NEWS From Technical Committee TC 212 on Deep Foundations
Announcement of Meeting of Members of TC 212 at
Kanazawa, Japan during IS-Kanazawa, 2012
The first official meeting of members (in person) of current TC 212 – ‘Deep Foundations’ will be held on Wednesday September 19, 2012 at 1:30 PM during IS-Kanazawa 2012 at Kanazawa, Japan. As the conference IS-Kanazawa is supported by ISSMGE TC 212 Deep Foundations, this will be the best opportunity to have maximum numbers of members of TC 212 to attend the meeting. Also the President of ISSMGE, Prof. Jean-Louis Briaud has given his consent to be present during this meeting of TC 212 – Deep Foundations at IS-Kanazawa 2012. Venue of the above meeting is Kanazawa New Grand Hotel, Kanazawa, JAPAN. For details on IS-Kanazawa 2012, please visit website: http://is-kanazawa2012.jp/
Recently the design guidelines for Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF) has been formulated and circulated to all the members through the website link with the annual report of TC 212 – Deep Foundations submitted to ISSMGE Board members on May 24, 2012. Similarly for other types of deep foundations mainly piles under various types of loadings and for field conditions will be formed and finalized during this meeting. It may be noted that already five important task forces have been formed.
The task forces of TC 212 – Deep Foundations are,
(i) Task Force – 1 : Design and Analysis of Piles and Pile Groups including Design Standards,
(ii) Task Force – 2 : Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF),
(iii) Task Force – 3 : Piles subjected to Earthquake and other Lateral Loads,
(iv) Task Force – 4 : Energy Pile,
(v) Task Force – 5 : Quality Assurance of Pile Production with various Field Problems.
Members of TC 212 who are interested in participating in these task forces have already been identified and the details are available in the website of TC 212. Also practical issues on deep foundations will be documented to have proper international guidelines/standards which will be framed by TC 212 through detailed discussion during the meeting of members at IS-Kanazawa 2012.
Please visit our website as given below for future updates. http://www.issmge.org/en/technical-committees-2010-2013-en/deep-foundations
Reported by,
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Katzenbach, Chairman of TC 212 – Deep Foundations, TU Darmstadt, Germany. (Email: katzenbach@geotechnik.tu-darmstadt.de)
and
Prof. Deepankar Choudhury, Secretary of TC 212 – Deep Foundations, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. (Email: dc@civil.iitb.ac.in)
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