secretary of ISSMGE Technical Committee TC 212 – Deep Foundations, an expert on geotechnical earthquake engineering, delivered the keynote lecture “Earthquake- Resistant Design of Tailings Dams and Pile Foundations – Case Studies from India.” Dr. Yoichi Watabe, director of Geotechnical Engineering, Port and Airport Research Professor Rolf Katzenbach, keynote lecturer Challenges.” Professor Silvano Marchetti, L’Aquila University, Italy, a key figure in geotechnical site characterization and in- situ testing using DMT and SDMT, gave the keynote lecture “Settlement Prediction and Liquefaction Analysis from the Flat Dilatometer Test.” Professor Deepankar Choudhury, Civil Engineering Depart- ment, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, and Institute, Japan, and secretary of Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS), a leading authority in the design and development of airports in Japan, gave the keynote lecture “Construction of Haneda Airport’s Fourth Runway: Hybrid Reclamation and Piled Pier Structure.” Dr. Ronald Brinkgreve, manager of research and projects in PLAXIS and associate professor at TU Delft, Netherlands, a pioneer in the field of finite element modeling of foundations using PLAXIS, talked on “Efficient Modeling of Pile Foundations in the Finite Element Method.” Professor J. T. Shahu, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India, an expert on railway engineering, delivered the keynote lecture “Geotechnical Evaluation and Finite Element Analysis of Railway Track Foundation.” Professor Deepankar Choudhury, keynote lecturer Written by Marwan Alzaylaie, DTMFZA, Organizing & Technical Committee of DFIMEC-2014 54 • DEEP FOUNDATIONS • SEPT/OCT 2014
