Call for Papers for the 5th Int'l Conference on Case histories in Geotechnical Engineering
(2005-11-30 12:09:00.0)
A. Geotechnical Aspects of Italy 2002 and Alaska 2002, Mexico 2003, and other recent Earthquakes including:

Liquefaction

Ground Motion and Amplification, Comparison with other recent Earthquakes

Failure of Ground

Damage to Geotechnical Structures and similar topics

B. Mitigation and Design for Liquefaction including:

Analysis and Design of Laterally Loaded Large Diameter Piles and Pile Groups using Advanced Caliberated Computer Models in As-IS and Liquefied Conditions,

Earthquake drains for Mitigation of Liquefaction

Load tests for piles for Liquefied and Improved Soil Ground Conditions,

Lateral Load Testing of Pile Groups,

Caliberation Studies of the DSSI problem from Recent Earthquakes in Seisomlogical-geotechnical-structural hand shake in the performance based design conditions of Ground Deformations Related to Soil Liquefaction and similar topics.

The last date for abstracts: April 1, 2003

The last date for full manuscripts: August 1, 2003


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