possibility for ed ucational Burundi Facilté des Sciences A ppliquées, use o f the M useum building and its content. Bujumbura It's certainly feasible that the permanent backup s taff and Cameroun ENS Polytechnique, Yaoundé custodian o f such continously growing collection, finally can

Republique Faculté des Sciences et be administered by the ISSM FE together w ith the sup port o f Centrafricaine Technolgie, Bangui the hosting M em ber Society andof the Corporate M emb ers. How ever, during the first years o f the start-up, w e expect the Côte d'ivoire ENSTP Yamoussoukro Museum-donating M em ber Society to cover the cost fo r such limited staff o f co-w orkers, the Museum building anyhow Gabon Ecole Polytechnique de Masuku considered to be a donation o f this hosting M em ber Society. Guinée Département Génie Civil, Université de Conakry The design and construction o f the Museum and its facilities should not take more than three years from now . Madagascar JER, 4001 A venir de l'Ocean Indien, Université de M ahajanga For the mom ent, after an initiating analysis and discussion o f the keypoints we have to take into account, such as : the Madagascar Ecole supérieure Polytechnique, historical and professional aspects, the feasibility o f such A ntananarivo long term project from the financial point o f view , etc., a first Mali ENI Bamako general proposal was drafted by the Instanbul Unive rsity, offering a new ly to design Museum building on its C ampus. Maroc Ecole Mohammadia d'ingénieurs

Maroc Ecole Hassania de TP A s enclosure 1 this proposal has been added. In enclosure 2 a first estimate o f the long term financial Faculté d'ingénierie, Université à Ile M aurice implications is summarized. Réduit

Sénégal Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique, A t least the intention o f ISSM FE to go on w ith this Museum Dakar project, as w ell as the support tow ards the initiative and its committee (to be established) responsible for w orking it out, Sénégal Ecole Polytechnique de Thiès should be officially declared.

Tchad EN TP N'Djamena W. F. VA N IM PE

Togo EN SI Lomé

Tunisie EN IT Tunies Enclosure 2

Tunisie ENI Gabès BUDGET PROPOSA L 'H ERITA GE MUSEUM ' Zaire Faculté Polytechnique Université, Kinshasa ISSM FE support

2711 * 1997: 3000 U$ three o f the Board M em bers w ill be appointed by the Board of ISSM FE for a period o f five years. The fourth bo ard * 1998 till, 2001: 1000 U$/ year (sponsoring ISSM FE membership w ill have ex officio statue and w ill be taken by corporate M embers) the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee. The Local Organizing Comm ittee w ill consist o f the President o f * From 2002 on : the Turkish National Committee for SM FE, Rector o f the expected yearly ISSM FE support : 5000 US Instanbul Technical University and the Chairman o f the expected corporate members support : yearly Science Center Foundation, or their representatives. The 10000 U$ Local Organizing Committee w ill elect its Chairman for a expected support hosint M em ber Society for tw o year period. Museum running The upkeep, maintenance and security o f the M useum w ill be * From end 1998 and 1999 on, the support will be provided bv the Science Center Foundation. mainly dedicated to transport o f the donated artifacts + administration by the ISSM FE responsables The funds necessary to achieve the objectives o f the Museum (International Board o f the M useum) will be provided by donors from private and public institutions and persons. The International Board o f the Prof. Dr ir W . F. VA N IM PE Museum w ill have the overall responsibility for m ak ing and supervision o f the budget.

Enclosure 1 M eeting the needs

HERITA GE MUSEUM The Museum w ill have the follow ing spaces for its v arious functions: exhibition hall, stock room, study, library, a sm all O bjective w orkshop for repairs. In addition to those it is ex pected that the accommodation facilities are provided for researchers A museum will be established under the auspices of who w ill spend a few days on the Campus. ISSM FE to collect and to exhibit apparatus, documen ts, books, photographs, video films, cd-roms, etc. whic h The minimum staff o f the Museum should be tw o specialists, represent the developments o f soil m echanics and fo undation one as the Director and the second one as his/ her assistant, engineering. and an archivist.

The museum will be open to the use o f all scholars and N ext step researchers interested in the subject.

In order to m aterialize the Heritage M useum Project it w ould Requirem ents first o f all be necessary to reach a form al agreement betw een ISSM FE and Instanbul Technical University. Secondly it 75 years have passed since the establishment of soil should be very beneficial to make an agreement w ith the m echanics as a scientific discipline and 60 years have passed Science Center Foundation which is a privately owned since the First International Conference o f Soil M e chanics foundation involved in establishing a Science M useu m on the and Foundation Engineering. The international commu nity University Campus. Thirdly it w ould be useful to co m e to an o f soil m echanics and foundation engineering has reached a agreement with the Technical University Development certain maturity to supply and to equip a heritage museum. Foundation in order to get assistance on legal and financial It should be extrem ely interesting and profitable to collect m atters. artefacts, m aterials and documents in order to present them in a meaningful and instructive manner to younger Those agreements could be reached, I believe, w itho ut much generations as well as researchers o f the history o f soil difficulty if there is a concensus at the Board o f ISSM FE. m echanics and foundation engineering. Once those agreements w ere finalized, funding and o btaining grants will smoothly be achieved. In order to start The Heritage Museum w ill accumulate artefacts, materials construction o f the Museum building in 1998 it shou ld be and documents by all possible legal w ays, i.e. by accepting necessary to finalize principal agreements before June 1997. donations, by purchasing, etc; w ill preserve and maintain those in good condition. A ll the artefacts, materials and DRA FTED documents w ill be on display and w ill be made available to PROF TOGROL the closer study o f scholars and researchers.

Researchers will be provided study space and modest (b) Herm Prof. Dr. ir. W illiam Frans van Impe accomm odation to pursue their studies at the Museum . Universiteit Gent Campus Ardoyen O rganization Laboratorium voor GTondmechanica Technologiepark - Zw ijnaarde, 9 The ISSM FE H ERITA GE M USEUM w ill be established on B-9052 Zw ijnaarde the Campus of Istanbul Technical University. The University w ill provide the building for the M useum . A pril 23rd, 1997

The government o f the Museum w ill consist o f two basic Soil M echanics Heritage Museum committees. The International Board o f the Museum w ill Your letter, 5-03-1997 consist a Chairman and four M embers. The Chairman and

2712 Dear Professor van Impe:

The German Society for Geotechnics (DGGT) w elcomes the decision taken in October 1996 by the ISSM FE-Board w ith respect to founding a Heritage museum and your personal enthusiasm for this project.

For approximately one hundred years, Soil Mechanics has been an independent chapter of structural engineering which, according to our understanding, m akes it sensible at the beginning o f a new century, to document its development for the generations to com e and specifically so for the you ng scientists and engineers.

The DGGT is, however, o f the opinion that before starting w ith the collection o f exhibits a concept for such a museum should be found, pinpointing the educational targets and establishing the financial costs and the staff requirements for such a project. Only after having accomplished this w e can assess and justify such a project versus our m embers. This is certainly also valid for the other member societies.

The choice o f the locality is another important factor. On the one hand, it should be closely related to the chapter and, on the other hand, it should guarantee the technical interest o f as many patrons as possib le, especially young people.

Considering all these factors and w ith a view to the financial implications, the universally famous and largest natural-scientific-technical museum, the "Deutsches Museum" in M unich could be taken into consideration as a suitable locality. The museum already disposes o f a department for structural engineering from a historical view point w hich could , in given case, perhaps be enlarged by a sub-divisio n for Soil M echanics. Furthermore, it is a w ell-know n fact that M unich is a city that largely influenced this chapter.

W e therefore suggest to start w ith the preliminary conceptional works which are, according to our opinion, absolutely necessary. Then the collection of exhibits is logically the second step. Such procedu re is certainly also necessary for the council-meeting w hich w ill take place in Septem ber 97 in Hamburg.

Yours sincerely,

PROF. DR. ING. W. W ITTKE cc: Prof. Jamiolkowski Dr Parry

2713 APPENDIX 12a

International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 December 1995

Credit Barclays Investm ent University Suisse Bank A ccounts of Cambridge SFr £ £ £

Cash balance at 1 January 1995 227,194 61,735 137,723 1,311

Add: Receipts M em ber Society subscriptions 183,543 3,979 Corporate M ember subscriptions 2,038 4,219 Conference income 440 Publication sales 220 Slid e sales 30 Interest received 2,650 ,263

412,775 73,273 145,986 1,311

Less: Payments Em olum ents and staff costs 27,050 13,371 TVavel and entertainm ent 23,345 87 Photocopying 1,976 Ttlephone, telex and fax 1,479 Postage 36 1,579 Stationery 1,618 897 N ew sletter 7,623 Audit fees 1,011 Bank charges 381 313 Corporation tax 2,557 Conference support 2,000 Inform ation retrieval support 3,130 UA TI Fee 1,404 O ffice equipment 1,508 M odel library 2,762

381 74,328 19,418

Add: Transfers from other accounts 64,364 15,000

Less: Transfers to other accounts 120,021 15,000

Cash balance at 31 December 1995 292,373 48,309 145,986 (3,107)

Increase in cash balance 65,179 (13,426) 8,263 (4,418)

Information: At 31 December 1995 - £1 = SFrl.787

...... 3>....û.pû..L.i.ir(.Çj..(2 ...... R H G Parry, Secrecy General

2714 APPENDIX 12b International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 December 1996

Credit Barclays Investment University Suisse Bank Accounts of Cambridge SFr £ £ £

Cash balance at 1 January 1996 292,373 4«, 309 145, 986 (3,108)

Add: Receipts Member Society subscriptions 170,203 2,799 Corporate Member subscriptions - 3,279 Conference incom e - 1,870 Publication sales - 371 Slide sales - 1,105 V ideo sales - 604 TYavel refund - 1,047 Interest received - 2,041 8,281

462,576 61,425 154,267 (3,108)

Less: Payments Emoluments and staff costs - 30,000 - 13,988 Travel and entertainment - 25,975 - 35 Photocopying - - - 1,248 "telephone, telex and fax - 1,530 Postage - - - 1,378 Stationery - 915 - 435 Newsletter - 4,057 Audit fees - 1,034 Bank charges 405 303 Corporation tax - 2,728 Conference support - 2,000 Slides - - - 985 Office equipment - 1,194 1,322 Model library - 4,716 - 1,242

405 74,452 - 20,633

Add: Itansfers from other accounts 89,195 - 23,000

Less: IVansfers to other accounts 170,028 23,000

Cash balance at 31 December 1996 292,143 53,168 154 ,267 (741)

(Decrease)/lncrease In cash balance (230) 4,859 8,2 81 2,367

Information: A t 31 December 1996 - £1 = SFr2.30

D r R H G Parry Secretary G eneral Date 2 “L Q p f . I

2715 APPENDIX 12c

1995/1996 COMPARISON OF ACCOUNTS & BUDGET ITEMS

ACTUAL BUDGET GBP ACTUAL ITEM GBP GBP (1 GBP = (1 GBP = 1 .787 1995 1996 2 . 30 CHF ) CHF) 1995 1996

ORDINARY ITEMS RECEIPTS

Member Society Subscriptions 106690 73000 73000 76800 Interest (less Corp.Tax) 8356 7000 7500 7594 115046 80000 80500 84394

EXPENDITURE

Emoluments & Staff Costs 40421 42000 44000 43988 Office Costs and Equipment 1508 1500 2000 2516 Photocopyinq and Printinq 1976 2000 1500 1248 Telephone and Fax 1479 2200 2500 1530 Postaqe 1615 1900 2000 1378 Stationery 2515 700 800 1350 Audit Fees/Bank Cbarqes 1537 1200 1250 1513 Travel riess refunds 1 23432 27000 27000 24963 74483 78500 81050 78486

EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS RECEIPTS

Corporate Member Subs 5360 4000 4000 3279 Conference Income 440 1000 0 1870 Royalties: Procs/Reports 0 500 500 0 Sales of Slides 30 500 500 1709 Lexicon & Other Sales 220 500 500 s 371 6050 6500 5500 7229

EXPENDITURE

Conference Support 2000 4000 6000 2000 Proceedinqs and Reports 0 0 0 0 Model Library 2762 6000 6000 5958 Other Initiatives 3130 3500 0 0 Slides 0 500 750 985 Kevin Nash Gold Medal 0 0 0 0 List of Members 0 0 0 0 ISSMFE News 7623 10000 10000 4057 UATI Subscription 1404 1350 0 0 16919 25350 22750 13000

2716 APPENDIX 13

ISSM FE - ORDINARY BUDGET

M ay 1997

1995 1996 1996 1997 Real Figures Forecast Real Figures Forecast

1 £ = 1.787 SFr 1 £ = 1.787 SFr 1 £ = 1.787 SFr 1 £ = 2.3 SFr AdaptedFebr. 1996 RECEIPTS

Member Society Subscriptions 106,689 107,000 97,994 83,200

Interest (less Corp. Tax) 8,350 8 , 0 0 0 10,321 6 , 2 0 0 Travel refund -- 1 , 0 0 1 - 115,045 115,000 109,316 89,400 EXPEN DITURE

Secretariat Emoluments & Staff costs 40,421 42,000 43,988 44,500 Office costs and Equipment 1,508 2,303 2,516 1,800 Photocopying and printing 1,976 1,728 1,248 1,800 Telephone and Fax 1,479 2,879 1,530 2,250 Postage 1,615 2,303 1,378 2,250 Stationery 2,515 2,303 1,350 1,800

Audit fees / Bank charges 1 , 0 1 1 1,440 1,300 1 , 2 0 0 Travel and Entertainment also incl. 23,432 31,096 26,081 24,200 Board M em bers' partial support ---- Corporation tax -- 2,728 2 , 2 0 0 73,957 86,052 82,119 82,000 Surplus (D eficit) 41,088 28,948 27,197 7,400

ISSM FE - ORDINARY BUDGET

Long Term Forecast - M ay 1997

(M arch 1997 :1 £ = 2.3 SFr)

1998 1999 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1

(GBP) (GBP) (GBP) (GBP)

RECEIPTS

M em bers Society Subscriptions 76,000 76,000 84,000 84,000

Interest 8 , 0 0 0 8,000 8,000 8,000 84,000 84,000 92,000 92,000 EXPEN DITURE

Emoluments & Staff costs and costs 54,000 50,000 48,000 45,000 for secretariat (*) Travel President/ Board/ Secr.General 27,750 27,750 30,000 30,000 81,750 77,750 78,000 75,000 Surplus (Deficit) 2,250 6,250 14,000 17,000

(*) In addition to that, it's necessary to provide an additional exceptional expenditure : Temporary o verlap o f Secretary General - exceptional expenditure (to be expected w henever incoming ISSM FE President decides to change the Secretary Generalship) : 12,0 00 £

2717 ISSM FE - EXTRAORDINARY BUDGET

M ay 1997

1995 1996 1996 1997 Real Figures Forecast Real Figures Forecast

1 £ = 1.787 SFr 1 £ = 1.787 SFr 1 £ = 1.787 SFr 1 £ = 2.3 SFr Adapted Febr. 1996

RECEIP T S

Corporate Member Subscriptions 5,359 5,989 3,208 6 , 0 0 0

Conference Income 440 - 1,870 2 0 , 0 0 0 Royalties : Proceedings / Reports - 576 - 450 Sales o f Slides (& video) 30 576 1,696 450

Lexicon and other Sales 2 2 0 576 371 450 6,049 7,717 7,145 27,350 EXPEN DITURE

Conference Support (incl. YGEC) 2 , 0 0 0 4,607 2 , 0 1 2 7,500 Proceedings and Reports ---- M odel Library 2,762 6,910 4,716 - O ther Initiatives : 2,303

- Museum 1 , 0 0 0 - others - 864 - 3,000 Slides and videos _ _ 985 700 Kevin Nash Gold Medal __ 900 List o f M embers 7,623 11,517 _ 8,950 ISSM FE News 1,404 - 4,057 8,950

UA TI Subscriptions - - -- 13,789 26,201 11,770 31,000 Surplus (D eficit) (7,740) (18,484) (4,625) (3.650)

ISSM FE - EXTRAORDINARY BUDGET

Long Term Forecast - M ay 1997

1998 1999 2000 2001

(GBP) (GBP) (GBP) (GBP)

RECEIPTS

Corporate M em ber Subscriptions 6,000 8,000 10,000 10,000 Conference Income OCEG in) 8 ,0 0 0 (RC) 8,000 6,500 (ICSM FE) 15,000 GEO 2000 -- (Melbourne) 4,000 - 14,000 16,000 20,500 25,000 EXPEN DITURE

GEO 2000 seed money 3,000 Conference Support 4,000 4,000 4,000 6,000 M odel Library 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 O ther Initiatives : - Museum (*) 5,000 5000 5,000 5,000 - Others 5,000 5000 5,000 5,000

List o f M embers (Disc, version ?) _ _ _ 6,000

ISSM FE News 9,000 9,000 10,000 10,000 27,000 27,000 31,000 36,000

Surplus (Deficit) (13,000) (11,000) (10,500) (11,000)

(*) - only after starting up the Museum activities - amount for bringing in artefacts

2718 ORDINARY + EXTRAORDINARY BUDGET

ACCUM ULATED SURPLUS FORECAST

M ay 1997

(M arch 1997 :1 £ = 2.3 SFr)

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

( G B P)(GBP)(GBP)(GBP)(GBP)(GBP)(GBP)

359,532 382,104 381,854 -- --

2719 List of exhibitors and posters

Liste des exposants et des participants aux séances des posters

Exhibition Hall 3

Exhibitors

33 Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH 60 BOMAG GmbH 44 Carbo Tech W ittelsbacher Straße 5 Postfach 1155 Berg- und Tunnelbausystem e GmbH D -86522 Schrobenhausen D -56135 Boppard Franz-Fischer-W eg 61 Tel: +49-8252-97 12 33 Tel: +49-6742-10 03 50 D -45307 Essen Fax: +49-8252-97 12 21 Fax: +49-6742-10 02 43 Tel: +49-201-172 1 2 63 e-mail: BAUERSOB@ AOL.COM Fax: +49-201-172 13 17 30 Thomas Broadbent & Sons Ltd. 39 ÖECO Bermüller & Co GmbH Queen Street South 70 Chemical Grouting Company R otterdam er Straße 7 UK- Huddersfield HD1 3EA Anzen Bldg., 1-6-4, M otoakasaka D-90451 Nürnberg Tel: +44-1484 42 21 11 J-M inato-Ku, Tokyo 107 Tel: +49-911-642 00 20 Fax: +44-1484-51 61 42 Tel: +81-3-34 75-02 01 Fax: +49-91 1-642 00 56 e-m ail: Fax: +81-3-34 75-15 45 tbs@ broadben.dem on.co.uk e-mail: grouthyo@ pub.kajim a.co.jp 57 A P. van den Berg M achinefabriek B.V. 62 Bundesanstalt für W asserbau 46 DB-Projekt GmbH Ijzerweg 4 Kussm aulstraße 17 Köln - Rhein / M ain NL-8440 AB Heerenveen D-761 87 Karlsruhe H erriotstraße 5 Tel: + 31-513-63 13 55 Tel: +49-721-972 63 80 D -60528 Frankfurt Fax: +31-513-63 12 12 Fax: +49-721-972 64 83 Tel: +49-69-265 29 400 e-mail: APB@ APVDBERG.NL Fax: +49-69-265 29 401

2721 46 Deutsche Eisenbahn Consulting 28 Geo-Slope International Ltd. 12 Friedr.lschebeck GmbH M ittelstraße 5/5 a 1400, 633 - 6th Avenue SW Loher Straße 51 D-12529 Schönefeld CA-T2P-2Y5, Calgary, AB D-58256 Ennepetal Tel: +49-30-63 43 11 15 Tel: +1-403-269-20 02 Tel: +49-2333-83 05-0 Fax: +49-30-63 43 10 51 Fax: +1-403-266 48 51 Fax: +49-2333-83 05 55 e-mail: JohnK@ geo-slope.com 1 Deutsche Gesellschaft 63 ISPC International Sheet für Geotechnik e.V. 16 Geotech AB Piling Company s.ä.r.l. Hohenzollernstraße 52 Datavägen 53 66, Rue de Luxem bourg D -451 28 Essen S-43632 Askim (Göteborg) L-4009 Esch-Sur-Alzette Tel: +49-201-78 27 23 Tel: +46-31-28 99 20 Tel: +352-55 50 20 57 Fax: +49-201-78 27 43 Fax: +46-31-68 16 39 Fax: +352-57 25 88 e-mail: sales@ geotech se 32 Dyckerhoff Baustoffsysteme GmbH 7 ITASCA Consultants GmbH Biebricher Straße 74 24 Geotechnics Holland BV M unscheidstraße 14 D-65203 W iesbaden Zuider Ijdijk 58 D -45886 Gelsenkirchen Tel: +49-611-676-12 21 NL-1095 KN Am sterdam Tel: +49-209-167-13 80 Fax: +49-611-676-12 25 Tel: +31-20-665 16 14 Fax: +49-209-167-1380 e-mail: PetraSchneidereit@ t-online.de Fax: +31-20-694 14 57 e-m ail: 100413.326@ compuserve.com

56 Dywidag-Systems 6 Geotest Instrument Corp International GmbH 910 University Place 8 Junttan Oy Erdinger Landstraße 1 USA - Evanston, IL 60201 Ankkuritie 3 Post Box 1 702 D-85609 Aschheim Tel: +1-847-467 31 81 Tel: +49-89-92 67-105 Fax: +1-847-491 79 55 FIN-70461 Kuopio Fax: +49-89-92 67-252 Tel: +358-17-364 34 00 53 GGB Gesellschaft Geo­ Fax: +358-17-364 31 99 19 ECSMFE'99 mechanik u. Baumeßtechnik mbH Geotechnical Engineering for Leipziger Straße 11 13 Keller Grundbau GmbH Transportation Infrastructure D -04579 Espenhain Kaiserstraße 44 P.O. Box 30424 Tel: +49-34206-57 55 61 D -63067 Offenbach N L-2500 GK The Hague Fax: +49-34206-57 55 62 Tel: +49-69-80 51-0 Tel: +31-70-391 98 90 e mail: ggb-espenhain@ t-online.de Fax: +49-69-80 51-244 Fax: +31-70-391 98 40 54 Glötzl. Gesellschaft für 20 Liebherr Hydraulikbagger GmbH 42 Ingenieurbüro EGEY Baumeßtechnik mbH Liebherr-Straße 1 2 W aseneckstraße 16 Forlenweg 11 D -88457 Kirchdorf D -77694 Kehl D -76287 Rheinstetten Tel: +49-7354-80-0 Tel: +49-7854-4 89 Tel: +49-721-51 66-0 Fax: +49-7354-80-535 Fax: +49-7854-90 79 Fax: +49-721-51 66 30 58 LOADTEST, INC. 27 ELE International LTD 14 Ground Engineering 2631 NW 41 Street Suite E-2 Eastman W ay, Hemel Hempstead 151 Rosebery Avenue USA-Gainesville, FL 32606 GB - H erfordshire, HP2 7HB UK-London EC1R 4QX Tel: +1-352-378-37 17 Tel: +49-5241-53 26 90 Tel: +44-171 505 66 47 Fax: + 1-352-378-39 34 Fax: +49-5241-53 26 92 Fax: +44-171 505 66 42 37 Naue Fasertechnik 48 Environmental Mechanics AB 29 Philipp Holzmann AG GmbH & Co. KG Kungegardsgat 7 Taunusanlage 1 W artturm straße 1 S-44157 Alingsas D -60329 Frankfurt D -32312 Lübbecke Tel: +46-322-1 71 01 Tel: +49-69-26 21 Tel: +49-5741-40 08 20 Fax: +46-322-3 67 56 Fax: +49-69-26 24 33 Fax: +49-5741-40 08 84 e-m ail: envi.se 35 HSP Hoesch Spundwand und 31 Pacchios Drill SPA 11 GDS Instruments Ltd Profil GmbH Via Borgonovo No 22 U nit 12 Eversley W ay Alte Radstraße 27 1-43018 Sissa-PR UK-TW 20 8RG Egham D-44147 Dortmund Tel: +521-379003 Tel: +44-1784-43 92 28 Tel: +49-231-8 44 64 02 Fax: +521-879922 Fax: +44-1784-43 46 44 Fax: +49-231-8 44 61 62 e-m ail: pacchiosi-drill@ rsadvnet.it

66 GeoEng 2000 15 HUESEKER Synthetic GmbH & Co. 21 Pagani Geotechnical ICMS Pty. Ltd. Fabrikstraße 1 3 -1 5 Equipment 84 Queensbridge Street Southbank D -48712 Gescher Via Cam pogrande 18 AU S-3006 Victoria Tel: +49-2542-701-0 1-29010 Calendasco (PC) Tel: +61-613981 94044 Fax: +49-2542-701-499 Tel: +39-523-5 85 20 Fax: +61-613-981 879 90 Fax: +39-523-5 85 20 e-m ail: ICMS@ F>tyLtd 34 IBECO e-mail: geo.pagani@ tin.it Bentonit-Technologie GmbH contini + pagani@ tin.it 3 GEOKON, Inc. Ruhrorter Straße 72 G eotechnical Instrum entation D -68219 Mannheim 49 Pile Dynamics Europe/GSP 48 Spencer Street Tel: +49-621-8 04 27-0 Käfertaler Straße 164 USA-Lebanon, NH 03766 Fax: +49-621-8 04 27 50 D -68167 Mannheim Tel: +1-603-448 15 62 Tel: +49-621-33 13 61 Fax: +1-603-448 32 16 41 IDAT Ingenieurbüro für Daten­ Fax: +49-621-33 42 52 verarbeitung i. d. Technik GmbH 26 GeoMil Equipment Dieburger Straße 80 18 PLAXIS B.V. Röntgenweg 22 D -64287 Darm stadt Kleidijk 35 N L-2408 AB Alphen a/d Rijn Tel: +49-6151-7 90 30 NL - 3161 EK Rhoon Tel: +31-172 42 78 00 Fax: +49-6151-7903 55 Tel: +31-10-503 02 96 Fax: +31-172 42 78 01 e-m ail: info@ idat.de Fax: +31-10-501 8041 e-mail: plaxis@ ib.com 68 Geonor AS 42 IFCO Grinidammen 10 Limaweg 17 36 Polyfelt Ges. m.b.H. N-0701 Oslo NL - 2743 CB W addinxveen Schacherm ayerstraße 18 Tel: +47-67-14 75 50 Tel: +31-182-646646 A-4021 Linz Fax: +47-67-14 58 46 Fax: +31-182-64 66 54 Tel: +43-732-6983-5315 e-mail: geonor@ telepost.no Fax: +43-732-6983-5353 71 Interfels GmbH 51 Geophysik GGD Deilm annstraße 5 22 PROGEO Monitoring GmbH Bautzner Straße 67 D -48455 Bad Bentheim Huttenstraße 31 D -04332 Leipzig Tel: +49-5922-98 98-0 D-10553 Berlin Tel: +49-341-242 11 80 Fax: +49-5922-98 98 98 Tel: +49-30-34 99 10-0 Fax: +49-341-242 12 31 e-m ail: Fax: +49-30-34 99 10 30 lnterfelsHeadoffice@ t-online.de e-mail: progeo@ t-online.de

2722 45 RAUTARUUKKI GROUP 47 TNO Building and U niversität Stuttgart Fredrikinkatu 51-53 C onstruction Research Institut für G eotechnik FIN-00100 Helsinki Lange Kleiweg 5 Pfaffenw aldring 35 Tel: +358-9-41 77 11 R ijswijk D-70569 Stuttgart Fax: + 358-9-41 77 62 72 P.O. Box 49 N L-2600AA Delft 61 REHAU AG + Co. Tel: +31-15-284 22 72 Bergische Universität GH W uppertal Ytterbium 4 Fax: +31-15-2843996 Lehrstuhl für Unterirdisches D -91058 Erlangen e-mail: FPDS@ bouw.tno.nl Bauen/Grundbau und Bodenmechanik Tel: +49-9131-92 50 Pauluskirchstraße 7 Fax: +49-9131-77 1430 27a United States Federal Highway D-42285 W uppertal Adm inistration 23 Röhrenwerk Kupferdreh c/o Salut Inc. under TRW #39 Verlag Glückauf GmbH Carl Hamm GmbH 11609 Edmonston Road M ontebruchstraße 2 D-45219 Essen Gasstraße 12 USA-Beltsville, M D 20705 Tel: +49-2054-92 40 D-45257 Essen Tel: +1-301-595-37 83 Fax: +49-2054-92 41 29 Tel: +49-201-8 48 17-0 Fax: +1-301-595-37 87 Fax: +49-201-8 48 17-70 10 Universitäten: W ILEY-VCH 3 Scanrock GmbH RWTH Aachen Boschstraße 12 D-69469 W einheim T rift 18 Lehrstuhl für G rundbau, Tel: +49-6201-60 61 97 D-29221 Celle Bodenm echanik, Felsmechanik Fax: +49-6201-60 61 84 Tel: +49*5141-28 200 und Verkehrswasserbau Fax: +49-5141-6205 M ies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1 D-52074 Aachen W ille Geotechnik GmbH W agenstieg 25 SISGEO s.r.l. D -37077 Göttingen Via M orandi 27 TU Berlin Tel: +49-551-30 75 20 I-20090 Segrate (MI) Institut für G rundbau und Fax: +49-551-30 75 220 Tel: +39-2-2 13 27 28 Bodenmechanik Fax: +39-2-26 92 32 52 Straße des 1 7. Juni 135 Prof. Dr.-Ing. W . W ittke e-mail: sisgeo@ galactica.it D -10623 Berlin W BI Beratende Ingenieure für Grundbau und Felsbau GmbH 69 SOILEX AB Ruhr-Universität Bochum Henricistraße 50 Bjurholm splan 26 Lehrstuhl für G rundbau und D -52072 Aachen S-11663 Stockholm Bodenmechanik Tel: +49-241-88 98 70 Tel: +46-8-641 88 26 Universitätsstraße 150 Fax: +49-241-8 89 87 33 Fax: +46-8-640 18 21 Gebäude IA 4/126 e-mail: wbl@ rm i.de e-m ail: soilex@ m box200.swipnet.se D-44801 Bochum

W ykeham Farrance International Soil Instrum ents Ltd Technische U niversität Braunschweig 50 W eston Road Bell Lane, U ckfield Institut für G rundbau und UK-Slough SL1 4HW UK-East SussexTN22 1QL Bodenmechanik Tel: +44-1753-57 1241 Tel: +44-1825-765044 G außstraße 2 Fax: +44-1753-81 13 13 Fax: +44-1825-76 17 40 D -38106 Braunschweig

Ed. Züblin AG Soletanche Bachy Technische U niversität Cottbus 64 Albstadtw eg 3 6, rue de W alford Lehrstuhl und Prüfam t für D -70567 Stuttgart F-9200 Nanterre G eotechnik Tel: +49-711-788 36 61 Tel: +33-147-76 42 62 Karl-M arx-Straße 1 7 Fax: +49-711-788 36 73 Fax: +33-147-75 99 10 D -03044 Cottbus

52 Solexperts AG Technische Hochschule Darm stadt Ifangstraße 12 Institut und Versuchsanstalt für CH-8603 Schwerzenbach Geotechnik Tel: +41-1-825 29 29 Petersenstraße 1 3 Fax: +41-1-8250063 D-64287 Darmstadt

Technische U niversität Dresden 59 Stum p Spezialtiefbau GmbH Institut für Bodenm echanik und M ax-Planck-Ring 1 Grundbau D -40764 Langenfeld George-Bähr-Staße 1 Tel: +49*2173-79 02-0 D -01069 Dresden Fax: +49-2173-790220

U niversität GH-Essen Süd-Chemie AG 9 Institut für G rundbau und Thom as-Dehler-Straße 9 Bodenmechanik D*81737 München U niversitätsstraße 1 5 Tel: +49-89-5110-313 D -45117 Essen Fax: +49-89-5110-527

TU-Bergakadem ie Freiberg 55 TENAX Institut für G eotechnik Kunststoffe GmbH Akadem iestraße 6 Schloßstraße 13 D -09596 Freiberg/Sachsen D -88131 Lindau Tel: +49-8382-9 30 40 U niversität Kaiserslautern Fax: +49-8382-93 04 30 Institut für Bodenm echanik und Grundbau 40 Ten Cate Nicolon B.V. Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 14 Sluiskade N.Z. 14 D -67663 Kaiserslautern N L-7600 AE Alm elo Tel: +31-546-54 44 55 U niversität Karlsruhe Fax: +31-546-54 44 90 Institut für Bodenm echanik und Grundbau 65 Terrasol Engler-Bunte-Ring Im m euble Helios D-761 31 Karlsruhe 72, avenue Pasteur F-93108 M ontreuil Cedex U niversität GH Kassel Tel: +33-1-4988 24 42 Institut für G eotechnik Fax: +33-1-4988 06 66 M önchebergstraße 7 e-mail: terrasol@ wanadoo.fr D -34125 Kassel

17 TEXPLOR GmbH Technische Universität M ünchen Fohrder Landstraße 1 Lehrstuhl für Grundbau, Boden­ D-14772 Brandenburg m echanik und Felsmechanik Tel: +49-3381-71 82 08 Baum bachstraße 7 Fax: +49-3381-71 82 06 D-81245 München

2723 Posters

T opic Num ber 1 21 Seismic deam plifying effect of soft clay layers Japan H. Ohta, Y. Hagino, T. Udaka, Y. Demura, A. lizuka 1 Sealing m ineral m aterials for landfill liners Czech Republic R. Baslik, J. Frankovska, M. M atys, T. Ayele 22 Evaluation of end bearing and skin friction of a deep diaphram w all by m ulti-level load testing 2 Treatm ent of problem atic soil in new cities of Eg ypt Japan T. Masuda, T. Fujioka, H, Takasaki, Y. Konish i, Egypt N.R. El-Sakhawy T. Nagaoka

3 A sm all diam eter sam pler w ith tw o cham ber hydraul ic pistons and the quality of its sam ples Topic Num ber 2.1 Japan T. Shogaki 23 Analysis of system of footing resting on irregul ar soil 4 D eform ation property of shear band in sand subjec ted to plane strain Germany M. Kany, M. El Gendy com pression and its relation to particle characteri stics Japan T. Yoshida, F. Tatsuoka 24 Seismic perform ance of caisson walls on loose sa turated sand foundation Japan S. lai, K. Ichii, T. Morita, M. Miyata 5 Evaluation of in-situ cyclic shear strength of cl ay Japan M. Hyodo 25 M echanical behavior and design of buried pipes a s soil-structure interaction Japan Jun Thoda, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Liming Li 6 Effect of confining pressure on strength anisotro py of sand Japan Y. Nakata, H. Murata

Topic Num ber 2.2 7 Effect of drainage history on cyclic shear behavi our of sand Japan K. Sato 26 Soil-structure-interaction of jointless bridges on piles Finland M. Koskinen 7a The determ ination of preconsolidation pressure w ith new m ethod Turkey A. Senol 27 Efficiency analysis of hydraulic Junttan pile dr iving ham m er Finland H. Jokiniemi

Topic Num ber 1.1 28 Optim um design of piled raft foundations Japan K. Horikoshi, M. F. Randolph 8 Collapsible behaviour of granulated clay Czech Republic J. Feda, J. Bohac

Topic Num ber 2.3 9 Factors affecting deform ation properties of coars e grained granular m aterials Finland P. Kolisoja 29 Design of shallow foundations using interaction diagram s Germany E.W. Perau 10 Stress analysis of unsaturated soil based on the "driest curve” Japan D. Karube 30 Deform ation m odulus of soil at bored pile tip Japan T. Horiuchi, T. Oguri, M. Shimizu, I. Katabam i.Y . Kani, 11 Developm ent of m ulti function torsional shear ap paratus by using direct drive K. O gisu m otor and its application Japan S. Yamashita, S.Toki, T. Suzuki

Topic Num ber 3

Topic Num ber 1.2 31 Perm eability of sealing walls Czech Republic J. Hulla, J. Jesen^k, E. Bednarova, M . M asarovicova, 12 Flat dilatom eter testing in Israel B. Salis, B. Vrabel Israel C. Redel, D. Blechman, S. Feferbaum

13 Prediction of liquefaction resistance based on C PT tip resistance and sleeve Topic Num ber 4 friction Japan Y. Suzuki, K. Tokimatsu, K. Koyamada 32 The m echanization of caisson pile m ethod Japan T. Niibori, T. Morimoto, M. Saito

Topic Num ber 1.3

Topic Num ber 4.1 14 A constitutive m odel for unsaturated soils based on the m odified ISMP Japan S. Kato 33 Finite elem ent analyses of the interaction of a pair o f shield tunnels Japan H. Akagi, K. Komiya 15 Deform ation analysis of com posite ground by hom o genization m ethod Japan K. Omine, S. Ohno

16 Effects of subsurface liquefaction on earthquake ground m otion at surface Topic Num ber 4.2 Japan I. Towhata, J.K. Park, R.P. Orense 34 Study on small behaviour m easurem ent for predict ing landslide • 17 Centrifuge and num erical studies of bearing beha viour of rectangular shallow developm ent of m onitoring device footings on sand Japan M. Kosugi, Y. Onodera, M. Meyberg, M. Fukumur o Japan M. Okamura, J. Takemura, T. Kimura, M. Kohda

Topic Num ber 5 Topic Num ber 2 35 Subsoil properties im provem ent control 18 An experim ental study of foundation upgrading by piles Czech Republic P. Turcek, R. Ravinger, 0. Tavoda, P . Hlavacka, Australia Masoud Makarchian, H.G. Poulos C. Kostur

19 Effectivity and some risks of ultim ate state des ign 36 A theoretical study on sm ear effect around vertical drain Czech Republic P. Koudelka Japan J.C. Chai, N. Miura, S. Sakajo

20 G eotechnical analysis of skin friction of cast-i n-place piles 37 Relation between com pacted area and ram m om entum by heavy tam ping Japan N. Yasufuku, H. Ochiai, Y. Maeda Japan A. Oshima, N. Takada

2724 38 Soil conditions at liquefied and non-liquefied sites during the 1995 Hyogokennam bu earthquake Japan S.Yasuda, K. Harada, N. Shinkawa

Topic Num ber 5.2

39 Interactive behaviour of a flexible reinforced s and colum n foundation in soft soils Germany H.-G. Kempfert, A. Jaup, M. Raithel

40 Im provem ent of continuos fiber reinforcem ent met hod Japan J. Kuwano, Y. Imamura, T. Imanari

Topic Num ber 6

41 Remedy of a chemical waste dump w ith foundation of a new dum p on its surface Czech Republic I. Vam cek, J. Bohac, J. Ricica, J. Z aruba

42 M odel tests of drainage pipes under heavy load Germany H. Zanzinger, E. Gartung

43 Environm ental quality assessm ent and control in geotechnical engineering Japan M. Kamon, T. Katsumi, Chang-yun Ying

44 Evaluation of swelling characteristics of benton ite-sand m ixture Japan H. Komine, N. Ogata

45 The structure and strength properties of com pact ed concrete w aste Japan H. Shibata, K. Saito

Topic Num ber 6.1

46 Encapsulation of an old industrial waste deposit , geotechnical investigations for a high density cut-o ff w all Germany J. Brauns, K. Kast, D. Reiersloh, B. Schulz e

Topic Num ber 7.1

47 Training for specialised civil engineers Germany W. Ensinger

2725 List of participants Liste des participants

ARGENTINA / ARGENTINE W erner Bilfinger Hernan Goldemberg Prof. Francis Bogossian Maria Eugenia Boscov

AUSTRALIA / AUSTRALIE Celso Santos Carvalho Dr. Abdelm alek Bouazza David de Carvalho Malcolm Boyd Mario Cepollina Prof. John Carter Dr. Jose-Carlos Cintra Max Ervin Prof. Roberto Q. Coutinho Prof. Martin Fahey Prof. Renato P. Cunha Dr. Buddhim a Indraratna Prof. Luiz Guilherm e De Mello Jeffrey M acleod Luciano Decourt Philip M cArthur Nelson Godoy Prof. Harry Poulos Prof. Jaime A. Gusmao Prof. Mark Randolph Prof. Jose Fernando Thome Juca David Starr W illy A. Lacerda Prof. Claudio Fernando M ahler

AUSTRIA / AUTRICHE Dr. Arsenio Negro - Jr. Dr. Dietm ar Adam Dr. Sussumu Niyama Prof. Dr. Heinz Brandi Prot. Carlos Pinto Eduard Falk Dr. Fernando Schnaid Prof. Dr. M anfred Fross M arcio Soares Prof. Martin Fuchsberger Orencio M onje Vilar Otto Henogl Knut Leitner BRUNEI Rainer Lugmayr Siong Khai Chiong Dr. Lothar M artak Tuong Ing Huong Franz Hermann Meszner Joachim Preidl BULGARIA / BULGARIE Dr. Erich Schwab Prof. Georg Stefanoff Prof. Dr. Stephan Sem prich Dr. Steiner CAMEROON Peter Stockhammer Prof. Vincent Kamgueu

AZERBAIJAN CANADA Prof. Yagub Eyubov Prof. Dr. Gunther Bauer Maja Briscoe

BELARUS Prof. Paul Chiasson Dr. Dm itri Sobolevski Prof. Carl B. Crawford Prof. Dr. Yuri Sobolevski Prof. Dr. David Cruden Prof. Zdenek Dan Eisenstein

BELGIUM / BELGIQUE Prof. Erman Evgin M aurice Bottiav Prof. Dr. Delwyn G. Fredlund Flor De Cock Peter Gerabek Dr. W im Haegeman Dr. Jim Graham Prof. Alain Holeyman Prof. Jean-M arie Konrad Prof. Pedro J. Huergo Dr. John Krahn Christian Legram o Prof. Dr. Branko Ladanyi Emmanuel Lousberg Prof. Serge Leroueil Prof. Jan M aertens Gordon McRostie Marc Van den Broeck Prof. Dr. Geoffrey M eyerhof Prof. Dr. W .F. van Impe Dr. Victor M illigan Dr. Yannick Zazcek Prof. N. R. M orgenstem Prof. Marcus Pacheco

BRAZIL/BRESIL Dr. Ryan Philips Mauricio Abramento Gerald P. Raymond Jose Henrique Albiero Prof. Peter Robertson Prof. M arcio Alm eida Prof. Dr. R. Kerry Rowe Dr. Jose' Maria Barros Prof. Marius Roy

2727 C HILE/CHIU Hannu Jokiniemi Rafael Gonzales Millones Pauli Kolisoja Issa Kort Osmo Korhonen Lucy Magana Retamal Dr. Mauri Koskinen Jorge H. Troncoso Kari Kuusipuro Ana Maria Valenzuela Jouko Lehtonen Caroline Valenzuela Mikko Leppänen Prof. Luis Valenzuela Kari M elander Niina Puumalainen COLOMBIA/COLOMBIE Hans Rathmayer Dr. Adolfo Alarcon-Guzm an Prof. Olii Ravaska Prof. Hector Parra Dr. Seppo Saarelainen Jaime Suarez Pekka Salmenhaara Luis F. Vesga Martinez Prof. Eero Slunga Harri Tanska CROATIA/CROATIE Tim o Tervonen Zvonim ir Lisac Markku Tuhola

Davorin Lourenicic Aarno Valkeisenmäki

Davorin Lourenoic Prof. Pauli Vepsäläinen Bozica Marie Ragnar W ikström Zlatko M ihalinec Dr. M ensur Mulabdic FRANCE Bogdan Stanic Samuel Amar Branko Stojkovic Mohamed Atwa M arko Vrkljan Francis Bardot Damir Corko Oliver Barthe Prof. Antun Szavits-Nossan Michel Bastick Prof. Jean Biarez

CZECH REPUBLIC Dr. Claude Boutin Dr. Jan Bohac Dr. M ichel Bustamante Dr. Marta Dolezalova Dr. Jean Canou Dr. Jaroslav Feda M aurice Cassan Dr. Petr Koudelka Dr. Bogdan Cazacliu Prof. Ivan Vanicek Dr. Pierre Chambón Alain Chaussinand DENMARK/DANEMARK Jean Francois Corte Soren Andreasen Dr. Philippe Delmas Jens Baumann Prof. Herve Di Benedetto Dr. Hans Denver Dr. Jean-Claude Dupla Claus Gormsen Jean-Louis Durville Per Bjerregaard Hansen Etienne Flavigny Peder Hauritz Prof. Roger Frank J. Hedegaard Michel Gambin Uwe Hess Pierre Gardes Betty Stenstrup Jensen Jacques Garnier Niels Krebs Ovesen Prof. Behrouz Gatmiri 0. Möller Prof. Jean Pierre Gourc Jens Kammer Mortensen Prof. Dr. Pierre Habib Susanne Kalmar Pedersen Prof. Richard Kastner Carl J. Römhild Prof. Dr. Jean Kerisel Carsten S. Sorensen Grant Knochenmus Prof. Jorgen S. Steenvelt Francois Laigle Pierre Lareal EGYPT/L'EGYPTE Jean Launay Prof. Dr. Am ira Mohamed Abdel-Rahman Dr. Eric Leca Dr. Am r Aboulfadl Dr. Patrick Lerat Prof. M ohamed 1. Am er Philippe Liausu Dr. Mohamed El Gendy Michel Londez Nagwa Ragab El Sakhawy Jean-Pierre Magnan Dr. Rawia El Sakhawy Bruno Mazare Sheeren El-Ezahy Dr. Philippe M estat Prof. Moustafa El-Ghamrawy Pecker Dr. Mamdouh Hamza Derrick Ian Price Osama Kadry Jacques Robert Prof. Hany A. Lotfy Prof. Francois Schlosser Prof. Abdelsalam Salem Dr. Said Taibi Osama Tourk Serge Varaksin

ESTONIA / ESTONIE GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE Dr. M ait Mets Manfred Ahlbom Dr. Rolf Ahlers FINLAND / FINLANDE Carsten Ahner Olli Arkim a Dr. Dim iter A. Alexiew Sami Eronen Christian Arndts Kai G ulin Prof. Dr. Ulvl Arslan

2728 Artienes Dr. Dietm ar Grießl Aue Ulrich Grupe Michael Bachmann Prof. Dr. Gerd Gudehus Uwe Bartl Dr. Klaus Günther Anja Batereau Jörg Gutwald Dr. Christoph Batereau Joachim Haberland Dr. Dr. Karlheinz Bauer Jürgen Hanisch Dr. Theodor Baumann Dr. Eckardt Hartm ann Becker-Lehfeld Udo Hartwig Zuebeyde Bektas Sören Haß Jörg Benario Dr. Manfred Haupt Dr. Horst Bernhard Klaus Peter Hausberg Dr. W ilhelm Binnewies Dr. Gang Liang He Prof. Dr. W erner Blümel Dieter Heere Prof. Helm ut Bock Dr. Georg Heerten Boisten Dr. Michael Heibaum Girm a Boled-Mekasha Dr. Gunnar Heibrock Conrad Boley Stefan Heineke Hans-Dieter Borchers Prof.Dr. Günter Heise Jochen Bosenick Prof.Dr. Engelbert Heitkamp Norbert Boss Günther Heitmann Gerhard Bräu Jan Helm Prof. Dr. Josef Brauns Dr. Thom as Herbst Johannes Breuer Regine Herrmann Dirk Bruhn Ch. Hessing Ulrich Bruhn Dirk Heyer Dr. Frank-Peter Brunck Prof. Dr. Klaus Hilm er W olfgang Brunner Thom as Hochgürtel Thorsten Bruns Dr. Kay Hock-Berghaus Prof. Dr. Roland Fritz Buchm aier Helmut Hoffmann Christian Büchner Jörg Holzhäuser Lutz Burghardt Dr. Yifeng Hu Holger Carlsen Dr. Harald Huber Alexander Cejka Thomas Huch Dr. Hans-Dieter Clasm eier Huesker Synthetic Holger Cords Huesker Synthetic Ruth Degen Yael lagolnitzer Dr. W ilhelm Degen Dr. Frank Ihle Delmas Prof. Dr. Mete Incecik Christoph Deutscher Ernst F. Ischebeck Klaus Dietz Niels Jagsch Jens Döbbelin Mario Jakobs Dr. Boris Andreas Dombrowski Sandor Jancsecz Prof. Dr. Heinz Duddeck Achim Jaup Jürgen Ebenhög Carsten Jennrich Theo Egle Prof. Dr. Hans-Ludwig Jessberger Gerd Ehl Roland Joerger W ilfried Ehm ke Eberhard Joppa Jens Engel Dr. Peter Jordan W alter Ensinger Rolf-G. Jung Dr. Claus Erichsen Dr. M atthias Kahl Ulrich Estermann Prof. Dr. Manfred Kany Martin Feinendegen Jan Arvid Karlsson Gerd Festag J. Kassner Marco Fiene Prof. Dr. Rolf Katzenbach Fischer Friedrich Kausch Etty Fischer Regina Kauther Petra Fleischer Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kem pfert Prof. Dr. Rudolf Floss Sondtam Keptunutl Dr. Georg Foik Klaus Kirsch Dr. Prof. W olfgang Förster Beate Kittler Prof. Dr. Dietrich Franke Dr. Herbert Klapperich Jörg Franke Dr. Joachim Klein Dr. Otm ar Franz Oswald Klingmüller Michael Freisen Jörg Klompmaker Dr. Hans-Günter Gabener Heiner Klönne Dr. Erwin Gartung H.-J. Kloubert Jens Gattermann Andreas Knoll Joerg Gattermann Hans-Jürgen Köhler Dr. Ernst Geutebrück Dr. Ulf Köhler Johannes Giere Dr. Frank Könemann Kerstin Goluecke H. Konietzky Dr. Jürgen Grabe Dr. Diethard König Manfred Grassl Prof. Dr. Frank T. König Christian Gress Dr. Jürgen König

2729 Klaus König Prof. Dr. Victor Rizkallah Uwe Koops Piero Roberti Christoph Koslowski Prof. Dr. W alter Rodatz Horst Köster Andreas Rödel Stefan Kötter Jürgen Rohmann Dr. Eberhard Krauß Thomas Römer Dr. Peter Kudella Thomas Römer Markus Kügler Dr. Matthias Rosenberg Ulrich Kühner Annette Rückert Dr. Knut Langhagen Prof. Dr. Horst Rückert Lars Langmaack Dr. Thom as Rumpelt Jürgen Latotzke Dr. Franz-Reinhard Ruppert Dr. Jan Laue Dr. Detlef Rütz J.W . Lee Dr. Saathoff Dr. W olfhard Leichnitz Dr. W ellin Sadgorski Lin Liu Dr. Dr. Dieter Salden Arcesio Lizcano G errit Salveter M atthias Löw Christof Sänger Jens Lüke Dogan Savasman Prof. Dr. Karl Mallwitz Prof. Dr. Stavros Savidis Peter J. Mandel Dr. Hermann Schad Dr. Ulfert Martinsen Iris Schade

Johannes Marx Prof. Dr. Hasso Scheffler Prof. Dr. Helm ut Meissner Paul Scheller Jörg Menke Dr. M atthias Schellhorn Vladim ir Mikulitsch Esther Scheurer Ahmed Ali Mir Erwin Schilcher Christian Moormann B. Schipman Dr. Karl Morgen Dr. Hans-G ottfried Schm idt Julika Mühlenhoff Dr. Hermann Schmidt-Schleicher Katja Mühllg Uwe Schmiedel Kerstin Müller Günter Schneider Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller Jürgen Schnell Stefan Müller M anfred Schöpf Murray Volker Schöttner Om ar Naciri Ute Schran Daniel Naterop Prof. Dierk Schröder Naumann Sabine Schröder Yorck Necker Dr. Eckart Schulz Hermann K. Neff Thomas Schulz M. Nods Dr. Bernd Schuppener Prof. Dr. Manfred Nussbaumer Horst Schütte Nils Nutbohm Prof. Hermann Schütz Manfred Oehrl Adolf Schuwicht Elfriede Ott Dr. Radu Schwab Franz Pavelka Dr. Helm ut Schwarz Alfred Penczek Dr. Jürgen Schwarz W olfgang Pentzin Prof. Dr. Erwin Schwing Dr. Eugen Perau Gok Sebahat Gisela Philipp Joern Seitz Dr. Horst Philipp Reinhard Sichward Jens Pich Dr. Thomas Siemer Ingeborg Piechottka Tony Simmonds Karl-Josef Pierschke Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sm oltczyk Bemd-Rüdiger Pinkow Dr. Janusz Sobolewski Dr. Dietm ar Placzek Heinrich Sommerhage Bernd Plassmann Stephan Sonneck Dr. Hermann Poll Dr. Hansjürgen Spanke Dr. Lothar Powroschnik Christian Späth W olfgang Preusser O laf Stahlhut Dr. Peter Quast Harald Steiner Hubert Quick Eberhard Steinmetz Dr. Horst Rahn Dr. M anfred Stöcker M arc Raithel Erwin Stötzer Dr. Joachim Rappert Thorsten Stresow Dr. Jürgen Rechtem Dr. Dieter Stroh Dr. Erich Rehfeld Dr. Albert Stützer Peter Reinders Oie Syllwasschy Jürgen Reiner Nandor Tamaskovics O liver Reul Dr. Helmut Tem m ler Dr. Helm ut Richter G. Terhechte Dr. Thom as Richter P. Terhechte W olfgang Richter Peter Teschemacher Benno Ring Dr. Mahmud Thaher Prof. Dr. Joachim Riße Rainer Thiel

2730 Dr. Rail Thiele ICELAND/ISLANDE Graham Thomson Jon Skulason Hans-W erner Timm Barbara Tönnis INDIA/INDE Dr. Rainer Tredopp Syed M. Ali Jawaid Theodor Triantafyllidis Prof. Dr. Ramanath Katti Jörg Uhlendahl Dr. V.V.S. Rao Prof. Dr. Karl R. Ulrichs Prof.Dr. Nltindra Nath Som Kent v. Maubeuge Prof. Rakesh Kumar Srivastana Paul v. Soos Prof. Dr. Pieter A. Verm eer INDONESIA/INDONESIE Francois Viel Tatang Sutardjo Atm adipradja Teja Vittinghoff Prof. Dr. Abdul Aziz Djajaputra Matthias Vogler Irawan Firmansyah Dr. Thom as Voigt Tjie-Liong Gouw Dieter Volk P.B. Kumara Thomas von Hoegen Dr. Paulus P. Rahardjo Andreas von W urmb Rism antojo M anfred Voss Dr. Hendro Yassin Wagner Dr. Holger W ahrmund IRELAND/IRLANDE Prof. Dr. Bernhard W alz Dr. Erir Farrell W olfgang W ehr Dr. Barry Lehane Heinrich W eiler Michael Long Alfred W einmann Gary McCandless M. W ellering Dr. Trevor Orr Sanae W estensee Staffan W etterling ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN W ewerka G. Reza Keyvani Dr. Lutz W ichter Alireza Rahat Andreas W ieners Dr. Homayoun Sanii Roland W inkel Kamran Rezvan Dr. Steffen W inkler Dr. Touraj Am ir Soleim ani Prof. Dr. W alter W ittke Dr. Jürgen W oldt ISRAEL W ilfried W underatzke Hasida Botzer wurm David David Dirk Zaeske Samuel Feferbaum Karl-Heinz Zehetm aier Samuel Geffen Bingyin Zhang Dr. Yan Goretsky Dr. Fengming Zhou Prof. Dr. Am os Kom ornik W olfgang Zillekens Yoram Lavie Dr. M arco Ziller Dr. Horace Moo-Young Carl Redel

GREECE/GRECE Moti Yuger Prof. Andreas Anagnostopoulos Prof. Joseph G. Zeitlen Prof. Dr. Christos Anagnostopoulos Eli Zolkov M ilia Belegri Spyros Cavounidis ITALY / ITALIE Konstantine Chryssafopoulos Dr. Stefano Aversa Dr. Demetrios Coumoulos Prof.Dr. Giovanni Barla Prof. George Gazetas Prof. Dr. Darinka Battelino Prof. Michael Georgiadis Prof. Renato Belviso Charalabos Giannaros Dom enico Bruzzi Ageliki Kalkatzi Guido Cocconi Basil Karas Dr. Federica Cotecchia Konstantinos Mavrelis Dr. Caterina DiMaio Athanasios Platis Dr. Giovanni Doneddu Prof. Christos Tsatsanifos Prof. Antonio Federico Dr. Vincenzo Fioravante

HONDURAS Dr. Am brogio Fioruzzi Abraham Alvarado Prof. M assim o Grisolia Prof. Michele Jamiolkowski HONG KONG / HONG-KONG Donato LaRocca Dr. Andrew Malone Fernando Lizzi Dr. Charles W ang W ai Ng Dr. Diego Lo Presti Henrique Novais-Ferreira Dr. Mario M anassero Prof. Chih-Kang Shen Prof. Silvano Marchetti Prof. Dr. M ichele Maugeri HUNGARY/HONGRIE Dr. Paola Monaco Dr. Tibor Borom isza Prof. Dr. Antonio Musso Emöke Imre Prof. Mario Ottaviani Dr. Jozsef Mecsi Prof. Dr. Erio Pasqualini Prof. Imre Szabo G iorgio Pezzetti Prof. Luciano Picarelli

2731 María Carmela Rotunno Dr. Masaki Nakano Piero Sem benelli Prof. Ryoki Nakano Dr. Francesco Silvestri Dr. Akio Nakase Dr. Gianfranco Totani Dr. Yukio Nakata University of Florence Toshihiko Niibori Prof. Calogero Valore Sum io Nishi Calosero Valore Tsuyoshi Nishi Gian Paolo Vassallo Dr. Jun'lchi Nishikawa Prof. Cario Viggiani Dr. Toshihiro Noda Prof. Hidetoshi Ochiai JAPAN/JAPON Prof. Masanobu Oda Masahiko Abe Kazuyuki Ogisu Prof. Dr. Kakuichiro Adachi Dr. Koji Ohmori Prof. Hirokazu Akagi Prof. Hideki Ohta Prof. Akira Asaoka Prof. Satoru Ohtsuka Dr. Jin Chun Chai Prof. Fusao Oka Dr. Yoshinori Demura Dr. Kiyoshi Om ine Takashi Endo Akihiko Oshima Takeshi Fujii Norio Otake Toyokazu Fujioka Dr. Tej Pradhan Prof. Keiichi Fujita Dr. Saiichi Sakajo Makoto Hachiya Naofumi Sakata Yoshiaki Hagino Prof. Shunsuke Sakurai Hideo Hanzawa Prof. Dr. Yasushi Sasaki Makoto Hara Dr. Kyoji Sassa Dr. Kenji Harada Prof. M asao Satake Tadashi Hashimoto Katsuyoshi Sato Hirochika Hayashi Ken-ichi Sato Hiroyasu Homma Prof. Hideo Sekiguchi Katsumi Horii Prof. Hideaki Shibata Dr. Kenichi Horikoshi Heihachiro Shibuya Prof. Dr. Takahide Horiuchi Akiom i Shimazu Prof. Masayuki Hyodo M asayoshi Shim izij Dr. Susum u lai Prof. Dr. Eiji Shim izu Mir M. Iakovlev Yoshihisa Shimizu Prof. Atsushi lizuka Torao Shirai Hideaki Ishida Prof. Takaharu Shogaki Yorihira Ishida Fumiyuki Soma Prof. Dr. Kenji Ishihara Prof. Naotoshi Takada Naoki Iwamoto Hideaki Takasaki Yoshinori Iwasaki Dr. Jiro Takem ura Dr. Munehiko Kaga Hitoshi Tam aki Prof. Masashi Kamon Hiroyuki Tanaka Yukihiko Kani Keijiro Taniguchi Prof. Daizo Karube Fumio Tatsuoka Dr. Shoji Kato Dr. M asaaki Terashi Dr. Takeshi Katsumi Prof. Dr. YoshioTobito Prof. Kunio Kawamura Prof. Jun Tohda Prof. Dr. Motoki Kazam a Dr. Kohji Tokim atsu M asao Kikuchi Dr. Masanari Tom inaga Prof. Tsutom u Kimura Prof. Dr. Ikuo Towhata Dr. Tethuo Kinoshita Takashi Tsuchida Prof. Yuji Kishino Prof. Tsutom u Tsuchiya Shun-lchi Kobayashi Dr. Yoshim ichi Tsukam oto Dr. Takeshi Kodaka Prof. Kazunori Uchida Dr. Yukihiro Kohata Kennosuke Uemura Dr. Hideo Komine Dr. Eiji Yam ada Prof. Dr. Kazuhito Kom iya Dr. Satoshi Yam ashita Prof. Dr. Ichiro Kono Prof. Dr. Eiji Yanagisawa Akira Kosaka Furitsu Yasuda Kohji Koyamada Prof. Dr. Susumu Yasuda Prof. Osamu Kusakabe Dr. Noriyuki Yasufuku Dr. Jiro Kuwano Prof. Dr. Kazuya Yasuhara Georgy V. Levintov Dr. Nozomu Yoshida Prof. Yoshito Maeda Dr. Teru Yoshida Dr. Kenji M atsui Dr. Yoshiaki Yoshim i Tatsunori Matsumoto Dr. Mamoru Mimura KAZAKHSTAN Prof. Dr. Toshiyuki Mitachi Prof. Dr. Askar Zhusupbekov Prof. Norihiko Miura Dr. Kenji M orí KUWAIT/KOWEIT Tsugihiko Mori Dr. Morad Seadawi ED Dash Takeo Morimoto Prof. Seiji M urata LATVIA Misa Nagao Valters Celm ins

2732 LITHUANIA W ilbert van den Broek Antanas Astrauka Johannes T. van der Poel Raim ondas Baikstys Rob J. van Foeken Luidas Furm onavlcius Prof. Frits van Tol Saulius Gadeikis Prof. Bram Van W eele Antanas Juknius Prof. Arnold Verruijt Salvijus Paskauskas E. W elling Dr. Vincentas Stragys Joost W entink Arvydas Zutaukas NEW ZEALAND / NOUVELLE ZELANDE LUXEMBOURG Dr. John Berrill Francois Gaasch Dr. Alexei Murashev Dr. W ynfrith Riemer

Dr. Alex Schm itt NIGERIA Enoch George

MACEDONIA (FYROM) Dr. Ljpco Dim itrievski NORWAY / NORVEGE Arne Engen

MALAYSIA Prof. Dr. Kaare Hoeg Dr. S.F. Chan Svein Jorve Kok-Keong Chong Kjell Karlsrud Dr. See Sew Gue Dr. Am ir M. Kaynia Teh Eng Hai Oyvind Klevar Dr. Ahm ad Nadzri Hussein Dr. Suzanne Lacasse Azm i Jamaludin Tom Lunne

Cheng Aik Neoh Dr. Farrokh Nadim Kwan Kam Sing Andrew Woon PAKISTAN Yuen Thui Yang Amjad Agha Richard Yu Dr. Arif Ajaz Dr. Izharul Haq MEXICO/MEXIQUE Irfan Saeed Prof. J. Abraham Diaz-Rodriguez Irfan Saeed Dr. Rosario Iturbe Dr. Alberto Jaim e PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Prof. Eulalio Juarez-Badillo Zhi Ming Chen Dr. Eprain Ouando-Sheller Jian Du Prof. Miguel Romo Prof. Ting Hu G uillerm o Springall Prof. Jinli Liu Dr. Victor Taboada Dr. Song-Yu Liu Att. Benito Juarez TGC Geotecnia S.A. Prof. Da Yong Peng Hector Manuel Valverde Landeros Dr. Tiehong W ang Hou Xueyuan

MOROCCO/ MAROC Houssine Ejjaaouani PERU/PEROU Dr. Hamid El Gamali Prof. Jorge E. Alva Hurtado Lindbergh Meza

NETHERLANDS / PAYS-BAS Prof. Roberto M ichelena Dr. Henderikus G.B. Allersma Klaas Jan Bakker PHILIPPINES A.T. Balkema Dr. Geoffrey Buck Prof. Dr. Frans B.J. Barends Gerben Beetstra POLAND/POLOGNE Peter Brand Prof. Eugeniusz Dembicki Dr. Ronald Brinkgreve Krystyna Jankowska Freerk de Boer Joanna Kaminska Louis De Quelery Boleslaw Klosinski Jan de Ruiter Miroslaw Lipinski Jan-M aerton Elias Prof. Dr. Boleslaw Mazurkiewicz Geerhard Hannink Prof. Dr. Zygm ont Meyer Henrik Jas Jozef Mirecki Fred Jonker Prof. Zbigniew Mlynarek Harry J. Kolk Alina Orlowska Arjen Kort Prof. Joanna Pininska Jaap Lindenberg Dr. Bogdan Rymsza Michael Loxham Prof. Ewa T. Stepkowska Dirk Luger Prof. Dr. Hanna Suchnicka Peter Middendorp Czestaw Szymankiewicz Henk Nelissen Prof. Andrzej Tejchm ann Harry M.A. Pachen Prof. Dr. M ichal Topolnicki Dr. Merke Stuit Prof. W ojciech W olski Ruud Termaat Jorn Tonnisen PORTUGAL Henk van de Graat Rui Barros Dr. Peter Van den Berg Nuno Bravo de Faria Cruz

2733 Joao Augusto Falcao Dr. Andrey Ponomaryov Carlos Manuel Feio Almeida Vladim ir V. Rainkluchevsky Eduardo Freire Konstantin Rezanov Prof. Antonio Gomes-Correia Vitaly Savtchenko Nuno M.C. Guerra Dr. Elena Scherbina Prof. Luis Joaquim Leal Lemos Prof. Vladim ir Sheinin Francisco Martins Prof.Dr. Sergey Sotnikov Prof. Julio B. M artins Dr. Nadejda N. Tsapkova Prof. Riqardo Oliveira Prof. Dr. Vladim ir Ulitski Alexandre Pinto Dr. Pedro Seco e Pinto SAUDI ARABIA/ARABIE SAOUDITE Fernando Pedro Simoes Dr. Sahel N. Abdul-Jauwad Prof. Antonio Viana da Fonseca Dr. Saad A. Aiban Khalil Al-Shafei REPUBLIC OF KOREA Khalifa Al-Yahyai Byeong Seong Choi Prof. Dr. Byung-Sik Chun SINGAPORE / SINGAPOUR Prof. Choong-Ki Chung Sing Lih, Kiefer Chiam Dr. Sung W an Hong Dr. Eng Choon Leong Dr. Gyeong Hwan Jeong Prof. Chun Fai Leung Prof. Dr. Duhwoe Jung Chee Nurn Kevin Quan Prof. Dr. Byung-Hee Kang Akira W ada Lee Kap Hee Hyuan Tae Kim SLOVAK REPUBLIC Insoon Kim Dr. Jana Frankovska Myoung Mo Kim Jozef Hladny Prof. Dr. Sang-Kyu Kim Prof. Dr. Jozef Hulla Prof. Soo Sam Kim Prof. Dr. Jan Jesenak Prof. Dr. Sooil Kim Dr. M aria M asarovicova Sung-Ryul Kim M irko Matys

Chong Kyu Lee Dr. Peter Turcek Kyeong Jun Lee Boris Vrabel Dr. Seoung Hyun Lee

Seung Lee SLOWENIA Jungman Nam Igor Ajdic Nam Ho Shin Marko Fasalek Prof. Dr. Yeo-W on Yoon Ana-Maria Gaberc Janko Logar

ROMANIA/ROMANIE Prof. Dr. Bojan Majes Prof. Ion Antonescu Branko Prokop Prof. Dr. Sanda Manea Bostjan Pulko Prof. Dr. lacint M anoliu Mojca RavnikarTurk Prof. Dr. Augustin Popa Prof. Dr. Ivan Sovinc Prof. M ihail Popescu Prof. Dr. Ludvik Trauner Prof. Pauiica Raileanu Prof. Dr. Bojan Zlender Prof. Dr. Tadeus Schein

SOUTH AFRICA / AFRIQUE DU SUD RUSSIA Prof. G eoffrey Blight Prof. Dr. Pulat Abbasov Gauvin Byrne Dr. Sergey U. Badeev Peter Day Prof. Adolf Bartolom ey Johann Engelbrecht Leonid Bartolomey Alan Parrock Dr. Eugeny Bellendir Prof. Derek Sparks Yuri Bondarev

Boris Diduch SPAIN / ESPAGNE Alexey Faline Prof. Eduardo Alonso K. Galina German Burbano Dr. Valeri Grebenets Dr. Pedro A. Calderon Garcia Prof. Dr. Yevgeny Gretchistchev Prof.Dr. Luis Canizo Prof. Vjacheslav Ilyichev Dr. Vicente Cuellar Dr. Boris N. Isaev Prof. Dr. Pablo De la Fuente Igor Jebelev Dr. Ventura Escario Prof. Dr. Vladim ir Kazarnovski Luis Fort Aligouchad Kerimov Prof. Antonio Gens Guergui Kolesnik Jose Antonio Hinojosa Igor Kolybine Prof. Jose Luis Justo Dr. Alexander G. Lunev Jose L. Monte Prof. Dr. Rashid M angushev Prof. Dr. Carlos S. Oteo Dr. Edward Motovilov Prof. Jose M. Rodriguez-Ortiz Dr. Vadim Ofrikhter Enrique Romero Elena D. Pavlik Prof. Dr. Cesar Sagaseta Galina Pavlik Antonio Santos Dr. Galina N. Pavlik Pedro R. Sola Helena Pavlik Dr. Antonio Soriano Dr. Andrey Ponomarev Rosa Travesedo Ruiz Prof. Santiago Uriel Romero

2734 SRI LANKA THAILAND /THAÏLANDE Dr. Athapathu M P W edage Prof. A. S. Balasubram aniam Prof. Dennes T. Bergado SUDAN Dr. Satoru Shibuya Dr. Yahia E-A. Mohamedzein Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Osman TUNISIA Abdelhamid Amor Sassi SULTANATE OF OMAN

Ali Mohammed AI Mahrouqi TURKEY/TURQUIE Santanu Moitra Nefise Akcelik Mutlu Akdogan SWEDEN/ SUEDE Salih Aksoy Hjördis Andersson Prof. Dr. M. Alilla Ansal Sadek Baker Dr. Hidir Caglayan W ilhelm Delfs Prof. Dr. H. Turan Durgunoglu Ulf Ekdahl Prof. Dr. M. Ufuk Ergun Kjiell Elm gren Prof. Dr. Othan Erol Bengt Grävare Zuhal Etkesen Lars Hall Sebahat Gok Prof. Sven Hansbo Prof. Dr. Erol Güler Dr. Jan Hartlen Atilla Horoz Göran Holm Prof. Dr. Shunichi Igarashi Nenad Jelisic Asli Kandemir Roland Jonsson Mustafa Nalgakan Matti Kivelö llknur Sargin Ake Knutz Dr. Aykut Senol Prof. Rolf Larsson Beglan Togrol Per Linoh Prof. Dr. Ergün Togrol Per Löfling Ove Magnusson UKRAINE Prof. Rainer Massarsch Prof. Michael Doubrovsky Sven Odenstedt Prof. Dr. Serguey Elsoufiev Jan Erik Ohlsson Dr. Leonid Ginzburg Elvin Ottoson Hakan Pihl UNITED KINGDOM / ROYAUME-UNI Bengt Rydell Dr. A. Al-Tabbaa Prof. Göran Sällfors Prof. Dr. Fatm a El-Zahraa Baligh Eskil Sellgren Dr. M. Bolton Per Lenhartt Svensson Roger Bonner Dr. Bengt-Arne Torstensson Richard Brook Erik W esterberg Prof. John Burland Peter Zackrisson Dr. David Bush Adam Richard Chodorowski SW ITZERLAND / SUISSE James Clamp Christophe Bonnard Amy Cobb Dr. Peter Brenner Dr. W illiam Craig Andreas Brinkmann Eugene Gallagher Raeto Conrad Dr. David A. Greenwood Dr. Alexander Degen Dr. David Hight M ichel Dysli Dr. Yuichi Higuchi H. Michael Heil Dr. Charles Christopher Hird Prof. Dr. Rita Hermanns-Stengele Dr. Richard Jardine Michael Hertweck W illiam Michael Kilkenny Johannes Hörler Dr. Robert M air Prof. Dr. Kalm an Kovari Keith Matthews Frederic Mayoraz Dr. Bruce Keith Menzies Dr. Hans R. Schneider Bernard Myles Solexperts AG Dr. K. Omine Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Springman Dr. R. H. G. Parry Helm ut Steiger Dr. Arthur Penman Dr. W alter Steiner John J.M. Powell Arno Thul M alcolm Puller Bernhard Trommer Dr. Christopher D.F. Rogers Prof. Laurent Vulliet Prof. Andrew N. Schokield Prof. Noel Sim ons SYRIA/SYRIE Dr. Brian Simpson Farid Mawlawi Barry Slocombe

Neil Smith TAIWAN Dr. Kenichi Soga Prof. Cheng-Hsing Chen Chris Spalton Dr. Shue-Yeong Chi Dr. R. Scott Steedm an Dr. Chung-Tien Chin Prof. R. Neil Taylor Prof. Robert Chin Yun-Pin Roger Thompson Dr. Za-Chien Moh Prof. Peter Vaughan Dr. Siu-Mun W oo Prof. Simon W heeler

2735 USA Prof. Juan Carlos Hiedra-Lopez Dr. Hesham Al-Alusi Isaura Romero Dr. Jean M. Audibert Melanie Bauer VIETNAM Jean-Louis Briaud Prof. Dr. Marshall Silver Dr. David Carrier Dr. Jose L.M. Clem ente YUGOSLAVIA Dr. David Crapps Prof. Dr. Petar Anagnosti Alan R. Crumley Nina Kordic-Dikovic Edward Dalton Milan M aksim ovic David E. Daniel Aleksandar Spasojevic Prof. Ricardo Dobry Bobbie Doyle Earl Doyle James Michael Duncan Dr. Eldon Glen Ferguson Prof. Richard Finno Dennis G. Grubb Sachinder Gupta Dr. Richard Handy Dr. Youssef Hashash Jack Hayes Jason Hedien Daniel E. Himick Vernon Hoffman Prof. Robert D. Holtz Prof. Dr. Sandra Houston Prof. W illiam Houston Am ster Howard Prof. I.M. Idriss Prof. Dr. Magued Iskander Prof. Man Juran Prof. Raymond Krizek Prof. Fred H. Kulhawy Prof. Charles Ladd Dr. Paul Mayne Prof. G. Reza Mesri Prof. Jam es K. Mitchell Thom as Molnit Dr. George Munfakh Prof. Iraj Noorany Prof. M ichael O'Neill Prof. Dr. Jori O sterberg Prof. Ralph B. Peck Dr. Steve Perkins Prof. Prakash Prof. Kyle Rollins Larry Roth Prof. Dr. Thom as Sandford Steven Saye Prof. John Schmertm ann Harry Schnabel jr. Prof. Raymond Seed Prof. Charles Shackelford Prof.Dr. Nicholas Sitar K.C. Sohn Dr. Kenneth Stokoe Dr. Kenneth H. Stokoe Dr. M ark Svinkin George Tamaro S. Thevanayagam

Prof. Harvey E. W ahls M argaret W ahls Herwig W andschneider Joseph P. W elsh Dr. Clarence W elti Prof. Dr. Andrew W hittle Jay W oldenberg Prof. Thom as Zimmie Dr. Diana Zreik

VENEZUELA Prof. Dieter Englert Diego Hiedra-Cobo Dr. Juan-Carlos Hiedra-Cobo

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