Geomechanics and geotechnics of particulate media. Proceedings of the international symposium on geomechanics and geotechnics / Геомеханика и геотехника дисперсных сред. Материалы международного симпозиума по геомеханике и геотехнике

The first international workshop on soil crushability was held in Sheffield, U.K. on September 1997 and was the origin of a subsequent series of meetings starting with the “International Workshop on Soil Crushability” IWSC’99 atYamaguchi University in Ube, Japan on July 1999. As a result of these workshops, the research area widened from soil crushability to a re-assessment of fundamental aspects of soil mechanics theories using micromechanics. There followed a workshop on micro-mechanics at the Møller Centre in Cambridge on December 2000 and shortly afterwards, Prof. Malcolm Bolton of Cambridge University formed the International Technical Committee (TC35) on the Geotechnics of Particulate Media under the aegis of the ISSMGE. The first satellite TC35 workshop “Fundamental soil behaviour – the granular perspective” was held during the ICSMGE in Istanbul on August 2001. This stimulated domestic activity in the UK and Japan, with a traveling workshop in Birmingham (December 2003), UCL London (December 2004) and Bristol (December 2005) and the formation of a TC35 Japanese National Committee comprising of consultants, construction engineers, IT specialists and geotechnical researchers.The Japanese committee had four meetings between 2003 and 2005 and produced a final report which was distributed at the TC35 committee meeting during the ICSMGE in Osaka on September 2005. <...>