Geotechnique

Géotechnique is a leading English-language geotechnical magazine , first published in 1948.

It is published by the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and is published by Thomas Telford Publishing. The founders were Hugh Quentin Golder (1911–1990), Alec Skempton (1914–2001), Leonard Frank Cooling (1903–1977), William Hallam Ward (1917–1996), Rudolph Glossop (1902–1993), Jean-Pierre Daxelhofer (1907–1998) in Lausanne (who suggested the name), Edward E. De Beer (1911–1994), the French Jacques Florentin (1912–1975), Emmericus Carel Willem Adriaan Geuze and the Swiss Robert Haefeli (1898–1978) and Armin von Moos (1907-1981).

In addition to Great Britain, they came from various Western European countries (for example Switzerland and the Netherlands). From 1946 Glossop, Golder, Ward and others visited the continental European centers for geotechnical engineering (Paris, Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva, Delft, Gent, Liège) to make new contacts. The Geotechnical Society was formed by Skempton, Golder, Glossop, Cooling, and Ward to help found the journal. The establishment of the magazine, prepared by a circular in 1947, was supported by Karl von Terzaghi and the head of the soil mechanics laboratory in Delft TK Huizinga. He was also secretary of the 2nd International Conference of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering in Rotterdam in 1948, which also contributed a lot to the boom in geotechnics in Europe after the Second World War. The first editors were Glossop and Golder in 1948/49. After it became a success, it was taken over by the ICE in 1949.

As the French title suggests, despite the main initiative from the English side, it was originally planned as a pan-European magazine and there are always bilingual summaries of the articles in English and French.

The Rankine Lectures of the ICE are regularly published in the Geotechnique .

Initially the magazine appeared four times a year, now monthly.

literature

• John Burland: The Founders of Geotechnique. In: Geotechnique , Vol. 58 (2008) Issue 5, p. 327, ISSN  0016-8505 (Issue Volume 58, No. 5 from 2008 is also an anniversary edition with essays on the history of the magazine and overviews of important articles in the magazine to individual branches of foundation engineering and soil mechanics)
• Hugh Golder: Geotechnique , 19, 313 (1969)

Web links

• Homepage on the ICE Virtual Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary to Ward in Geotechnique 1996