In the framework of the Virtual Time Capsule Project, TC103 encouraged a reflection about 1. The past: what are the key developments in num...
Technical Committees
Figure A1.5b Corumana dam-crest view
Past Presidents
The Barry van Wyk award is presented annually to the author of the best final year dissertation on a geotechnical topic at a South African Universi...
Member Societies
1955 1st African Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ARCSMFE), Pretoria 1956 first Dynami...
TC202 prepared a Time Capsule Project report to present a historical overview of committee activities and current accomplishments in Transportation...
Corporate Associates
Vice Presidents
Lessons from some of the more recent earthquakes (2000-2019) The 2004 Niigata-ken Chuetsu earthquake (MW=6.6) hit the central area of Japan caus...
2012 International Workshop In March 2012 (13th -14th March 2012), GGS provided the platform to the International Geosynthetic Society (IGS) ...
1 Supervised learning 1.1 Decision tree learning [1] Breiman, Leo, Friedman, J. H., Olshen, R. A. and Stone, C. J. (1984). Classification a...
1 Probability Theory [1] Jeffreys, H. (1983). Theory of Probability. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York. [2] Sivia, D.S., and Skilling, J....
The importance of geotechnical effects was brought home through a series of important earthquakes between the 1960s and 1980s. These earthquakes in...
Report on moving dike stability assessment, from evaluating individual mechanisms (past) to evaluating entire failure paths containing several ...
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Australian Geomechanics Society, a book was produced to acknowledge the people and events that have shaped...
A Better Future for Africa if we Communicate Together
Collaboration among Member Societies
Geo Education
Addressing the current and emerging needs of young geotechnical professionals in Europe region
A stronger ISSMGE brand in North America
Development of profession, increased industry-academia collaboration and stronger ISSMGE brand
