Technical Program

Short Courses Program

Tuesday October 4th

Course 1: "Linear and Non-linear Site Respose Analysis", por Dr. Youseff Hashah de la Universidad de Illinois, USA.

Course 2: "Quantitative Risk Assesment in Geotechnical Engineering", por Dr. Vaughan Grifftihs de la Escuela de Minas de Colorado, USA.

Course 3: "Empirical Methods and Rock Mechanics for Tunnels and Slopes in Jointed, Faulted, Weak and Weathered Rock Masses", por Dr. Nick Barton.

Each course is held from 8:30 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 18:00
and has simultaneous translation service

Lectures, Papers and Sessions XV CCG & II ISCSR

For these events the presentation of 186 papers , 125 of them in the Colombian Congress of Geotechnics and 61 at the International Conference on Soft Rocks, is planned. The program includes four (4) technical sessions in the XV CGC and three (3) in the II ISCSR with application to road projects and other infrestructure and development projects. There will be simultaneous translation.

Commission on Soft Rocks Meeting

The meeting of the Commission on Soft Rocks ISRM will be held on October 4th at 4:00p.m.

XV CGC and II ISCSR Programs

		Wednesday October 5th

Hour / Session		Activity

8:00 - 9:00		Registration.

9:00 - 9:30		Opening Session XV-CGC.

9:30 - 10:30		Second Conference Juan Monero Olarte. Stability of dams and slopes conditioned by geological and geotechnicals aspects, Milton Assis Kanji.

10:30 - 10:45		Coffee break.

Session 1		Characterization, Behavior and Improvement of Soils.

10:45 - 12:00		Presentation of papers and discussion.

12:00 - 14:00		Break for lunch.

14:00 - 15:00		Main Lecture. Innovations in Modeling and Monitoring Technologies for Response of Deep Urban Excavations, Youssef Hashash.

15:00 - 16:15		Presentation of papers and discussion.

16:15 - 16:30		Coffee break.

16:30 - 18:00		Presentation of papers and discussion.


		Thursday October 6th

Hour / Session		Activity

8:00 - 9:00		Main Lecture. Load and resistance factors, factors of safety and probability in geotechnical engineering, Vaughan Griffiths.

Session 2		Natural hazards and risk management.

9:00 - 10:15		Presentation of papers and discussion.

10:15 - 10:30		Coffee break.

Session 3		Surface excavations and slopes in soils & embankments and other geostructures.

10:30 - 12:00		Presentation of papers and discussion.

12:00 - 14:00		Break for lunch

Session 4		Foundations and Tunnels in soils & Geotechnical software applications.

14:00 - 15:15		Presentation of papers and discussion.

15:15 - 15:30		Coffee break.

15:30 - 16:30		Opening conference II-ISCSR. Latest progress on Chinese soft rock engineering geomechanics, He Manchao.

Session 5		Characterization and general behavior of soft rocks.

16:30 - 18:00		Presentation of papers and discussion.

Session 5A		Special Parallel Session on the Earthquake In Ecuador.

16:30 - 18:00		Presentation of papers and discussion & Lessons learned from the earthquake in Ecuador, Dr. Xavier Vera (Ecuador) and Colombian Geotechnical Society.


		Friday October 7th

Hour / Session		Activity

Session 6		Slopes and surface works in soft rocks.

8:00 - 9:00		Main Lecture. A new prediction method for geo-disaster based on double block mechanics, He Manchao.

9:00 - 10:15		Presentation of papers and discussion.

10:15 - 10:30		Coffee break.

10:30 - 12:00		Presentation of papers and discussion.

12:00 - 14:00		Break for lunch.

Session 7		Characterization and behavior of soft rock mass; Excavations and underground works in soft rocks.

14:00 - 15:00		Main Lecture. Cavern, tunnel and slope failures due to adverse geology, Nick Barton.

15:00 - 15:15		Coffee break.

15:15 - 17:00		Presentation of papers and discussion.

17:00 - 18:00		Closing Session.

Publications

All the abstracts of accepted papers will be published in a volume and the accepted papers will be included in a USB memory stick.

Technical Exhibition

There will be an exhibition of equipment and software with stands available, with sizes 4x2m, 3x2m and 2x2m with cost of US$ 3.300, US$ 2.100 and US$ 1.530 respectively. In the figure the free booths are shown.

Socio-Cultural Program

There will be an opening cocktail events on October 5th at 18 hours , a cultural event on October 6th at 18 hours and a closing dinner (optional ) on October 7th at 20 hours.