ISSMGE TC210 4th committee meeting

  1. Welcome and membership. Many ISSMGE member societies nominated new TC210 members in the first half of 2021. The latest roasters of the committee can be found at  https://www.issmge.org/committees/technical-committees/applications/embankment-dams. Welcome new members!
  2. ISSMGE Time Capsule Project (TCP) (https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule)
    1. The Time Capsule project will be launched on 1-6 May 2022, 20th ICSMGE, Sydney, Australia. TC210 will have a special TCP session.
    2. Call for a series of state-of-the-art review articles on major aspects of the design, construction and maintenance of embankment dams. No word limit (can be a few pages or very long).  If you would like to prepare a TCP paper, please send your suggested tittle to me or Dr Rui Wang. We will then discuss with you matters about format, scope etc.
    3. TC210 has so far three on-going TCP projects:
  3. Assessment and management of landslide dam risks (Dr Ming Peng, Tongji University, China)
  4. Cemented coarse granular embankment dams (Dr Duruo, Tsinghua University)
  5. Interface mechanical behavior of rockfill dams (Dr Rui Wang, Tsinghua Univ)
    1. Submissions from Europe, north and south America, Africa,  Australasia and the rest part of Asia are most welcome.
  6. TC210 special session in the 4th Int. Conf. on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 15 -17 July 2022, Beijing.  (http://www.pbd-iv2021.com). Papers are solicited from TC210 members.
  7. Workshop (ISSMGE TC201 and TC210, ICOLD TC E and TC LE) over ISC 6, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Coordinator: Emke Imre)
  8. AOB