Indian Geotechnical Society Trichy Chapter

Indian Geotechnical Society (IGS) has more than 40 chapters in various parts of the country. IGS - Trichy Chapter is one of such chapters working under IGS National Body, New Delhi. IGS Trichy Chapter was started in the year 2014 and is dedicated to advancing knowledge and creating opportunities for the sharing of information by academicians and practitioners in a broad range of geotechnical disciplines with the view of contributing to the achievement of excellence in geotechnical engineering for the benefit of society.

IGS Trichy Chapter will be holding the 6th INDIAN YOUNG GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS CONFERENCE 6IYGEC during 10 – 11 March 2017, NIT Trichy, India.

IGS Trichy chapter Chairman: Dr. K. Muthukkumaran, NIT, Trichy

Honorary Secretary: Dr. S. Senthamilkumar, PMU, Tanjavur

Email: sivaraman.geotech@gmail.com

Chapter website:  www.igstrichy.in

College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University

Located in the heart of Chennai city, the sprawling campus of the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) with cutting edge infrastructure has been the foundation for many a successful engineer, scholar, and leader. The University offers 18 UG, 35 PG (Regular) and 34 PG Self-supporting courses. CEG has 16 Departments, 6 University Affiliated Centres, and 12 Research Centres where research programs are offered. With close ties with industry, excellent research practices and multiple extra-curricular options, the institution advances the progression of the student's quest for knowledge. The faculty along with the excellent student population makes the campus one of the best places to study in the nation.

College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India, is one of the oldest engineering and technical institutions in India, having been established in 1794 as a survey school, and 1858 as a Civil Engineering School and was then re christened as College of Engineering in 1861, under Madras University with the inclusion of the Mechanical Engineering course. Today it is one of the four constituent colleges of Anna University that was established in 1978 as a unitary type of University. Since December 2001, Anna University has become a large, highly renowned Affiliated University, having brought into its fold more than 500 Self-financing Engineering Colleges six Government Colleges and three Government-aided Engineering colleges located in various parts of Tamilnadu State. College of Engineerig Guindy started the first post graduate course in Soil mechanics in the year 1958.

Institute website: www.ceg.annauniv.edu/

College of Engineering Guindy

12, Sardar Patel Rd, Guindy

Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600025

International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ISSMGE

The ISSMGE is the pre-eminent professional body representing the interests and activities of Engineers, Academics and Contractors all over the world that actively participate in geotechnical engineering.

As a truly global organisation, the ISSMGE provides a focus for professional leadership to some 90 Member Societies and around 20,000 individual members.  The International Society had its origins in the First International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering held in Harvard in 1936. A total of 206 delegates attended from 20 countries. In order to ensure continuation of this very successful initiative, an Executive Committee was set up with Karl Terzaghi as President and Arthur Casagrande as Secretary; but war intervened and the Second ICSMFE was not held until 1948 in Rotterdam. Again this proved to be a great success, with 596 delegates. By the time of the Third ICSMFE in Zurich in 1953, the International Society had become firmly established, with Terzaghi as President and Donald Taylor as Secretary. In 1957 A W Skempton became President, and the Secretariat moved to the UK. Since 1965, the Secretaries General have been J.K.T.L. Nash (1965-1981), J.B. Burland (1981) and R.H.G. Parry (1981-1999). The quadriennial ICSMFE became an established pattern from 1953 and the Jubilee Conference was held in San Francisco in 1985, attracting 2000 delegates and guests. The first Regional Conference was the Australasian Conference held in Australia in 1952, and quadriennial Regional Conferences have also become an established pattern. In 1981 the Steering Committee was set up to give a better focus to the rapidly expanding Society. It became the Board in 1985, which meets every year, while the Council meets every two years. In 1997, Council approved a change in name to the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering to reflect more accurately the activities of the Society.

ISSMGE has experienced a rapid growth in membership, the 32 Member Societies and 2500 individual members in 1957 increasing to 50/11500 in 1977, 71/16500 in 1998, and 89/20800 in 2017. The growth in membership has been matched by increasing activities, largely through the establishment of many active Technical Committees and Task Forces.

Website: https://www.issmge.org

ISSMGE TC 301 - Preservation of Historic Sites

The Technical Committee on the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites (named TC19) established by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) in 1981, is supported by the Italian Geotechnical Society (AGI) and renamed TC301 in 2010. The main objective of the technical committee is to organize symposia and workshops with the aim to exchange and compare experiences and to collect case histories. Two international symposia were organized by TC 301 in Naples during 1996 and 2013. A special volume titled “Geotechnics and Heritage”  containing invited lectures related to exemplary case records was published in 2013.

By considering that each monuments is a "unicum" and taking into account the concept of "integrity" it is rather difficult to apply approaches based on guidelines to the preservation of monuments. Therefore the effort is devoted to

framing of the special requirements and constraints to be considered in any rehabilitation intervention on Monuments in order to preserve their of cultural and historical integrity;

geotechnical methodologies suitable for the interventions on Monuments and Historic sites.

TC 301 Chair: Prof. Renato Lancellotta, Italy

Secretary: Prof. Alessandro Flora, Italy

Members from India: I.V. Anirudhan, Dr. K. Muthukumaran