Minutes of Third Meeting of TC32of ISSMGE in Period 2001 ?2005

(TC32: “Technical Committee on Risk Assessment and Management?

ISSMGE: International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering)

Held Tuesday 29 June 2004 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in conjunction with Ninth International Symposium on Landslides

Goals of TC32

As previously established, the goals of TC32 are to promote and enhance professional activities and education in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering, in areas related to:

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Geostatistics and probabilistic site characterization

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Quantification of uncertainties in performance prediction

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Reliability-based design

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Risk-based decision analysis

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Calibration of LRFD-type geotechnical design codes

These goals are to be achieved through the following activities:

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Arrange special sessions and short courses in connection with relevant international conferences and seminars

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Create a Glossary of risk terms and definitions by December 2004

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Develop Guidelines for risk assessment and management in geotechnical engineering by December 2004

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Liaison and co-operation with other risk-related committees

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Provide relevant information on the web (e.g., case studies and bibliography) to the geotechnical community

TC32’s current mandate is through August 2005.

Meeting Agenda (see Appendix):

1. Introduction and welcome

2. Review of previous minutes

3. Report on past year’s committee tasks

4. Ongoing committee activities

5. Future activities

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> sponsorship of sessions / short courses in international conferences

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> collaboration with national committees

6. Future initiatives / projects

7. Any other business

Item 1 ?Introduction and Welcome

Meeting convened at 5:30PM by TC32 Chairman Farrokh Nadim, followed by introductions (with attendees signing in).?Attendees (including core members, members and observers) are listed below, as well as those who sent their regrets.?In TC32 Secretary G.Fenton’s absence, Bill Roberds was selected as Acting Secretary to take minutes of the meeting.

List of attendees:

Name	Organization	Country	Status	E-mail
Nadim, Farrokh	NGI	Norway	Chair	farrokh.nadim@ngi.no
Ho, Ken	GEO	Hong Kong	Core Member	cge_lid@ced.gov.hk
Pacheco, Marcus	Rio de Janeiro State Univ.	Brazil	Core Member	mpacheco@netyet.com.br pacheco@iprj.uerj.br
Roberds, Bill	Golder Assoc.	USA	Core Member	broberds@golder.com
Leonardo Cascini	Univ. of Salerno	Italy	Member	l.cascini@unisa.it

Item 2 ?Review of Previous Minutes

The minutes of the previous meeting of TC32 (July 2003 in San Francisco CA) have been available for review on the TC32 web site for the last year.?A copy of the minutes was made available to the attendees.?One correction was made: ISSMGE’s meeting in 2005 will be in Osaka Japan in August; this will be last meeting of the current term of TC32.? There have been no other comments on the minutes, and the minutes were approved.

Item 3 - Report on past year’s committee tasks

No activities were completed in the last year ? they are all ongoing (see Item 4 - Ongoing Committee Activities).

Item 4 - Ongoing committee activities

The following inter-related TC32 activities were discussed:

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> guidelines ?Develop a general framework for geotechnical risk assessment and management, several pages long, but expandable into sections on specific applications, aimed not at risk specialists, but at those who may be involved in such work without adequate training.?

TC32 Core Member Bill Roberds <broberds@golder.com>, who is involved in a similar effort with ASCE GeoInstitute’s Risk Assessment and Management Committee, is leading this effort and has developed a detailed annotated outline, which was made available to the attendees and then discussed.?It is intended to be: a) very broad and general, starting with decision making and proceeding to various aspects of probabilistic analysis; and b) consistent with and supported by glossary, bibliography and case studies (see below).?Leonardo Cascini provided a copy of a paper from Intl Conf in Naples in 2003 he felt might be useful in development of guidelines.?Bill will circulate (shortly via email) the annotated outline for comment among TC32 Core Members with comments due to Bill by the end of September 2004.?After TC32 Core Member approval, the guidance will be distributed to a wider audience for comment.?Once approved by TC32, the guidance will be posted on the TC32 web site.

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> glossary ?Develop a general glossary of terms for risk assessment and management, covering about 50 ?100 items, consistent with other glossaries and supportive of the above guidelines.

TC32 Member Lars Olsson <lars.olsson@geostatistik.se> has been leading this effort.?The glossary used by the International Centre for Geohazards, which is based on the IUGS draft glossary from 1997, and ICOLD and ISDR glossaries was previously distributed to TC32 members by Farrokh Nadim. This glossary, which is endorsed by JTC1, was made available to the attendees, and discussed and adopted on an interim basis. ?/span>Final comments on this glossary are due to Farrokh Nadim by the end of July 2004. ?/span>Once approved by TC32, the glossary will be posted on the TC32 web site.

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> bibliography ?Develop a bibliography for risk assessment and management, in support of the guidelines and glossary.?To facilitate its use, it would be desirable that this bibliography be categorized in terms of type (e.g., web page, non-peer-reviewed paper, report, peer-reviewed paper, symposium, text book, etc.), whether it is primarily about an application (case study) or method development (theoretical), and particular aspect (e.g., see case study categories below).?Ideally, there would be several (<5) key references under each category.

TC32 Core Member Ken Ho <cge_lid@ced.gov.hk> is leading this effort, coordinating with ASCE GeoInstitute’s Risk Assessment and Management Committee, who are also developing such a bibliography.?Ken Ho is soliciting bibliographies from other TC32 members. ?/span>The preliminary bibliography, which was handed out at the TC32 2003 meeting, has not been developed further, waiting for a categorization (e.g., keywords) and evaluation scheme / procedure, consistent with the guidelines, glossary and case studies.?Such a categorization scheme has been developed by TC32 Core Member Bill Roberds for case studies (see below) and will be circulated (shortly via email) for comment by TC32 Core Members.?Once the categorization scheme / procedure has been approved by TC32, it will be applied to the reference list for review by TC32.?Once approved by TC32, the initial bibliography will be posted on the TC32 web site, where it would be periodically updated per the categorization scheme / procedure.

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> case studies ? Assemble an extensive set of case studies that demonstrate various approaches and the value or benefit of the results of risk assessment, for various types of applications.?To facilitate their use, it would be desirable that these case studies be categorized (keywords) in terms of scope, approach and application, consistent with the above guidelines, glossary and bibliography.?A potential problem may be the confidential nature of some projects, which would require specific measures to allow publication.? It will be the author’s responsibility to obtain client approval.?Each case study should be reviewed and limited to 3 pages.

TC32 Core Member Ken Ho <cge_lid@ced.gov.hk> is leading this effort, coordinating with ASCE GeoInstitute’s Risk Assessment and Management Committee, who are also developing a set of case studies.?TC32 Core Member Bill Roberds has developed a format for case studies, including a categorization scheme (keywords), which will be the same as being developed for the bibliography.?This format was made available to the attendees and then discussed.? Bill will revise his draft per the discussion and distribute it (shortly via email) to TC32 Core Members for comment, with comments due to Bill by the end of September 2004.?To ensure completeness and uniformity, Bill will then develop a WORD template for case studies that can be downloaded off the web site and then submitted electronically when completed by the author.? Farrokh Nadim will be the “gatekeeper?of case studies, ensuring that they have been adequately reviewed for completeness and appropriateness (e.g., there are no commercial messages and that author certifies that client approval has been obtained) before posting them on the web site.? Even so, the web site will need a disclaimer (especially with respect to client approval being the author’s responsibility, ala ASCE).?Once approved by TC32, the categorization scheme and template will be posted on the TC32 web site.

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> course notes ? Assemble a set of course notes, perhaps expanding on the guidelines and other materials, to facilitate undergraduate and graduate education in this area.?First, conduct a survey of universities world wide to determine what courses are offered and their content.

TC32 Member Mark Jaksa <mark.jaksa@adelaide.edu.au> is leading this effort, but was not in attendance so status is unknown.?Farrokh Nadim will ask Gordon Fenton to check with Mark.?Note:? Notes from a short course presented by G.Fenton et al at GeoLogan in 1997 and at Madison Wisconsin in 1998 are the most current version, and are available on the TC32 web site.

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> prediction symposium ?Discussed at TC32 2003 meeting, but not at 2004 meeting.

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> website ?A website currently exists for TC32 <http://www.engmath.dal.ca/tc32/index.html>, developed and maintained by TC32 Secretary G.Fenton <Gordon.Fenton@dal.ca>.?It is intended that this web site would be the primary method for disseminating information re TC32, such as the materials discussed above in addition to what is already contained there (roster, news, meeting minutes, links, etc.).?If members would like their home page to be linked to the TC32 website, send your URL to Gordon Fenton.?TC32 Secretary G.Fenton will continue to lead this effort; however, he may need assistance.

TC32 Chairman Farrokh Nadim received a letter from ISSMGE regarding coordination of websites, perhaps as simple as a link.?Farrokh will respond to the letter.

As noted above, specific people and milestones have been designated for each activity to ensure progress.? These activities need to be completed by the end of TC32’s term, and reported at the ISSMGE conference in Osaka Japan in August 2005.

Item 5 ?Future Activities

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Collaboration with JTC1 (Joint International Committee on Landslides -?ISSMGE/IAEG/ISRM) - Prof. Robin Fell is planning a Conference on Landslide Risk Assessment in Vancouver Canada in May 31-June 3 2005.?The steering committee for the conference includes TC32 Core Member Ken Ho and TC32 Member Leonardo Cascini.?Ken Ho and TC32 Core Member Bill Roberds have proposed a short course before the Conference. ?/span>TC32 endorses this conference and short course.

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Upcoming Conferences - Conferences of possible interest to TC32 (e.g., attending, for sponsoring special sessions, or coordinating future TC32 meetings) are listed in the attached agenda, except for the following near term ones noted in last year’s minutes:

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Geo2004, Jul 12-15, 2004, Irbid, Jordan (Middle East).

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> GeoTrans, July 27-31, 2004, Los Angeles California (USA)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> 2^nd International Conference on Site Characterization, Sept 19-22, 2004, Porto Portugal (Europe)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Collaborations with National Committees - Not discussed (see TC32 2003 Meeting Minutes)

Item 6 ?Future Initiatives / Projects

It was felt that ongoing TC32 activities (e.g., developing guidance, glossary / bibliography and case studies) were significant and will entail as much effort as TC32 members will have available - see Item 4 - Ongoing Committee Activities.?Hence, no other future initiatives / projects were identified at this time.

Item 7 ?Other Business

The next (and possibly final) meeting of TC32 will most likely be in Osaka Japan in August 2005 at the ISSMGE Conference.? Farrokh Nadim will contact chairman of TC23 about jointly sponsoring a session at which, e.g., TC32 members could present the results of committee activities, i.e., guidance, glossary / bibliography and case studies.

Leonardo Salerno distributed the general report on “Risk assessment of fast landslides ?From theory to practice?from the Int. Conf. Flows 2003, held in Naples, Italy, in May 2003. The report will be published in September 2004.

There was no other business.

Closure

Meeting was adjourned at 7:00PM by TC32 Chairman Farrokh Nadim.

Signed by Bill Roberds, TC32 Core Member and Acting Secretary (in G.Fenton’s absence).

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Appendix: Agenda for TC32 Meeting of 29 June 2004

ISSMGE TC32: Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management

5:30 ?7:00 P.M., Hotel Glória, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

1) Introduction and welcome

2) Review of previous minutes: http://www.engmath.dal.ca/tc32/2003.html

3) Report on past year's committee tasks

4) Ongoing committee activities;

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> status of Guidelines for Risk Assessment and Management in Geotechnical Engineering (Bill Roberds)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> status of Glossary (Lars Olsson)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> status of Bibliography (Ken Ho)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> status of Case Studies (Ken Ho)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> status of Course Notes (Mark Jaksa)

5) - Upcoming conferences of interest

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Risk Analysis 2004, 27-29 Sept. 2004, Rhodes, Greece (Europe) http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2004/risk04/index.html

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, Oct 3-6, 2004, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Middle East)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> International Workshop on Risk Assessment in Site Characterization and Geotechnical Design (Georisk 2004), 26-27 Nov. 2004, Bangalore, India (Asia)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Coping with Risks Due to Natural Hazards in the 21st Century: "RISK 21", 28 Nov.- 3 Dec. 2004, Ascona, Switzerland (Europe) http://www.csf.ethz.ch/services/registration

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> GeoFrontiers, Jan 24-26, 2005, Austin, Texas (USA) ? [Note:?Sessions on LRFD for foundations, liquefaction, and slope stability might be of interest to TC32 members]

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> ISSMGE, September 2005 in Osaka, Japan (Asia)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Geotechnique's 2005 Symposium in Print: "Risk and Variability in Geotechnical Engineering." May 2005 in London UK (Europe) ?papers to be published in February 2005 issue of Geotechnique and presented at a one-day symposium

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> Ninth International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), 19-22 June 2005, Rome, Italy (Europe) http://www.icossar2005.com

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> International Conference on Landslide Risk Management (organized by JTC1), May 2005, Vancouver, Canada (North America)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> ITA Annual Conference, Apr 29, 2006, Korea (Asia)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> XIII^th Danube-European Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, June 7-9, 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Europe)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> VI^th European Conf on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Sept 6-8, 2006, Graz, Austria (Europe)

?span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> ECI Conference on Geohazards, June 2006, Lillehammer, Norway (Europe)

- Collaboration with national organisations and other committees

6) Future initiatives/projects

7) Any other business