Dr. D. A. Pezza, (USA)
Dr. Y. Watabe (Japan)
Dr. Yuang Wang (China)


Terms of Reference:

1. Discussion state of the art and developing the science and engineering in order to increase fundamental understanding and modelling of strength, deformation and erosion behaviour of soils and failure processes of dikes, dunes, (underwater) dams, reclaimed land, man-made islands and ports in river and coastal zone.

2. Contributions to the international congresses of the society to increase the quality of design by including experience, such as large scale tests, case histories, failures, measurements, simulations and artificial knowledge

3. Encouraging international collaboration of experts in multidsciplinairy developments of new techniques for constructing and maintaining safe and reliable protection works

4. Producing technical reports and encouraging international training and meeting in this research field and exchange experience and ideas on improving communication to other researchers, public and politics for more alertness and awareness