Aug 4, 2024 | News
The announcement of the death of Michel Gambin, while a meeting of the International Committee of Pressuremeter was being held, prompted a large number of testimonies from geotechnicians around the world. “It is with deep sadness that I must share the devastating news...
Jul 9, 2024 | News
As Michel Gambin leaves us, I remember our last conversation. With my friend Robert Heintz, we attended the Symposium “Charles-Augustin COULOMB: A geotechnical tribute” organized by the CFMS on 25 september 2023. At the end of the day, we decided to go to...
Feb 6, 2024 | Meetings
Date : 06th October 2023 Presents : Catherine Jacquard (CJ), Jacques Monnet (JM), Jean-Pierre Baud (JPB), Robert Heintz (RH), Roger Frank (RF), Alexandre Lopes (AL) , Wissem Frikha (WFF) , Emad Sharif (EAU), Anna Shidlovskaya (AS), Ramdane Bahar (RB), Marek Tarnawski...
Feb 6, 2024 | Meetings
Date : 14th June 2023 Presents: Catherine Jacquard (CJ), Jacques Monnet (JM), Julien Habert (JH), Jean-Pierre Baud (JPB), Robert Heintz (RH)*, Romain Meyer (RM) *, Roger Frank (RF) *, Alexandre Lopes (AL) *, Wissem Frikha (WFF) *, Philippe Reiffsteck (PR) *. (*) by...
Feb 1, 2024 | News
Next ISP 8 will be held at the university of Luxembourg, amphitheater with capacity for 200 persons for lectures. Free at the first week of September 2025, big space for exhibition, students can be present and give good opportunity to promote the pressuremeter. Robert...
Sep 7, 2023 | News
The ISC (International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization) conferences are regular events promoted by ISSMGE’s TC102 (Technical Committee for Ground Property Characterization from In-Situ Tests) to gather experts and practitioners in the...
Feb 16, 2022 | News
Sudhir Deshpande passed away on the 14 March 2018. We would like to express our sincere condolences to his family and the pressuremeter committee. May he rest in peace. After his PhD at Cambridge in the late 60s, Sudhir was planning to return to...
Feb 16, 2022 | News
ISC’6 will take place at Budapest Congress Center, which is the largest proper congress and conference facility in Hungary. The Congress Center was fully upgraded in 2008 and is continously being brought up-to date with the newest technological advancements. It...
Feb 16, 2022 | News
The International Society for Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering Technical Committee TC102, and the Australian Geomechanics Society invite participation in ISC’5, the 5th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation. We are very...
Feb 16, 2022 | News
The pressuremeter is essentially a geotechnical investigation equipment which allows in a single test to evaluate both the deformation and failure properties of soils and soft rocks. It measures the pressuremeter modulus, creep pressure and limit pressure. In the...
