TC208 Slope Stability

Slope Stability in Engineering Practice

Host Member Society: Italy

Short name: Slope Stability (TC208)

GeoWorld GroupStability of Natural Slopes (TC208)


TC208 Workshop at ECSMGE 2019

TC208 Workshop on global grand challenges for engineered slopes at ECSMGE 2019

A pre-conference workshop for TC208 will be held at the European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Reykjavik on 1st September 2019 from 1-4pm. We invite TC208 members and ot



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To develop and disseminate knowledge and practice within the ISSMGE slope stability community

  1. Task Force 1a: ISSMGE virtual University – To identify, pursue, and aid leading academics and practioners in the generation of high quality webinar content for the TC208 subject area under the ISSMGE virtual University initiative
  2. Task Force 1b: Special Issues – To encourage the dissemination of the state of the art through hosting special Issues within scholarly journals (e.g. 2019 IJPMG special issue on physical modelling of landslides)
  3. Task Force 1c: Honor Lecture – To explore the possibility of the creation of a TC208 honor lecture

To establish guidelines and technical recommendations for slope stability practice

  1. Task Force 2a: Technical guidelines – To work with landslide committees within member societies and other affiliated bodies to create a library of national landslide guidelines within the ISSMGE library
  2. Task Force 2b: Technical recommendations for the selection of shear strength parameters for slope stability analyses – To create recommendations, based on soil mechanics theory, for use in slope stability analyses
  3. Task Force 2c --> 2n. Opportunity for other technical recommendations to be championed by members of the TC

To assist with technical programs of international and regional conferences organised by the ISSMGE

  1. Task Force 3a Conferences. To assist the ICSMGE / ECSMGE  organising committees in the peer review for manuscripts submitted under the slope stability topic.
  2. Task Force 3b: Workshops. To develop a plan for TC208 activities at ICSMGE & regional ISSMGE (e.g. ECSMGE) conferences

To assist with industry and overlapping organisations within the international slope stability community

  1. Task Force 4a: To work in cooperation with JTC1 and offer help in the organisation of the International Symposium on Landslides, JTC1 workshops, and other initiatives. To identify other organisations with overlapping interests in slope stability or education to promote the work of the TC

# Type Full Name Country
1 Chair Federica Cotecchia Italy
2 Vice Chair Giuseppe Buscarnera United States
3 Secretary Clarence Choi Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
4 Corresponding Member Maria Anthi Switzerland
5 Corresponding Member Ardy Arsyad United States
6 Nominated Member Katarzyna Dołżyk-Szypcio Poland
7 Corresponding Member Allan Herse Australia
8 Nominated Member Chih-Chung Chung Chinese Taipei
9 Nominated Member Kazunari Sako Japan
10 Corresponding Member Kuo-Hsin Yang Chinese Taipei
11 Nominated Member Meysam Safavian Australia
12 Corresponding Member Lorella Montrasio Italy
13 Nominated Member Jean de Sauvage France
14 Corresponding Member Alastair Dewar United Kingdom
15 Corresponding Member Chanchal Rethish United Kingdom
16 Nominated Member Grace Abou-Jaoude Lebanon
17 Corresponding Member Tao Zhao United Kingdom
18 Corresponding Member Jamie Slater United Kingdom
19 Nominated Member Ian Nettleton United Kingdom
20 Corresponding Member Ross Stirling United Kingdom
21 Nominated Member Coco Yiu Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
22 Corresponding Member Alister Smith United Kingdom
23 Corresponding Member Giuseppe Pedone Italy
24 Corresponding Member Callum Sharp United Kingdom
25 Corresponding Member Antonello Troncone Italy
26 Corresponding Member Maria Ferentinou United Kingdom
27 Corresponding Member Giovanni Vaciago Italy
28 Nominated Member Marcos Futai Brazil
29 Corresponding Member COLIN JONES United Kingdom
30 Corresponding Member Vito Tagarelli Italy
31 Corresponding Member Michael Milner United Kingdom
32 Corresponding Member Marco Redaelli United Kingdom
33 Nominated Member Katerina Tsiampousi United Kingdom
34 Nominated Member Muhsin Rahhal Lebanon
35 Corresponding Member Akbar Javadi United Kingdom
36 Corresponding Member Patricia Guerra United Kingdom
37 Nominated Member Jérôme PALISSE France
38 Corresponding Member Nunzio Losacco Italy
39 Nominated Member Anthony Leung Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
40 Nominated Member Tatsuya Ishikawa Japan
41 Corresponding Member Jordan Aaron Switzerland
42 Corresponding Member Maria Clorinda Mandaglio Italy
43 Corresponding Member Nicola Moraci Italy
44 Nominated Member Andrey Totsev Bulgaria
45 Nominated Member Hjördis Löfroth Sweden
46 Corresponding Member Simonetta Cola Italy
47 Corresponding Member Bao Viet Nguyen Vietnam
48 Corresponding Member Sarah Verfaille Belgium
49 Nominated Member Krzysztof Sternik Poland
50 Nominated Member Josif Josifovski North Macedonia
51 Nominated Member N. Fatih Akdeniz Turkey
52 Corresponding Member Arif ÇINAR Turkey
53 Corresponding Member S. Banu İkizler Turkey
54 Nominated Member Kubilay Kelesoglu Turkey
55 Nominated Member Sabatino Cuomo Italy
56 Nominated Member Mohammad Hasan Baziar Iran
57 Nominated Member Roberto Coutinho Brazil
58 Nominated Member Amin Askarinejad Netherlands
59 Nominated Member GEORGIOS BELOKAS Greece
60 Nominated Member Chan-Young Yune South Korea
61 Corresponding Member Lanmin Wang China
62 Nominated Member Michael Bardanis Greece
63 Nominated Member Celeste Jorge Portugal
64 Corresponding Member Toshiyuki Horiguchi Japan
65 Nominated Member Wenjie Xu China
66 Nominated Member Jean-Sébastien L'Heureux Norway
67 Nominated Member Alfrendo Satyanaga Indonesia
68 Nominated Member Duc Manh Nguyen Vietnam
69 Nominated Member Tuan Nghia Do Vietnam
70 Nominated Member Lin Meei-Ling Chinese Taipei
71 Nominated Member Neuza Carvalho Portugal
72 Corresponding Member Marco Rosone Italy
73 Corresponding Member Wengui Huang United Kingdom
74 Nominated Member Mahendra Singh India
75 Corresponding Member P. Subramanya Prasad India
76 Nominated Member Denis Demers Canada
77 Nominated Member D. NEELIMA SATYAM India
78 Corresponding Member Nikhil Nedumpallile Vasu United Kingdom
79 Nominated Member Alfrendo Satyanaga Kazakhstan
80 Nominated Member Ross Roberts New Zealand
81 Nominated Member Alexandra Ossa Lopez Mexico
82 Nominated Member Carlos Chávez Negrete Mexico
83 Nominated Member GONZALO MARTIN AIASSA Argentina
84 Nominated Member Manuel Pastor Spain
85 Nominated Member Marc Janeras Casanova Spain
86 Corresponding Member Ero Vinicius Silva Spain
87 Nominated Member Miguel Angel Cabrera Colombia
88 Nominated Member Vernon Schaefer United States
89 Nominated Member Paolo Tommasi Italy
90 Corresponding Member Alvaro Perez Peru
91 Nominated Member YIfei Cui China
92 Nominated Member Imam Aschuri Indonesia
93 Nominated Member Farrokh Nadim Norway
94 Nominated Member Farshid Vahedifard United States
95 Nominated Member Alexander M. Puzrin Switzerland

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