Update from Phil Robins Members of the ISSMGE Technical Committee on Physical Modeling in Geotechnics (TC104) gathered to attend the virtual workshop on Frontiers for Hypergravity Experiments and Model Tests over two days late last year (7 and 9 December 2020). The Frontiers for Hypergravity…
Update from Ioannis Antonopoulos – 20 May 2021 TC103 (Numerical Methods in Geomechanics) was active in: Working on the virtual time capsule project ( https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule/time-capsule) preparing the material. For this work, we will be happy to have any idea or contribution from TC members. Encouraging…
Update provided by Paul Burton – TC220 Secretary In 1977 an International Symposium on Field Measurements in Rock Mechanics was organised by Professor Kalman Kovari and held in Zurich, Switzerland. A second symposium, also organised by Professor Kovari was held in Zurich in 1983 and…
NZGS have identified an area for which we would like to develop a short Practice Note to assist the geotechnical profession in NZ. The design and use of subsoil drains in earthworks projects varies around the country with different practitioners, different regulatory environments and varying…
If you enjoy using this website, and would like to see it improved for the future, this opportunity might be the one for you. In 2015 the New Zealand Geotechnical Society undertook a major re-build of our website. It changed from a static site with…
If you enjoy Geomechanics News and want to be more involved in the society, this opportunity is for you. The New Zealand Geotechnical Society is justifiably proud of our bi-annual publication, NZ Geomechanics News. First published in November 1970, it has been providing a fantastic…
An important new paper from Misko Cubrinovski, Brendon Bradley, Rick Wentz and Ananth Balachandra has been published in Vol 54 No 2 (2021) of the Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. We recommend that all geotechnical engineers operating in New Zealand read…
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is consulting on proposed changes to the occupational regulation of engineers. The NZGS management committee has been working with Engineering NZ, SESOC, NZSEE and SFPE to develop feedback. Because of the limited timeframe for this we have not…
Introduction The NZGS management committee manages the affairs of the society on behalf of the members. We aim for representation on the Committee that is as broad as possible both geographically and between engineers and geoscientists to ensure that all views are well represented. The…
Standards NZ are completing a review of NZS 4431:1989 and NZGS have several members on the review committee. Attached is an update from the review committee. Please provide any feedback to Sally Hargraves, Tony Fairclough or Ross Roberts. Chair update NZS4431 4 June 2021