Vienna Terzaghi Lecture

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The Vienna Terzaghi Lecture is an award and lecture at the Austrian Geotechnical Conference, which takes place every two years. It is organized by the Association of Austrian Drilling, Well Construction and Special Foundation Engineering Companies (VÖBU), the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects (ÖIAV), the Austrian National Committee (ASMGE) in the ÖIAV of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) ( short name: ÖGT) and the Institute for Geotechnics, Foundation Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics at the University of Vienna and has been taking place since 1997. It is named in honor of Karl von Terzaghi . The lectures will be published in the journal Bauingenieur.

It is not to be confused with the Terzaghi Lecture or the Terzaghi Award .

Award winners

  • 1997 William Van Impe , Ghent and Leuven University, The leaning tower of Pisa
  • 1999 Robert M. Koerner , Drexel University, Assessment of ten landfill failures using 2-D and 3-D stability analysis procedures (with Te-Yang Soong)
  • 2001 Robert Mair , Cambridge University, Tunneling in soft ground in urban areas
  • 2003 K. Rainer Massarsch , Geo Engineering AB, Stockholm, geotechnical engineering for the rescue of architectural monuments
  • 2005 Jean-Pierre Giroud , consulting engineer, former director of GeoSyntec Consultants, former President of the International Geosynthetics Society, Geosynthetics engineering: successes, failures and lesson learned
  • 2007 Harry Poulos , University of Sydney, Coffey Geotechnics, Applications of Piling for Infrastructure Development
  • 2009 Alan Powderham , Director of Mott MacDonald, London, The Observational Method - using safety as a driver for innovation
  • 2011 Heinz Brandl , TU Wien, The geotechnical engineer in society: Philosophical thoughts, challenges and recommendations
  • 2013 Rolf Katzenbach , TU Darmstadt, The mechanical and thermal effects of water in the soil - soil mechanics, geothermal energy and fluid mechanics
  • 2015 Róbert Szepesházi , Széchenyi István University of Györ, Hungary, Synergies in Geotechnics: Interpretations, Precedents and Perspectives
  • 2017 Sarah Springman , ETH Zurich, Is soil friction fiction? - Is cohesion optional? - A review
  • 2019 Jürgen Grabe , TU Hamburg, Geomechatronics - a future field

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