May 29 2008, Thursday

Registration: Lobby of Nanjing Grand Hotel (International Delegates) and Xiyuan Hotel (Domestic delegates, 国内代表, 西苑宾馆, 北京西路)

Day 1 (May 30 2008, Friday)

Welcome address: Prof. C.K. Zhang
                             Prof. P.S. Pinto
                             Prof. M.R. Madhav
                             Prof. Z.Y. Chen

09:20 – 10:20

K. Ishihara
Flow slides of underwater sand deposits in Jamuna river bed

Z.Y. Chen
Geohazards in China and its mitigations

M.R. Madhav
Liquefaction mitigation of sand deposits by granular piles- an overview

13:30 – 15:00

Special Session (Invited) - Flowslide and New Failure Mechanisms
Co-Chairs: S.P.R. Wardani, Y.P. Yao
Room 104, New Graduate Building

Earthquake-induced submarine landslides in view of void redistribution
T. Kokusho, T. Takahashi

Limited flow behaviour of sand with fines under monotonic and cyclic loading
S.R. Lo, M.D.M. Rahman and D. Bobei

Progressive damage simulation of foundation pile of the showa bridge caused by lateral spreading during the 1964 Niigata earthquake
M. Kazama, N. Sento, R. Uzuoka and M. Ishimaru

Possibility of modeling of a water film layer by a conventional formulation of two phase material
S. Iai

Types of flowslide failures and possible failure mechanisms
D. Wanatowski, J. Chu and R.S.C. Lo

Parallel Session - Earthquakes and Soil Dynamics-1
Co-Chairs: M. Irsyam, T. Tsuchida
Room 102, New Graduate Building

Experimental study on the relationship between degree of saturation and p-wave velocity in sandy soils
M. Hatanaka, T. Masuda

Analysis and evaluation of ground vibration response induced by rapid rail transit
B. Chen, G.X. Chen and X.M. Su

Effects of anisotropic consolidation and initial shear load on liquefaction resistance of sand in simple shear condition
Y. Hosono, M. Yoshimine

Modeling of stress-strain behavior of soft clay under cyclic loading
Y.Q. Cai, J. Wang

Applicability of newly-developed instrument for microtremor measurements to estimate the loosened zone in shallow ground
T. Hanakawa, S. Kano , T. Sawamatsu and K. Ichii

Evaluation of liquefaction potential of pond ash
A.K. Dey, S.R. Gandhi

15:20 – 17:00

Special Session (Invited) - Reliability and Risk Management
Co-Chairs: K.K. Phoon, H.W. Huang
Room 104, New Graduate Building

Risk management for construction of subway and underground works
H.W. Huang

Statistical evaluation for strength of pile by deep mixing method
Y. Liu, J.J. Zheng and J. Guo

On the relationship between reliability indices for ultimate and serviceability limit states of building foundations
Y. Wang, F.H. Kulhawy

Planning slope stabilization actions
L.M. Zhang, D.Q. Li

Disaster management in Central Java Province , Indonesia
S.P.R. Wardani, R.J. Kodoatie

Reliability benchmarking for geotechnical engineering problems
K.K. Phoon, J.Y. Ching

Parallel Session - Earthquakes and Soil Dynamics-2 and Others
Co-Chairs: I.W. Sengara, M. Hatanaka
Room 102, New Graduate Building

Geotechnical and seismic hazard study for a marine site development in southern California
E.D. Zhai, L.P. Yan

Energy dissipation with nonlinear failure criteria and its applications
X.L. Yang

Estimation of ground motion parameters for Muzaffarabad earthquake, Pakistan on 8th October 2005
D.N. Satyam, K.S. Rao and M.R. Madhav

Occurrence of thaumasite in lining concrete of old-tunnel structure
H.S. Jung, K.P. Park , S.S. Kim and C.S. Lee 

Application of infrared photography and image processing in NATM tunnel
C.L. Zhou, H.H. Zhu and X.J. Li

Ground settlement model for excavation of a non-partial pressure and shallow bury double-arch tunnel
J.H. Wei, S.R Sun

Reduction of earth pressure and displacement of abutment with reinforcement filling
W.H. Zhang, B.M. Qin, B.T. Wang and J.D. Ye

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P.S. Pinto
Interaction between Eurocode 7 – Geotechnical Design and Eurocode 8 – Design for Earthquake Resistance of Foundations

Keynote Lecture
Chair: S.R. Lo
Room 113, New Graduate Building

S. Iai
Seismic performance evaluation of geotechnical structures

10:10 – 10:50

Keynote Lecture
Chair: K.H. Stokoe
Room 113, New Graduate Building

K. Karlsrud
Strategies for tsunami risk assessment and mitigation

10:50 – 11:30

Keynote Lecture
Chair: M.R. Madhav
Room 113, New Graduate Building

T.A. Ooi
Some aspects of the mitigations and rehabilitations of natural disasters in Malaysia

11:30 – 12:10

Keynote Lecture
Chair: J. Han
Room 113, New Graduate Building

Y. Sasaki
Mitigation of seismic damage of river dike

13:30 – 15:00

Special Session (Invited) - Debris Flows
Co-Chairs: D.W. Chang, M.S. Huang
Room 113, New Graduate Building

Some case studies on debris flow in peninsular Malaysia
B.K. Tan, W.H. Ting

Travel distance of debris flows triggered by slope failures
H. Ohta, H. Kusaka, Y. Miura, etc.

Landslide hazard mapping using Monte Carlo simulation- a case study in Taiwan
C.N. Liu

Debris-budget-based debris-flow susceptibility analysis
J.J. Dong, C.T. Lee, K.P. Lin and Y.H. Tung

Evaluate the risk of land-sliding based on geophysical data
J.H. Xiao

Parallel Session - Mitigation and Rehabilitation-1
Co-Chairs: J. Zhang, S.L. Shen
Room 104, New Graduate Building

Probabilistic seismic and tsunami hazard analysis for design criteria and disaster mitigation in rehabilitation and reconstruction of a coastal area in city of Banda Aceh (invited paper)
I.W. Sengara, H. Latief and S.B. Kusuma

Geosynthetic reinforcement for riverside slope stability of levees due to rapid drawdown (invited paper)
J. Han, J.F. Chen and Z.S. Hong

Coastal barrier island creation/augmentation as a mitigation means of mainland disaster protection against water and wind forces
R.A. Knott

Recovery of anisotropic slope after the landslide
R. Baimakhan, N. Danaev , A. Baimakhan, etc.

Deformation and stability analyses of a pile supported T-wall with deep mixed shear panels in Plaquemines Parish, Louisianna
T.E. Adams, G.M. Filz, P.R. Cali and M.L. Woodward

Soil improvement for mitigation of damages during the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake
J.R. Martin, C.G. Olgu

15:20 – 17:30

Parallel Session - Landslides and Slopes
Co-Chairs: R. Uzuoka, G. Zheng
Room 113, New Graduate Building

Some numerical considerations in unsaturated slope stability analysis due to rainfall infiltration (invited paper)
K.K. Phoon, Y.G. Cheng

Evaluation of in-situ shear strength of natural slopes vulnerable to heavy rainfall by lightweight dynamic cone penetrometer
T. Tsuchida, A.M.R.G. Athapaththu, S. Kano and K. Suga

Acid mine drainage erosion and earthquake coupling action to slope in rich sulfide open pit
L.C. Jiang, J.L. Zhang

Danger of the landslide activity of slopes on the railway line China - Kyrgyzstan - Uzbekistan on site Karasu – Torugart
K.Ch. Kojogulov, O.V. Nikolskay

Forecasting of rockfall in K2403+500 of G320
H.L. Fu, X.F. He, Q. Luo, etc.

Study on rainwater infiltration in subsoil of sandy slopes during rainfall by field monitoring
T. Ha, Y. Sasaki, T. Tsuchida and S. Kano

Investigation on the Nanjing gypsum mine flooding
G.Y. Wang, G.L. You and Y.L. Xu

Integrated reinforcing methods for excavated slopes of Tanxiwan villa area on considering reforest afforestation, China
F.M. Zhang, T. Li, Y.J. An, X. Wang and Z.Y. Kuai

A new predicting method of landslide by fractal theory
M.X. Zheng

Model tests on subgrade in seasonal frozen region under freezing-thawing circulation
M. Zhu, R.G. Deng and F. Li

Analysis of typical expansive soil slope project
L. Chen, P. Zhang and S. Lu

Parallel Session - Mitigation and Rehabilitation-2
Co-Chairs: L.M. Zhang, J.R. Martin
Room 104, New Graduate Building

Instrumented full scale test and numerical analysis to investigate performance of bamboo pile-mattress system as soil reinforcement for coastal embankment on soft clay (invited paper)
M. Irsyam, S. Krisnanto and S.P.R. Wardhani

Geotextile reef as a coastal protection against tsunami
A. Strusi ń ska, H. Oumeraci

Evaluation of disaster assistance projects involving the engineering community in reconstruction and prevention
B. De Laat, C. Voyadzis, B. Trak

Geological disasters and mitigation measures along the coastal cities of China
Y.S. Xu, S.L. Shen and L.Z. Chen

Effectiveness of jet-grout columns for mitigation of liquefaction during earthquakes
C.G. Olgun, J.R. Martin

Fly-ash-stabilized gypsiferous soil as an embankment material
J. Zhang, R. Solis

Mitigation system of coal bumping in mining extremely thick coal seam
H. Nan, Y. Zhou

Case study of movement and damage to a residential building founded on expansive clays
J. Li

Some studies on recycled aggregate concrete with and without polymer
G.D. Awchat , N.M. Kanhe

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