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Title: Home ISSMGE International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Description: The International Society had its origins in the First International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering held in Harvard in 1936 A total of 206 delegates attended from 20 countries In order to ensure continuation of this very successful initiative an Executive Committee was set up with Karl Terzaghi as President and Arthur Casagrande as Secretary but war intervened and the Second ICSMFE was not held until 1948 in Rotterdam Again this proved to be a great success with 596 delegates By the time of the Third ICSMFE in Zurich in 1953 the International Society had become firmly established with Terzaghi as President and Donald Taylor as Secretary In 1957 A W Skempton became President and the Secretariat moved to the UK Since 1965 the Secretaries General have been J K T L Nash 1965 1981 J B Burland 1981 and R H G Parry 1981 1999 The quadriennial ICSMFE became an established pattern from 1953 and the Jubilee Conference was held in San Francisco in 1985 attracting 2000 delegates and guests The first Regional Conference was the Australasian Conference held in Australia in 1952 and quadriennial Regional Conferences have also become an established pattern In 1981 the Steering Committee was set up to give a better focus to the rapidly expanding Society It became the Board in 1985 which meets every year while the Council meets every two years In 1997 Council approved a change in name to the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering to reflect more accurately the activities of the Society

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