Soil Dynamics Forum

To take care of and enhance the activities of ISET in the area of Soil Dynamics, a dedicated forum named ‘Soil Dynamics Forum’ is established within ISET for the promotion of Soil Dynamics, on December 21, 2018 with the generous financial support received from Prof. Shamsher Prakash.

The main aim of the forum is to promote the dissemination of recent advances and activities in the area of soil dynamics within India and around the world. This is being achieved through involving large number of professionals in India and overseas in various activities related to soil dynamics. Forum has been trying to proliferate the dissemination of the knowledge of geotechnical earthquake engineering and other allied fields by organizing short courses, conferences, and workshops.


Current and Future Activities of the Forum:
Present and future activities of the forum are given below:

1. To look after the activities of ISET in the area of Soil Dynamics.

2. To promote the activities in the area of Soil Dynamics at Pan-India level.

3. To encourage faculty at various institutes to organize Conferences, Workshops, Expert lectures and Training programmes on behalf of Soil Dynamics Forum, ISET.

4. To attract funding for organizing various events of the Forum by approaching State Governments/AICTE/DST or Industries.

5. To organize the quadrennial (4-yearly) International Conference on “RECENT ADVANCES IN GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SOIL DYNAMICS (ICRAGEE)”. Missouri University of Science and Technology organized this conference in 1981, 1991, 1995, 2001, and 2010. All these conferences were chaired by Shamsher Prakash. Prof. Prakash has transferred the responsibility of organizing this conference to Soil Dynamics Forum, ISET. For the first time, this international conference was organized in India at IIT Roorkee Extension Centre, Greater Noida during 3-5 August, 2016. 7ICRAGEE is being organized at IISc Bangalore during 13-16 July, 2020 under the chairmanship of Prof. TG Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati.

6. To organize national workshops on liquefaction, Seismic Site Characterization, Ground Response Analysis & Local Site Effects, Landslides, Embankment Dams, Soil Structure Interaction, Retaining walls, etc. Soil Dynamics Forum has organized a Two-day national workshop on liquefaction during 27-28 Nov. 2015. Dr. Ravi S. Jakka has coordinated this workshop. Over 90 delegates have attended this workshop. Fourteen keynote lectures were delivered by eminent personalities from different IITs as well as industry, in the field of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering on the State-of-Art Practices as well as latest developments on various aspects of liquefaction. Similar workshops will be organized in future.

7. Organize short term courses on Soil Dynamics at regular intervals. It is proposed that IITs and possibly some other Institutes may actively involve in conducting these courses.

8. Faculty exchange programmes may be established for the promotion of soil dynamics at several IITs, NITs, and other practicing institutions.

9. Symposia and brain-storming sessions on specific agenda concerned with research in soil dynamics would be organized. Professionals in the areas of Geotechnical Engineering, Geophysics, Structures, and Earth sciences may be invited.

10. To establish an OVERSEAS Committee to advise and participate in selected activities.

11. To develop teaching materials on state-of-the-art practices and latest developments in various topics related to Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

12. Online short courses and Webinars by Researchers from India and overseas may also be organized.

ICRAGEE CONFERENCE HISTORY

7ICRAGEE is in continuation of the previous six such international conferences in which the first five were organized by the Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, USA, and the latest one by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) and the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET), at New Delhi, under the chairmanship of Prof. Shamsher Prakash, Emeritus Professor, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, USA.

The 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (ICRAGEE) will be held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during July 13-16, 2020. The conference shall have invited Plenary lectures, Keynote Lectures, State of the Art and Practice (SOAP) Lectures, Special Presentation Lectures (SPL) and contributed original research papers for discussion and publication in the proceedings. It will provide a platform to review the contributions and accomplishments in the field of soil dynamics in the last few years and draw an agenda for the future course of action keeping the national and global needs in the forefront.


Links to ICRAGEE:
  1. 7ICRAGEE
  2. 6ICRAGEE
  3.  5ICRAGEE
  4. 4ICRAGEE
  5. 3ICRAGEE
  6. 2ICRAGEE
  7. 1ICRAGEE