GEOTEC HANOI 2019 will include six intensive lectures from leading experts in geotechnical field in the world. At conference this year, they will give keynote lectures related to six conference themes.
Deep Foundations
Harry G. Poulos
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics at University of Sydney, Australia.
Tunnelling and Underground Spaces
Adam Bezuijen
Professor of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnics at Ghent University, Belgium and part-time senior specialist at Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands.
Geotechnical Modelling and Monitoring
Lidija Zdravkovic
Professor of Computational Gemechanics and Head of the Geotechnics Division at Imperial College London, UK.
Coastal Foundation Engineering
Mark Randolph
Professor of Civil Engineering in the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, the University of Western, Australia.
Invited Speakers
Charles Ng
President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) , Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
Eun Chul Shin
Vice President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) for Asia, Professor in Incheon National University, Korea.
GEOTEC HANOI Themes & Keynote Speakers from 2011 — 2016
1. Deep Foundation
Keynote Lecture: “Mistakes and delusion in piled foundation design”, by Prof. Bengt H. Fellenius (Canada).
2. Underground Construction & Tunneling
Keynote Lecture: “Evaluation of different measures in reducing movements induced by deep excavation”, by Prof. Chang-Yu Ou (Taiwan).
3. Ground improvement for Infrastructure Projects
Keynote Lecture: “Drains and Vacuum for Soft Soil Stabilization – Recent Advances in Experimental and Numerical Modelling”, by Prof. Buddhima Indraratna (Australia).
4. Coastal Geotechnics for Climate Change
Keynote Lecture: “Geotechnical response to natural disasters in the context of climate change”, by Prof. Kazuya Yasuhara (Japan).
5. Monitoring , Inspection and Maintenance
Keynote Lecture: “Ground and structural response to tunneling – lessons learnt from three major projects in London”, by Dr. Jamie Standing (UK).
1. Foundation For High-Rise Buildings
Keynote Lecture: “Geotechnical challenges at super high-rise buildings”, by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Katzenbach (Germany)
2. Underground Projects In Soft Soil
Keynote Lecture: “Management of settlements for an urban tunnel (Toulon, France)”, by Prof. Prof. Alain Guilloux (France)
3. Soil Improvement And Reinforcement For Infrastructure
Keynote Lecture: “Recent geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures for railways in Japan”, by Prof. Fumio Tatsuoka (Japan)
4. Monitoring And Instrumentation For Tunnels And Excavations
Keynote Lecture: “Smart Geo-Infrastructure-Opportunities for new sensor monitoring systems””, by Prof. Kenichi Soga (UK)
5. Geotechnical Modeling And Numerical Analysis
Keynote Lecture: “Examples for successful 3D finite element analysis in geotechnical engineering”, by Prof. Helmut F. Schweiger (Austria)
1. Soft soil improvement and reinforcement
Keynote Lecture: “Soil improvement by preloading and vertical drainage”, by Prof. Sven Hansbo (Sweden)
2. Foundation Engineering
Keynote Lecture: “The design of high-rise building foundations”, by Prof. Harry Poulos (Australia).
3. Tunneling and Underground Spaces
Keynote Lecture: “Tunneling in soft ground and urban environment”, by Prof. Alain Guilloux (France).
4. Environmental Geotechnics and Sustainable Development
Keynote Lecture: “Current Facts Concerning Efforts to Improve the Global Environment and Commitments by the Construction Industry in Japan”, by Dr. Hiroshi Yoshida (Japan).
5. Geotechnical modeling, design and monitoring
Keynote Lecture: “New horizons in numerical analysis for geotechnical engineering”, by Professor Pieter Vermeer (the Netherlands).
6. Geotechnical case histories
Keynote Lecture: “Characteristics of Liquefaction-Induced Damage in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake”, by Prof. Kenji Ishihara (Japan)