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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SOIL MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING This paper was downloaded from the Online Library of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The library is available here: https://www.issmge.org/publications/online-library This is an open-access database that archives thousands of papers published under the Auspices of the ISSMGE and maintained by the Innovation and Development Committee of ISSMGE. Organization of the conference Organisation du congres OFIGANIZING COMMITTEE / COMITE D'ORGANISATION H.Bolton Seed Chairman/ President R.T.Lawson Wce-Chairman for Organization /Woe-President pour l'Organisation J.K.Mitchell Woe-Chairman tor Program/ Woe-President pour le Programme C.Ries & PTTringale Secretaries / Secretaires Elizabeth Yee Manager/ Administrateur TASK COMMITTEES / COMITES SPECIFIOUES R.B. Peck Program Committee / Comité de Programme WFMarcuson, lll Conference Proceedings Committee/ Comité des Comptes Rendus du Congres J.M.Duncan Bulletins Committee/ Comité des Bulletins G.M.Reynolds Finance Committee/ Comité des Hnances B.B.Gordon Committee on Exhibits/ Comité des Expositions R.Lundgren Home Hospitality Committee / Comité d'Accueil a Domicile VlLEnkeboll Simultaneous Translation Committee/ Comité de Traduction Simultanée R.M.Pyke Post-Conference Tours Committee/ Comité des Excursions suivant le Congres J.Lysmer, TL.Brekke Banquet Committee / Comité de Banquet N.Sitar Program Support Committee/ Comite de Support du Programme R.D.Darragh Reception Committee / Comité de Reception H.Bolton Seed & `l1L.Brekke Entertainment Evening Committee/ Comité de Soirée de Spectacle N.D.Marachi Poster Sessions Committee / Comite de Forum Mme.J.K.Mitchell Companions' Program Committee / Comite des Programmes pour Personnes Arcompagnantes R.L.Volpe Local Technical Wsits Committee/ Comite des Wsites Techniques Locales R.C.Harlan Wine Country Picnic Committee / Comité de Picnique dans la Region Wgnicole Raymond B.Seed Local Housing Committee/Comité du Logement Local Edward Kavazanjian, Jr Registration Committee/ Comité d'lnscription Patrick C.Lucia & Eva Lucia Plenary Sessions Program Arrangements /Arrangement du Programme pour les Seances Plenieres PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE / COMITE DES PUBLICATIONS PS.Davis \LPDrnevich A.G.Franklin G.RHale M.E.Hynes-Griltin S.RMiller \AH.Torrey, lll R.D.Woods TL.Youd WFMarcuson, Ill, Chairman / President CONFERENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE / COMITE CONSULTATIF DU CONGRES Wctor FB.de Mello, President/ President R.H.G.Pany Secretary-General / Secretaire-General C.B.Crawlord, Woe-President, North America / \/ice-President, Amerique du Nord U.Lindblom, Sweden / Suede E.Tamez, Mexioo / Mexique H.Bolton Seed, USA/ EU R.B.Peck, USA/ EU Sponsors Parrains Association of Soil and Foundation Engineers (USA) Geotechnical Engineering Division, American Society of Civil Engineers US National Science Foundation US Bureau of Reclamation US Am1y Corps of Engineers These organizations as well as many other individuals and engineers, too numerous to name, made enormous contributions to the success of the conference by willingly contributing financial support or enormous amounts of time to the planning and organization of the conference. To them all go the most grateful thanks of the Organizing Committee. Ces organisations, ainsi qu’un nombre considerable de personnes et d'ingénieurs, ont fait des effons énormes pour faire reussir ce congres sur le plan financier ou sur le plan personnel, en donnant bénévolant leur temps pour concevoir et organiser le congres. C'est a eux tous que le Comité d‘Organisation présente ses remerciements les plus chaleureux. X Conference program Programme du congres SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 2:30 Theme Lecture on "New Developments 3:30 in Field and Laboratory Testing of 1:00 Registration in the Gold Room of the Soils" by M. Jamiolkowski (Italy) 5:00 P111 Fairmont Hotel 3:30 Break 3:45 SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 3:45 Theme Lecture on "Geotechnical 10:00 Registration in the Gold Room of the 4:45 Aspects of Environmental Control" 6:00 Pm Fairmont Hotel by N. R. Morgenstern (Canada) 2:30 Get-Acquainted Picnic at the Charles 4:45 Poster Session No. 1 in the Peacock 8:00 Pm Krug Winery and Vineyards in the 6:00 pm Court of the Mark Hopkins Hotel Napa Valley, the heart of the (wine will be served) California Wine Country. Buses will leave the Fairmont Hotel at 2:30 pm 6:30 Reception for all registrants at the and return about 8:00 pm. 9:00 PITI Fairmont Hotel, hosted by the U.S. National Society MONDAY, AUGUST 12 TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 8:00 am' Registration at the Fairmont Hotel 5:00 P111 am: Gold Room; pm: Mezzanine Floor 8:00 am Registration at the Fairmont Hotel- 5:00 pm Mezzanine Floor 9:30 First Plenary Session - Masonic Auditorium 5:30 Third Plenary Session - Masonic Chairman: H. Bolton Seed (U.S.A.) Auditorium Chairman: G. Gudehus (F.R.G.) 9:30 Introductions 10:00 Welcoming Address B230 Theme Lecture on "Piles and Other by Richard W. Karn, President of the 9:30 Deep Foundations" American Society of Civil Engineers by John A. Focht (U.S.A.) 10:00 ISSMFE Presidential Address 9:30 Theme Lecture on "Geotechnical 11:00 by Victor F. B. de Mello (Brazil) 10:30 Engineered Construction" by F. Schlosser (France) 11:00 Break 11:30 10:30 Break 11:00 11:30 Terzaghi Oration 12:30 11:00 Theme Lecture on "Evaluating Seismic on "Amuay Landslides" 12:00 Risk in Engineering Practice" by T. W. Lambe (U.S.A.) by I. M. Idriss (U.S.A.) 12:00 Exhibition open in the Masonic 6:00 Pm Auditorium Exhibition Hall 10:00 am Exhibition continues in the Masonic 6:00 pm Auditorium Exhibition Hall 12:30 Lunch for all registrants in the 1:30 Grand Ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel 12:15 PITI Lunch for all registrants in the 1:15 PITI Grand Ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel 1:30 Second Plenary Session - Masonic Auditorium 1:30 Fourth Plenary Session - Masonic Chairman: E. E. de Beer (Belgium) Auditorium Chairman: E. Togrol (Turkey) 1:30 Theme Lecture on "Soil Mechanics - 2:30 Property Characterization and 1:30 Theme Lecture on "Seismic Stability Analysis Procedures" 2:30 of Natural Deposits" by C. P. Wroth (U.K.) by K. Ishihara (Japan) X in the Registration Area. Tickets TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 (Contd.) for specific tours will be issued in 2:30- Theme Lecture on "Comparison of Pre exchange for a voucher contained in 3:30 diction and Performance of Earth the registration package. Since the Structures" number of people who can be accommo dated on each tour is limited, by E. W. Brand (S.E. Asia) tickets will be issued on a first 3:30- Break come, first-served basis. 3:45 Tour No. 1: U.C. Berkeley Soils 3:45- Theme Lecture on "Geological Aspects Laboratory 4:45 of Geotechnical Engineering" Tour of the U.C. Berkeley Soil by G. Ter Stepanian Mechanics Laboratory with a discus (U.S.S.R.) sion of current research projects. 4:45- Poster Session No. 2 in the Peacock Maximum attendance: 180. 6:00 Court of the Mark Hopkins Hotel Round trip time: about 5 hours. (wine will be served) Tour No. 2: U.C. Davis Soil 6:30- Organ Recital at Grace Cathedral Mechanics and Centrifuge 7:30 pm This organ recital is being performed Testing Facilities especially for participants in the A visit to the proposed site of the Xlth ICSMFE and accompanying family National Geotechnical Centrifuge and members. The site for the perfor demonstrations of the centrifuge mance is Grace Cathedral, a majestic modelling technique on three smaller Gothic cathedral located atop centrifuges at the Center for Geo Nob Hill, one block west of the technical Modelling at U.C. Davis. Fairmont Hotel. Some of the centrifuge model test packages shown will be for piezo 6:30- Home Hospitality for Overseas electric earthquake simulation, 12:00 pm Visitors effects of fault movement beneath dams, pollutant transport in soil, foundation vibration simulation, and simulation of blast loading on struc WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14 tures. In addition unique testing equipment for automatic triaxial and 8:00 am- Registration area open on the torsion testing systems for cyclic 5:00 pm Mezzanine Floor of the Fairmont Hotel and monotonic shear tests, dielec tric and conductivity measurements 8:30 Fifth Plenary Session - Masonic for soil characterization and in Auditorium situ testing, and hydraulic erosion Chairman: S. Hansbo (Sweden) testing will be seen in the U.C. Davis soil mechanics laboratories. Reports on Recent Failures and Near Failures Maximum attendance: 45. Round trip time: about 6 hours. B:30- “The Carsington Dam Slide" 8:55 --A. W. Skempton (U.K.) Tour No. 3: The Geysers The Geysers, owned and operated by B:55- “The San Luis Dam Drawdown Slide" the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, 9:20 --L. Von Thun (U.S.A.) is the largest operating geothermal plant in the world. Located in Napa 9:20- "The Tablachaca Dam Slide Problem" County, the Geysers area has a high 9:45 --P. Repetto (Peru) incidence of landslides. This tour will visit the construction area and 9:45- “Soil Liquefaction Problems in review the preventative design and 10:15 Recent Japanese Earthquakes" construction measures for landslide --Y. Yoshimi (Japan) control. 10:00 am- Exhibition continues in the Masonic Maximum attendance: 90. 6:00 pm Auditorium Exhibition Hall Round trip time: about 8 hours. 12:00 noonFilms on Geotechnical Engineering in Tour No. 4: San Luis Canal Project -6:30 pm the Gold Room of the Fairmont Hotel. The San Luis Canal Project, currently Films to be shown include: under construction by the U.S. Bureau 1. The Rissa Landslide of Reclamation has been planned to 2. The Safety of Dams supply about 216,000 acre-feet (266 3. The Tarbela Dam Project million cubic meters) of water 4.