Pre-Conference Technical Committees Workshops
Will take place in Harpa on Sunday 1st of September 2019
TC 104
Physical Modelling Workshop on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics. “New techniques and applications of physical modelling in geotechnics” See the pogramme & invitation Afternoon worksho 13:00 - 16:00 |
TC 201
Dykes and Levees Workshop on Geotechnical Aspects of Dykes and Levees and Shore See the programme Afternoon workshop 13:00 - 16:00 |
TC 205
Safety and Serviceability Workshop on Safety and Serviceability in Geotechnical Design, Exchange information on Limit State Design (LSD) in Geotechnical Engineering. See the programme here Morning workshop 8:00 - 12:00 |
ERTC7
Numerical Methods Workshop on Surveying, compare and discuss the development and applications of numerical methods in Geotechnical Engineering See the programme here Afternoon workshop 13:00 - 16:00 Dedicated to Professor Scott Sloan |
TC 202
Transportation Workshop on NDT Technologies and Innovations in Transportation Geotechnics Info & Call for partipitation See the programme here Afternoon workshop 12:30 - 17:00 |
TC 208
Slope Stability Global grand challenges for engineered slopes: Workshop on tailings dams & climate-induced instability. Workshops programme Afternoon workshop 13:00 - 16:30 |
TC 210
Dams & Embankments Workshop onresearch and developments in geotechnical issues of dam construction. See the programme here Afternoon workshop 13:00 - 17:00 |
TC 205
Safety and Serviceability 08:00 - 12:00 Kaldalón Rodrigo Salgado TC205 Chair Welcoming remarks Keynote Lectures Moderator: Dimitrios Loukidis Andrew Bond Introducing the Second Generation of Eurocode Andrew Lees Limit state verification by numerical methods in the revised Eurocode 7 David Potts Some examples of lifecycle assessment of geotechnical structures using numerical analysis. Technical Session Moderator: Fei Han Kerstin Lesny Limit state design of piles under combined loading Takashi Hara Reliability based design on pile foundations in Japan. Hoe Yeow Ultimate limit state design using FEM and advanced soil models – comparison of the design of 30m deep excavations. Armin W. Stuedlein Calibration and assessment of reliability-based serviceability limit state procedures for foundation engineering Jose Estaire Gepp Determination of characteristic values for non-linear shear strength and for SLS calculations. Discussion Chair: Rodrigo Salgado Invited discusser: Dimitrios Loukidis |
ERTC7
Numerical Methods 13:00 - 16:00 Kaldalón Helmut F. Schweiger ERTC7 Chair Welcome D. Potts Professor Scott Sloan (1954 – 2019) S. Henke The use of numerical methods for the design process in practice - Chances and Frontiers. H-P. Jostad How to do numerical analyses of monopiles in sand for offshore wind turbines? D. Taborda Modelling sand behaviour: pitfalls, best practices and practical applications. M. Arroyo Sand is made of grains: using DEM to advance site characterization. T. Kadlíček ExCalibre - automatic calibration software for advanced soil constitutive models at soilmodels.com R. Brinkgreve Automated model and parameter determination. Open discussion Parameter Determination for Advanced Numerical Analysis |
TC 104
Physical Modelling 13:00 - 16:00 Ríma A Dong-Soo KIM TC104 Chair Welcome, TC104 update, workshop plan Jonathan BLACK & Steven Benchmark centrifuge tests for monopile design. TBD LEAP-ASIA-2019 S.W. JACOBSZ Centrifuge modelling of plug pull-out tests in expansive soils. Matthieu BLANC Centrifuge test on instrumented FBGs monopile foundation in sand. Jonathan BLACK Automated reconstruction of soil stress-strain response from full field displacement measurements and loading data using optimisation. Amin ASKARINEJAD A novel technique for simulating submarine landslides in geo-centrifuge. Charlie HERON Advanced hybrid centrifuge testing for soil-structure interaction problems. Sam STANIER Freeware PIV/DIC for geotechnical modelling: new advances and applications using GeoPIV-RG. Discussion & Closure 16:00 - ISSMGE TC104 Committee Meeting |
TC 201
Dykes and Levees 13:00 - 16:00 Visa Cor Zwanenburg TC201 Chair Introduction & welcome Ulrich Förster Large scale experiments with a coarse sand barrier as part of a multi-scale investigation of a novel remediation technique against backward erosion piping. Rémy Tourment Part I Levees breaching scenarios and the different deterioration/ damage mechanisms; link with failure modes analysis and risk analysis. Part II Levee and dike survey using drones: the DIDRO project Joost Breedeveld The impact of the Eemdijk full-scale field test programme Jonathan Black Internal erosion of earth flood embankments. |
TC 202
Transportation 12:30 - 17:00 Silfurberg A Erol Tutumluer TC202 Chair Opening Address Mike G. Winter Progress towards the implementation of CCC in the UK: history, current state and future prognosis. Peteris Skels Bi‐modulus columns as effective soil improvement for existing road embankment. Felipe Collazos Storm water management in Karst soils and stability of slopes and foundations in the North of Spain. Burt Look Compaction QA: Comparison of alternative testing methods. Yoshitsugu Momoya Detection of floating sleeper by RFWD. “Winner paper from Young Geotechnical Engineers Symposium TRANSOILCOLD 2019" Kotov Pavel New approach for determining permafrost conditions along Russian North Railway. Stephanie Glendinning Long-term Deterioration of Linear Infrastructure. Dragos Moldovan Coupling experimental and numerical techniques for improving the reliability of bender element experiments. Timo Saarenketo Innovations on Evaluation of Road Structure with GPR. Erol Tutumluer Development of a New Bender Element Field Sensor to Quantify Aggregate Layer Stiffness Questions and Answers Discussion |
TC 208
Slope Stability 13:00 - 16:30 Stemma Andy Take TC205 Chair Introduction & welcome Invited Theme Lectures: Theme 1) Impact of climate and climate change on slope stability. Stephanie Glendinning Weather-induced deterioration of infrastructure slopes: and overview of the ACHILLES research programme. Peter Helm Modelling the deterioration of infrastructure slopes David G. Toll & Paul N. Hughes Deterioration of Soil Slopes due to Environmental Cycles. Ryley Beddoe Shifting perspective: How thaw slumps and permafrost degradation will impact infrastructure in Canada’s North. Open Discussion: Facilitator: Elisabeth Bowman What is a reasonable design life for considering climate change? What should the role of the slope stability community be? Theme 2) Static liquefaction in tailing storage facilities. Andy Take Current research on tailings dam failures in Canada (CanBreach project) & Australia (TALLIQ project). Open Discussion: To what degree is the high frequency of tailings dam failures driven by technical, regulatory, education, or economic factors? What should the role of the slope stability community be? Facilitator: Elisabeth Bowman 15:45 - 16:15 ISSMGE TC208 Committee Meeting |
TC 210
Dams & Embankments 13:00 - 17:00 Ríma B Daniele Cazzuffi TC210 Sessions Chair Limin Zhang Chair of TC 210 Introduction Nicolas Moura, Gilson Gitirana & Murray Fredlund 3D Stress State and the slope stability of embankment dams in narrow valleys. Oliver Detert, Dimiter Alexiew & D. Konig Embankment construction by means of a membrane foundation. Giuseppe Lanzo A.Pagliaroli & G. Scasserra Dynamic properties of earth-core Italian dams from field and laboratory tests. S. Sica, F. Rotili & Luca Pagano Effects on earth dams of drawdown scenarios imposed after a strong earthquake. E. Banti, S. Stacul & D. Lo Presti Numerical simulation of seismic response of earth dams. Discussion Summary and Closure Daniele Cazzuffi Limin Zhang 15:55 - 16:55 ISSMGE TC210 Commiittee Meeting |