6th NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
The 6th National Conference on Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering took place at the city of Volos in Central Greece from Wednesday, September 29 until Friday, October 1, 2010. Taking into account the difficult economic conditions in the country the participation in the conference was very successful: 337-registered delegates and 47 members of the Organizing and Scientific Committees, guests, members of the Executive Committee as well as of the Civil Engineering Committee of the Technical Chamber of Greece. 226 papers were accepted and presented during the conference sessions.
The conference provided the opportunity to scientists working in the field of Geotechnical Engineering, researchers, designers, contractors, and public servants to present their results from research, the methods and technologies used to solve geotechnical problems, the experiences gained from the study, construction and supervision of small and large technical projects in our country over the past five years and generally to exchange views on matters on the general subject of Geotechnical Engineering.
At the Inaugural Meeting of the participants were welcomed by the President of the Regional Department of Magnesia of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) Mr. Socrates Anagnostou, the Vice Rector of the University of Thessaly Professor Michael Zouboulis, the President of the Organizing Committee Dr. Spyros Kavounidis, and the President of the Hellenic Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Dr. Christos Tsatsanifos, who gave tribute to the deceased prominent geotechnical engineers Aris Stamatopoulos, John Vardoulakis, Stavros Christoulas, George Pavlakis, and to Sergio Scianni, who was killed in the rockfalls accident in Tempi. Finally, Hercules Droulias, member of the Executive Committee of the TCG initiated the Conference
The Opening Session continued with the presentation of the Invited Lecture by Thanos Papayannakis, Professor of the University of Texas USA, on ” Pavements: From Theory to Empirical Mode Design”, followed by a session on the geotechnical problems of Magnesia Prefecture. Mr. Alexandros Alexandrou, Director of Technical Services of the Prefecture of Magnesia presented the paper on the “Geotechnical Problems of Magnesia”, followed by presentations of papers related to other geotechnical problems of Magnesia.
On the afternoon of September 29 and up to the end of the conference works were conducted in parallel sessions in three halls.
Session 1: Behaviour of Geomaterials, Site and Laboratory Investigations. At the beginning of the session Professor Michael Kavvadas presented the Special Lecture entitled “How Safe is (or should be) the Geotechnical Works”.
Session 2A: Soil Dynamics – Soil structure interaction. At the beginning of the session Professor George Gazetas presented the Special Lecture entitled “Conditions of seismic collapse of foundation-structure systems: analysis and experiment”.
Session 2B: Soil Dynamics – Effect of local conditions. At the beginning of the session Prof. Kyriazis Pitilakis presented the Special Lecture entitled “Strong Ground Motion in Real Geomorphological Conditions.
Session 3A: Slopes – Landslides. At the beginning of the session Dr. Spyros Kavounidis presented the Special Lecture “The 3rd dimension in slope stability.
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