ISSMGE Bulletin – Volume 4 Issue 4

New Technical Committees (TC) of ISSMGE for 2010 – 2013

During the board meeting at 17th ICSMGE, Egypt in 2009 the nomination for various office bearers for all Technical Committees (TC) of ISSMGE was circulated among all Member societies. After receiving a huge response, during the board meeting at Moscow in June 2010, the formation of new Technical Committees for 2010 to 2013 was frozen by ISSMGE President Prof. Jean-Louis Briaud. New Technical Committees are classified in three broad categories, which are namely, TC 101 to TC 107 on Fundamentals, TC 201 to TC 216 on Applications and TC 301 to TC 306 on Impact on Society. List of various TC’s with the names of Chairs, Vice Chiars, Secretary and Members are listed in the ascending order of the new numbers of TC’s.

TC 101 – Laboratory Stress Strain Strength Testing of Geomaterials:
Chair: H. di Benedetto, France; Vice Chair: S. Shibuya, Japan;
Secretary: J. Koseki Japan;
Members: David Airey, Australia; J. Boháč, Czech & Slovak Republics; Thomas Brandon, USA; D.Zh
Bukenbayeva, Kazakhstan; Choong-Ki Chung, Korea; Philip Chung, Hong Kong; Christophe Dano, France; Tácio Mauro Pereira de Campos, Brazil; Evert den Haan, Netherlands; Rune Dyvik, Norway; Jose Estaire, Spain; A. Gasparre, UK; Vassiliki Georgiannou, Greece; Erdin Ibraim, UK; Fardin Jafarzadeh, Iran; Richard Jardine, UK; Dong-Soo Kim, Korea; V. Kostkanová, Czech & Slovak Republics; R. Kuwano, Japan; Lyesse Laloui, Switzerland; Luis Lemos, Portugal; Hoe Ling, USA; M. Lipinsky, Poland; Antonio Lloret, Spain; Graça Lopes, Portugal; Satoshi Nishimura, Japan; Victor Rinaldi, Argentina; J.T. Shahu, India; A. Szymański, Poland; D. Verastegui, Belgium; Yangping Yao, China; Jian-Hua Yin, Hong Kong.

TC 102 – Ground Property Characterization from In-Situ Tests
Chair: Paul Mayne, USA;
Vice Chair: Antonio Viana da Fonseca, Portugal; Secretary: Roberto Quental Coutinho, Brazil;
Members: N.T. Alibekova, Kazakhstan; Radhi Al-Zubaidy, Iraq; Marcos Arroyo, Spain; George
Athanassopoulos, Greece; Herminia Cano, Spain; Choong-Ki Chung, Korea; Ali Fakher, Iran; Vasile Farcas, Romania; Sebastiano Foti, Italy; Rui Freitas, Portugal; Dimitris Gazelas, Greece; An-Bin Huang, SEAGS; Emoke Imre, Hungary; M. Karthikeyan, Singapore; I.V. Kashirsky, Russia; Woojin Lee, Korea; Barry Lehane, Australia; Mike Long, Ireland; Tom Lunne, Norway; Andras Mahler, Hungary; Mamoru Mimura, Japan; Z. Młynarek, Poland; Jacques Monnet, France; Ernst Niederleithinger, Germany; Edgar Oderbrecht, Brazil; Joek Peuchen, Netherlands; John Powell, UK; Mario Quinta Ferreira, Portugal; G.V. Ramana, India; Philippe Reiffsteck, France; Daniel Rom, USA; Fernando Schnaid, Brazil; Jørgen S. Steenfelt, Denmark; H. Tanaka, Japan; G. Venkatachalam, India; Yu Wang, Hong Kong; Darren Ward, UK; Quentin Yue, Hong Kong.

TC 103 – Numerical Methods in Geomechanics
Chair: K.T. Chau, Hong Kong;
Vice Chair: Richard Wan, Canada; Secretary: Jidong Zhao, Hong Kong;
Members: Lars Andresen, Norway; Dipanjan Basu, USA; Georgios Belokas, Greece; Daniel Borin, UK; Johnny
Cheuk, Hong Kong; Cosmin Chiorean, Romania; Marcin Cudny, Poland; Marcio Muniz de Faria, Brazil; V.P. Dyba, Russia; Yasser El-Mossallamy, Egypt; Keyvan Fotoohi, USA; Antonio Gens, Spain; Jürgen Grabe,
Germany; Michael Hicks, Netherlands; Minna Karstunen, UK; Poul Lade, USA; S.W. Lee, Hong Kong; R.E. Lukpanov, Kazakhstan; Kenichi Maeda, Japan; João Maranha, Portugal; David Mašín, Czech & Slovak Republics; Philippe Mestat, France; Radoslaw Michalowski, USA; Pablo Mira, Spain; Akira Murakami, Japan; François Nicot, France; Toshihiro Noda, Japan; Fusao Oka, Japan; Achilleas Papadimitriou, Greece; Alexander Puzrin, Switzerland; K. Rajagopal, India; Sebastiano Rampello, Italy; Mohamed Shahin,
Australia; Oliver Stelzer, Germany; Lidija Zdravkovic, UK; Ting Zhang, Australia.

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