Geotechnics for Sustainable
Infrastructure Development
GEOTEC HANOI 2013 was the second in a series of conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Development. The international conference organised by FECON CORPORATION (Vietnam), Vietnamese Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering VSSMGE (Vietnam), in cooperation with Asian Institute of Technology AIT (Thailand) was held on 28-29 November 2013, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Among the conference highlights were the six keynote-lectures given by Prof. Sven Hansbo from Sweden, Prof. Kenji Ishihara and Dr. Hiroshi Yoshida from Japan, Prof. Harry G. Poulos from Australia, Prof. Pieter A. Vermeer from the Netherlands, Prof. Alain Guilloux from France.
Foundation For High-Rise Buildings
Keynote Lecture
“Geotechnical Challenges at Super High-Rise Buildings”
Speaker
Rolf Katzenbach (Germany)
Underground Projects in Soft Soil
Keynote Lecture
“Management of Settlements for an Urban Tunnel (Toulon, France)”
Speaker
Alain Guilloux (France)
Soil Improvement & Reinforcement for Infrastructure
Keynote Lecture
“Recent Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Structures for Railways in Japan”
Speaker
Fumio Tatsuoka (Japan)
Monitoring and Instrumentation for Tunnels & Excavations
Keynote Lecture
“Smart Geo-Infrastructure-Opportunities for New Sensor Monitoring Systems”
Speaker
Kenichi Soga (UK)
Geotechnical Modelling & Numerical Analysis
Keynote Lecture
“Examples for Successful 3D Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering”
Speaker
Helmut F. Schweiger (Austria)
