ISSMGE Bulletin – Volume 5 Issue 5 October 2011

ISSMGE Bulletin - Volume 5 Issue 5 October 2011


Inside This Issue

1 Message to ISSMGE Members
7 President Reports
9 IS Seoul report
13 Geotech Hanoi Report
20 ATC3 Bhutan Report
32 Submarine Landslides on the
South-Eastern Australian Margin
46 Design of Transition Zone for Cement
Deep Mixing
53 Geotechnical offshore site investigation and reclamation design at Port Kembla
67 Event Diary
73 Corporate Associates
75 Foundation Donors

Editorial Board

Jean-Louis Briaud
Ikuo Towhata
Neil Taylor
Pedro Sêco e Pinto
Pongsakorn Punrattanasin
Deepankar Choudhury
Imen Said
Erdin Ibraim
Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn
Susumu Nakajima
Fernando Schnaid

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Message to ISSMGE Members

Gabriel Auvinet, Vice-President for North America

Gabriel AuvinetAs Vice-President for North America, I am deeply honored to address this message to all members of ISSMGE.

I would like to share with you some reflections on the present state of Geotechnical Engineering in North America and on the new trends I can perceive as the 75th anniversary of ISSMGE is celebrated.

The North American region includes only three member countries: Canada, USA and Mexico, a small number when compared to other regions such as South America, Asia and Europe. The individual membership in the ISSMGE represents however close to 20% of the grand total membership (approximately 19,000) of all member societies around the globe.

The three member societies of the region are extremely active and have a strong presence and influence in the engineering community and in the society in general in their respective country as well as internationally. It would be too lengthy to expose detailed information regarding the activities of each of the three member societies in this message. Data will be found on their excellent individual web sites:

Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS, Canada): www.cgs.ca
Geo-Institute (G-I, ASCE, USA): www.geoinstitute.org
Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Geotécnica (SMIG, Mexico): www.smig.org.mx

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