German Society for Geotechnics
| German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) |
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| purpose | professional association |
| Chair: |
Wolfgang Sondermann , Jürgen Grabe (deputy), Kirsten Laackmann (managing director) |
| Establishment date: | 1950 |
| Number of members: | 2000 |
| Seat : | eat |
| Website: | dggt.de |
The German Society for Geotechnics eV (DGGT) deals with science and practice in the use of soil and rock as subsoil and building material.
It was founded in 1950 as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erd- und Grundbau eV (DGEG). After it was founded in Karlsruhe, it was based in Hamburg until 1961 and then in Essen .
The main purpose is to promote geotechnical engineering in research, teaching, business and administration. In this sense, it sees itself as a mouthpiece and lobbyist for geotechnical engineering vis-à-vis political bodies, in public, in the university sector, in industry and vis-à-vis the media.
The DGGT wants to promote the scientific research of the subsoil , the soil and the rock and their behavior under all kinds of stress. Furthermore, she advocates an improvement in the calculation and design of earthworks and rock structures and the foundations of structures with the aim of safe, economical and environmentally friendly construction.
The DGGT is divided into six specialist sections:
- Section 1: Soil Mechanics
- Section 2: Earthworks and Foundation Engineering
- Section 3: Rock Mechanics
- Specialist section 4: Engineering geology (joint specialist section of DGGT and DGG )
- Section 5: Plastics in Geotechnics
- Section 6: Environmental Geotechnics.
These sections comprise around forty working groups, in which recommendations (abbreviated to EA for "recommendations of the working group ...") and guidelines on special issues are drawn up. The DGGT makes its working groups available to the German Institute for Standardization eV for national and international standardization work. The working groups include the working group "Piles" (AK 2.1), whose recommendations are known under the abbreviation EA-Pfähle, the working group "Ufereinfassungen" (AK 2.2), which, together with the Hafenbautechnische Gesellschaft (HTG), the recommendations of the working committee for bank borders (EAU ) publishes, and the "Excavation pits" working group (AK 2.4), whose recommendations are known under the acronym EAB.
The DGGT includes individuals as full members, companies as extraordinary members, institutes, associations and authorities as sponsors. The DGGT currently has around 2000 members.
It is a member of the "International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering", the "International Society for Rock Mechanics", the "International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment" and has a "German Chapter" of the "International Geosynthetics Society".
The DGGT organizes the building site conference every two years .
It publishes a four times a year journal Geotechnik (founded 1978).
The forerunner of the DGGT was the German Committee for Soil Research, founded in 1927 , from which the German Society for Soil Mechanics (Degebo) emerged in 1928 , which carried out early standardization work in foundation engineering in Germany. Among the founders of the DGGT are the senior construction director Erich Lohmeyer , Hans Lorenz (TU Berlin) and Arnold Agatz (port engineering company).
Chairperson
- 1950 to 1960: Erich Lohmeyer
- 1960 to 1978: Hans Werner Koenig
- 1978 to 1990: Ulrich Smoltczyk
- 1990 to 2002: Walter Wittke
- 2002 to 2010: Manfred Nussbaumer
- 2010 to 2014: Georg Heerten
- since September 24, 2014: Wolfgang Sondermann