ISSMGE Bulletin – Volume 7 Issue 5 September 2013 (75-year Anniversary Issue)


Inside This Issue

1 – Address of Pedro Sêco e Pinto
4 – President 1400 day Report
5 – History of ISSMGE
36 – Present of ISSMGE
54 – Future of ISSMGE
57 – Asian Region: Past
62 – Asian Region: Present
79 – Asian Region: Future
84 – African Region: Past
90 – African Region: Present
97 – African Region: Future
101 – European Region: Past
131 – European Region: Present
139 – European Region: Future
151 – Reflections on ISSMGE Past
159 – North American Region: Present
167 – South American Region: Present
177 – North American Region: Future
181 – Australasian Region: Past
192 – Australasian Region: Present
200 – SEAGS – AIT Partnership
207 – ICE BOOKS
208 – Event Diary
216 – Corporate Associates
220 – Foundation Donors
222 – Case History Journal

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
Marcelo Gonzalez

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ISSMGE 75 years Anniversary

Address of Prof. Pedro Sêco e Pinto (Immediate Past President)

Professor Pedro Sêco e PintoFor the occasion of Orlando Board meeting on March 2009 the President Prof. Pedro Sêco e Pinto reminded that the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) had its origins at the 1936 International Conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So the 75th Years Anniversary would be in 2011.

During this unforgettable journey the geotechnics torch from Cambridge in 1936, which took place during the 1st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundations Engineering, has already crossed the following cities: Rotterdam, Zurich, London, Paris, Montreal, Mexico, Moscow, Tokyo, Stockholm, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, New Delhi, Hamburg, Istanbul, Osaka and Alexandria (17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering), with a periodicity of four years.

The diversity of all 84 ISSMGE Societies, distributed over 6 Regions (see Figure 1) is our great richness and a source of inspiration. It is our great challenge, but also a unique opportunity to re-design ISSMGE, due to the changes of basic societal structure, in order to reach a new model. We need to recognise the
importance of dialogue to give our hands, to work together and to pursue perfection to reach the optimum solution. Figure 2 presents the changes in Membership and Member Societies of ISSMGE.

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