Note: PART III: APPLICATIONS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING is open to TC304 members for updates. Please send updates to Zijun Cao ([email protected]) (Download update form).
TC304 Student Contest on Data Analytics
TC304 regularly holds TC304 Student Contest on Data Analytics in conferences. The purpose of this event is to encourage students to learn statistical and probabilistic methods (e.g., machine learning) and implement them in geotechnical data. First, a contest question is given to all participants, and participants are asked to address the contest question and present their works in the conferences. Depending on how this contest question is addressed, one TC304 Student Contest Award and several encouragement awards will be given.
Uncertainties are pervasive in geotechnical engineering. In the past decades, reliability methods have been developed as a powerful tool to model and quantify the effect of uncertainties in ge
We are pleased to announce the Special Issue #4 of Volume #6 of the International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, an official Journal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).
TC304 has contributed the following 15-min short videos to ISSMGE Virtual University (coordinated by TC304 Young Group: Andy Leung, Zijun Cao & Lei Wang)
How to Perform Reliability Analyses on a Spreadsheet - Part I:
This video is a part of a series of short educational videos on geotechnical reliability and risk initiated by ISSMGE TC304. This video provides an introduction about h
CEN committee TC250 is currently working on an update of the Eurocodes. Sub-committee SC10, in charge of updating EN 1990 (Basis of structural and geotechnical design), has installed a working group to produce a background document with the working title ‘Reliability Backgr
Kindly note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended and interested authors can submit their 300-word abstracts to Guest Editor Dr. Andy Y.F. Leung at [email protected] by 17 July 2020.
Authors will be notified shortly after about the acceptance
TC304 on Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for Case Histories of Geotechnical Risk Assessment and Management in Engineering Practice that will be published in ISSMGE’s International Journal of Geoengineering
The First TC304 Student Contest has been held on August 18 2018 in Harbin, China. The outcomes of this Student Contest are summarized in the following link:
One of the key findings of the 2017 ISSMGE 2017 SOA/SOP Survey is that publically-available databases that include information available for benchmarking studies of inherent spatial variability, soil and rock properties, and risk databases be available to the profession. Thu
Session on Bayesian computation methods for inference in science and engineering (co-chaired by Iason Papaioannou)
Session on Reliability analysis and rare event estimation (co-chaired by Iason Papaioannou)
ICASP14, 9th-13th July 2023, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Session on Uncertainty in Geotechnical Engineering( co-chaired by Cormac Reale)
Session on Recent advances in geotechnical risk and reliability (co-chaired by Michael Hicks, Jianye Ching)
Session on Bayesian analysis of structural and geotechnical models (co-chaired by Iason Papaioannou, Jie Zhang)
Session on Optimal decision making under uncertainty (co-chaired by Iason Papaioannou)
Full paper submission due Jan 30th
Geo-Risk 2023, July 23-26 2023, Arlington, Virginia, USA (Geo-Institute RAM) (Chaired by Shadi Najjar, LM Zhang, R.B. Gilbert)
http://www.geo-risk.org/
Abstract due May 20 2022
Conference begins July 23 2023
At Geo-Risk Fourth Machine Learning in Geotechnics Dialogue (4MLIGD) on "Machine Learning Supremacy Projects (chaired by Kok-Kwang Phoon, Jianye Ching, and Takayuki Shuku)
Contact Takayuki ([email protected]) if you are keen to submit a contribution
2022
4th International Conference on Information Technology in Geo-engineering (4ICITG), July 2022, Singapore
Session on "Data analytics in geotechnical and geological engineering" (Y Wang, WG Zhang, XH Qi & J Ching)
8 contributions
13th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2021), Jun 22-24 2022, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Session on Bayesian analysis of structural and geotechnical models (Iason Papaioannou, Costas Papadimitriou, Daniel Straub, Jie Zhang)
Session on Hazard and risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslides (Cong Xu & Qing Lü)
Session on Machine learning and data analytics in geotechnical site investigation (Yu Wang & Hui Wang)
Session on Multi-source and multi-methodological data fusion to improve the reliability of geo-engineering and environmental characterization, urban planning, and geotechnical designing (Di Curzio Diego, Castrignanò Annamaria, Pula Wojciech & Vessia Giovanna)
Session on Uncertainty characterization of the geological model and its influences (Wenping Gong & Lei Wang)
20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE 2022), May 1-5 2022, Sydney, Australia
TC304/TC309 joint workshop on From geotechnical databases to data analytics: challenges and perspectives (J Huang, Mohammad Rezania, J Ching & Zhongqiang Liu) (13 speakers invited)
10 presentations
TC304-TC309 Pre-conference Workshop on "Risk Assessment and Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering"
Time: 1240-1630pm AEST, May 1, 2022 (free for all; Zoom link will be sent to TC304 members when it is ready together with the workshop program)
TC304 virtual session #1 on "Modeling and quantification of geotechnical variability and uncertainty"
Time: 1630-1730pm AEST, May 4, 2022, virtual meeting for ICSMGE registrants)
TC304 virtual session #2 on "Geotechnical risk and reliability in practice"
Time: 0945-1045am AEST, May 5, 2022, virtual meeting for ICSMGE registrants)
TC304 in-person session (physical meeting during ICSMGE; see the conference program for detail)
ISGSR2022, Dec 14-16 2022, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia (chaired by Jinsong Huang)
5th Suzanne Lacasse lecture (Robert Gilbert)
10+ sessions organised by TC304 members
Call for session proposals: August 31, 2021
Session proposals due: September 30, 2021
Call for abstracts: October 31, 2021
Abstracts due: November 30, 2021
Acceptance of abstracts: December 31, 2021
Draft full paper due: February 28, 2022
Draft paper review comments due: March 31, 2022
Deadline for final papers: April 30, 2022
Publish final technical program: May 31, 2022
Submit material to publisher: August 31, 2022
Host conference: December 14-16, 2022
Dec 14 2022: Short course & registration
Dec 15-16 2022: conference
17th International School on "LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation" LARAM 2022, 5-16 September, Salerno, Italy (Michele Calvello)
hybrid mode, with some students and teachers connected online
8th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM), Sep 4 - 7 2022, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany (Michael Beer, Enrico Zio, KK Phoon & Bilal M. Ayyub)
TC304 Geotechnical related session (Timo Schweckendiek & J Ching)
14 submissions
2022 United States Society on Dams (USSD) Annual Conference & Exhibition, April 11-14, 2022, San Diego, CA, USA
Technical Session on Dam Safety - Risky Business, organized by Chris Regilski (Bureau of Reclamation) and Lei Wang (University of the District of Columbia)
Four papers presented
ASCE G-I Geo-congress 2022, Charlotte, NC, March 20 2022 March 23 2022
Session on Risk Assessment and Management (Hui Wang & Lei Wang)
6 papers submitted and reviewed
2021
2021 Australian Geomechanics Society Victorian Symposium, October 21, 2021
Keynote "Use of Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering" (Jinsong Huang)
The 3th International Symposium on Testing and Monitoring of Tunnel and Underground Engineering, October 15-17 2021, Central South University, Changsha, China (Chairs: Hongwei Huang & Helin Fu)
Hybrid conference with both in-person and remote online presentations
46th Annual Meeting of the Deep Foundations Institute, October 12-15, 2021, Las Vegas, Nevada
Keynote "Some Critical Observations regarding the Seismic Response of Rigid Inclusions" (AW Stuedlein)
2nd International Workshop on Numerical Simulation Methods for Large Deformation Problems in Geotechnical Engineering, Sep 18-19 2021, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (chaired by HW Huang)
Hybrid mode
Speakers: 30 well-known experts and scholars from more than 20 universities
Participants: 1500 participants from 50 institutes from 10 countries
Symposium on Digital Geosciences and Geotechnology, Hong Kong, 16 September 2021, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
Keynote "Project DeepGeo Data-driven 3D Subsurface Mapping" (KK Phoon)
Keynote "Long-term Deformation Monitoring and Analysis of Shield Tunnel by Smart Sensoring" (HW Huang)
Keynote "Machine Learning and Landslide Studies" (Zhongqiang Liu)
The 6th National Symposium on Engineering Risk & Insurance Research (NSERIR6), August 14-15 2021, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China (chaired by HW Huang & Haijia Wen)
Forum on innovation in teaching for civil engineering reliability courses (Jie Zhang & Jian Ji)
Forum on development of high-quality geotechnical and engineering geology journals (Shigang She & Jie Zhang)
Keynote "Progress in data-centric geotechnics- Project DeepGeo" (KK Phoon)
Keynote "Recent developments on data-driven geotechnics" (J Ching)
Keynote "Risk assessment of quick clay landslides in Norway" (Zhongqiang Liu)
Keynote "Estimating reliability for internal stability of MSE Walls" (Richard Bathurst)
Keynote "Long-distance landslide disaster chain on Sichuan-Tibet Railway" (LM Zhang)
2nd TC304 Forum on Georisk Assessment and Management: Data-driven modeling for geotechnical spatial variability, July 3 2021 (Ikumasa Yoshida & Takayuki Shuku)
The 4th National Young Scholar Symposium on Engineering Risk Analysis & Management, June 18-20 2021, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China (Risk and Insurance Research Branch of China Civil Engineering Society (chaired by HW Huang & Huiming Tang)
Machine Learning & Risk Assessment in GeoEngineering (MLRA 2021) - Joint International Symposium of Two Events: 3rd International Symposium on Machine Learning and Big Data in Geosciences (3ISMLG) & TC304 Workshop on Risk Assessment in Geoengineering (TCWW 2021)October 25-27, 2021, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland (chaired by Wojciech Pula, Isam Shahrour & Giovanna Vessia)
Plenary lecture MUSIC-3X: A Case History (J Ching)
Plenary lecture Recent Development of Deep Learning on Tunnel Construction and Maintenance (Dongming Zhang, HW Huang, Jiayao Chen & Shuai Zhao)
TC309/TC304 Contest (groundwater time-series forecasting) in MLRA2021, Oct 25-28 2021, Wroclaw, Poland
16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG 2020), Jul 1-4 2020, Torino, Italy
Early registration deadline postponed to April 30, 2020.
It is expected that the situation in Italy will be fully recovered by July and that the conference can take place as scheduled. However, situations in other areas of the world may be delayed. Therefore, we may consider allowing some Authors to participate by video conference or, in a worst scenario, to postpone the date of the conference. We will provide updated information by May.
While asking all Authors of accepted papers to register for the conference we recommend that participants postpone making travel and accommodation bookings unless reimbursement is guaranteed. You will have time to do so in May. Registration is indeed needed to allow for the indexed conference proceedings to be prepared on time.
Important dates
Full paper due: December 15, 2019
Early registration fee deadline extended to April 30, 2020
TC304 session (MS8) on Probabilistic site characterization and data analytics (Jianye Ching, Yu Wang, and Kok-Kwang Phoon)
8 submissions
INTERPRAEVENT 2020 Conference: Natural hazards in a changing world, May 31- June 2 2021 (Virtual conference)
Opening keynote on Risk Management for Hydro-Met Hazards: Emerging Challenges, New Paradigms and Pitfalls (Farrokh Nadim)
ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference/Probabilistic Mechanics and Reliability 2021, May 25-28, 2021, New York (hosted virtually)
Session on Advances in Probabilistic Assessment to Evaluate Robustness and Resiliency of Civil Infrastructure (Sara Khoshnevisan and Lei Wang)
13th International Workshop on Rare-Event Simulation (Online), May 19, 2021
Keynote The cross-entropy method for model-based prediction and updating of rare events (Iason Papaioannou)
18th International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW 2020), May 12-14 2021, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
Session on Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering (Timo Schweckendiek & Bram van den Eijnden)
1st TC304 Forum on Georisk Assessment and Management: liquefaction potential assessment, April 24 2021 (Jie Zhang & Yan-Guo Zhou)
TH Wu Distinguished Lecture, Ohio State University, February 2021 (D. V. Griffiths)
2020
7th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications (APSSRA2020), Oct 4-7 2020, Tokyo, Japan (Ikumasa Yoshida & Shin-chi Nishimura)
7th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM 2020), originally scheduled during June 5-8 2020, Beijing, China
Session on Uncertainty Quantification and Analysis for Industry 4.0 (KK Phoon, Michael Beer)
Session on Data Analytics for Geotechnical Engineering (Jie Zhang, Wei Guo)
Session on Real World Uncertainty Quantification and Datadriven Decision Making (KK Phoon, Zhaohui Chen, Pengfei Wei)
Session on Advances in Reliability-based Design: Theory and Applications (Zi-Jun Cao, Jian Ji, Wen-Ping Gong)
32th Conference in Computer Methods in the Design and Analysis of Hydrotechnical Structures, Korbielów, Poland, Feb 2020
Keynote "Regionalized variables and geostatistical tools to enable a reliable geo-mechanical site characterization for civil engineering designing and natural hazard mapping" (Giovanna Vessia)
2019
International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety & Risk (ISGSR 2019), December 11-13 2019, Taipei, Taiwan (Chair: JY Ching; Vice Chair: Dianqing Li; Secretary: Jie Zhang)
Numerical techniques for integrating the spatial variability of soil and groundwater parameters into designing and environmental management (Giovanna Vessia, Diego Di Curzio & Wojciech Pula)
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and engineering seismology (JP Wang)
Probabilistic site characterization (Yu Wang & Zijun Cao)
Risk assessment of rainfall-induced geo-hazards (Lulu Zhang & Hong-Xing Chen)
Robust geotechnical design in the face of uncertainty (Wenping Gong, Lei Wang & Mengfeng Shen)
Statistics for soil & rock properties and applications (KK Phoon & Marco Uzielli)
Uncertainty & reliability analysis in rock engineering (Rafael Jimenez)
Machine learning for big data: algorithms & applications (Zhongqiang Liu & Zijun Cao)
Case histories (Armin Stuedlein & Faraz Tehrani)
Black-box reliability challenge 2019, Department of Structural Reliability, TNO
Everyone is welcome to join the challenge (registration will open in early 2019). The participants use their computer and their selected method to solve reliability problems with performance functions located on the organizers servers.
Important dates
December 21 2018: Announcement & test problems
March 28 2019-October 31 2019: Challenge
December 1 2019: Announcement of results
2019 Australian Geomechanics Society Victorian Symposium Geotechnical Characterisation Managing Design and Construction Risk, Melbourne, Australia, Oct 2019
Keynote "Application of statistical techniques for geotechnical site investigation" (Mark Jaksa)
16th Asian Regional Conference (16ARC) on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, October 14-18 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
TC304 session on Geotechnical risk/reliability and data analysis (JP Wang & J Ching)
Keynote "Role of generic soil database in site-specific soil property estimation" (J Ching & KK Phoon)
29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), September 22-26 2019, Hannover, Germany, (Michael Beer & Enrico Zio)
Keynote "Managing uncertain ground truth using Bayesian machine learning" (KK Phoon)
TC304 session (KK Phoon and J Ching)
Workshop on Advanced Numerical Simulation Methods For Geotechnical Problems Involving Large Deformation, May 24-25 2019, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (HW Huang & Mingliang Zhou)
2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning and Big Data in Geoscience, June 30- July 2 2019, Shanghai, China (HW Huang, Zhongqiang Liu & Dongming Zhang)
13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), May 26-30 2019, Seoul, Korea, 2019
Keynote "The site challenge in geotechnical engineering" (KK Phoon & J Ching)
2018
Workshop on Reliability Based Design, Risk Analysis, Limit State Design, Dec 7 2018, Hong Kong (Geotechnical Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers)
Invited speakers: KK Phoon & J Ching
10th Lumb Lecture on The Story of Statistics in Geotechnical Engineering (KK Phoon), University of Hong Kong, December 6 2018, Hong Kong, China
Australian Geoscience Council Convention, October 14-18 2018, Adelaide, Australia
Keynote "Individual and regional risk assessments of landslides" (Jinsong Huang)
2nd International Metrorail Forum Turkey, October 4-5 2018, Istanbul, Turkey
Keynote "Smart sensing on metro tunnel safety by WSN" (HW Huang)
3rd International Workshop on Resiliency of Urban Tunnels and Pipelines,October 1 2018, Hannover, Germany (chaired by Michael Beer, HW Huang & Bilal Ayyub)
Keynote "Robust design and maintenance in geostructural system" (HW Huang)
GEOJOVEM 2018, August 28 2018-September 1 2018, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Round table lecture on "Lessons from the past and perspectives for the future of geotechnical engineering" (Waldemar Hachich)
5th Joint Workshop on Building/Civil Engineering between Tongji & Tokyo Tech, July 26-27 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Keynote "Smart sensing on infrastructure safety by WSN" (HW Huang)
5th Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, 10-13 June 2018 (chaired by Adrian Rodriguez-Marek)
6th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (6ISRERM), May 31June 1 2018, Singapore (chaired by KK Phoon)
Keynote "Bayesian data mining for a generic geotechnical database" (J Ching & KK Phoon)
Plenary lecture Smart sensing on tunnel defects by artificial intelligence (HW Huang)
Session on Geotechnical risk and reliability (Yu Wang and J Ching)
Session on Metamodel based uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis (Dianqing Li and Dagang Lv)
Session on Resilience of geostructural system and infrastructure (HW Huang and Bilal Ayyub)
Session on Geotechnical databases and data analysis (Zijun Cao and HeQing Mu)
Session on Landslide risk assessment and management (LM Zhang and Jinhui Li)
Forum on Opportunities and drawbacks of publically available databases (AW Stuedlein and J Ching)
General Assembly of European Geoscience Union, , April 8-13 2018, Vienna, Austria
TC304 session on Geostatistical and statistical tools to perform the data fusion of large datasets in geo-engineering and environmental studies (Diego Di Curzio, Annamaria Castrignanò, Aaron Micallef , Sergio Rusi , Giovanna Vessia , Raphael Viscarra Rossel)
The 2nd National Young Researchers Symposium on Engineering Risk analysis & Management, Mar 30-31 2018, Wuhan, China (chaired by Dianqing Li)
2. Short courses:
Contribution to ISSMGE Virtual University
Course: Probability Analysis in Civil Engineering (Jie Zhang)
Case studies for reliability-based design and risk assessment (TBA)
2021
"Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering at the G-I Specialty" (D. V. Griffiths) Conference Geo-Extreme 2021 November, 2021
"Structural Reliability" (Iason Papaioannou), University of Kielce, Poland, October 5-8, 2021
"Numerical Methods for Engineers at the University Immersion Program (UIP) "(D. V. Griffiths) organised by Sichuan University in July 2021
2019
"Geotechnical reliability-based design examples to improve partial factor design methods" (BK Low & KK Phoon) , ISGSR2019, December 11-13, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
"Bayesian method and tools for geotechnical practice" (Timo Schweckendiek & Yu Wang), ISGSR2019, December 11-13, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
"Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering" (D. V. Griffiths), ISGSR2019, December 11-13, 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
"Urban Disasters and Risk Management" Popular Science Festival (Jie Zhang, Hongwei Huang, Lulu Zhang), June 29 2019, Shanghai, China”
"Uncertainty and Reliability in Engineering" (Iason Papaioannou & Daniel Straub), March 11-12 2019, Munich, Germany
2018
"Probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering" and RFEM Workshop (D. V. Griffiths), 1-5 days for a major geotechnical consulancy. December 11-12 2018, Sydney, Australia
"Quantitative risk assessment in geotechnical engineering" and RFEM Workshop (D. V. Griffiths), Escuela Ingenieria de Colombia. October 12-13 2018, Bogota, Colombia
"Statistical estimation of soil properties" (KK Phoon & J Ching), 6ISRERM, Singapore "Reliability and risk analysis in geotechnical practice" (in Dutch) (Wim Kanning and Timo Schweckendiek) for 20 Dutch practicing engineers, October 7-8 2018, The Netherlands
"Limit states design" (probabilistic aspects) (Dennis Becker & Gordon Fenton), Sep 23 2018, Geo-Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"Probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering" (D. V. Griffiths), August 6 2018, Sydney, Australia
"Use of Bayesian statistical methods in geotechnical engineering" (Jinsong Huang), July 31 2018, Sydney, Australia
"Quantitative risk assessment in geotechnical engineering" (D. V. Griffiths), NZGS. May 28 2018, Wellington, NZ; NZGS. June 5 2018, Christchurch, NZ; CGSE, August 6 2018, UTS Sydney, Australia.
3. Keynote lectures:
2022
Armin W. Stuedlein, theme lecture on On the In-Situ Seismic Response of Medium Dense Sand and Comparison to Cyclic Stress- and Strain-based Laboratory Behavior, 4th International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake. Geotechnical Engineering (PBD-IV), July 15 -17, 2022, Beijing, China
Vaughan Griffiths, Panelist on Risk Informed Decisions in Geotechnical Engineering at the Geo-Congress, Charlotte, NC, March 2022
Adrian Rodriguez-Marek and Ellen Rathje. Site Response Analysis for Nuclear Facilities. State-of-the-Art Lecture. 2022 GeoCongress, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. March 21, 2022
Armin W. Stuedlein, Driven Displacement Pile Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Mitigation, Piling and Ground Improvement Conference 2022, February 23-25, 2022, Sydney, Australia, Deep Foundations Institute
2021
Hongwei Huang, Resilience Analysis and Intelligence Enhancement of Networked Underground Infrastructure, Shanghai Summit on Global Urban Underground Space Development and Utilization (FUUS2021), October, 31th, 2021, Shanghai, China.
Mark Jaksa, keynote on Site Investigation Optimisation That Adopts Machine Learning at MLRA2021, Oct 25-27 2021, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Jianye Ching, keynote on MUSIC-3X: A Case History at MLRA2021, Oct 25-27 2021,Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Hongwei Huang, Computer-Vision-Based(CVB) Rock Mass Intelligent Rating for Tunnel, The 11th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium in Beijing, International Society for Rock Mechanics, October 21th to 25th, 2021, Online
Jinsong Huang, keynote on Use of Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, 2021 Australian Geomechanics Society Victorian Symposium, October 21, 2021.
Hongwei Huang, The development of WSN monitoring for infrastructure safety, International Workshop on Smart Instrumentation & Monitoring, October 20th, 2021, Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS), Online
Armin W. Stuedlein, Some Critical Observations Regarding The Seismic Response of Rigid Inclusions, 46th Annual Meeting of the Deep Foundations Institute, October 12-15, 2021, Las Vegas, Nevada
Hongwei Huang, Smart sensing on the safety of geo-structural system, Future of Geotechnics - Technology, AI, Big Data, October 5th, 2021, ISSMGE, Online
Vaughan Griffiths, a module on Slope Stability Analysis at the annual iRALL (International Research Association on Large Landslides) to be hosted by the SKLGP, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu (October 2021)
2020
Fredrik Johansson from KTH Royal Institute of Technology has been awarded the prestigious Franklin lecture 2020 by the ISRM and will give the keynote lecture online during EUROCK 2021 in Torino on Managing uncertainties in sliding stability re-assessment of concrete dams founded on rock
J Ching and KK Phoon, "Learning about a site using sparse site-specific data - recent advancements" at APSSRA2020.Oct 4-7 2020, Tokyo, Japa
DV Griffiths delivered Invited Panelist on debate into "Limit Equilibrium vs. Finite Element Slope Stability Analysis" at Geo-Congress, Feb 2020, Minneapolis, USA
Giovanna Vessia delivered keynote lecture "Regionalized variables and geostatistical tools to enable a reliable geo-mechanical site characterization for civil engineering designing and natural hazard mapping" at 32th Conference in Computer Methods in the Design and Analysis of Hydrotechnical Structures, Feb 2020, Korbielów, Poland
2019
BK Low delivered 13 technical talks related to his paper which won the 2019 ASCE Thomas A. Middlebrooks award, at the following cities, all coordinated by ASCE except the three Oct 2019 talks in China:
Nanjing China (18/10), Fuzhou China (22/10), Shanghai China (25/10),
Bangkok (31/10),
Taipei (17/12/2019),
Lafayette (3/3/2020),
Palo Alto (5/3/2020)
2018
10th Lumb Lecture on "The Story of Statistics in Geotechnical Engineering" (KK Phoon), University of Hong Kong, December 6 2018, Hong Kong, China
Panelist and main workshop speaker on "The Role of Water and Climate Change in Geotechnical Risk" (DV Griffiths), CARe2018 Conference, October 26-28 2018, Hong Kong
Keynote lecture "Individual and regional risk assessments of landslides" (Jinsong Huang), Australian Geoscience Council Convention, October 14-18 2018, Adelaide, Australia
Keynote lecture "Smart Sensing on Metro Tunnel Safety by WSN" (Hongwei Huang), 2nd International Metrorail Forum Turkey, October 4-5 2018, Istanbul, Turkey
Keynote lecture "Robust Design and Maintenance in Geostructural System" (Hongwei Huang), 3rd International Workshop on Resiliency of Urban Tunnels and Pipelines, October 1 2018, Hannover, Germany
Round table lecture on "Lessons from the past and perspectives for the future of Geotechnical Engineering" (Waldemar Hachich), GEOJOVEM 2018, August 28 2018-September 1 2018, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Special lecture on "Reliability of soil nailing structures" (Waldemar Hachich), COBRAMSEG 2018, August 28 2018-September 1 2018, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Keynote lecture "Smart Sensing on Infrastructure Safety by WSN" (Hongwei Huang), 5th Joint Workshop on Building / Civil Engineering between Tongji & Tokyo Tech, July 26-27 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Plenary lecture "Smart sensing on tunnel defects by artificial intelligence" (HW Huang), 6ISRERM, May 31-June 1 2018, Singapore
Keynote lecture "Bayesian data mining for a generic geotechnical database" (J Ching & KK Phoon), 6ISRERM, May 31-June 1 2018, Singapore
Special lecture "Optimising Site Investigations Using a Risk-based Approach" (Mark Jaksa), May 8-9 2018, Australian Geomechanics Society, Tasmanian and Victorian Chapters.
Keynote on "Risk Assessment and Civil Infrastructure" (DV Griffiths), EXPOingenieria World Congress, Medellin, Colombia
Wilson Tang Lecture: Geological Uncertainty: A Missing Element in Geotechnical Reliability Analysis (Hsein Juang)
Suzanne Lacasse Lecture: Managing Risk in Geotechnical Engineering – from Data to Digitalization (KK Phoon)
Challenges in Determining Rock Mass Properties for Reliability-Based Design (John Harrison)
Quantitative Risk Assessment of Individual Landslides (Jinsong Huang)
Dam Safety Risk Analysis and Risk Management Practice at the Bureau of Reclamation: Lessons Learned from over Two Decades of Experience (Karen Knight)
Honing Safety and Reliability Aspects in the Evolution of Eurocode 7 (Trevor Orr)
Bayesian Perspective on Ground Property Variability for Geotechnical Practice (Yu Wang)
Evaluating Metropolitan Hazard Risks under Extreme Rainstorms (Limin Zhang)
Bright Spark #1: Values of Monte Carlo Samples for Geotechnical Reliability-Based Design (Zijun Cao)
Bright Spark #2: Influence of Spatially Variable Soil Permeability on Backward Erosion Piping (Bryant Robbins)
Bright Spark #3: Sparse Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering (Takayuki Shuku)
Special Collection of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Part A on Benchmarking Data-Driven Site Characterization Methods (KK Phoon & Takayuki Shuku)
Contact Takayuki ([email protected]) if you are keen to submit a paper
Timelines
Deadline of submission: 1 Apr 2022
Decision of all papers: 1 Aug 2022
Special Issue of Gondwana Research on Advances in Data-Driven Models in Geosciences (WG Zhang)
12 contributions
Special Issue of Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics on Data-Centric Foundation Engineering Using Statistics (KK Phoon and Chong Tang)
Special issue of Georisk on Risk and reliability in offshore geotechnics (Farrokh Nadim, Hendrik Sturm, Jie Zhang, Jinhui Li)
Contact Jie Zhang ([email protected]) if you are keen to submit a paper
Timelines
Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2022
Decision of all papers: 30 April 2022
Special Issue on Geological Uncertainty and Its Impact on Geohazards and Water Resources Assessments and Infrastructure Design in Engineering Geology (Chuen-Fa Ni, Chih-Chung Chung, Limin Zhang, Yu Wang, Jia-Jyun Dong)
Deadline of submissions: February 2022
22 submissions
Monograph Big Data in Geotechnics by KK Phoon, Chong Tang & J Ching, in preparation
Textbook Soil mechanics and foundation engineering 2nd Edition (in Chinese), by Lulu Zhang et al., China Construction Industry Press, to appear in 2022
Book chapter on "Limit State Design" that will be appearing in the 5th edition of the Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual (to appear in Oct 2022) by Gordon Fenton
Special issue on Data analytics in geotechnical and geological engineering has been released in Georisk as Volume 16 Issue 1 in Feb. 2022 (Y Wang, WG Zhang, XH Qi & J Ching)
2021
Textbook/Monograph: "Reliability-Based Design in Soil and Rock Engineering: Enhancing Partial Factor Design Approaches", by BK Low, CRC Press, published in 2021, 399 Pages, ISBN 9780367631390.
Textbook "Geotechnical Reliability Analysis: theories, methods, and algorithms" by Jie Zhang et al., to appear in 2021 (Materials submitted to the publisher)
Monograph "Model Uncertainties in Foundation Design" by Tang Chong and KK Phoon, CRC Press, published in 2021 (20% discount code available on request)
Book review on Model Uncertainties in Foundation Design by Chong Tang and Kok-Kwang Phoon (Marco Uzielli). The book review will be published in the 2021 September issue of Italian Geotechnical Journal
Textbook "Reliability Theory in Geotechnical Engineering" 2nd Edition (in Chinese), Tongji University Press, by Lulu Zhang, Jie Zhang, and Xu Li
CHBDC (Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code) Section 6 Technical Subcommittee on "Foundations and Geotechnical Systems", Part of the ongoing work on the geotechnical design provisions to appear in the next edition of CHBDC (2025), Chaired by Gordon Fenton
NBCC (National Building Code of Canada) Task Group on Geotechnical Design, Chaired by Gordon Fenton
Greg Baecher and Bob Gilbert are involved with the development of a primer and direction-setting document on reliability-based methods for ASCE-7 (the structural code guidance by ASCE) under the sponsorship of Jean-Louis Briaud, who is now President of the overall ASCE organization. The target is to have a draft ready for review by the G-I by the end of the year
TC304 Special issue in International Journal of Geoengineering Case histories (Andy Leung)
Special Collection of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Part A on Bayesian Learning Methods for Geotechnical Data (Kelvin Yuen, Jianye Ching & Kok-Kwang Phoon)
Measuring similarity between site-specific data and records in a geotechnical database (Jianye Ching & Kok-Kwang Phoon)
Bayesian learning-based data analysis of uniaxial compressive strength of rock: relevance feature selection and prediction reliability assessment (He-Qing Mu & Ka-Veng Yuen)
Optimization of Site Exploration Programs for Slope Reliability Assessment (Shui-Hua Jiang, Iason Papaioannou, and Daniel Straub)
Bayesian Updating of Model Parameters by Iterative Particle Filter with Importance Sampling (Ikumasa Yoshida and Takayuki Shuku)
Bayesian supervised learning of site-specific geotechnical spatial variability from sparse measurements (Yue Hu, Yu Wang, Tengyuan Zhao, Kok-Kwang Phoon)
Broad Learning System for Nonparametric Modeling of Clay Parameters (Sin-Chi Kuok & Ka-Veng Yuen)
Developing region-specific liquefaction assessment criterion for Bachu region, China (Yixun Ge, Jie Zhang, Liuwen Zhu, Wentang Zhen)
2020
Article “The Goldilocks Dilemma – Too Little or Too Much Data?” in ASCE-GI GeoStrata Jan-Feb 2020 (KK Phoon)
Chinese translation of Phoon, K. K. & Retief, J. V. (2016), Reliability of Geotechnical Structures in ISO2394 (CRC Press/Balkema) by D.Q. Li, X.S. Tang, Z.J., Cao: 李典庆、唐小松、曹子君. 2018. 基于ISO2394的岩土工程可靠度设计 , China Water & Power Press (中国水利水电出版社)
Special Collection of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Part B on Probabilistic Site Characterization (KK Phoon)
Adeyemi Emman Aladejare and Yu Wang: Sources of Uncertainty in Site Characterization and Their Impact on Geotechnical Reliability-Based Design,
Jianye Ching, Kok-Kwang Phoon, James L. Beck, and Yong Huang: Identifiability of Geotechnical Site-Specific Trend Functions
Anders Prästings, Johan Spross, Rasmus Müller, Stefan Larsson, William Bjureland, and Fredrik Johansson: Implementing the Extended Multivariate Approach in Design with Partial Factors for a Retaining Wall in Clay
Xiao-Hui Qi, Wan-Huan Zhou, and Ka-Veng Yuen: Detection of Stationary Markovian Zones in a Geologically Heterogeneous Area
Meng-Yao Shen, Zi-Jun Cao, Dian-Qing Li, and Yu Wang: Probabilistic Characterization of Site-Specific Inherent Variability of Undrained Shear Strength Using Both Indirect and Direct Measurements
Te Xiao, Li-Min Zhang, Xue-You Li, and Dian-Qing Li: Probabilistic Stratification Modeling in Geotechnical Site Characterization
2017
The 5th edition of the textbook "Programming the Finite Element Method" by Smith, Griffiths and Margetts, John Wiley & Sons, published in the Chinese language (2017): http://product.dangdang.com/25083010.html
Phoon K. K., Role of reliability calculations in geotechnical design
Adeyemi Emman Aladejare & Yu Wang, Evaluation of rock property variability
Richard J. Bathurst & Sina Javankhoshdel, Influence of model type, bias and input parameter variability on reliability analysis for simple limit states in soil-structure interaction problems
Jinbo Chen & Robert B. Gilbert, Offshore Pile System Model Biases and Reliability
J. Michael Duncan & Matthew D. Sleep, The Need for Judgement in Geotechnical Reliability Studies
Ahmad Kahiel, Shadi Najjar, & Salah Sadek, Reliability-Based Design of Spread Footings on Clays Reinforced with Aggregate Piers
Sara Khoshnevisan, Lei Wang & C. Hsein Juang, Response Surface-Based Robust Geotechnical Design of Supported Excavation - Spreadsheet-Based Solution
Trevor Orr, Defining and selecting characteristic values of geotechnical parameters for designs to Eurocode 7
Iason Papaioannou & Daniel Straub, Learning Soil Parameters and Updating Geotechnical Reliability Estimates under Spatial Variability Theory and Application to Shallow Foundations
Rita Sousa, Karim S. Karam, Ana Laura Costa & Herbert H. Einstein, Exploration and Decision Making in Geotechnical Engineering - A Case Study
Te Xiao, Dian-Qing Li, Zi-Jun Cao, Xiao-Song Tang, Full Probabilistic Design of Slopes in Spatially Variable Soils Using Simplified Reliability Analysis Method
Geotechnical Safety and Reliability: Honoring Wilson H. Tang (2017) (GSP 286) (ASCE GI-RAM; Eds.: Hsein Juang, Bob Gilbert, Limin Zhang, Jie Zhang, and Lulu Zhang)
2016
Phoon, KK & Retief, JV (2016). Reliability of Geotechnical Structures in ISO2394, CRC Press/Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands, published
Georisk Special Issue on Distinctive and Critical Elements in Geotechnical Risk and Reliability (Yu Wang) (Georisk Volume 10, Issue 4, Dec 2016)
John T. Christian and Gregory B. Baecher, Sources of uncertainty in liquefaction triggering procedures
Yu Wang, Oluwatosin Victor Akeju and Zijun Cao, Bayesian Equivalent Sample Toolkit (BEST): an Excel VBA program for probabilistic characterisation of geotechnical properties from limited observation data
Wen-Chao Huang and Hong-Wen Yu, Variability of levee failure mechanisms subject to heavy rainfalls, case studies in Taiwan
Jonathan C. Huffman, John P. Martin and Armin W. Stuedlein, Calibration and assessment of reliability-based serviceability limit state procedures for foundation engineering
Jianye Ching, Kok-Kwang Phoon and Tsai-Jung Wu, Spatial correlation for transformation uncertainty and its applications
Shin-ichi Nishimura, Toshifumi Shibata and Takayuki Shuku, Diagnosis of earth-fill dams by synthesised approach of sounding and surface wave method
TC304 session on “Geotechnical risk/reliability and data analysis” (JP Wang & J Ching)
Abstract due: March 31 2018
Short course (KK Phoon & J Ching)
Keynote (J Ching & KK Phoon)
(ISSMGE conferences) 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE 2017), Sep 17-22 2017, Seoul, Korea (https://www.icsmge2017.org/)
Suzanne Lacasse Lecture by Farrokh Nadim on "Reliability-Based Approach for Robust Geotechnical Design" (19 Sep 2017)
Nine presentations were delivered by the discussion leaders culminating in an interesting discussion on future directions and challenges.
150 hard copies were printed for distribution during the workshop.
The final report is also distributed through the conference USB and TC304 website: http://140.112.12.21/issmge/tc304.htm
TC304 discussion session, Sep 20 2017 (Chairs: KK & Jaehyun)
Hyunki delivered an overview of “Engineering practice of risk assessment and management (TC 304)” as General Reporter.
There are 11 papers, but only 9 papers were presented.
TC205 held a board/technical meeting in ICSMGE 2017. The meeting will be partly administrative but mainly an opportunity for discussion about limit state design, partial factor design and performance based design (Brian)
Joint TC205/TC304 Working Group on “Discussion of statistical/reliability methods for Eurocodes” (Brian, KK)
The “Joint TC205/TC304 Working Group on ‘Discussion of statistical/reliability methods for Eurocodes’ – Final Report” was compiled for presentation in 19ICSMGE
The final report is also distributed through the 19ICSMGE conference USB, which can also be downloaded here.
Directory of national reliability-based design (RBD) groups
To strengthen and coordinate activities between TC304 and national groups, particularly those engaging in developing reliability-based design codes, we propose to maintain a directory at our TC304 website as a start. We welcome participation from anyone who are interested in RBD codes for geotechnical engineering – formal membership in national code committees is not necessary.
The sample entries would be posted in our TC304 website. Do submit other national entries to Jianye.
