Honoring the life and work of Prof. Alan W. Bishop

  The first Bishop Lecture will be presented at IS-Seoul 2011 with the sponsorship of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE; TC101) to honor the contributions and achievements of Professor Alan W. Bishop in the field of geotechnical engineering.

  Professor Alan W. Bishop, MA Ph.D. DIC DCs (1920~1988) was a British geotechnical engineer and an academic at Imperial College, London. He is remembered for Bishop's method of analyzing soil slopes and earth dams. After his graduation from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Prof. Bishop worked under Prof. Alec Skempton, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1952 with his thesis title being ‘The Stability of Earth Dams’. He worked extensively in the field of experimental soil mechanics and developed apparatuses for soil testing, such as the triaxial test. His contributions to science have been widely acknowledged. In 1966, he was invited to deliver the 6th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association. This was entitled ‘The Strength of Soils as Engineering Materials’.

  Prof. F. Tatsuoka (Tokyo Univ. of Science, Japan) is invited to become the first Bishop lecturer in this symposium. Prof Tatsuoka will provide his precious knowledge to pick up the mantle of the honor and academic legacy of Prof. Alan W. Bishop.
 

     Prof. F. Tatsuoka (Japan)

    2004 -         : Professor, Tokyo University of Science
   1977 - 2004: Associate Professor and Professor,                         University of Tokyo
   1973 - 1977: Research Engineer, Public Works
                        Research Institute (PWRI),
                        the Ministry of Construction
   1972           : Dr. of Eng. in Geotechnical Engineering                         from University of Tokyo

2001-2005: VP, ISSMGE
2000-2002: VP, Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS)
2005-2006: VP, Japanese Society for Civil Engineers
2002-2006: VP, International Geosynthetics Society (IGS)
2006-2008: President, JGS
2006-2010: President, IGS

"Laboratory stress-strain tests for developments in geotechnical engineering research and practice"

      Significant roles of laboratory stress-strain tests of geomaterial for developments in geotechnical engineering research and practice are shown by summarising several recent advances in our understanding and modelling of the following properties of geomaterial: 1) quasi-elastic stress-strain behaviour; 2) rate-dependent stressstrain behaviour due to elasto-viscoplastic properties; and 3) strength and pre-failure stiffness of compacted soil related to field fill compaction control and design values of strength and stiffness. Several related findings obtained from laboratory stress-strain tests are presented and related issues of Geotechnical Engineering practice are discussed.

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