SOIL IMPROVEMENT

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ISSMGE wants to play an important role helping
the geotechnical community to explore the best
ways for research, design, construction and
assessment of geotechnical structures safety in
order to reach the expectations and targets of
our Society during the third millenium
Through the ITCs and ERTCs and Task Forces
ISSMGE has the responsibility to interact with
the Society
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In Latin, Engineer is a man with genius,
something like art, that is skill plus
intelligence. A bit of genius is required to
master Earth complexity
The good geotechnical engineer knows what he
knows and uses it confidently. More importantly,
he knows what he does not know, seeks available
knowledge, and then proceeds fully, acknowledging
his limitations and uncertainties
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ISSMGE aims to discuss very important questions
related with environmental geotechnics,
geohazards, education, professional practice,
industrial liaison, information technology and
role and format of conferences
Through this dialog ISSMGE should like to stress
the importance from study of alternative
solutions, that different interests and opinions
should be considered and past lessons should not
be forgotten
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ISSMGE MEMBERSHIP
Total 76 countries Number of Members 16 544
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EUROPE MEMBERSHIP
Total 34 countries Numbers of Members 7 591
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EUROPEAN CONFERENCES SOIL MECHANICS AND
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
1955 London - U.K. -1st ECSMFE1959 Paris -
France -2nd ECSMFE1963 Wiesbaden - Germany
-3rd ECSMFE1967 Oslo-Norway -4th
ECSMFE1971 Madrid - Spain -5th ECSMFE1975
Viena- Austria -6th ECSMFE1979 Brigthon-UK
-7th ECSMFE1983 Helsinki-Finland -8th
ECSMFE1987 Dublin-Ireland -9th ECSMFE1991
Firenze-Italy -10th ECSMFE1995
Copehagen-Denmark -11th ECSMFE1999
Amesterdam-Netherlands -12th ECSMFE2003
Prague Check.Rep. -13th ECSMGE 2007 Madrid
Spain -14 th
ECSMGE
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EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL YOUNG GEOTECHNICAL
ENGINEERING CONFERENCES
1987 Copehagen - Denmark - 1st EYGEC 1988 Oxford
- UK - 2nd EYGEC 1989 Raubichi - Russia -
3rd EYGEC 1990 Delf - Netherlands - 4th
EYGEC 1991 Grenoble - France - 5th EYGEC 1992
Lisbon - Portugal - 6th EYGEC 1993 Stutgart -
Germany - 7th EYGEC 1994 Bratislava -
Slovakia - 8th EYGEC 1995 Belgium - 9th
EYGEC 1996 Izmir - Turkey - 10th EYGEC 1997
Madrid - Spain - 11th EYGEC 1998 Tailin -
Estonian - 12th EYGEC 1999 Thira - Greece -
13th EYGEC 2000 Southampton - UK - 1st
IYGEC 2001 Plovdiv - Bulgaria - 14th EYGEC 2002
Dublin - Ireland - 15th EYGEC 2003 Mamaia -
Romania - 2nd IYGEC 2004Viena -Austria
-16th EYGEC
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EUROPEAN DANUBE GEOTECHNICAL CONFERENCES
1964 Viena -Austria -1st EDGC 1968
Viena-Austria - 2nd EDGC 1971
Budapest-Hungary - 3rd EDGC 1974 Bled-Yugoslavia
- 4th EDGC 1977 Bratislava-Czechoslovakia -
5th EDGC 1980 Varna- Bulgaria - 6th EDGC 1983
Kishinov-Soviet Union - 7th EDGC 1986
Nurember-Germany - 8th EDGC 1990
Budapest-Hungary - 9th EDGC 1995
Mamaia-Romania - 10th EDGC 1998 Porec-
Croatia - 11th EDGC 2002 Passau-Germany -
12th EDGC 2006 Ljublijana- Slovenia -13 th EDGC
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EUROPEAN BALTIC GEOTECHNICAL CONFERENCES
1968 Kaunus - - 1st EBGC 1972 Tallinn- -
2nd EBGC 1975 Riga - 3rd EBGC 1978 Kaunus
- 4th EBGC 1982 Minsk - 5th EBGC 1986
Tallinn - 6th EBGC 1991 Riga - 7th
EBGC 1996 Vilnius - 8th EBGC 2000 Parnu
- 9th EBGC 2005 Riga - 10th EBGC
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EUROPEAN REGIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
ERTC3 (Belgium) - Pile Foundations ERTC7
(Spain) - Numerical Methods in Geotechnical
Engineering ERTC10 (Ireland) - Evaluation
Committee for the Application of EC7 ERTC12
(Greece) - Evaluation Committee for the
Application of EC8 ERTC15 (Germany) -
Interaction of Shield Machines and Soil of Soft
Rocks
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GEOPROB-Famagusta 2005
Soil Characterization, Innovative Technologies
and Equipment, Case studies applied to the many
engineering works will be extensively discussed
and will led to new solutions and new approaches
to the problems of problematic soils It is
our hope that the spirit of cooperation fostered
by GEOPROG 2005 will encourage additional
projects On behalf of ISSMGE I would like to
thank the International Advisory Committee, the
Technical Committee nº6, the Invited
Lecturers, the University of Famagusta and the
Turkish National Committee for ISSMGE The
valuable contributions of the Chairmen, the
Authors, the Delegates are also greatly
acknowledged  The contributions of Sponsors
are highly appreciated 
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FINAL REMARKS
I would like to take this opportunity to
express my sincere appreciation and deep
gratitude to the Organising Committee and
particularly to Prof. Huriye Bilsel who have
devoted their time and effort, without which this
Conference could not have become true. Let us
show our gratitude giving them a big hand I
wish all the delegates a very successful
Conference, a pleasant stay in Famagusta, with
lovely memories, the best success in your
professional and family life, hoping that all of
you through a continuous and permanent effort
will serve better our Society
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Long, long be my hearth with such
memories Filled Like the vase, in which roses
have once been distilled You may break, you may
shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of
the roses will hang round still,
Memories T. Moore