THEMES

1) Case Histories of Unexpected Behavior and Failure of Shallow, Deep and other Foundations, including Soil Structure Interaction, Foundations in Expansive, Collapsible and Sulphative Rich Soils, Foundations in Arid, Semi-Arid Zones; Case Histories Involving Rapid Load Testing (Statnamic, Fundex, Drop Weight) for Deep Foundations, Pile Driving and Evaluation

2) Case Histories on Failures of Slopes, Dams, Embankments and Landfills, Including those on Landslides and other Mass Movements (Debris Flows, Mudslides in California, Venezuela and Elsewhere) due to Rain, Flooding, Earthquakes, Anthropological and other Causative Factors and Failure of Levees Due to Katrina”

3) Case Histories and Failure of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Including Land Slides; Lessons learned from Kobe 1995, Turkey 1999, Chi-Chi 1999, Greece 1999, Bhuj India 2001, Alaska and Italy 2002, Mexico, China and Algeria 2003, 2004 M-9 SE Indonesia and Japan Earthquake and other recent Earthquakes, and Reports on Recent Earthquakes

4) Case Histories of Engineering Vibrations, Vibration Control for Underground and Surface Constructions with Specific Emphasis on the Urban Environment; Predictions, Monitoring and Solutions; Blasting for Tunnels in Soft Ground and Rock, Discontinuous Rocks and their Application to Water Resources Projects

5) Case Histories and Failure of Retaining Structures, Slurry Walls, and Deep Excavations,” Dewatering, Stability

6) Case Histories and Failure of Geological, Rock and Mining Engineering, Including Underground Structures and Excavations, and Subsidence of Deltas” “Anticipation, Characterization, Design and Construction in the Geological Complexity of Mélanges, Fault Rocks, Wethered Rocks, Boulder Colluvin, Lahars, and Similar Bimrocks (Block-in-Matrix Rocks) and Rock/Soil Mixtures”

7a) Case Histories of Soil Property Improvement, Expansive and Collapsible Soils; for Earthquake Mitigation, Use of Lightweight Materials, Application of Geo-Synthetics; Freshly Loaded Filled Ancient Marshy Lands – The Effects and Risks of Foundation, (Vanished Ports such as Alexandria and Other Unknown, (Also from India-Puri-Mahabalipuram), Site Characterization

7b) Case Histories of Environmental Contamination and Problems including, Geotechnical and Hydrological Management and Remediation of Solid, Hazardous and Low-Level Radioactive Wastes, including Liner Cover Systems and Landfill Closure for Brownfield Development

8a) Case Histories of Problems of District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia; New I-95 Woodrow Bridge over the Potomac D. C. Metro, Springfield Interchange, The Dulles Light Rail Prospect, including Application of Geotechnical Engineering in Removing Mines from War Zones and other Warlike and Terror Applications

8b) Case Histories of Forensic Geotechnical Engineering, Where Things Went Wrong; Reliability of Codes; Risk Analysis Pertaining to Public Structures, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Load Testing of Drilled Shafts, Auger Cast Piles and Driven Piles; and Damage Evaluation” and “Advance Information, Systems in the Geotechnical Risk Predication and Assessment

8c) Case Histories of Health Monitoring and Retrofit of Infrastructure, including Bridges, Tunnels, and other Transportation and Geotechnical Structures

9) Case Histories of Offshore Geotechnics; Effects of Soft Clay on Off-shore Foundations; and Gas Production on Soils and Foundation and Stability

10) Application of Geotechnical Engineering in Outer Space, including Granular Material Behavior in Lunar and Martian Environments; Granular Material Behavior in Asteroidal and Cometary Environments; Extraterrestrial Mining, Construction, and Transportation Infrastructure Development; R&D and Technology Trial Results"

11a) Application of Case Histories in Education -
How Case Histories have been Incorporated in Coursework; How to Conduct Search for Case Histories, and what are the Major Sources, Examples of Specific use/s: Importance of Teaching Case Histories; From Case Histories to Conceptual Models; Importance of Practical Experience of Professors, Use of Case Histories in Teaching Process, Is it Possible to Involve Students in Case Histories (i.e. in Engineering Practice)

11b) Application of Case Histories to Practice -
Use of Case Histories to Enhance Practical Geotechnical Engineering; Practice in Different Offices to Achieve this Objective with Examples; Importance of Lifelong Learning; Use of Case Histories in Life Long Learning; Establishing an International data base for Case Histories